A Tailor-made Data Quality Approach for Higher Educational Data

Purpose: This paper relates the definition of data quality procedures for knowledge organizations such as Higher Education Institutions. The main purpose is to present the flexible approach developed for monitoring the data quality of the European Tertiary Education Register(ETER) database, illustrating its functioning and highlighting the main challenges that still have to be faced in this domain.Design/methodology/approach: The proposed data quality methodology is based on two kinds of checks, one to assess the consistency of cross-sectional data and the other to evaluate the stability of multiannual data. This methodology has an operational and empirical orientation. This means that the proposed checks do not assume any theoretical distribution for the determination of the threshold parameters that identify potential outliers, inconsistencies, and errors in the data. Findings: We show that the proposed cross-sectional checks and multiannual checks are helpful to identify outliers, extreme observations and to detect ontological inconsistencies not described in the available meta-data. For this reason, they may be a useful complement to integrate the processing of the available information.Research limitations: The coverage of the study is limited to European Higher Education Institutions. The cross-sectional and multiannual checks are not yet completely integrated.Practical implications: The consideration of the quality of the available data and information is important to enhance data quality-aware empirical investigations, highlighting problems, and areas where to invest for improving the coverage and interoperability of data in future data collection initiatives.Originality/value: The data-driven quality checks proposed in this paper may be useful as a reference for building and monitoring the data quality of new databases or of existing databases available for other countries or systems characterized by high heterogeneity and complexity of the units of analysis without relying on pre-specified theoretical distributions.

Discussion on the Pathways for Cooperative building of Vocational Education Platforms

the enactment of Planning for Modem Vocational Education System （2014-2020） [[2014] No. 6 of MOE] declares the development of vocational education in China has entered a new historical stage. The development of vocational education, after being elevated to the level of national strategy, will inevitably imply that the existing resources for vocational education must be effectively integrated. To improve the quality of vocational educational institutions, enhance social service levels of vocational institutions and provide smooth career paths for professional talents, are the main goal of vocational education in the future. Since innovative education system for vocational institutions is the inevitabl choice to achieve the above development goal, to innovate the educational system by way of cooperative building of vocational education platforms is the inevitable requirement upon the development of vocational education.

Thoughts on the Digital Reading Service of University Libraries in the“Internet+”Era

Reading is the main route to impart scientific and cultural knowledge.It is not only related to personal growth,but also closely related to the construction of our society and the prosperity of the nation.University libraries must take on this important responsibility and strengthen the promotion of reading.In the"Internet+"era,university libraries need to focus on how to keep up with the development of the times and provide better digital reading services for teachers and students.The author studies and analyzes the main characteristics of digital reading in university libraries,and proposes the service strategy of digital reading for university libraries in the"Internet+"era,hoping to help with the university libraries playing their roles.

Exploring the Potentialities of Automatic Extraction of University Webometric Information

Purpose:The main objective of this work is to show the potentialities of recently developed approaches for automatic knowledge extraction directly from the universities’websites.The information automatically extracted can be potentially updated with a frequency higher than once per year,and be safe from manipulations or misinterpretations.Moreover,this approach allows us flexibility in collecting indicators about the efficiency of universities’websites and their effectiveness in disseminating key contents.These new indicators can complement traditional indicators of scientific research(e.g.number of articles and number of citations)and teaching(e.g.number of students and graduates)by introducing further dimensions to allow new insights for“profiling”the analyzed universities.Design/methodology/approach:Webometrics relies on web mining methods and techniques to perform quantitative analyses of the web.This study implements an advanced application of the webometric approach,exploiting all the three categories of web mining:web content mining;web structure mining;web usage mining.The information to compute our indicators has been extracted from the universities’websites by using web scraping and text mining techniques.The scraped information has been stored in a NoSQL DB according to a semistructured form to allow for retrieving information efficiently by text mining techniques.This provides increased flexibility in the design of new indicators,opening the door to new types of analyses.Some data have also been collected by means of batch interrogations of search engines(Bing,www.bing.com)or from a leading provider of Web analytics(SimilarWeb,http://www.similarweb.com).The information extracted from the Web has been combined with the University structural information taken from the European Tertiary Education Register(https://eter.joanneum.at/#/home),a database collecting information on Higher Education Institutions(HEIs)at European level.All the above was used to perform a clusterization of 79 Italian universities based on structural and digital indicators.Findings:The main findings of this study concern the evaluation of the potential in digitalization of universities,in particular by presenting techniques for the automatic extraction of information from the web to build indicators of quality and impact of universities’websites.These indicators can complement traditional indicators and can be used to identify groups of universities with common features using clustering techniques working with the above indicators.Research limitations:The results reported in this study refers to Italian universities only,but the approach could be extended to other university systems abroad.Practical implications:The approach proposed in this study and its illustration on Italian universities show the usefulness of recently introduced automatic data extraction and web scraping approaches and its practical relevance for characterizing and profiling the activities of universities on the basis of their websites.The approach could be applied to other university systems.Originality/value:This work applies for the first time to university websites some recently introduced techniques for automatic knowledge extraction based on web scraping,optical character recognition and nontrivial text mining operations(Bruni&Bianchi,2020).

EVALUATING INSTITUTIONAL GREEN BUILDING POLICIES:A Mixed-Methods Approach

Sustainable or green building practices have been adopted recently by many higher education institutions for their new campus buildings and major renovations.To date,no formal study has been conducted to determine if policy is essential for sustainable building practices and the implementation of LEED®for these institutional green buildings in North America.A mixed-methods approach consisting of a quantitative survey and qualitative interviews was undertaken with senior facility professionals at higher education institutions in North America.The survey evalu-ated the institution’s use of a policy,guideline,standard,law or goal related to sustainable building practices and the interview identified specific practices as well as issues such as leadership,policy compliance and barriers to adopting sustainable building policies.This paper provides a framework for an institutional sustainable building policy that is suitable to use as a template for senior facility professionals and their specific policy development.This work contrib-utes to a foundation for future research related to sustainable/green building policy development and its application to the higher education sector.

高校留学生服务质量管理体系的构建:英国经验与启示

英国的留学生教育在过去几十年间发展迅速,形成了完整的留学生服务质量管理体系。维护经济利益、建设国家品牌以及增加国家软实力等因素是英国高校关注留学生服务质量管理的主要动力。英国高校通过感知留学生期望、制定服务质量规范、实施留学教育服务、感知服务质量差距、持续改进服务质量构建起留学生服务质量管理的框架体系,并在跨文化适应管理、学术支持管理、生活支持管理、就业支持管理等方面采取了卓有成效的举措。参考和借鉴英国的经验与实践,我国可以进一步加强高校留学生服务质量管理流程、体系和文化等方面建设,以推进“留学中国”品牌建设,扩大高等教育对外开放,加快建设世界高等教育中心。

标准化推动高校物业服务高质量发展研究

目前,我国经济已由高速增长阶段转向高质量发展阶段,我国高等教育也同样迈入高质量发展和现代化阶段,高等教育现代化必然要求高质量的后勤物业服务与之相适应。本文基于高校物业特点及服务场景分析,在高校物业服务企业实践的基础上,提出了高校物业服务标准化的标准体系框架及实施路径,为推动高校后勤物业高质量发展提供了指导和对策建议。

高职院校科普教育基地建设路径研究

高职院校建设科普教育基地是强化社会服务功能,实施科普全领域协同行动,推进职普融通、产教融合、科教融汇的有效途径。为建设好科普教育基地,高职院校应从深挖整合特色优势资源,科学规划科普核心功能区,打造系统化梯队化的科普队伍,“迎进来”与“走出去”相结合开展多样科普活动、注重科普品牌效应等五个方面努力。

高校专业对设置加强社会服务工作组织力度的作用——以食品质量与安全专业为例

党的二十大报告提出:“教育、科技、人才是全面建设社会主义现代化国家的基础性、战略性支撑”。对于高等学校食品质量与安全专业而言,在推进社会服务工作时,要充分认识社会服务工作的重要性,梳理工作中的困境和成因,有效整合校内外的各种资源和组织抓手,统筹协调教育、科技、人才资源形成合力,逐步积累实践经验,大胆创新工作机制,并在此基础上探索设计出依托高校专业设置增强社会服务工作组织力度的全新路径。

对构建规范、公平、开放的高校后勤服务市场的若干思考

建立规范、公平、开放的高校后勤服务市场,是高校后勤社会化改革的必然趋势和要求,也是后勤社会化改革的目标之一。本文在对现阶段高校后勤服务市场特征进行分析的基础上,对构建规范、公平、开放的高校后勤服务市场的必要性及原则和方法进行了探析。

民办高校高级应用型人才培养模式改革——以浙江树人大学的教学改革实践为例

高等教育大众化时代的到来推动了民办高校的转型发展,从根本上要求人才培养模式的改革。作为一所民办本科院校,浙江树人大学以人才培养模式的"四要素"作为改革的基本框架,确立"高级应用型人才"的培养目标,正确定位人才培养规格,协调知识、能力与素质的关系,以凸显能力为主线,科学优化与制定人才培养方案;学校通过重点突破人才培养途径,全面实施"教学质量工程",以"项目推进、系统优化、重点实施"的方式,系统推进人才培养模式改革,形成了具有浙江树人大学现实特色的改革路径。

信息时代西藏高校图书馆开展社会化服务的SWOT分析

本文运用SWOT方法,分析了西藏高校图书馆的优势、劣势、机会和威胁。并运用相关因素进行排列组合,构造了四种发展策略,以期对西藏高校图书馆社会化服务工作的决策提供一定的参考。

论社会转型背景下的高校办学自主权

政府与高校关系是高校对外关系之纲,纲举才能目张。修改完善《高等教育法》并出台实施细则是理顺政府与高校关系的基础,建立服务型、有限责任型政府对政府和高校是双赢之举,扩大高校办学自主权是未来高等教育发展的必然方向。建立大学章程以保证改制顺利进行,加快教育中介组织发展对协调政府与高校的关系意义至关重要,尽快培育公平竞争的环境以利于高校形成公平竞争。扩大并落实高校办学自主权的具体内容包括:党委机构设置应根据校情党内民主商定,党委书记等按现行法规由选举产生;校长应由民主遴选产生,行政组阁充分尊重校长意愿;政府对高校的投资应法制化,并尽量缩小地域和归属落差;尝试部分公办高校改制,以减轻政府财政压力;不同类型、层次高校学生缴费应适当拉开档次。

高校信息化服务团队建设探究

目前高校信息化建设已进入重建设更重管理的推广普及阶段,一支技术先进、管理科学的信息化服务团队是取得这一阶段信息化成功的重要保障。通过分析目前高校信息化职能部门的一般结构和服务内容,研究总结了CIO机制、学习型组织、矩阵型结构、区分问题的结构化程度等对建立一支可持续发展、高弹性、高专业化的全校性的信息化服务团队的可行性。

英国高校学生支持服务的历史演进及其特点

学生支持服务是英国高等教育的传统和特色。随着本国高等教育的发展,英国高校学生支持服务经历了3个不同的发展阶段,建立了5种学生支持模式,并呈现出与时俱进的一些特点。

美国高校服务学习的社会文化意义探寻

20世纪90年代初期,联结整合社区服务与学术课程的服务学习在美国高校崭露头角。经过近20年的改革与发展,服务学习已经成为美国当代高等教育的一大特色。作为一项高等教育活动,服务学习在实践中对美国的社会生活、文化理念产生的重要意义耐人寻味,主要体现在以下三个方面:1)对美国个人主义文化的超越;2)对美国多元文化融合的推动;3)对美国慈善公益文化的提升。

农业高校图书馆信息服务工作存在的问题及对策刍议

高校图书馆信息服务方面存在的问题主要表现在:信息资源开发不足．信息服务没有大量的走向社会;缺乏产学研合作教育意识;在文献资源建设上,提供多层次的需求不足等方面入手分析。在新形式下,农业高等院校图书馆应该积极探索服务产、学、研的新途径。4个方面进行了探讨:(1)拓展服务领域;(2)优化信息结构,合理配置资源;(3)建立好“学科馆员”制度;(4)服务“三农”的举措。

高校后勤社会化改革刍议

高校后勤社会化改革是以市场机制为主导的教育资源的配置 ,其实施必须依赖于社会化的高校后勤管理体制和运行机制的建立。笔者从高校后勤社会化改革的实践出发 ,在阐述改革管理体制、明晰产权关系、转换运行机制和改革劳动人事用工制度等高校后勤社会化改革的基本内容之后 。

高校图书馆社会化信息服务风险的分类及其控制

[目的/意义]高校图书馆社会化信息服务面临的风险是不言而喻的,这些风险正在阻碍有关服务工作的进一步开展,研究高校图书馆社会化信息服务的风险分类,有利于有的放矢地控制风险,促进社会化信息服务向更高层次发展。[方法/过程]以风险管理的基本理论和方法为指导,分析研究高校图书馆社会化信息服务风险的内涵与分类,以风险规避、损失控制、控制型风险转移三种基本方法进行风险控制。[结果/结论]研究结果得出:通过风险控制,可有效化解制约高校图书馆开展社会化信息服务亟待解决的资源、资金、人才、知识产权、目标用户、制度保障等诸多风险。

提高高校后勤员工队伍整体素质的有效措施——浙江省高校后勤创建学习型组织探索

浙江省高校后勤创建学习型组织取得了阶段性成果。高校后勤队伍中外聘员工居多,综合素质不高,已经成为制约建设新型后勤保障体系的瓶颈。深入开展"创争"活动是提高后勤员工队伍整体素质的有效措施,高校后勤创建学习型组织的关键是要着眼后勤改革,建立学习机制,搞好学习保障,营造学习氛围,提高学习效果,养成以学习推动工作,以工作促进学习的良好习惯,使学习成为职工的自觉行为。