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The latest issue, Volume 3, Number 4,  of the Journal of the World Universities Forum includes:

• Carbon Neutrality at One University: Elements of Sustainable Design by Edward Dusseau, Peter Mark Jansson, Jess Everett and Donald Farish.
• Mentoring in Health Sciences: Associations between Graduate Students’ Assessment of Mentors’ Attributes, and Satisfaction from Research Studies, Research Skills Development and Motivation for Research by Talma Kushnir, Nir Madjar and Jacob Gopas.
• Challenges of Educational Leadership in Quality University Language Program with Multi-Disciplinary Offering and Multi-Mode Delivery by Lynne Li.
• Power and Knowledge Constraints of Multidisciplinary Learning: Field School Experiences in Practice by Conny Davidsen and Chui-Ling Tam.
• Teaching through a Study of the Borat Litigation by Panda Kroll.
• Expanding the Impact of Practical Scientific Concepts for Low-literate Learners through an Inclusive and Participatory Virtual Knowledge Ecosystem by Julia Bello-Bravo, Ricardo Diaz, Srinivas Venugopal, Madhu Viswanathan and Barry Robert Pittendrigh.

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.

The Journal of the World Universities Forum has been accepted for inclusion in Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory.

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

Volume 2, Number 1 contains:

• Sixth Century Values for Twenty-First Century Careers: The Practice of Humility for Generation Y by Cheryl Crozier Garcia.
• Dependent Scholars versus Independent Scholars by Dibakar Pal.
• Inducing Money Magnetism: Fundraising Practices in American Universities and Lessons for Indian Higher Education by Rahul Choudaha and Vijaya Narapareddy.
• The Impact of Market Driven Staffing on Faculty Governance in a General Education Environment by Thomas J. Kopp and Joseph L. Rosetti.
• Strategic Collaborative Success Factors and Sustainability Indicators of Academia Industry Collaboration: Case Studies of Two Universities in Malaysia by Seow Voon Yee, Aik Lee Chong and Zakaria Abas.
• An Approach for Development of Parameters/Attributes for Ranking the World Universities by Ponnusamy Ramalingam.
• Understanding and Improving First-Year University Student Experiences by Jyothi Thalluri and Sharron King.
• An Evaluation of Private Sector Participation and Access to University Education in Nigeria by Taiwo Lanre Adepoju and R. O. Owoade.
• The State of University Education in Nigeria and the Need for a Paradigm Shift by Adebayo Ogundele.
• “Recognition” for Programs in New and Emerging Professional Disciplines by Katy E. Marre.
• The Enquiries of Conventional Architectural Education by Fadzidah Abdullah and Asiah Abdul Rahim.
• Collaborative Management Skills: Training Engaged Civic Leaders by Diane Ellen Schmidt.
• The Organization and Administration of Public Education After Brown: School Desegregation by Richard Hunter and Frank Brown.
• Until Then…a Utopia in Education by Esperanza Suarez.
• Making it to the Top: Towards a Gendered Skills Analysis of Senior Leadership and Management Positions in UK Universities by Barbara Bagilhole.
• Post-Disciplinarity: Brazilian Universities’ Ethos in the Society of Knowledge by Martha Abrahão Saad Lucchesi and Eliana Branco Malanga.
• Asking Questions: The Difference between Undergraduate and Postgraduate Student Preferences by Francesco Sofo and Michelle Berzins.
• Going through with Osteoporosis: Deepening into its Diagnosis by Antonio Bazarra-Fernandez.