Pii-Tuulia Nikula
Biographic Data
| ID | 1502860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pii-Tuulia Nikula |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pii-Tuulia |
| FAMILY NAME | Nikula |
| SIGNATURE | NIKULA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6683-2964 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Framing of higher education opportunities by large language models
Internationalisation of Higher Education and Climate Change: A Cognitive Dissonance Perspective
This article applies cognitive dissonance theory to the internationalisation of higher education sector to comment on tensions experienced by practitioners associated with their work's climate impact. The existing literature and relevant climate action drivers and challenges within the sector are reviewed. A case study of a global grassroot initiative, the Climate Action Network for International Educators, is considered to discuss possible solut…
Education agent standards in Australia and New Zealand – government’s role in agent-based international student recruitment
Australia and New Zealand have enacted legislation to protect international students’ rights and the long-term sustainability of their export education sectors. A pivotal, but under-researched, sub-domain of these legislative frameworks is education agent-based international student recruitment. The principal-agent relationships between governments, education providers and education agents involve complex agency problems that regulators need to c…
Supporting international students’ academic acculturation and sense of academic self-efficacy
International students arriving in New Zealand must acculturate to studying in a new academic environment. This article evaluates graduate and postgraduate level international students’ perceptions of their home and host environments and the benefits of offering an academic preparation course to support international students’ sense of academic self-efficacy. The data were collected using quantitative surveys, including a pre-post design with a c…
Socioeconomic inequalities in higher education: A meta-method analysis of twenty-first century studies in Finland and New Zealand
Considerable academic attention has been placed on analysing whether, and to what extent, socioeconomic background affects higher education participation. However, the use of socioeconomic status (SES) is problematic as it may be constructed from various data sources. Similar issues can be inherent in study design-related operationalisation decisions. This paper proposes a meta-method analysis to deconstruct the concept of SES and to investigate …
Hiring Education Agents for International Student Recruitment: Perspectives from Agency Theory
Hiring Education Agents for International Student Recruitment: Perspectives from Agency Theory
Supporting international students’ academic acculturation and sense of academic self-efficacy
International students arriving in New Zealand must acculturate to studying in a new academic environment. This article evaluates graduate and postgraduate level international students’ perceptions of their home and host environments and the benefits of offering an academic preparation course to support international students’ sense of academic self-efficacy. The data were collected using quantitative surveys, including a pre-post design with a c…
Hiring Education Agents for International Student Recruitment: Perspectives from Agency Theory
Socioeconomic inequalities in higher education: A meta-method analysis of twenty-first century studies in Finland and New Zealand
Considerable academic attention has been placed on analysing whether, and to what extent, socioeconomic background affects higher education participation. However, the use of socioeconomic status (SES) is problematic as it may be constructed from various data sources. Similar issues can be inherent in study design-related operationalisation decisions. This paper proposes a meta-method analysis to deconstruct the concept of SES and to investigate …
Supporting international students’ academic acculturation and sense of academic self-efficacy
International students arriving in New Zealand must acculturate to studying in a new academic environment. This article evaluates graduate and postgraduate level international students’ perceptions of their home and host environments and the benefits of offering an academic preparation course to support international students’ sense of academic self-efficacy. The data were collected using quantitative surveys, including a pre-post design with a c…
Education agent standards in Australia and New Zealand – government’s role in agent-based international student recruitment
Australia and New Zealand have enacted legislation to protect international students’ rights and the long-term sustainability of their export education sectors. A pivotal, but under-researched, sub-domain of these legislative frameworks is education agent-based international student recruitment. The principal-agent relationships between governments, education providers and education agents involve complex agency problems that regulators need to c…
Internationalisation of Higher Education and Climate Change: A Cognitive Dissonance Perspective
This article applies cognitive dissonance theory to the internationalisation of higher education sector to comment on tensions experienced by practitioners associated with their work's climate impact. The existing literature and relevant climate action drivers and challenges within the sector are reviewed. A case study of a global grassroot initiative, the Climate Action Network for International Educators, is considered to discuss possible solut…
Framing of higher education opportunities by large language models
Higher education (6 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works)