NOOR is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s national Educational Management Information System (EMIS), developed by the Ministry of Education to digitize and streamline academic and administrative processes across public schools. Through its unified...
Learning Analytics (LA) can support student success through dashboards and early-support interventions, but adoption depends on students’ willingness to allow educational data use under privacy and data-protection requirements. This study exami...
In Germany, continuing education (CE) is, to a large extent, controlled by municipalities (“Kommunen”). Municipalities have published an increasing number of education reports in recent years. These are intended as steering instruments fo...
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into education requires frameworks that are not only technically robust but also ethically and pedagogically grounded. This paper proposes the Generalist Education Artificial Intelligence (GEAI) framewo...
Sustainability in higher education is usually studied through what institutions teach or how their campuses operate. Less attention has been paid to the sustainability of the governance arrangements through which institutions meet the requirements se...
The rapid digitalization of education has intensified the presence of large technology corporations within educational infrastructures, platforms, and data ecosystems. While digital technologies have expanded access to educational resources and trans...
Education systems are increasingly shaped by decisions about infrastructure, interoperability, data governance, procurement, and artificial intelligence, yet no established field treats these decisions as a single object of professional responsibilit...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become central to the evolution of learning analytics (LA), transforming how higher-education institutions capture and interpret student engagement data. This narrative review synthesises research published between 20...
The floods triggered by the 29 October 2024 cut-off low in Valencia (Spain) expose a persistent challenge in disaster risk reduction: extensive meteorological and territorial data do not automatically become timely, trusted or actionable public guida...
Higher education institutions (HEIs) generate substantial volumes of academic data, yet the visualization infrastructure required to transform this data into decision-relevant representations remains underdeveloped in most Latin American university c...
The objective of this paper was to scope the challenges associated with data-sharing governance for machine learning applications in education research (MLER) within the South African context. Machine learning applications have the potential to assis...
Administrative registries have become central instruments of education policy against sexual violence in schools, yet their figures reflect both the violence that occurs and the state’s capacity to detect it. This study analyses the complete op...
The growing demand for sustainable development has exposed significant limitations in how Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) evaluate sustainability-oriented research, particularly due to fragmented indicators, descriptive approaches, and the absen...
Combating child poverty is desirable to ensure equality of opportunities across children, as well as fostering the sustainability of the societal well-being for future generations. This paper focuses on the study of child poverty in the 28 Member Sta...
Lack of education is a major concern in underdeveloped countries because it leads to poor human and economic development. The level of education in public institutions varies across all regions around the globe. Current disparities in access to educa...
As artificial intelligence systems increasingly serve as a gateway for access to information, economic opportunity, and civic life, higher education programs training AI developers must evolve to prepare practitioners who are not only technically pro...
In alignment with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the global pursuit of net-zero emissions, higher education institutions (HEIs) are increasingly expected to demonstrate robust climate accountability and effective d...
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) face increasing challenges in effectively integrating their core functions of Teaching, Research, and Community Engagement (TRCE) while responding to growing demands for quality, accountability, and data-informed...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now woven into university communication, learning, and administration, exposing students, faculty, and professional staff to scalable cybercrime, social engineering, and personal-data risks. This study tested a Complia...
The European Data Portal is one of the worldwide initiatives that aggregates and make open data available. This is a case study with a qualitative approach that aims to determine to what extent the datasets from the Government and Public Sector, Tran...
Digital transformation in higher education requires integrated designs connecting strategy, governance, infrastructure, interoperability, applications, cybersecurity, accessibility, analytics, and continuous improvement. This study analyzes the Integ...
With the acceleration of digital transformation in education, this paper examines how blockchain is being framed as a governance solution for trust, transparency, and decentralization. Using a hybrid bibliometric and thematic analysis of 93 Web of Sc...
This study analyses the degree of organisational innovation (OI) in Spanish universities and its relationship with institutional competitiveness, proposing a robust analytical framework for its assessment. A mixed, sequential and explanatory design w...
This Special Issue of Sustainability was devoted to the topic of “Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages Research: Rethinking Security, Safety, Well-being, and Happiness”. It attracted significant attention of scholars, practitioners...
This study evaluates institutional research performance in benchmark technological universities in Taiwan through intelligent research databases (SciVal) in digital libraries with Ministry of Education open data to explore the performance of research...
Education for sustainable development poses high challenges to governments and public finance. Compared with OECD countries, China’s local governments bear too much expenditure responsibilities with respect to compulsory education, which theore...
This study explores graduate students’ perceptions of and experiences with digital governance in higher education, using data from semi-structured interviews with thirty participants. A qualitative research design guided the investigation, addr...
A major goal of ideological education in China is to promote loyalty to the party-state and to instill atheism among the people. How effective is this ideological education? This article examines the relationship between education and trust in govern...
As generative AI expands the technical frontiers of prediction, measurement, and design, a growing tension has emerged between algorithmic fluency and institutional trust. This conceptual article offers a narrative synthesis of recent work in learnin...
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread quickly around the globe. COVID-19 has affected the education sector due to partial or complete lockdowns that were implemented throughout the world between 2019 and 2022. This pandemic severely affected the...
Educating the masses about the dire consequences of climate change in high-polluting countries is essential to achieving the United Nations’ sustainable development agenda. This study investigates the role of education in environmental sustaina...
5 September 2022
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, has caused a swift change in the higher education system giving way to a rise in instituting multimodal teaching and learning approaches. These approaches have demonstrated an inadequate capacity for multi...
2 October 2021
Construction safety is related to the life and health of construction workers and has always been a hot issue of concern for government and construction units. The government can use “construction safety education” to reduce the probability of safety...
This study presents a bibliometric analysis of 461 studies on refugee and (im)migrant education governance, covering the period from 2015 to 2025. All studies were articles indexed in the Web of Science category. The analysis reveals publication tren...
Sustainable development practices in higher education institutions are diverse, with regard not only to the types of challenges that have to be addressed, but also to the forms of sustainability governance adopted by individual higher education insti...
This study develops and tests a human-centric cybersecurity framework for educational Metaverse adoption-related intentions in Jordanian universities. It examines the relationships between privacy protection, compliance and governance, cybersecurity...
The quality of the ecological environment is related to people’s health and quality of life, and is a prerequisite for happiness. This paper uses data from the 2019 Chinese Social Survey(CSS) and matches it with green tax data of 30 provinces a...
In Poland, responsibility for educational tasks has mainly been delegated to local governments, although the state still plays a decisive role. Municipalities finance these tasks using educational subsidies and targeted grants from the central budget...
The industry–education integration platform itself is an ecosystem composed of multiple subjects, and its effective governance cannot be separated from contract management. Platform operation requires efforts to overcome institutional transacti...
Honduras allocates a substantial share of GDP to public education, yet it continues to record weak human capital outcomes relative to its Central American neighbors. This study tests whether education-spending volume, or instead institutional quality...
In forced displacement contexts, refugee education is often governed through hybrid arrangements that blend national education systems with humanitarian financing and bordering regimes. While scholarship typically focuses on student enrollment and le...
Education is considered an essential tool for achieving sustainability-related goals. In this regard, education for sustainable development (ESD) and climate change education (CCE) have become prominent concepts. The central characteristics of both c...
A high-quality early childhood workforce is essential for positive child outcomes and boosting economic and social productivity. However, the Australian Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector faces significant workforce challenges and compl...
In the realm of new localism and collaboration, local educational policymakers are called upon for responsible community leadership. Given the conceptual continuum between new localism and transformational leadership, this study examines the relation...
While there is little doubt that social networks are essential for processes of implementing social innovations in community education such as Climate Change Education (CCE) or Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), scholars have neglected to a...
This article analyzes how China has worked to develop and build a higher education innovation ecosystem in the past decade. Binding its analysis to three types of data, namely clusters of national policies issued by important Chinese government bodie...
Attaining education sustainability is indeed important as it ensures the overall economic sustainability of countries and it is directly connected with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG-4). However, the literature evidence on the...
Sustainable higher education governance requires durable institutional mechanisms that support student engagement, faculty participation in education, and organizational coordination. Against the backdrop of China’s “Three-All Education&r...
This study constructs a network data envelopment analysis model to assess the eco-efficiency of the governance–production nexus, revealing traditional “black box” measurements’ internal processes. It uses data from the Yangtze...
The purpose of this study is to explore a sustainable paradigm for data governance in universities empowered by artificial intelligence (AI), creating a collaborative governance system that integrates technological, institutional, organizational, and...
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