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Facebook faces its future
Raskin, Robin - In: Young Consumers 7 (2006) 2, pp. 56-58
Explains the issue facing social networking sites, which are internet based communities of people with similar … for significant data and trends, but despite this infiltration students seem optimistic about Facebook’s exclusivity.  …
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Learning by sharing: robots in school and colleges
Widdowson, John - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 23 (1996) 2, pp. 25-27
Discusses the difficulties of attracting students to engineering courses at universities and colleges. Examines the … case of one college in mid‐Anglia which decided that, to attract more students to its courses, more sophisticated …
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An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of the Student Accounting Internships on Subsequent Academic Performance: The Case of UAE University
Ebied, Hussein - In: Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences 20 (2004) 2, pp. 33-44
Recent reports on accounting education have observed that an increasing difference exists between what students are … performance of students with accounting internship experience was compared to that of non‐internship students matched on the basis … of grade point averages (GPA) and credit hours completed. The results indicated that the internship students performed …
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Assessment practice in enterprise education
Pittaway, Luke; Hannon, Paul; Gibb, Allan; Thompson, John - In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 15 (2009) 1, pp. 71-93
Purpose – This paper aims to introduce current debates on assessment practice in higher education and to explore educational research on assessment. Design/methodology/approach – The paper progresses by exploring a number of outcomes and highlights their role in helping one to understand the...
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Balancing the demands of school and work: stress and employed hospitality students
Jogaratnam, Giri; Buchanan, Polly - In: International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 16 (2004) 4, pp. 237-245
Stress can be viewed as a positive or negative experience in the lives and performance of today's college students … thus enhance well‐being and increase retention. Based on responses obtained from a sample of students in the great lakes … the number of jobs held. However, females, freshmen and full‐time (versus part‐time) students reported a greater degree of …
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Recent developments in accounting education and the future of the AICPA 150‐hour requirement
AlHashim, Dhia D.; Weiss, Earl J. - In: International Journal of Commerce and Management 14 (2004) 1, pp. 19-27
students to face the challenges of the 21st Century. In addition, this paper investigates the future of the AICPA 150‐hour …
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“Witness us in our battles”
King, Toni C. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 8 (1995) 6, pp. 16-25
Describes four projective patterns characterizing black female professors′ experiences with students. Implications for …
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Mythmaking in Management Education: The Case of the AGSM (1976–1986)
Adam, Christopher M.; Collins, Roger; Dunphy, Dexter; … - In: Journal of Management Development 7 (1988) 2, pp. 39-52
Myths in organisations are often portrayed as evolving gradually, and perhaps decaying even more slowly, whether the myth seeks to establish internal standards or to provide cause and effect in a turbulent environment. A detailed case study of the start‐up phase in a graduate management school...
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College students' attitudes towards obesity: Fashion, style and garment selection
Rutherford‐Black PhD, Catherine; Heitmeyer PhD, Jeanne; … - In: Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An … 4 (2000) 2, pp. 132-139
The purpose of this study was to evaluate students' attitudes towards people of different weights by comparing and … college students at a southern university in the USA. Eighty‐seven per cent of the students described their weight as being …
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Self‐efficacy and Student Performance in an Accounting Course
Lai Mooi, Tho - In: Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting 4 (2006) 1, pp. 129-146
necessary to succeed. It is theorised that students with unrealistic expectations (especially overly optimistic expectations … measures are significant and positively related to course performance. This suggests that students who are more conservative in … cent of the variations in the self‐efficacy measures. The higher a student’s CGPA, the more conservative or cautious he is …
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