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The Role of Global University Benchmarking in Advancing Water Sustainability and Management Research
Author: Sofia García Affiliation: Swiss International University (SIU) ORCID ID: 0009-0009-5070-1669 Submitted 21 February 2026; Revised 09 May 2026; Revised 22 June 2026; Accepted 02 July 2026; Available online 08 August 2026; Version of Record 08 August 2026. Doi: https://doi.org/10.65326/u7y.SpecSDG10005 Volume 3, December 2026, (SpecSDG10005) Abstract Global benchmarking instruments now shape how universities present, organise, and fund their sustainability work, yet thei
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Institutional Reputation and Quality Architecture: Frameworks for Transparent Governance in Transnational Education
Author: Daniel Cohen Affiliation: Swiss International University (SIU) ORCID ID: 0009-0000-2881-1030 Submitted 17 March 2026; Revised 22 May 2026; Accepted 11 July 2026; Available online 08 August 2026; Version of Record 08 August 2026. Doi: https://doi.org/10.65326/u7y.SpecSDG10008 Volume 3, December 2026, (SpecSDG10008) Abstract Transnational education separates the place where academic quality is produced from the place where institutional reputation was earned. Degrees
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From Inns to Institutions: A Century of Hotel Management Education and Its Academicization
Author: Hans Zimmer ORCID iD: 0009-0006-3510-7045 Affiliation: Swiss International University (SIU) Received 22 June 2025; Revised 27 August 2025; Accepted 30 September 2025; Available online 27 October 2025; Version of Record 27 October 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.65326/u7y566741 Volume 2, December 2025, (10018) Abstract Over the past hundred years, hotel management has moved from an apprenticeship-based craft to a research-informed academic field spanning bachelor’s, mast
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NGOs, Capital, and the Architecture of Partnership: How Civil Society Strengthens Sustainable Higher Education — The Case of the European Council of Leading Business Schools (ECLBS)
Author: Anastasija Ivanova Affiliation: Independent Researcher ORCID iD: 0009-0000-7715-8015 Received 12 February 2025; Revised 28 March 2025; Accepted 22 April 2025; Available online 10 May 2025; Version of Record 10 May 2025. Volume 2, December 2025, (10013) https://doi.org/10.65326/u7y566813 Abstract The role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as structural actors in higher education governance has yet to be fully theorized in terms of their contribution to sustain
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The Historical Evolution of Business Education: From Trade Practice to Global and Digital Learning
Author: Mario Li Affiliation: Swiss Global University LLC ORCID iD: 0009-0007-0270-3366 Received 5 June 2024; Revised 20 July 2024; Accepted 5 August 2024; Available online 30 August 2024; Version of Record 30 August 2024. Volume 1, December 2024, (10008) https://doi.org/10.65326/u7y566873 Abstract Business education has not evolved as a linear movement from practice to theory or from local training to global professionalism. It has been transformed through iterative institu
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The Evolution of Distance Education: A Historical Perspective
Author: L. Kareem Affiliation: European Council of Leading Business Schools ECLBS (ECLBS) Received 1 March 2024; Revised 7 May 2024; Accepted 16 May 2024; Available online 1 June 2024; Version of Record 1 June 2024, Publication Update 5 February 2026. https://doi.org/10.65326/u7y566815 Volume 1, December 2024, (10003-2) Abstract Distance education has expanded continuously since the nineteenth century, adapting its media, pedagogy, and institutional forms to successive waves
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The Historical Evolution of Education: From Social Survival to Digital Learning
Author: A. Liu Affiliation: Independent Researcher Received 16 March 2024; Revised 1 May 2024; Accepted 16 May 2024; Available online 1 June 2024; Version of Record 1 June 2024. Volume 1, December 2024, (10003) https://doi.org/10.65326/u7y566817 Abstract Education has always been a mechanism for societies to reproduce knowledge, distribute authority, coordinate collective life and cope with uncertainty. The article reinterprets a broad historical account of education as a the
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