Higher Education category: 3664 books
The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance
The Politics of Tuition Fees and Subsidies in OECD Countries,1945–2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
This book analyzes the political economy of higher education finance across a range of OECD countries, exploring why some students pay extortionate tuition fees whilst for others their education is free. What are the redistributional consequences of these different tuition-subsidy systems? Analysing...
Handbook of Research on Higher Education in the MENA Region
Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
As the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region becomes increasingly intertwined in the global economy, investment continues to be made in the educational sector. Multidimensional approaches to higher education have greatly influenced the state of business and government in the region. Handbook...
by Kevin J. Dougherty, Sosanya M. Jones, Hana Lahr
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Seeking greater accountability in higher education, many states have adopted performance funding, tying state financial support of colleges and universities directly to institutional performance based on specific outcomes such as student retention, progression, and graduation. Now in place in over...
Hispanic Serving Institutions in American Higher Education
Their Origin, and Present and Future Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This is the first book to exclusively address Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), filling a major gap in the research on these institutions, and in our understanding of their approaches to learning and their role in supporting all students while focusing on Hispanic students. Born out of the reauthorization...
Publicly Engaged Scholars
Next-Generation Engagement and the Future of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The concern that the democratic purposes of higher education -- and its conception as a public good -- are being undermined, with the growing realization that existing structures are unsuited to addressing today's complex societal problems, and that our institutions are failing an increasingly diverse...
Shaping Work-Life Culture in Higher Education
A Guide for Academic Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Shaping Work-Life Culture in Higher Education provides strategies to implement beneficial work-life policies in colleges and universities. As compared to the corporate sector, higher education institutions have been slow to implement policies aimed at fostering diversity and a healthy work-life balance,...
Democratizing Higher Education Policy
Constraints of Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
This book was written with the purpose of analyzing the challenges faced by the post-apartheid government in South Africa with regard to reform of higher education. It covers the apartheid context of higher education, resistance to the system and its ultimate demise, democratic processes in post-apartheid...
Unequal Partners
American Foundations and Higher Education Development in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
This book offers a nuanced analysis of a US-led foundation initiative of uncommon ambition, featuring seven foundations with a shared commitment to strengthen capacity in higher education in Sub-Saharan African universities. The book examines the conditions under which philanthropy can be effective,...
Religion, Scholarship, and Higher Education
Perspectives, Models, and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2002
Religion, Scholarship, and Higher Education explores foundational issues surrounding the interaction of religion and the academy in the twenty-first century. Featuring the work of eighteen scholars from diverse institutional, disciplinary, and religious backgrounds, this outstanding collection of...
Performance-Based Funding in Higher Education
The State of Truth in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Performance-Based Funding in Higher Education examines the touted aims of higher education policies over the past thirty years. The focus on job creation and increased graduation rates has distracted educators, students, and surrounding communities from an educator’s traditional and valued role...
Bridging the Higher Education Divide
Strengthening Community Colleges and Restoring the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Education has always been a key driver in our nation’s struggle to promote social mobility and widen the circle of people who can enjoy the American Dream. No set of educational institutions better embodies the promise of equal opportunity than community colleges. Two-year colleges have opened the...
Universities in the Flux of Time
An exploration of time and temporality in university life
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Higher education and the institution of the university exist in time, their essential nature now continually subject to change: change in students, in knowledge, in structure and in their own communities and those they service. These changes are accompanied by a quickening of time, leading to a heightened...
Improving What is Learned at University
An Exploration of the Social and Organisational Diversity of University Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Received the ‘highly commended’ award by the Society for Educational Studies for books published in 2010.
What is learned in universities today? Is it what students expect to learn? Is it what universities say they learn? How far do the answers to questions such as these differ according...
Learning, Teaching and Assessing in Higher Education
Developing Reflective Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
This is an up to date guide to teaching and learning in higher education, addressing issues raised by the Professional Standards Framework. It encourages the development of thoughtful, reflective teaching practitioners in higher education, and is useful for the review of existing courses. The authors...