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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
This volume explores the interrelationship between ideology, the state and higher education reforms, setting it in a global context. It examines some of the major higher education reforms and policy issues in a global culture, particularly in the light of recent shifts in quality and standards-driven...
Mass Higher Education Development in East Asia
Strategy, Quality, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
This book discusses mass higher education development in East Asian countries by means of three main issues: the strategy for higher education development; the way professors and students in the region are experiencing the rapid developments; and the challenges imposed by mass higher education. These...
Sustainable Futures for Higher Education
The Making of Knowledge Makers
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
This volume addresses the current situation in higher education and what creative action needs to be taken for the future development of the various systems of higher education. Higher education in the 21st centuries is under immense pressure from various sides. First, there is dramatic limitation...
European Higher Education at the Crossroads
Between the Bologna Process and National Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2012
Romania hosts the 2012 Bologna / European Higher Education Area Ministerial Conference and the Third Bologna Policy Forum. In preparation for these meetings, The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) organised the Future of Higher Education...
Global Rankings and the Geopolitics of Higher Education
Understanding the influence and impact of rankings on higher education, policy and society
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Global rankings and the Geopolitics of Higher Education is an examination of the impact and influence that university rankings have had on higher education, policy and public opinion in recent years. Bringing together some of the most informed authorities on this very complex issue, this edited collection...
Advancing Higher Education as a Field of Study
In Quest of Doctoral Degree Guidelines - Commemorating 120 Years of Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
“Overall, the book will clearly be of interest to all faculty members who teach in higher education programs, doctoral students in the field, and also administrators at the Provost or Dean of Education level. It may also be of interest to researchers who study curriculum development – especially...
Higher Education as a Field of Study in China
Defining Knowledge and Curriculum Structure
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Higher Education as a Field of Study in China: Defining Knowledge and Curriculum Structure concerns the complexity of higher education as an academic field_the evolving nature of the field in light of the overall development of higher education in China. It reviews how higher education as a field...
Economics of Higher Education
Background, Concepts, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
This book examines the many ways in which economic concepts, theories and models can be used to examine issues in higher education. The topics explored in the book include how students make college-going decisions, the payoffs to students and society from going to college, markets for higher education...
by Tony Harland, Neil Pickering
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Values in Higher Education Teaching explores the way in which teaching, research, learning and higher education are a values enterprise and that an exploration of values is necessary to work out the full purposes of a higher education to guide practices and help academics understand academic work....
Higher Education in Development
Lessons from Sub Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This book will interest readers learning about or developing strategies for improving higher education systems and institutions in developing countries. It provides an insight into subSaharan African higher education systems and sets out the ways that they are developing and changing. It explores...
Access and Expansion Post-Massification
Opportunities and Barriers to Further Growth in Higher Education Participation
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The twenty-first century has the potential to be the era of universal higher education access: the post-massification century. The growth of knowledge-based service industries and an increased need for technological and social innovations require more education, training, and re-training at the post-secondary...
Changing Higher Education
The Development of Learning and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005
Making sense of the many changes that have taken place in learning and teaching in higher education in recent years, Changing Higher Education also offers insights into how higher education might develop in the future.
Using the work of Lewis Elton as a starting point, leading researchers...
Navigating the Volatility of Higher Education
Anthropological and Policy Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Applied Anthropology provides a new perspective on today’s higher education environment. Volatile and unpredictable forces affect research and instruction across many sectors and levels, and global dynamics are among the strongest drivers of change. Further, within American higher education, daunting...
Higher Education Rulemaking
The Politics of Creating Regulatory Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Many higher education academics and administrators have only vague notions about how the federal government makes regulations governing colleges and universities in the United States, and yet these regulations control many important aspects of the operation of these institutions. What happens after...