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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
A public-private partnership (PPP) is a contractual arrangement with appropriate risk sharing between public and private partners for the delivery of public infrastructure or services, which is intended to create value-for-money to the taxpayer. The Routledge Companion to Public-Private Partnerships...
An Introduction to Health Policy
A Primer for Physicians and Medical Students
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
Based on the current climate of our nation’s finances and healthcare spending, it is clear that young doctors and medical students are likely to see a dramatic transformation of the manner in which America offers medical care to its citizens over the course of their careers. As such, it is pivotal...
The Federal Appointments Process
A Constitutional and Historical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2001
Although the federal appointment of U.S. judges and executive branch officers has consistently engendered controversy, previous studies of the process have been limited to particular dramatic conflicts and have tended to view appointments in a vacuum without regard to other incidents in the process,...
by Patricia A. Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Mindful awareness practices to help teachers recognize and regulate emotional reactivity in their classrooms.
Teaching is one of the most rewarding professions, but also one of the most demanding. This book offers simple, ready-to-use, and evidence-proven mindfulness techniques to help educators...
Excellence Without a Soul
Does Liberal Education Have a Future?
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
America's great research universities are the envy of the world-and none more so than Harvard. Never before has the competition for excellence been fiercer. But while striving to be unsurpassed in the quality of its faculty and students, Universities have forgotten that the fundamental purpose of...
Revolution in Higher Education
How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
A report from the front lines of higher education and technology that chronicles efforts to transform teaching, learning, and opportunity.
Colleges and universities have become increasingly costly, and, except for a handful of highly selective, elite institutions, unresponsive to twenty-first-century...
School Commercialism
From Democratic Ideal to Market Commodity
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Big Man on Campus
A University President Speaks Out on Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
An eye-opening and at times controversial insider's look at the current state of higher education in America, from one of the nation's most distinguished and down-to-earth university presidents.
At a time when daily news headlines scream of competitive college enrollments, skyrocketing tuition,...
by Robert Kelchen
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
As the price tag of higher education continues to rise, colleges and universities across the country are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their value. Graded on numerous metrics, including cost and ability to prepare students for the job market, colleges must satisfy requirements from multiple...
The Rising Costs of Higher Education: A Reference Handbook
A Reference Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Providing a clear, logical guide to an illogical topic, this book provides an easy-to-understand guide for anyone who wants to successfully navigate the labyrinth of going to college—and paying for the experience.
by Olumide Om'tayo Samuel
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
This is a generally applicable blueprint on how to successfully set up and run a children school irrespective of your location, culture and situational challenges. Although, most developed nations have ready institutions doing all the brain storming on behalf of the citizenry for a token fee or specific...
by Jonathan R. Cole
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Education has been disrupted dramatically by culture, technology and economics. The only certainty about the universities of the future is that they will not thrive if left unchanged. Jonathan Cole, John Mitchell Mason Professor at Columbia University, and its former provost, is one of the country's...
The Great University Gamble
Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
In 2010 the UK government imposed huge cuts and market-driven reforms on higher education. Proposals to raise undergraduate tuition fees lead to angry student-led protests. What will become of higher education under this new policy regime? *BR**BR*The Great University Gamble outlines the architecture...
Redesigning Work
A Blueprint for Canada's Future Well-being and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Canada’s future prosperity is of utmost concern to citizens, industry leaders and policy makers. Using original public opinion research from EKOS, Redesigning Work argues that improving people’s jobs and workplaces can unlock the potential to strengthen Canada’s economy and improve the well-being...