Higher Education category: 3664 books
by Anatoly Oleksiyenko
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
*Winner of the Best Book Award from Researchers and Students and Study Abroad Programmes at the CIES2019 conference 2019
This book examines learning-mobility tensions and ties caused by convergences and divergences of social, organizational and cognitive forces in global higher education. As...
Confronting Challenges to the Liberal Arts Curriculum
Perspectives of Developing and Transitional Countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Comparative research on higher education in developing and transitional countries is often focused on such issues as access, finance, student mobility and the impact of globalization, but there has been little attention to curriculum and the forces that shape it. Confronting Challenges to the Liberal...
The True Genius of America at Risk
Are We Losing Our Public Universities to De Facto Privatization?
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2005
A perfect storm of fiscal and political trends is rapidly forcing the privatization of America's public universities. Unless those who care about preserving these valuable public assets redefine the core purposes of public higher education, college will quickly become a very difficult goal for lower-income...
Higher Education and Employability
New Models for Integrating Study and Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Higher Education and Employability makes a crucial contribution to the current reassessment of higher education in the United States by focusing on how colleges and universities can collaborate with businesses in order to serve the educational and professional interests of their students. Drawing...
by Robin Harris
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
This book traces the development of higher education in Canada, through a detailed description and analysis of what was being taught and of the research opportunities available to professors in the years from 1860 to 1960. Background is provided in the opening chapters of Part I, which outline the...
European Studies in Asia
Contours of a Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
As countries across Asia continue to rise and become more assertive global powers, the role that Higher Education has played, and continues to play, in this process is an issue of growing pertinence. Furthermore, understanding the relationship between Europe and Asia fostered by historical and contemporary...
Postwar Higher Education in America
Just Yesterday
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
The twenty million students now pursuing higher education in America are paying more than history, culture and the consumer price index can possibly justify, while the product they are purchasing is one that has become systematically debased. General education has been depreciated, core curricula...
Higher Education Reform in China
Beyond the expansion
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
A major transformation of Chinese higher education (HE) has taken place over the past decade – China has reshaped its higher education sector from elite to mass education with the number of graduates having quadrupled to three million a year over six years. China is exceptional among lower income...
Class and the College Classroom
Essays on Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
We have long been encouraged to look to education, especially higher education, for the solution to social problems, particularly as a way out of poverty for the talented and the hard working. But in its appointed role as the path to upward mobility that makes inequality more acceptable, higher education...
Beyond Inclusion
The Practice of Equal Access in Indian Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In India, two critical aspects of public policy — social justice and higher education — have witnessed unprecedented expansion in recent years. While several programmes have been designed by the State to equalise access to higher education and implement formal inclusion, discrimination based on...
The Instruction Myth
Why Higher Education is Hard to Change, and How to Change It
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Higher education is broken, and we haven’t been able to fix it. Even in the face of great and growing dysfunction, it seems resistant to fundamental change. At this point, can anything be done to save it?
The Instruction Myth argues that yes, higher education can be reformed and reinvigorated,...
The Power of Integrated Learning
Higher Education for Success in Life, Work, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Students and their parents wonder if college is worth the investment. Employers want graduates with the skills they need. The public wonders if higher education is preparing future generations for an era of dynamic change. In his latest book, William Sullivan offers a model of higher education that answers...
Changing Governance in Universities
Italian Higher Education in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book critically examines the ramifications of reforms to higher education institutions. All of the higher education system reforms implemented in western countries over the last three decades have had one fundamentally important aim: namely, that of changing the existing institutional and system...
Citizenship and Higher Education
The Role of Universities in Communities and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2005
What are the obligations of the university to society and its communities? What are the virtues of university education? What are the university's ethical responsibilities to its students?
The role of citizenship and civic responsibility in higher education is a highly contested yet crucial...