by Amanda W. Schimunek

Amanda Schimunek is the first to publish an article about higher education in the United States of America on e-MaHE.com. In her paper for the Gender and Change Management module, Amanda identifies the effects of affirmative action on women in United States higher education.

The paper presents a review and discussion of affirmative action in the United States. It begins with a brief history by introducing relevant legislation and moves into a discussion of the changing dynamics of affirmative action from the initial enthusiasm (and the initial resistance) of the 1960’s and 1970’s to the “backlash” of the 1990’s to the rather ambiguous undercurrents of the first few years of the new millennium. The main focus of the discussion is the consequences of affirmative action and an assessment of the positive and negative implications of those consequences.

Amanda is a student in MAHE since 2008, and is espacially interested in teaching and teacher education, international student support/study abroad, linguistics, language and language acquisition. Please find more information about Amanda on the Community page.

Please check out the paper on our Articles page, or download it directly –> here.

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by Liana Karagasheva

Liana Karagasheva is the second author publishing a paper on the analysis of an international organization, after Claudia Müller, who wrote about the European Association of Institutional Research.

Liana’s paper presents the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER), “that rallied researchers from different countries to build a firm bridge for collaboration in the field of higher education research”. The main aim of her paper is “to attract readers’ attention to this organization, especially young researchers and students from developing countries, who with the help of CHER can develop their perspectives regarding research on higher education. Also, these people could gain new ideas for developing their higher education systems not only on the national level, but also engage in international cooperation in this field by participating in various activities organized by CHER like annual conferences and additional training courses for researches.”

Liana is a student in MAHE since 2009, and is espacially interested in teaching and teacher education, international relations as well as language and language acquisition. Please find more information about Liana on the Community page.

Please check out the paper on our Articles page, or download it directly –> here.

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by Anastasia Kanari

The author describes in her paper recent developments in higher education in Cyprus: “the launch of the University of Cyprus in September 1992, the establishment and operation of another two public universities - the Open University of Cyprus in September 2006 and the Cyprus University of Technology in September 2007.”

However, in the author’s opinion, “the present Cyprus higher education system has some deficiencies which need to be rectified in order for it to become a more comprehensive and innovative oriented higher education system. For example, the Cyprus higher education system should offer more opportunities to Cypriot students to study in their home country in fields such as medicine, a faculty that does not yet exist in Cypriot universities. It could also attract more European and international students by promoting the permanent and temporary mobility of foreign students and offering study programmes taught in international languages.” (Kanari, 2010, pp. 3-4)

Anastasia is a student in MAHE since 2009, and is espacially interested in developments in educational research, structures of international higher education systems, and teaching. Please find a photo of her on the Author’s page.

Please check out the paper on our Articles page, or download it directly –> here.

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9. Higher Education as a Catalyst
in Attaining Millennium Development Goals in Kenya

by Robert Owino Odera

Robert’s paper “seeks to address the effect of the attainment or lack thereof of the goals on research in higher education and inversely the significance of higher education to the attainment of the goals. The paper will concentrate on two of the goals that are important to its conclusion. The first is the goal to attain primary education for all pupils by 2015. In order to make comparison of the current position and the possibility of attainment, we look at the case of Kenya, the ongoing initiatives, challenges and resultant implication to the quality of research in higher education. The Second key goal of interest is poverty reduction through global partnership .Poverty seems to be found as a reason for most of the challenges the MDG,s are trying to address, they seem to be manifestations of poverty” (Odera, 2009, p.3).

Robert is student in MAHE since 2008. Please find a photo of him in the Author’s page.

Please check the paper out on our Articles page or download it directly –> here.

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]]> http://www.e-mahe.com/news/new-article-on-e-mahe/feed http://www.e-mahe.com/news/the-e-mahe-community-is-growing http://www.e-mahe.com/news/the-e-mahe-community-is-growing#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:46:09 +0000 admin http://www.e-mahe.com/?p=83 A new call for community members was sent out to all MAHE students on Friday by eMail.
So far, we’ve got 3 new members:

-> http://www.e-mahe.com/community

We are looking forward to receive more members in the Community!

Congratulations, Carmen!

See the press release on the homepage of Kassel University here.

• 7. Massification of Higher Education in Hong Kong
• 8. European Association of Institutional Research

Please check them out on our Articles page or download them directly –> here.

The e-MaHE team would like to welcome you as new members of the MAHE community. We hope e-MaHE can be a useful resource to support your studies and professional development.

Have a great learning experience, and enjoy your time in Kassel!