Norzaini Azman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1502832 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Norzaini Azman |
| PRENOMES | Norzaini |
| SOBRENOME | Azman |
| ASSINATURA | AZMAN N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | National University of Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6969-0511 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Barriers to Faculty Engagement in Curriculum Internationalization
Internationalization of Curriculum (IoC) has been identified as a significant strategy to training graduates with awareness, skills and knowledge required to thrive as global citizens. In China, Chinese-foreign Cooperation in Running Schools (CFCRS) represents one of the most prominent and policy-supported education for advancing IoC. But even so, faculty engagement in curriculum internationalization is inadequate, which raise concerns about the …
Identifying Key Blockers to Faculty Engagement in Curriculum Internationalization in Chinese-Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools
Curriculum internationalization (IoC) is widely promoted in Chinese-Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools (CFCRS) to strengthen global competencies and institutional competitiveness. Despite strong policy support, faculty engagement in IoC remains uneven, and little is known about the specific cultural, personal, and institutional factors shaping participation. This study surveyed 442 faculty across 14 CFCRS-host universities to examine faculty …
Stressors, Achievement Motivation, and Academic Performance Among University Faculty in China
This research scrutinizes the link between academic stressors (both challenge and hindrance types) and the academic performance of university faculty, while also considering the mediating role of achievement motivation. Furthermore, the study evaluates the moderating influence of faculty self‐efficacy on the relationship between these stressors and academic performance. The sample encompassed 7000 full‐time teachers from universities across Sichu…
The Relationship Between Faculty Support, Academic Self-efficacy, Academic Emotions, and Online Learning Performance Among University Students in China
Online learning performance (OAP) serves as a critical determinant of educational quality and students’ academic success. In this study, we probe into the impact of faculty support (FS) on online learning performance among university students and assess the mediating roles of academic self-efficacy (ASE) and academic emotions (AE). A quantitative survey design was adopted, which involved public universities in Sichuan province in China. The parti…
Higher education leadership development in selected Asean countries
Leadership has been considered as an essential foundation for universities to flourish, more so in the context of emerging higher education systems. Using an exploratory qualitative approach, this paper reviews the challenges and prospects in the development of higher education leaders in selected countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). While variations were reported by the respondents, the challenges were somewhat simila…
The Role of Islamic Piety Movements in the Lives of Malaysian Female Muslim Students in the United Kingdom
This paper explores the transnational trajectories of female Malaysian Muslim students through their commitment to piety-minded forms of Islam. In particular, it seeks to identify the reasons for their participation in piety movements and its importance to their lives. The ethnographic research, conducted over 8 months, involved 18 Malaysian female respondents who were studying and living in Manchester between 2016 and 2017. The findings show tha…
Ciri Akademik Cemerlang di Universiti Awam Malaysia
In a university system, the key to identifying and rewarding excellence is through academic promotion to professorship. However, research on the characteristics of professors as excellent academic leaders and how they enact leadership activities is very limited. The main issues include unclear definition of excellent professors and in-depth research on the notion and concept of academic leadership. Thus, this study aims to explore the elements of…
Promoting university-industry collaboration in Malaysia
University–Industry Collaboration (UIC) has been identified as an essential item on Malaysia's agenda for transforming itself into knowledge and innovation-based economy. However, despite the efforts, most initiatives have had limited results. This paper reports on an explorative study that sought to understand the contemporary realities of UIC in the Malaysian context. In particular, the study identified the expectations and impediments to UIC, …
Managing and mobilising talent in Malaysia
The future of Malaysia as a high-income and competitive nation largely depends on its pool of highly skilled human capital. Hence, the issue of human capital development has taken centre stage in numerous reform agendas of Malaysia. This paper seeks to provide examples of policy initiatives aimed at facilitating the management of highly educated talent in Malaysia. It subsequently considers the role of higher education institutions, particularly …
Research Productivity of Returnees from Study Abroad in Korea, Hong Kong, and Malaysia
Malaysia's National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN)
Policy decision-making in Malaysia has long used an approach based on intuition, ideology, or conventional wisdom. But as Malaysian society matures within an increasingly complex policy environment, a move toward an evidence-based approach to public policy-making is called for. This paper discusses the experience of the National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN) in its attempts at linking research to higher education policy formulation.…
Higher Education, Learning Regions and the Malaysian Transformation Policies
University Leadership in Crisis
The Langkawi Global Geopark
The study reported in this paper represents one of the first attempts at exploring the perspectives of the local communities on the designation of Langkawi Island in Malaysia as a UNESCO Global Geopark. It is premised on the widely acknowledged assertion that the local communities constitute an important group of stakeholders in the planning and implementation of development activities. Hence, the communities living in the geopark areas in Langka…
Building future scenarios for Malaysian universities
Malaysian higher education institutions, particularly universities, are critical to the economic and social future of the nation. This is so as demands for pursuit of knowledge and innovations as well as for highly specialized and educated people have made university education highly important and a priority for the Malaysian government. This article presents the alternative models for Malaysian universities by establishing a set of scenarios bas…
Research Productivity of Returnees from Study Abroad in Korea, Hong Kong, and Malaysia
University Leadership in Crisis
Promoting university-industry collaboration in Malaysia
University–Industry Collaboration (UIC) has been identified as an essential item on Malaysia's agenda for transforming itself into knowledge and innovation-based economy. However, despite the efforts, most initiatives have had limited results. This paper reports on an explorative study that sought to understand the contemporary realities of UIC in the Malaysian context. In particular, the study identified the expectations and impediments to UIC, …
Managing and mobilising talent in Malaysia
The future of Malaysia as a high-income and competitive nation largely depends on its pool of highly skilled human capital. Hence, the issue of human capital development has taken centre stage in numerous reform agendas of Malaysia. This paper seeks to provide examples of policy initiatives aimed at facilitating the management of highly educated talent in Malaysia. It subsequently considers the role of higher education institutions, particularly …
Higher Education, Learning Regions and the Malaysian Transformation Policies
Building future scenarios for Malaysian universities
Malaysian higher education institutions, particularly universities, are critical to the economic and social future of the nation. This is so as demands for pursuit of knowledge and innovations as well as for highly specialized and educated people have made university education highly important and a priority for the Malaysian government. This article presents the alternative models for Malaysian universities by establishing a set of scenarios bas…
Malaysia's National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN)
Policy decision-making in Malaysia has long used an approach based on intuition, ideology, or conventional wisdom. But as Malaysian society matures within an increasingly complex policy environment, a move toward an evidence-based approach to public policy-making is called for. This paper discusses the experience of the National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN) in its attempts at linking research to higher education policy formulation.…
The Langkawi Global Geopark
The study reported in this paper represents one of the first attempts at exploring the perspectives of the local communities on the designation of Langkawi Island in Malaysia as a UNESCO Global Geopark. It is premised on the widely acknowledged assertion that the local communities constitute an important group of stakeholders in the planning and implementation of development activities. Hence, the communities living in the geopark areas in Langka…
Building future scenarios for Malaysian universities
Malaysian higher education institutions, particularly universities, are critical to the economic and social future of the nation. This is so as demands for pursuit of knowledge and innovations as well as for highly specialized and educated people have made university education highly important and a priority for the Malaysian government. This article presents the alternative models for Malaysian universities by establishing a set of scenarios bas…
The Langkawi Global Geopark
The study reported in this paper represents one of the first attempts at exploring the perspectives of the local communities on the designation of Langkawi Island in Malaysia as a UNESCO Global Geopark. It is premised on the widely acknowledged assertion that the local communities constitute an important group of stakeholders in the planning and implementation of development activities. Hence, the communities living in the geopark areas in Langka…
University Leadership in Crisis
Higher Education, Learning Regions and the Malaysian Transformation Policies
Research Productivity of Returnees from Study Abroad in Korea, Hong Kong, and Malaysia
Malaysia's National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN)
Policy decision-making in Malaysia has long used an approach based on intuition, ideology, or conventional wisdom. But as Malaysian society matures within an increasingly complex policy environment, a move toward an evidence-based approach to public policy-making is called for. This paper discusses the experience of the National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN) in its attempts at linking research to higher education policy formulation.…
Managing and mobilising talent in Malaysia
The future of Malaysia as a high-income and competitive nation largely depends on its pool of highly skilled human capital. Hence, the issue of human capital development has taken centre stage in numerous reform agendas of Malaysia. This paper seeks to provide examples of policy initiatives aimed at facilitating the management of highly educated talent in Malaysia. It subsequently considers the role of higher education institutions, particularly …
Promoting university-industry collaboration in Malaysia
University–Industry Collaboration (UIC) has been identified as an essential item on Malaysia's agenda for transforming itself into knowledge and innovation-based economy. However, despite the efforts, most initiatives have had limited results. This paper reports on an explorative study that sought to understand the contemporary realities of UIC in the Malaysian context. In particular, the study identified the expectations and impediments to UIC, …
The Role of Islamic Piety Movements in the Lives of Malaysian Female Muslim Students in the United Kingdom
This paper explores the transnational trajectories of female Malaysian Muslim students through their commitment to piety-minded forms of Islam. In particular, it seeks to identify the reasons for their participation in piety movements and its importance to their lives. The ethnographic research, conducted over 8 months, involved 18 Malaysian female respondents who were studying and living in Manchester between 2016 and 2017. The findings show tha…
Ciri Akademik Cemerlang di Universiti Awam Malaysia
In a university system, the key to identifying and rewarding excellence is through academic promotion to professorship. However, research on the characteristics of professors as excellent academic leaders and how they enact leadership activities is very limited. The main issues include unclear definition of excellent professors and in-depth research on the notion and concept of academic leadership. Thus, this study aims to explore the elements of…
Higher education leadership development in selected Asean countries
Leadership has been considered as an essential foundation for universities to flourish, more so in the context of emerging higher education systems. Using an exploratory qualitative approach, this paper reviews the challenges and prospects in the development of higher education leaders in selected countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). While variations were reported by the respondents, the challenges were somewhat simila…
The Relationship Between Faculty Support, Academic Self-efficacy, Academic Emotions, and Online Learning Performance Among University Students in China
Online learning performance (OAP) serves as a critical determinant of educational quality and students’ academic success. In this study, we probe into the impact of faculty support (FS) on online learning performance among university students and assess the mediating roles of academic self-efficacy (ASE) and academic emotions (AE). A quantitative survey design was adopted, which involved public universities in Sichuan province in China. The parti…
Stressors, Achievement Motivation, and Academic Performance Among University Faculty in China
This research scrutinizes the link between academic stressors (both challenge and hindrance types) and the academic performance of university faculty, while also considering the mediating role of achievement motivation. Furthermore, the study evaluates the moderating influence of faculty self‐efficacy on the relationship between these stressors and academic performance. The sample encompassed 7000 full‐time teachers from universities across Sichu…
Barriers to Faculty Engagement in Curriculum Internationalization
Internationalization of Curriculum (IoC) has been identified as a significant strategy to training graduates with awareness, skills and knowledge required to thrive as global citizens. In China, Chinese-foreign Cooperation in Running Schools (CFCRS) represents one of the most prominent and policy-supported education for advancing IoC. But even so, faculty engagement in curriculum internationalization is inadequate, which raise concerns about the …
Identifying Key Blockers to Faculty Engagement in Curriculum Internationalization in Chinese-Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools
Curriculum internationalization (IoC) is widely promoted in Chinese-Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools (CFCRS) to strengthen global competencies and institutional competitiveness. Despite strong policy support, faculty engagement in IoC remains uneven, and little is known about the specific cultural, personal, and institutional factors shaping participation. This study surveyed 442 faculty across 14 CFCRS-host universities to examine faculty …
Political science (12 obras) · Higher education (9 obras) · Public relations (8 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Economic growth (6 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Higher Education Governance and Development (6 obras) · Higher Education and Employability (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Education and Islamic Studies (4 obras)