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Number of students according to the form of education in the academic year 2010/2011
Open Research DataIn the 2010/2011 academic year, the number of full-time students was 949.5 thousand, ie 51.6% of all students. The percentage of women among all students in the academic year 2010/2011 was 58.8%, in 1995/1996 it was 56.0%, while in 2000/2001 and 2005/2006 it was 56.8% and 56.5%, respectively. Among people studying in full-time studies there were 57.2%...
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Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
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Poznan University of Technology Academic Journals. Electrical Engineering
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Online Interactivity – Shift Towards E-textbook-based Medical Education
PublicationTextbooks have played the leading role in academic education for centuries and their form has evolved, adapting to the needs of students, teachers and technological possibilities. Advances in technology have caused educators to look for new sources of knowledge development, which students could use inside and outside the classroom. Today’s sophisticated learning tools range from virtual environments to interactive multimedia resources,...
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Sustainable monument preservation in architectural education
PublicationThe aim of this article is both to present the need for changes in architectural and conservation education in a modern, rapidly changing world, as well as to outline solutions to this problem. In the modern world, the field of objects that one intends to protect is expanding. It is necessary to adapt the architectural education to these changes. Due to the current pace of social, political...
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What is the future of digital education in the higher education sector? An overview of trends with example applications at Gdańsk Tech, Poland
PublicationUniversities worldwide recognise the need to adapt to changes in society, the economy and the way young people prefer to learn. Additionally, the impetus to improve the digital approach in higher education intensifies as educational institutions have to remain competitive with commercial providers of education. Following the latest technological trends and implementing strategies to develop new digital solutions helps to improve...
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Changes in school enrollment in 1990-2011 (higher ducation)
Open Research DataThe measure of the universality of education are the enrollment rates. Over the past years, enrollment rates in higher education have more than quadrupled. The gross enrollment rate increased from 12.9% in the academic year 1990/1991 to 53.8% in the academic year 2010/2011, and net - from 9.8% to 40.8%, respectively. The gross enrollment rate is the...
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High-quality academic teachers in business school. The case of The University of Gdańsk, Poland
PublicationThe Bologna process, the increasing number of higher education institutions, the mass education and the demographic problems make the quality of education and quality of the academic teachers a subject of wide public debate and concern. The aim of the paper is to identify the most preferred characteristics of a teacher working at a business school. The research problem was: What should a high-quality business school academic teacher...
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Students and graduates of higher education institutions in 1990-2011 (with foreigners) in Poland
Open Research DataIn the last thirty years, there has been a spontaneous development of science and economy, with particular emphasis on the non-public education sector. It seems that the situation in the higher education market has now stabilized,with a slight downward trend in absolute terms.
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Determinants of the incidence of non-academic staff in European and US HEIs
PublicationIn this article, we contribute to the scant literature covering quantitative studies on the determinants of the non-academic staff incidence in higher education institutions by analysing how the proportion of non-academic staff is related to key features such as size, prestige, year of foundation and financial structure of universities. We apply nonlinear regression analysis to compare HEIs across Europe and the USA, taking into...
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ACADEMIC PSYCHIATRY
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Academic Pediatrics
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ACADEMIC MEDICINE
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ACADEMIC RADIOLOGY
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Academic Pathology
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Academic Questions
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Academic Quarter
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Education at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Gdańsk University of Technology
PublicationFaculty of Mechanical Engineering is one of the largest departments of the Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT), currently educating about 3 000 student. Lectures are conducted in five Chairs, which include 18 Divisions. In 2000 GUT introduced the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). Each student should get during one academic year 60 ECTS points. Obtaining a diploma of BEng requires the acquisition of no less...
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Education at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Gdańsk University of Technology
PublicationFaculty of Mechanical Engineering is one of the largest departments of the Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT), currently educating about 3 000 student. Lectures are conducted in five Chairs, which include 18 Divisions. In 2000 GUT introduced the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). Each student should get during one academic year 60 ECTS points. Obtaining a diploma of BEng requires the acquisition of no less...
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Frontier education for a sustainable future - speculative design in architecture as a transdisciplinary experiment
PublicationIn this article, the authors propose the term frontier education referring to the well-established notion of frontier research - one, that through opening unexpected transdisciplinary perspectives, may offer new insights and create a fertile ground for new discoveries and ground-breaking concepts. In answer to the question of how to get rid of normative thinking and extend architectural experimentations, a speculative design architectural...
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ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE
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Journal of Academic Ethics
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EGE ACADEMIC REVIEW
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Academic Forensic Pathology
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JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP
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Development of Education Tomorrow’s Engineers at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in GUT
PublicationPaper presents educational activity of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Gdańsk University of Technology. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is one of the largest departments of the Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT), currently educating about 3 000 student. The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering offers studies in different areas: Mechanical Engineering, Medical and Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechatronic,...
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Green analytical chemistry as an integral part of sustainable education development
PublicationGreen chemistry is an important way of thinking in the field of chemistry and aims to conduct processes in accordance with the principles of sustainable development. It is the application of a wide range of principles that minimize the impact of both chemical processes and products on the environment. And what about analytical chemistry? Without a doubt, analytical chemistry plays an important role in the sustainable development...
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Systems of Public Higher Education in Poland and Germany. Evidence from Institution Level Data
PublicationThe chapter presents a comparative analysis of public higher education systems (HES) in Germany and Poland. Instead of limiting our study to macro indicators such as gross expenditure on higher education or R&D as per cent of GDP, we draw on the evidence based on micro data especially collected for this study and concerning individual higher education institutions (HEIs). Comparative analysis is based on a sample of 71 public...
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Structure of own costs of private universities in 2010
Open Research DataThe biggest costs are generated by basic teaching activities. However, in the context of the competitiveness and quality of education in private universities, research expenditure is a cause for concern. Dataset shows that these universities spend less than 4.0% on research compared to other activities. For comparison, in public universities research...
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Academic Journal of Modern Philology
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Number of students per one lecturer in the academic year 2010/2011 at Polish univeristies
Open Research DataAs at the end of December 2010, 103.5 thousand academic teachers worked in universities (full-time and part-time equivalent to full-time employment), including 1.9 thous. foreigners. Teachers working in public schools accounted for almost 82.7% of the total number of employees in higher education, and lecturers from non-public universities - 17.3%....
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Efficiency of European public higher education institutions: a two-stage multicountry approach
PublicationThe purpose of this study is to examine efficiency and its determinants in a set of higher education institutions (HEIs) from several European countries by means of non-parametric frontier techniques. Our analysis is based on a sample of 259 public HEIs from 7 European countries across the time period of 2001-2005. We conduct a two-stage DEA analysis (Simar and Wilson in J Economet 136:31-64, 2007), first evaluating DEA scores...
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Experimental economics in business education: Using simple games to achieve multifaceted effects
PublicationEconomics differs from other sciences not only because of its normative part, but also because of very limited use of experiments. In this way, economics is often perceived as being methodologically more similar to astronomy or meteorology rather than physics or chemistry. Over last decades, however, experimental economics has been significantly developed. This chapter presents some of the possibilities for academic teachers to...
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THE ROLE OF THE POLISH UNIVERSITIES IN SHAPING A NEW MOBILITY CULTURE - ASSUMPTIONS, CONDITIONS, EXPERIENCE. CASE STUDY OF GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
PublicationThe article expresses an idea of the privileged role of universities in the process of shaping the new culture for urban mobility. Mobility management of the academic community is adopted in order to indirectly influence a wider group of the population. The aim of the study was to investigate the situation at the Polish universities and the willingness of their authorities to implement integrated tools to manage the transportation...
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Moving Towards Competence in Teaching Architecture: The Relationship of Research and Design in Academia
PublicationArchitecture is truly a profession of public trust requiring special care at all stages in academic education. European educational reforms initiated by the 1999 Bologna Process affected architecture education, and shifted the role of research. The number of doctoral programs increased, so the involvement of PhD students in teaching also expanded. This study aims to identify how these changes affect quality in architecture education....
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Australian Academic & Research Libraries
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Journal of English for Academic Purposes
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Journal of Academic Language and Learning
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International Journal for Academic Development
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Journal for the Academic Study of Religion
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Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
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Academic Journal of Manufacturing Engineering
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Workplace-A Journal for Academic Labor
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New Review of Academic Librarianship
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Media Literacy and Academic Research
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International Journal of Academic Medicine
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Chinese Journal of Academic Radiology
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Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine
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Students receiving scholarships in 1990-2011
Open Research DataSince 2005, the financial support system for students has been operating on the basis of on the Act of 27 July 2005, the Law on Higher Education (Journal of Laws No. 164, item 1365), as amended, and detailed regulations for determining the amount, awarding and payment of financial assistance benefits for students determined by rectors in consultation...
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The on-line consumers’ choice of parcels collecting ways
Open Research DataSmall pilot study conducted on an available sample of academic teachers and students from the University of Gdańsk (UG). The survey was aimed only at people who declared that they shop online. As e-commerce reports show that the main group of people buying online are those with a higher education, studying a group of university employees and students...