Victoria Carpenter

A Case Study of Issues of Strategy Implementation in Internationalization of Higher Education.

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to identify and critically evaluate key issues faced by an institution in the quest to implement higher education internationalization.Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative research is conducted in a post‐1992 UK university. A total of 20 interviewees from three key departments participated in this project. Content analysis, critical discourse analysis and categorisation of meaning were applied on analysing three sources of data collection.Findings – This study identifies critical issues that impede international strategy implementation within an institutional context. These issues include resource allocation, communication, operational process, cooperation and coordination, organizational culture, resistance to change, student support and external environment. Researching findings indicate that most issues are rooted internally. Higher education (HE) internationalization is deemed to be integration and cohesion.Research limitations/implications – This resea...

Market entry dynamic framework for higher education internationalisation

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically examine higher education (HE) internationalisation in terms of international recruitment and academic collaboration, with a focus on market entry strategies and programme delivery methods, and to define an education‐specific dynamic framework.Design/methodology/approach – A single university was chosen as the case study and 20 interviewees participated in this qualitative research. Content analysis, critical discourse analysis and categorisation of meaning are adopted as data analysis strategies.Findings – The dynamic framework is constructed based on the analysis of both commercial internationalisation and HE internationalisation. It presents the relationship between these two areas, and creates an education‐specific pattern of HE internationalisation, including modes of entry, programme delivery methods and potential areas of further development.Research limitations/implications – The dynamic framework contributes to rich understanding of internationa...

Faculty‐specific factors of degree of HE internationalization

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the difference in the process of higher education (HE) internationalization across faculties in a post‐1992 university and to identify faculty‐specific factors through evaluating the four faculties in the case study.Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative research is conducted in a post‐1992 UK university. Four faculties are involved and a total of 20 interviewees from three key departments participate in this project. Content analysis, critical discourse analysis and categorization of meaning are adopted as data analysis strategies.Findings – This study explains the reasons why the level of internationalization across faculties is different.Research limitations/implications – This research helps gain rich understanding of faculty‐specific factors in terms of the degree of internationalization. Further research in this area is encouraged to test these faculty‐specific factors through quantitative population studies in other institutions.Practical i...

A qualitative assessment of providing quality electronically mediated feedback for students in higher education

The subject of feedback for students is one of the most important contributors to the student experience and attracts one of the lowest responses within the National Union of Students survey. This paper reports on the feasibility of providing feedback on written assignments by marking electronically using the comments function on Microsoft Word and also providing verbal feedback via use of a hand held digital voice recorder. The students (post graduate part-time business students) were surveyed as to their response to this feedback. The paper reports the feedback from both the tutor and the student perspective and examines the impact on the experience of both groups. The results were positively in favour of the use of audio feedback but are different to results in other studies in that it is concluded that a combination of both typed and verbal feedback was preferred by the students.

Dream-Sex and Time Travel: The Meaning of 'Piedra de sol' by Octavio Paz

‘Piedra de sol’ (1957) by Octavio Paz is a very complex poem that has intrigued many critics. Although the variety of analyses is impressive, all the critics agree on one point: the main idea of the poem is the male narrator’s travel or search. Rachel Phillips sees the poem as the poet’s pilgrimage to find love, which is ‘man’s defense against death, against division, against the routine of daily life, against all the corruptions and hypocrisies which separate us from each other and from ourselves’.1 John Fein states that ‘the subject of “Piedra de sol” is love, or, more particularly, the beloved’.2 Yet, as will be seen later, the woman appears to be a supporting formative force that adds to the male’s attempt to define himself. The male is not searching for love or a lover, since both are readily available to him. This is evident almost from the beginning of the poem:

‘You Want the Truth? You Can't Handle the Truth’: Poetic Representations of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre

The 1968 massacre of students demonstrating in La Plaza de las Tres Culturas, in the Tlatelolco district of Mexico City, has been the subject of a corpus known as la literatura de Tlatelolco, whose aim is to keep the event alive in the collective memory and to provide a true account of the massacre. This article explores poetic representations of the massacre, and seeks to establish whether ‘the truth’ about the massacre is necessary to preserve the event in the collective memory.

A World in Words, A Life in Texts

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'Me cae que no me entiendes': Multi-Language Text in the Mexican Onda

Abstract This study examines multi-language texts in the body of the works of the Mexican Onda movement (1964–1971). The aim of the study is to analyse foreign language inclusions from a transcultural perspective. The inclusions to be considered are words and phrases in foreign languages (used in their original form or in translation), and quotations from contemporary pop and rock songs (both original and in translation). By applying a number of theories, such as hermeneutics, transcultural hybridity, and diasporic writing, the study will determine the purpose of such inclusions as part of a complex linguistic coding used in the Onda works. The system of closed codes created by the Onda may appear elitist because it limits the readership of the texts to those who are knowledgeable enough to understand the hidden meaning of the texts. This study argues that the seemingly elitist nature of the Onda is an attempt at bridging the gap between high (mainstream) and low culture (subculture) by challenging the constraints of cultural dominance. This challenge is based upon the rejection of a canonical high cultural framework and its replacement with a transcultural reference system.