This research examines the viability of implementing Smart Public Universities (i.e., State Universities and Colleges [SUCs]) in Zamboanga Peninsula (Region IX), Philippines. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the study investigates the current technological infrastructure, digital literacy...

Purpose: While online classes have enabled many universities to carry out their regular academic activities, they have also given rise to new and unanticipated ethical concerns. We focus on the“dark side” of online class settings and attempt to illuminate the ethical problems associated with...

Purpose: While online classes have enabled many universities to carry out their regular academic activities, they have also given rise to new and unanticipated ethical concerns. We focus on the“dark side” of online class settings and attempt to illuminate the ethical problems associated with...

This academic research presents a comprehensive capacity-building needs assessment for Futures Thinking in State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) within the Zamboanga Peninsula Region of the Philippines. The study aims to identify the knowledge gaps and training requirements necessary to enhance...

This article is a first attempt towards building an integrative analytical framework to study goal-orientated transformative change (GOTC) processes, defined as system-transforming processes that are guided by the ambition to resolve current or expected future societal challenges. GOTC can only...

This study is the first of a series of studies, collectively embodying a multiphase mixed methods design. The overall objective of these studies is to explore and address a variety of issues and features of the discipline of economics, particularly as they relate to and represent past present...

This study was conducted to determine the relationship between the hemispheric dominance (HD) and the English proficiency (EP) scores in the four macro skills of the Western Mindanao State University college students. It hypothesized that students’ HD would have a significant correlation a)...

This paper explores the decisions of Bessarabian youth to study in a branch of a Romanian university. We used data collected from individual interviews with 58 students. We find that uncertainty and the material constraints played a major role in their choice. We also identify some factors with...

This paper sheds light on the microfoundations of reduced-form returns to education. Specifically, we ask: are more advanced higher education degrees associated with increased earnings within employers or higher average pay across employers? And to the extent that sorting across firms matters,...

The far-reaching socio-economic, the censored methodologic-scientific, and the forgotten moral-ethical prospects of the lately emerging "human engineering techniques" are newly discussed here. The unanimously unmentioned future "human embryo-based (embryogenic) transplantation methods" are first...