Higher Education category: 3664 books
The WTO and the University
Globalization, GATS, and American Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2006
By and large, the debate about the merits of including higher education services within free trade policies has occurred outside of the United States, even though the U.S. Office of the Trade Representative has specifically included higher education services in its March 2003 negotiating offer to...
Global Higher Education Shared Communities
Efforts and Concerns from Key Universities in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
This book offers an in-depth investigation of the globalization of higher education at Chinese universities and colleges. The proposed “Global Higher Education Shared Community” model reflects the globalization of higher education with Chinese characteristics in terms of its conceptual, practical...
College Disrupted
The Great Unbundling of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
For nearly two decades, pundits have been predicting the demise of higher education in the United States. Our colleges and universities will soon find themselves competing for students with universities from around the world. With the advent of massive open online courses ("MOOCS") over...
Equality and Differentiation in Marketised Higher Education
A New Level Playing Field?
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This edited collection demonstrates how discourses and practices associated with marketisation, differentiation and equality are manifested in UK higher education today. Uniting leading scholars in higher education and equality in England, the contributors and editors expose the contradictions arising...
Universities in the Knowledge Economy
Higher education organisation and global change
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Universities are fundamental to the contemporary knowledge economy. They directly and indirectly support economic growth in both developing and advanced economies. In addition to their traditional teaching and research functions, they often also have important roles in supporting regional development...
The States and Public Higher Education Policy
Affordability, Access, and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Affordability, access, and accountability have long been among the central challenges facing higher education—and they remain so today. Here, Donald E. Heller and other higher education scholars and practitioners explore the current debates surrounding these key issues.
As students and their...
Alternative Solutions to Higher Education's Challenges
An Appreciative Approach to Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Moving beyond critique, Alternative Solutions to Higher Education’s Challenges uses an appreciative approach to highlight what is working in colleges and universities and offers an examination of how institutions can improve practice. Drawing on examples and cases from real higher education institutions,...
The Heart of Higher Education
A Call to Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
A call to advance integrative teaching and learning in higher education.
From Parker Palmer, best-selling author of The Courage to Teach, and Arthur Zajonc, professor of physics at Amherst College and director of the academic program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, comes this...
The Trouble with Higher Education
A Critical Examination of our Universities
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
The Trouble with Higher Education is a powerful and topical critique of the Higher Education system in the UK, with relevance to countries with similar systems. Based on the authors’ experiences that span over 30+ years of fieldwork, the issues discussed focus on the problems facing the principle...
by Henry C Lucas <b>Jr</b>
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Universities for years have been the bright spot in our educational system. Today, these institutions are under siege from multiple constituencies including students, parents, legislators, government officials and their own faculties. Education has historically been a way for students to improve their...
by Robin Harris, Arthur Tremblay
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1960
This bibliography is the first of a series of studies about higher education in Canada sponsored by the committee on the History of Higher Education in Canada established by the National Conference of Canadian Universities. Among its nearly 4,000 entries are included the books, pamphlets, theses,...
British Labour and Higher Education, 1945 to 2000
Ideologies, Policies and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Higher education provision is an essential component (socially as well as economically) of modern social structures. British Labour and Higher Education focuses on the development of Labour policy on higher education from 1945 to 2000. It analyses the rapid expansion and series of fundamental transformations...
Cosmopolitan Learning for a Global Era
Higher education in an interconnected world
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Ensuring that higher education students are fully prepared for lives as global citizens is a pressing concern in the contemporary world. This book draws on insights from cosmopolitan thought to identify how people from different backgrounds can find common ground. By applying cosmopolitan insights...
Higher Education
Open for Business
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Higher Education: Open for Business addresses a problem in higher learning, which is newly recognized in the academic spotlight: the overcommercialization of higher education. The book asks that you, the reader, think about the following: Did you go to a Coke or Pepsi school? Do your children attend...