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EDU-BARCELONA-2019.Pdf WEI Barcelona, Spain, January 22-24, 2019 2019 WEI INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Education & Humanities 1 by the WEI ISSN 2167-3179 (Online) USA Table of Contents A Proposed Perspective to Develop the Admission Policy to Higher Education in Egypt with Reference to Contemporary Trends 4 ALSAEED ALSHAMY 4 Assessing the impact of scholarship programme in helping the Saudi economic shift using structuration theory 6 HADEEL IBRAHIM A ALZAIDALSHARIF 6 Students’ Experiences on Using Authentication and Authorship Systems 15 in e-Assessment: Anadolu University Case 15 ABDULKADIR KARADENIZ, SERPIL KOCDAR 15 The Best Interest of the Child? - Working Mechanism of the Hungarian Child Protection System 17 ANDREA RÁCZ 17 Development of Promotional Images for Apps, As a Tool For The Awareness and Use of Preventive Medicine in Mexico 30 ARODI MORALES-HOLGUIN; RAQUEL TORRES-PERALTA; FEDERICO CIRETT- GALÁN 30 Expressionist Theatre and "Al Tannoura" Dance 34 ASMAA ELAHIKH 34 Launch out into the deep: A psychotherapist’s view of an international service- learning experience 35 CHIN-PING LIOU 35 Audit Committee Effectiveness and Non-audit Services as Engines of Change in Earnings Management Practices 39 DEA’A AL-DEEN 39 Academic capacity building in universities in developing countries: a Cambodian case study 40 ELIZABETH MILLER 40 The Sensitivity To Vowels vs. Consonants in English Words: The Case of Arabic ESL Learners* 42 EMAN AL. JUHANI 42 Education for peace and the ethical dimension in professional training processes 44 1 DR. GABRIEL MENDOZA M. Ph.D. 44 The Protector of White Fragility: The Racism of Wikipedia, Government Narrative, The White Possessive, The Treaty of Waitangi and Indigenous Knowledge 48 HEMOPEREKI SIMON 48 Internship process – the crucial part of a curriculum: the example of Rescue college of Estonian Academy of Security Sciences 49 KAIRI PRUUL, KADI LUHT 49 Embracing the Chaos: Creating Costumes for Devised Theatre 63 KYLA KAZUSCHYK 63 Families of color and their perceptions, experiences, and expectations of the special education process 65 LENELL D. WALTON 65 Content and Pedagogy: Educational Technology In-Service Education For Primary School Teachers in Taiwan 105 LUNG-HSING KUO, HUNG-JEN YANG, PEI-HUA, TSAI 105 Houyhnhnm and Yahoo Transformation on the Georgian Stage 120 MANANA TURIASHVILI 120 Expectation X Reality the Use of Memes as a Tool for Communication and Its Impact on Language Learning 130 MARCUS DRUMMOND CELESTINO SILVA 130 From a Course to Building up a Social Enterprise -A Case of the Collaboration among University, Primary School, and the Community in a Rural Area 149 MING-YEN LEE 149 Health risk assessment of inhalation formaldehyde exposure on medical students and related staffs 187 NANTAWAN SOONKLANG, NARUWAN SAOWAKON 187 My Journey To Become a Bilingual Teacher 188 NIL TUĞÇE ERBAKAN 188 Research on Resource Mobilization Model for Education 189 PINSUDA SIRIDHRUNGSRI, SANRASERN SUWAN 189 The Contemporary Academic Transformation of a 200+ Year Old Widening Participation College in Central London 204 ROD BRAZIER 204 A Proposed Perspective to Develop the Admission Policy to Higher Education in Egypt with Reference to Contemporary Trends 208 SEKSAN AMATMONTREE 208 The Social Media Labourer 218 2 SMARAK SAMARJEET 218 Theatre As a Place of Recording and Managing Historical Memory 219 THEODOROS GRAMMATAS 219 Cooperative learning with whiteboarding in an introductory physics course 226 T. M. SEIXAS, M. A. SALGUEIRO DA SILVA 226 I Love This for My Professional Development but Feel Unhappy: Attitude of EFL Teachers Towards Their Consultative Forum 228 TONO SUWARTONO 228 3D printing application for effective biology learning aids for visually impaired students 240 YI CHI, FU, CHAO YANG, YANG, HUI NONG, LIAO 240 A survey of fake news detection and prevention methods 246 YULIYA BETKHER, MAURO CASTELLI, VITOR SANTOS 246 3 The 2019 WEI International Academic Conference Proceedings Barcelona, Spain A PROPOSED PERSPECTIVE TO DEVELOP THE ADMISSION POLICY TO HIGHER EDUCATION IN EGYPT WITH REFERENCE TO CONTEMPORARY TRENDS ALSAEED ALSHAMY Associate Professor of Foundations of Education, Faculty of Education, Alexandria University ABSTRACT ! The admission policy to higher education is considered one of the most relevant policies to enhancing the quality of education, and one of the most critical issues in Egypt and the rest of the world. Hence, it requires constant review and evaluation. Despite the fact that higher education is currently experiencing an increasing social demand and a wide variety of patterns of provision - which means that the educational systems need to respond to this growing demand by providing more educational opportunities - this does not mean, by any way, sacrificing the quality of education by disrupting its internal and external efficiency. Therefore, this study aims at suggesting a proposed vision to develop the admission policy to higher education in Egypt with reference to contemporary trends. The study begins with an overview and a critical analysis of the development of the admission policy to higher education in Egypt from 1925 - the beginning of the state's tendency towards the establishment of a modern higher education system – up till the present to determine the factors affecting the admission policy and its implications on the Egyptian education system (both pre-higher education and higher education). The overview indicates that although the current policy goes back to the mid-1950s, admission procedures are still confined to the coordination office whose main mission is to distribute the students among the various higher education institutions according to: their preferences, their grades in the general secondary certificate, taking into consideration the specific requirements of each college or institute, and the rules of geographical admission. The study adopted a "policy learning" ISSN 2167-3179 (Online) USA 4 The 2019 WEI International Academic Conference Proceedings Barcelona, Spain approach through presenting models of the admission policy to higher education in some systems that are recognized for their efficiency and quality in two types of countries. The first type includes countries which have a context similar to Egypt’s in terms of social, cultural, economic or political circumstances, such as Tunisia, Malaysia and Turkey. The second type includes a system representing some developed countries such as the United Kingdom, to help decision-makers in developing the admission policy to higher education while taking into consideration the specificity of the Egyptian context. The study showed several results, the most important ones were that the admission policy in several educational systems, such as Tunisia and the United Kingdom, begins from the secondary stage (High School) through the adoption of student mentoring by guiding students to study the courses that qualify them for a particular college or profession. This system establishes a partnership between the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Higher Education. It was also found that both Malaysia and the United Kingdom adopt the "Pre-Qualification Program for Higher Education", an intermediate stage between secondary school and higher education, which spans from one to two years. On the other hand, the admission policy to higher education in Turkey depends on demand and the performance of students in university entrance exams, which are usually preceded by an optional one year preparatory program in secondary schools. The study ends with a proposed perspective to enhance the admission policy to higher education in Egypt in light of the status quo of the Egyptian education system and the lessons learned from the contemporary trends of the selected countries while taking into account the specific conditions of the Egyptian context. Keywords: Admission Policy, Higher Education, Policy Learning, Educational Mentoring. ISSN 2167-3179 (Online) USA 5 The 2019 WEI International Academic Conference Proceedings Barcelona, Spain ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME IN HELPING THE SAUDI ECONOMIC SHIFT USING STRUCTURATION THEORY HADEEL IBRAHIM A ALZAIDALSHARIF PhD Candidate, Computing, Creative Technologies and Engineering Leeds Beckett University ABSTRACT ! For centuries Saudi Arabia has relied on oil to strengthen and further its economy. Various scholarship programmes - particularly the King Abdullah Scholarship Programme (KASP) - benefit alumni in their abilities, know-how and outlook to positively impact their society upon return. Hence, KASP holds potential to help Saudi Arabia in shifting from a resource-based to a knowledge-based economy. Through a rigorous literature review, a series of interviews and by assessing Saudi Arabia through the lens of social and human capital and network theory, this thesis seeks to assess the role of KASP and comparable scholarship programmes in furthering the Kingdom’s transition from a resource-based to a knowledge-based economy. In particular, the thesis highlights the applicability of Giddens’ structuration theory and the “duality of structure” in understanding the interplay between structural frameworks and individuals. By bridging the gap between structure and agency, it is thus possible to make sense of interview findings and to derive the dynamics that help an economic shift. In turn, these findings can be applied to Saudi Arabia using the frameworks of social and human capital, as well as network theory. Combining these approaches shows great promise
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