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The latest issue of the Journal of the World Universities Forum includes:

• Training the Next Generation of Environmental Engineers: Development of an Interdisciplinary Engineering Program at Rutgers University by Christopher Uchrin.
• The Migratory Trends of International Baccalaureate Diploma Students in Asia Pacific: Going Global? by Judith Guy and John Switzer.
• The Role of Online Social Networking Sites in Promoting Health for Digital Natives and Immigrants by Diane Hamilton-Hancock and Leaunda Hemphill.
• Rethinking and Reframing Online Learning Environment Course Evaluations, to More Appropriately Reflect an Assessment of Course Design, Cognitive Scaffolding and Instructional Competence: Virtual Learning Expectations, Capability and Competence within Online Learning Professional Standards by Caroline M. Crawford.
• Australian PhD Theses in Selected Professional and Academic Disciplines1987-2006 and the Implications for Future Research Capacity by Terry Evans and Peter Macauley.
• Web 2.0 Based e-Learning Development Process by Katerina Papanikolaou and Stephanos Mavromoustakos.

Congratulations to Kerry Maree Lee, the winner of the International Award for Excellence in the world universities field  for her paper Getting the Most Bang for your Buck: A Case Study in Maximising Scholarship Investment

Abstract: In order to maximise researchers’ time, universities often offer scholarships to graduate or undergraduate students to undertake basic research tasks to assist the principal researcher to complete a project. Selection of these students often relies solely on academic grades. This paper will briefly outline how a principal researcher used other criteria as well as academic achievement when selecting a student to assist with a research project. The benefits to both university and student will be explained, and the case made for all universities to review selection criteria.

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The Associate Editors listing for Volume 5 of the Journal of the World Universities Forum is now available.

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The third issue of Volume 2 of the Journal of the World Universities Forum has now been published.

Volume 2, Number 3 contains:

• Storyboard Writing and Adult Learners: A Pragmatic Approach by Normaliza Abd Rahim, Noraien Mansor, Nik Rafidah Nik Affendi, Arbaie Sujud, Siti Nur Aliaa Roslan, Norzita Yunus and Yazariah Yacob.
• Technology-Based Financial Instruction in U.S. Universities by Rakesh Duggal.
• The Transcultural Academic: Cosmopolitanism and the Imagined Community of the Global Academy by Cally Guerin and Ian Green.
• Political Continuum and the Adjustment of Higher Education to Market Norms by Nicolas Gachon.
• Violence Against Health Workers at a University Hospital in Turkey by Serpil Aytac, Veysel Bozkurt, Nuran Bayram and Nazan Bilgel.
• Statistical Grading System - A New Approach by Ashok Shettar, Basavaraj Kakol and Narasimha Ayachit.
• Active Learning Strategies by Icy D’Silva, J. Christopher Hall and Yoshinori Mine.

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The second issue of Volume 2 of the Journal of the World Universities Forum has now been published.

Volume 2, Number 2 contains:

• An Empirical Usage of DEA for Faculty of Mathematical and Computer Departments by Seyed Hamed Moosavi Rad and Mehdi Ghazanfari. Seyed Morteza Moosavi Rad.
• ‘The Environment can Wait’ in the Dhaka Watershed: Impacts and Costs of Industrial Pollution by Nandini Dasgupta.
• Fostering Transdisciplinary Approaches to Design and the Environment by Graham John Brewer and Anthony Phillip Williams.
• Conceptualising Lifelong Learning: The Case of Lifelong Learning Practices at Universiti Utara Malaysia by Chooi-Leng Ang, Lip Sam Thi, Padmini Pillai, Hamzah Haji Abdul Rahman and Sobri Don.
• Culture and Motivation: The Globalised Learning Paradigm from a Regional Perspective by Kasim Randeree and Mohammed Hussain Randeree.
• The World has Problems While Universities have Disciplines: Universities Meeting the Challenge of Environment through Interdisciplinary Partnerships by Gordon Wilson.
• Creating an English Village: A Unique Collaboration Between South Korea and the U.S. by Kyla Hammond and Debby Jennings.

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