Higher Education category: 3664 books
A Critical Study of Thailand's Higher Education Reforms
The culture of borrowing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
This book offers a critical examination of contemporary higher education reforms in Thailand situated in the broader historical, socio-economic and political changes. Through a qualitative case study with three methods of inquiry, this book explores why different 'global education policies' such quasi-privatisation,...
Developing Transformative Spaces in Higher Education
Learning to Transgress
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Higher education has been presented as a solution to a host of local and global problems, despite the fact that learning and assessment can also be used as mechanisms for exclusion and social control. Developing Transformative Spaces in Higher Education: Learning to Transgress demonstrates that even...
The Changing Role of Women in Higher Education
Academic and Leadership Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
This book sets out to examine the changing role of women in higher education with an emphasis on academic and leadership issues. The scope of the book is international, with a wide range of contributors, whose expertise spans sociology, social science, economics, politics, public policy and linguistic...
Working with Underachieving Students in Higher Education
Fostering inclusion through narration and reflexivity
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Working with Underachieving Students in Higher Education: Fostering Inclusion through Narration and Reflexivity presents an international and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the relationships between narrative devices and reflexivity in higher education. Stemming from a collaborative European...
Universal Design in Higher Education
From Principles to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Universal Design in Higher Education looks at the design of physical and technological environments at institutions of higher education; at issues pertaining to curriculum and instruction; and at the full array of student services.
Universal Design in Higher Education is a comprehensive guide...
Achieving Equity and Quality in Higher Education
Global Perspectives in an Era of Widening Participation
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Across the world, higher education is witnessing exponential growth in both student participation and types of educational providers. One key phenomenon of this growth is an increase in student diversity: governments are widening access to higher education for students from traditionally underrepresented...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Higher education today faces several challenges including soaring cost, rising student debt, declining state support, and a staggering dropout rate. Digital technology enables numerous paths to innovation and promising solutions to these crises in higher education. However, few efforts have been made...
Business Practices in Higher Education
A Guide for Today's Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Business Practices in Higher Education is a breakthrough guide offering higher education and student affairs professionals an understanding of the fundamental business nature of colleges and universities. The author discusses the practical applications of business concepts and models and how these...
A Perfect Mess
The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Read the news about America’s colleges and universities—rising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and administrators—and it’s clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labaree reminds us in this book, it’s always been...
Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education
The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The latest volume in the Routledge International Studies in Higher Education Series, Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education: The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce, reviews the implications of new forms of academic and professional identity, which have emerged largely as a result...
A Guide for Leaders in Higher Education
Core Concepts, Competencies, and Tools
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
At a time when higher education faces the unprecedented challenges of declining revenues and increased scrutiny, questions about access, cost, and the value of degrees, and the imperative to educate a more diverse student body, there is an urgent need for leadership that is conversant with, and able...
Students' Experiences of e-Learning in Higher Education
The Ecology of Sustainable Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Students’ Experiences of e-learning in Higher Education helps higher education instructors and university managers understand how e-learning relates to, and can be integrated with, other student experiences of learning. Grounded in relevant international research, the book is distinctive in that...
by William Zumeta, David W. Breneman, Patrick M. Callan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This ambitious book grows out of the realization that a convergence of economic, demographic, and political forces in the early twenty-first century requires a fundamental reexamination of the financing of American higher education.
The authors identify and address basic issues and trends that...
Choosing Students
Higher Education Admissions Tools for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
This volume brings a variety of perspectives to bear on the issue of how higher education institutions can - or should - choose students during the early part of the 21st century. Many of the contributors report on research to develop and validate potential tools to assist those responsible for admission...