Ready for the future: Reflecting on COVID and preparing college health services for the next pandemic

The paper summarizes the experience in higher education institutions financing, substantiates the trends in their financial support models diversification. The study systematizes approaches to the organization of higher education institutions financing under market conditions and reveals their advantages and disadvantages in terms of the effects at the level of an individual and society as a whole. It defines tools and models of the financing under orientation on demand, supply and strategic purposes of the national development. The study proves the need to substantiate the rational balance of individual and social effects in higher education institutions financing, which can be achieved through a combination of market self-regulation and state regulation of the higher education services market. The system of methods was used in the study, namely: monographic – to define the research aim and conclusions, the method of theoretical generalization of foreign and domestic scientists was used to critically analyze the existing approaches to the organization of financing the work of agricultural education higher institutions. General scientific methods of cognition, such as analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, systemic integrated approach, were used to systematize the models of financial support for higher agricultural education institutions and to generalize the conclusions. The paper substantiated that the state should take leading positions in higher education institutions financing. The role of state funding in ensuring sustainable development of agricultural education higher institutions has been identified considering the specificity of educational services and their role in ensuring sustainable development of the agricultural sector of the economy and rural areas. It is argued that the current conditions of free economic development and challenges the institutions face requires focusing on consumer demand and adjusting their educational services through prompt updating the changing educational programs based on modern research, attracting a larger number of stakeholders in the financing model formation. The modern tendencies typical of the market of educational services determining the expansion of the participants of the organization of financing the higher education institutions activity, are considered. The importance of financing elements focused on the innovations development, the role of which will grow in the future, especially in the form of competitive and targeted financing is revealed. It is proved that the results-based approach to the organization of financing also reduces the risks of macroeconomic inefficiency and contributes to reducing the information asymmetry. The obligatory presence of the state in the organization of research funding in higher education institutions is justified due to the positive impact of research on educational services quality and increases their value for an individual and society. The paper considers options for market-oriented higher education financing and the state's demands in terms of the concept of management, public and private funding methods, the education fee. It is established that the changing conditions of the market of educational services require a revision of targets for state funding due to the following factors: increased number of foreign students, use of information and communication technologies, increase in the integration of higher education institutions nationally and internationally. Key words: higher education institution, higher agricultural education, concepts of higher education institution management, methods of free economic education financing, sources of higher education institutions financing.

Purpose: development of recommendations for the study of security-oriented disciplines by students of higher educational institutions. Methodology: Analysis and generalisation of research results regarding the need of higher education students to study security-oriented disciplines. Results: In the conditions of modern warfare, knowledge and understanding of security issues are of critical importance for students of technical specialties. It helps them to be aware of the threats and risks associated with armed conflict and make the right decisions to ensure personal and collective security, and provides the necessary knowledge and skills to effectively respond to emergencies and save lives. Therefore, in the article: information on the state of higher education in Ukraine until February 2022 has been studied and summarised; the need of students of higher technical education to study security-oriented disciplines during the war was investigated; an expert survey was conducted among students who are studying for the Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees of two higher technical educational institutions – the State Higher Educational Institution “Donetsk National Technical University” and Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture. It was established that about eighty percent of the respondents are in favour of mandatory study of security-oriented disciplines during martial law, as an opportunity to ensure their own safety and the safety of others, help others and be useful in war conditions. A new concept of civil security education in higher technical institutions under martial law from the point of view of studying individual disciplines is proposed, which consists of the following: improvement of training plans for higher education applicants. recommendations for students of technical higher education institutions to study the following disciplines (in order of priority): “Life safety”, “Occupational safety”, “Fire safety”, “Civil protection”, “Environmental safety”, “Psychology of hazards”. Mandatory courses for students on pre-medical care, psychological help for themselves and others, military training should be introduced. Scientific innovation: a scientific approach has been developed to clarify the new concept of civil security education in higher technical institutions under martial law. Practical significance: the results of the work can be used in the preparation of educational plans for applicants of higher technical educational institutions.

Sustainability assessment of the service operations at seven higher education institutions in Brazil

In the paper, we discuss the available research in the field of knowledge management (KM) from the specific perspective of higher educational (HE) institutions, as organisations comprised of experts. Based on the literature review, we develop a KM audit instrument and apply it to a specific HE institution in order to assess the status of its KM processes. From our study, we can conclude that even if an institution is ‘academic’ in nature and apparently successful, this fact does not necessarily mean that KM processes are institutionalised within the organisation. From this point of view, a HE institution is likely to be subject to the same limitations as any other organisation in the knowledge business. Our paper further gives recommendations to managers of HE institutions on how to assess the effectiveness of KM in their organisations as well as providing information for other researchers who want to conduct a KM audit in similar organisations. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Electronic environment has its great effect on university libraries that serve higher education. These libraries are considered the backbone of higher education and scientific institutes as they play an important role in higher education process as a whole with a special reference to scientific research. The importance of these libraries lies in that they provide information resources and services which improve scientific researches. Meanwhile, electronic environment has greatly affected their roles; an act which led to the appearance of so many kinds such as digital libraries, electronic libraries, etc…. This environment imposes new roles on libraries so that they can keep playing their part to serve scientific research. Moreover, due to the continuous progress witnessed in developed countries in the form of newly issued researches, libraries have to offer new services that can cope with the new technological era. For this reason, the topic of this study is selected which is: the role of university libraries in the light of e-learning environment to improve higher education and scientific research. The goal of this study is to shed light on the role of university libraries based on the e-learning environment to identify the benefit they can get to help with enhancing scientific research. Identifying the role of digital libraries and data resources with an aim to develop higher education lies in that these libraries support learning and teaching processes generally and e-learning process specifically. They are also considered an essential factor for scientific research requirements in addition to enhancing the skills and capabilities of the pillars of the educational process. They have an effective role and high efficiency to improve information resources, economize expenditures, minimize costs and save time as well as effort. E-learning technologies have the world confronted with a new revolution in education and opened new horizons for recent norms of education as well as training at all educational institutes especially higher education ones. E-learning requires dependency on recent technologies so as to offer students a quality educational content in an effective way through its distinguished positive characteristics like minimizing time, effort and costs in addition to its high capacities to improve the students’ learning levels and skills effectively. Besides, it aims to provide a quality teaching and leanring environment that is interesting and exciting enough for both students and teachers to get rid of time and space limitations allowing students to learn according to their abilities, appeals, and levels of knowledge and skills. E-leaning and its different varied technologies have recently become a necessity for higher education. The great concern to benefit from its high capacities forms a basic effective feature to improve and enhance the educational process at higher education institutes.

The development of modern information-communication technologies has enabled the development of electronic knowledge distribution channels that expand the effective level of general and specialist education. This trend is also present in higher education because higher education institutions and institutes increasingly rely on the use of modern information-communication technologies in their operations. The effects of the use of personal computers, the Internet and global social networks are multiple in the higher education system as well. In the process of acquiring new knowledge, developing creativity, as well as ensuring greater activity in the process of education, new learning technologies, with the use of multimedia systems, created the prerequisites for the engagement of all individual and collective resources. The most important source of the state’s competitive advantage is the ability to educate and retain highly educated personnel in the field of information technologies. From that aspect, the paper discusses information technologies as a scientific discipline and general conditions for education in the field of information technologies. The impact of technical and pedagogical changes on education in this area is analyzed with particular attention. It is known that information technologies are suitable for vocational education, and the modern environment sets specific requirements regarding the applicability of knowledge acquired in higher education institutions. The dynamic and turbulent market emphasizes the applicability of knowledge as a key requirement in the educational process. These short researches propose new educational modules that should structure teaching in the field of information technologies in accordance with the global demand in this sector. Every society strives for a more efficient and economical system of education, and therefore the issue of the use of new information technologies in education comes down to the problem of creating a theoretically ideal model of the use of these technologies at all levels of education and work.

Despite findings indicating that college students' alcohol use remains a significant problem across institutions of higher education, the support for a strong link between excessive drinking and risk for suicide and other psychiatric comorbidities, and associations between excessive drinking and stopping out or dropping out of college, there continue to be barriers to the routine, consistent, and timely implementation of efficacious brief alcohol interventions by mental health practitioners working in college- and university-based clinical service settings. This commentary will focus on the identification of infrastructure, attitudinal, and training-related barriers to the uptake of evidence-based strategies within higher education clinical intervention settings and opportunities to address them. Barriers discussed include compromises to intervention fidelity, limited staffing and multiple and competing service demands, stigma and a lack of understanding concerning the link between alcohol use and psychiatric symptomology, and scarcity of training, professional development, and funding opportunities specifically aimed at the promotion of evidence-based practices addressing risky and excessive drinking among college students. Alcohol researchers can play a key role in promoting effective, consistent, and timely implementation of efficacious brief interventions in campus-based clinical service settings through strategic engagement with college and university mental health professionals and senior-level decision-makers using a system-focused lens. Both institutional and national-level collaboration and advocacy for translational research opportunities are critical to encourage dissemination, implementation, and sustainability of efficacious brief intervention practices. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

The article describes the evolution of the concept of metric space in mathematics, its development from the emergence of the basic metric concepts: length and distance. The axiomatic method of introducing metric spaces is considered. The feasibility of using the axiomatic method as a logical basis for constructing metric spaces is substantiated. The specifics of the application of the axiomatic method when introducing the concept of metric space in higher and secondary education institutions are described. Various concepts of distance are analyzed. The concepts of Kagan-Birkhoff, Euclid-Kolmogorov distance are described in detail. The main methodological aspects of these processes in higher and secondary education institutions are revealed. Conclusions are made regarding the need and prospects for research into metric spaces and their application in higher education institutions.

Because of the lack of a body which can control higher education or make standards that can be shared, the majority of higher education institutions in the Somali Federal Republic fail to have structured and clearly defined curriculum plans. Moreover, some do not even realise the importance of curriculum for their institutions, let alone having clearly defined objectives or goals for educational institutions to achieve in educating society. A curriculum is a map which guides the institution regarding its educational objectives. It is an assessment of how an educational institution defines those objectives. It is also the methods and means through which an educational institution maps out a way for students to find their way to success as defined by those objectives. An institution that plays the role to create a standardised curriculum in higher education is the national higher education commission (HEC). An HEC can stand as a body which regulates higher education, post-secondary education institutions, universities and other public and private higher education institutions. This paper will focus on the importance of curriculum development using examples where HEC can control and set standards which higher education institutions must follow. The paper will particularly try to answer the following questions: (i) How HECs can prescribe guidelines and conditions under which educational institutions set quality curricula, (ii) How HECs can monitor and evaluate the performance of educational institutions, and (iii) How HECs can advise institutions to develop appropriate curricula which balance teaching and learning.

The purpose of the article is to analyze innovative and very interesting methods of teaching foreign (English) language cadets and officers of higher military educational institutions. The aim of this research is to determine the strategy that is best chosen by the teacher in order to help cadets and officers of higher military educational institutions to achieve a high level of knowledge of a foreign language (English). The relevance of the research is not only to take classes under the new «Flipped classroom method» in groups of cadets and officers of higher military educational institutions, but also to prove that this implementation will improve and accelerate the acquisition of knowledge of a foreign language. In the article a number of advanced teaching methods that have already become traditional are examined and the needs of modern teaching of a foreign language in higher education institutions are met. The article reveals the essence of the «inverted class» (Flipped classroom) concepts and «inverted learning». In the article all the positive aspects of learning with the help of using the concept of «inverted class» (Flipped classroom) are analyzed. The prospects for the use of this concept are determined, taking into account world examples of its introduction into the educational process in foreign educational institutions. The research objective is to offer a special program on the Flipped Classroom learning methodology to better learn foreign (English) language by cadets and officers of higher military educational institutions, and to prove that with the help of this technique high levels of foreign language skills in the field of professional communication can be achieved. The author studies the differences between the traditional and flipped lessons, and taking into account new functions of a teacher in the lecture-room and the teacher as a tutor. The article describes main advantages and possible disadvantages of the flipped-class learning.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is legislation enacted as a result of the financial criminal wrongdoings of companies such as Enron and WorldCom. As a result of such wrongdoings, the government intervened and legislation was passed in 2002 (the Sarbanes-Oxley act of 2002). Although the act only applies to publicly traded companies, many institutions, including institutions of higher education, have adopted the "best practices" of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The concept underpinning the "best practices" is that transparency, accountability and ethical conduct in financial policies and practices are prevalent in every organization, and institutions of higher education are not exempt. The research findings from our inquiry into institutions of Higher Education indicated that many of the institutions of higher education that implemented the best practices did so because they thought it was the "correct thing to do"- implying that best practices of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act - transparency, accountability and ethical conduct in financial polices and practices should be adopted. As a second step, this study attempts to qualitatively determine why institutions of higher education decided to implement any of the best practices. What, if any perceived benefits were gained, and if the institutions believed that they have achieved those benefits as of the time of the interviews. The findings made it clear that there is a general sense that implementing the best practices of Sarbanes-Oxley is important and the right thing to do. The implications of implementing the best practices of Sarbanes-Oxley will show employees and others outside the institution that the institution wants to do the right thing, that accountability and transparency are important. Also, it will likely help establish an ethical culture within the institutions of higher education through the institution's code of conduct that improper behavior will not be tolerated. Based on current findings, we postulate that institutions of higher education that have implemented the best practices of Sarbanes-Oxley will be better poised should future regulation be enacted. Also, we expect that funding agencies will consider positively the fact that there are organizations that are exercising their fiduciary responsibilities by implementing the best practices of Sarbanes-Oxley.

The importance of personal development of young officers in increasing the professionalism of the army was explained in the report, and the role of modern military science was shown for this. Thus, the analysis of modern wars suggests that the states try to win more and lose less during the war. This fact in itself requires the modern technical equipment of the army to be equipped with professional officers. The presence of high-potential officer personnel ensures the power of the army, its flexibility, proper management and, as a result, reliable protection of the state’s military defence. The formation of modern professional officer cards, without a doubt, actualizes the level of organization of education in military educational institutions of the country. Development of the institutional foundations of the education system, expansion of the application of innovative training methods and technologies, and the creation of a competency-based personality and result-oriented education model have been set as a strategic goal. According to this principle, we can say that, as in all countries of the world at the present time, this issue stands as a priority target for the higher military educational institutions of Azerbaijan. The urgency of the problem requires its scientific-theoretical investigation, giving some suggestions and recommendations for future practical work. During the research, it is determined that, as in other higher educational institutions, training in military educational institutions is focused on the personality development of young officers, which will allow them to become professional, highly intelligent, self-confident, , and flexible decision-making officers in the future with independent management skills. In comparison with other higher education institutions, special sensitivity to the above-mentioned issue in higher military educational institutions makes it more necessary to train strong-willed, visionary, and right decision-making personnel for the reliable provision of the national security and military defence of the state in general, in contrast to the training of personnel in a certain field.

The work is devoted to the study of the impact of the use of automated bots of consultants in making managerial decisions on improving the efficiency of management in higher education institutions in the conditions of reform.The current conditions for the reform of higher education in Ukraine are analyzed and directions of integration in the world educational process are determined. Higher education reform is to consume the constitutional rights of citizens to high-quality higher education and equal access to high-quality higher education, reorganization of the system of higher education management in order to protect the national, regional and local interests, as well as the interests of all subjects of the national system of higher education of Ukraine. It is established that the development of application of automated control systems in educational institutions abroad is becoming. One of the varieties of this is the CRM-system. It is recommended to apply the above-mentioned approach in higher education institutions in Ukraine. It is proposed to use the work of the CRM-system in higher education institutions of Ukraine, which involves the introduction of automated systems of "on-line support" for the adoption of administrative decisions by the administration on the basis of the attraction and processing of information that covers the issues of financial and economic, legal and social activities of the educational institution and promotes increase its competitiveness in conditions of integration reform. The essence of the notion of the main stakeholder of a higher educational institution is defined. The introduction of a flexible automated system of material incentives in higher education institutions is recommended. It is determined that the use of innovative technologies in the work of the CRM system should ensure transparency, increase the level of employee satisfaction and prevent absenteeism.

The article is devoted to the topical problem of forming the information and digital competence of future teachers in the educational environment of a pedagogical university. The purpose of the article is to justify the need to create a high-quality informational and educational environment in pedagogical universities, which contributes to the formation of informational and digital competence of future teachers. To achieve the set goal, a set of methods was used: analysis and generalization of scientific and pedagogical sources, state documents, results; modeling and synthesis of the obtained data. The article presents the domestic regulatory framework that determines the informatization and digitization of the educational process in institutions of higher education: Recommendations for the implementation of mixed education in institutions of professional pre-higher and higher education (2020); Digital competence framework for citizens of Ukraine (2021); The concept of development of digital competences (2021) and the plan of measures for its implementation was approved; Conceptual and reference Framework of digital competence of pedagogical and research-pedagogical workers (project 2021); A typical program of professional development of pedagogical workers on the development of digital competence (2021); The concept of digital transformation of education and science for the period until 2026 (project 2021). The essence of the concepts «educational environment», «information-educational environment» and the constituent components of the educational environment of a pedagogical university are revealed: information-content, organizational-activity, spatial-subject. The author’s position on the requirements for a high-quality educational environment of a pedagogical university is presented: a high level of professionalism, pedagogical skill, general culture and digital literacy of the scientific and pedagogical staff; availability of a distance education platform in a higher education institution; wide use of modern information technologies; compliance with the rules of etiquette and protection in local and global networks, as information security.

This article explores the context of scientific and technological activities of higher education institutions of Ukraine, summarized the main factors impeding the formation of an effective national innovation system. The emphasis is placed on the role of institutions of higher education in building an innovation-investment model of the economy. It is noted that the effectiveness of scientific and technical activities in general, and in institutions of higher education in particular, affect both the volumes and the structure of financing. Was compared the dynamic of spending on research and development in Europe, and noted that Ukraine is now stored in a downward trend. The structure of financing of research and development activities in Ukraine and some European countries was analyzed, it is estimated that there is currently a disproportion in Ukraine, and most of it falls on public financing. The generalization of international experience allows us to assert that in the countries with developed investment-innovative economy a significant place in the structure of financing of research and development activity is occupied by the business sector. This produces a synergistic effect both on the education system, which receives additional funding and on business competitiveness through the introduction of innovative product production. In addition, an important aspect of cooperation between institutions of higher education and the commercial sector is the creation of academic enterprises, and the introduction of the model of a "commercial institution of higher education". A significant impetus to this cooperation, fiscal instruments can be used both to businesses and to higher education by providing them with tax breaks, lower tax rates, innovative soft loans and other preferences. Considered fiscal instruments that are used in the world and outlined their possible impact on the innovation activities of higher education institutions of Ukraine. It is determined that the study of international experience may be the basis for building a system of fiscal instruments promoting cooperation between higher education institutions and entrepreneurship.