Higher Education category: 3664 books
by Robert Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
This book hopes to change the nature of the conversation about higher education from critiques to focusing on efforts of systematic improvement in undergraduate education. Changing the Conversation about Higher Education establishes a culture of experimentation and evidence for undergraduate education...
Developing Creativity in Higher Education
An Imaginative Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Graduates face a world of complexity which demands flexibility, adaptability, self-reliance and innovation, but while the development of creativity is embedded in the English National Curriculum and in workplace training, the higher education sector has yet to fully recognise its importance.
This...
Perspectives on the History of Higher Education
Volume 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Volume Twenty-Five of Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, the silver anniversary edition, offers three fresh contributions to the understanding of American higher education in the nineteenth century and three historical perspectives on topics of contemporary concern.The divergent paths...
The Challenge of Bologna
What United States Higher Education Has to Learn from Europe, and Why It Matters That We Learn It
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
"Gaston brings order to a reform movement burdened by information overload. The Challenge of Bologna unfolds through descriptions of the reports from the reform process in Europe, analyses of its major aspirations and accomplishments, and consideration of their application to the U.S. The long subtitle...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
The financial crisis of 2007/2008 prompted governments across Europe to adopt austerity measures aimed at the reduction of their escalating budget deficits. Higher Education in Austerity Europe explores how the resulting cuts in public expenditure - together with the increasing reliance on the privatisation...
Cross-Border Higher Education and Quality Assurance
Commerce, the Services Directive and Governing Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This book analyses the range of potential measures national quality assurance agencies may have to employ to deal with the new issues caused by Cross Border Higher Education (CBHE). The expansion of CBHE raises quality problems, which are currently assessed differently depending on the countries concerned....
Governance Reconsidered
How Boards, Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty Can Help Their Colleges Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Revamp senior administration organization for more effective governance
Governance Reconsidered: How Boards, Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty Can Help Their Colleges Thrive takes an in-depth look at the current practice of governance in higher education and explores solutions for more...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This work provides a critical reexamination of the origin and development of America's land-grant colleges and universities, created by the most important piece of legislation in higher education. The story is divided into five parts that provide closer examinations of representative developments.Part...
by Herbert I. London
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This is an analysis of higher education in the past half century, a period of dramatic change and democratization. But it is more than that. The author has been a participant in the struggle to stem the decline in higher education, as it moved from an emphasis on classical liberal values toward relativism...
Understanding Writing Transfer
Implications for Transformative Student Learning in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
While education is based on the broad assumption that what one learns here can transfer over there – across critical transitions – what do we really know about the transfer of knowledge?The question is all the more urgent at a time when there are pressures to “unbundle” higher education to target...
Priorities of the Professoriate
Engaging Multiple Forms of Scholarship Across Rural and Urban Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Established in 2006, the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education (AABHE), formerly constituted as the Black Caucus (American Association of Higher Education), has been the consistent voice of Black issues in academe. According to the stated mission, the AABHE pursues the educational and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
The management of quality and sustainability in higher education institutions ensures that proper standards are maintained. Such enforced standardization allows for the highest caliber of training opportunities for various fields and disciplines. The Handbook of Research on Quality Assurance and Value...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
With an increase in global competition among universities and national higher education systems, educational programs desire to offer compatible content without losing their competitive advantage. Because of this balance, the issue of convergence, along with its benefits and limits, has emerged. Handbook...
Aspiring to Greatness
West Virginia University Since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Aspiring to Greatness: West Virginia University since World War II chronicles the emergence of WVU as a major land-grant institution. As a continuation of the work of Doherty and Summers in West Virginia University: Symbol of Unity in a Sectionalized State, this book focuses on the modern historical...