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Academics in lockdown: A gendered perspective on self-esteem in academia during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown
(MDPI, 2023)
This qualitative research explores the experiences and sense-making of self-worth of 1857
South African women academics during the enforced pandemic lockdown between March and
September 2020; the study was conducted ...
Enhancing instrumental competence in translator training in a higher education context: A task-based approach
(Academy Publication, 2023)
Abstract—This study aims to design a task-based e-Course for teaching computer-aided translation technology in a higher education context. It also investigates the impact of the e-Course on enhancing the instrumental ...
Perspectives about social support among unmarried pregnant university students in South Africa
(Public Library of Science, 2023)
Pregnant young women in an academic environment are susceptible to stressors associated with unintended pregnancy and academic demands of universities. The challenges they face may be exacerbated by lack of social support, ...
Objective structured clinical examination: Do first-year nursing students perceive it to be stressful?
(AOSIS, 2023)
The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is widely accepted as an
effective means of assessing clinical competence and nursing skills. There is, however, little
existing knowledge on how first-year nursing ...
An exploration of student interpreters’ attitudes towards the undergraduate interpreting training programmes at Yemeni universities
(Academy Publication, 2023)
This study investigates the attitudes of trainee interpreters towards their training programmes at Yemeni universities. 61 interpreters in Taiz province participated in the study. A 16-item questionnaire ...
Shaping scholarly communication guidance channels to meet the research needs and skills of doctoral students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
(Elsevier, 2020)
This article as part of a more comprehensive study, investigated the level of research and scholarly communication skills of doctoral students and the channels to be adopted by the academic library for the provision ...
Article comparing three countries’ higher education students’ cyber related perceptions and behaviours during COVID-19
(MPDI, 2021)
: In 2020, a global pandemic led to lockdowns, and subsequent social and business restrictions. These required overnight implementation of emergency measures to permit continued
functioning of vital industries. Digital ...
Choreographic cartographies with-in learning: towards response-ability in higher education pedagogy
(Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, 2023)
In this article, I seek to engage the liberatory impetus of critical pedagogies through an attentiveness to body-space-time so as to enrich the former with the notion of response-ability. Several learning activities are ...
Mapping higher education policymaking in Ghana with aquadruple helix framework
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
Whilst research works have identified many actors involved inhigher education public policymaking in the Ghanaian context,there is a paucity of empirical studies on how the application of aquadruple helix network of policy ...
Funding as a crisis for mature women students: Agency, barriers and widening participation
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Drawing on a research investigation into the learning pathways of mature women, this
chapter highlights funding as a crisis. Mature women students face barriers to access,
participation and success in higher education. ...