Education systems seeking to improve outcomes must attract, develop, and retain highly effective teachers. A critical challenge is making the teaching profession appealing to talented youth. This paper presents evidence from an experiment in Peru, where we provided high school seniors with...

The recent rapid growth of the tourism and hospitality industries raises a question about the quantity and quality of the workforce needed in these sectors. In the tourism/hospitality industry, where most services are delivered directly by employees, competitive advantage is primarily attained...

Mentoring programs developed at universities are an effective method of supporting student development. The participation in these programs brings them many benefits. These benefits include increased prestige in the community, gaining new experiences and achieving defined goals in the case of...

We use data from two separate randomized control trials to examine whether career mentoring influences the educational preferences and career choices of Bhutanese students in grades 10 and 12. These mentoring programs provide information on technical and vocational education and training (TVET)...

Research Question - What are the requirements and expectations of each class of external stakeholders? Is there any convergence between the identified expectations? Motivation - There is a large variety of stakeholder expectations that universities are confronted with in their permanent search...

The worldwide demand of young academics has constantly expanded throughout the last decades. The minimum requirements for entering the global academic labor market have increased and PhD students need to rise up to the expectations of a progressively demanding profession. This paper aims to fill...

Several calls have been made to investigate the processes of change characterizing academia worldwide. In particular, the tension apparent between the 'universal' models (standards, rankings) on the one hand, and the cultural and social features of academia in specific countries on the other...

This pitch research letter (PRL) applies the pitch template developed by Faff (2015, 2017) to an academic project on the impact of behavioral factors towards the adoption of mobile learning among higher education students in public and private universities of Pakistan. This template is helpful...

This paper studies direct and indirect impact of the human-centered Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems on user satisfaction. The objective of the paper is to measure a hierarchical influence of five human-centered dimensions on user satisfaction both directly and indirectly. This paper...

Because scholarly performance is multidimensional, many different criteria may influence appointment decisions. Previous studies on appointment preferences do not reveal the underlying process on how appointment committee members consider and weigh up different criteria when they evaluate...