Higher Education category: 3664 books
Student Equity in Australian Higher Education
Twenty-five years of A Fair Chance for All
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
This book examines twenty-five years of the Australian framework for student equity in higher education, A Fair Chance for All. Divided into two sections, the book reflects on the legacy of equity policy in higher education, the effectiveness of current approaches, and the likely challenges facing...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
This book aims to provide insight into the complexities confronting higher education today and to highlight tangible opportunities that exist to address such issues. We are in a constant state of flux and higher education needs to respond in more proactive, intentional and innovative ways to remain...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The introduction of market forces into higher education is the most crucial issue facing universities and colleges today. As the role of universities in the knowledge society becomes ever more apparent, and as public funding reaches its limit, marketisation has become an issue of critical importance....
Improving Student Engagement and Development through Assessment
Theory and practice in higher education
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
With a unique focus on the relationship between assessment and engagement this book explores what works in terms of keeping students on course to succeed.
Against a backdrop of massification and the associated increase in student diversity there is an escalating requirement for personalized,...
Suing Alma Mater
Higher Education and the Courts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Although much has been written about U.S. Supreme Court decisions involving higher education, little has been said about the foundational case law and litigation patterns emerging from the lower courts. As universities become increasingly legislated, regulated, and litigious, campuses have become...
Higher Education, Social Class and Social Mobility
The Degree Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
This book explores higher education, social class and social mobility from the point of view of those most intimately involved: the undergraduate students. It is based on a project which followed a cohort of young undergraduate students at Bristol's two universities in the UK through from their first...
Academic Identities in Higher Education
The Changing European Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Academic identity is continually being formed and reformed by the institutional, socio-cultural and political contexts within which academic practitioners operate. In Europe the impact of the 2008 economic crisis and its continuing aftermath accounts for many of these changes, but the diverse cultures...
Race and Higher Education
Rethinking Pedagogy in Diverse College Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
The contributors to Race and Higher Education guide educators toward an understanding of how changes in the student population call for new approaches to classroom instruction, and address the need for new pedagogical practices in increasingly diverse college classrooms.
Over the last few decades,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The book draws on the 2007 Changing Academic Profession international survey in order to document the personal characteristics, career trajectories, sense of identity/commitment and job satisfaction of academics in 14 countries with different levels of economic and social development and different...
Refinancing the College Dream
Access, Equal Opportunity, and Justice for Taxpayers
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
During the 1990s, rising tuition costs and inadequate federal grant aid prevented more than a million otherwise qualified, low-income students from continuing their education past high school. Education policy expert Edward P. St. John is troubled by this situation and argues that equal access to...
Ever the Leader
Selected Writings, 1995-2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Ever the Leader gathers together selected speeches and writings from one of the great scholars and commentators of higher education. William G. Bowen’s career at Princeton University—from economics professor to provost to a sixteen-year tenure as president—was marked by extraordinary accomplishments...
The Market for Learning
Leading Transparent Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
Improving transparency is critical to the future of higher education. This book articulates the role and necessity of transparency to creating substantial opportunities for innovation and transformation.
Current global crises imperil exactly the kinds of progress higher education has helped...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected...
Reconstructing Relationships in Higher Education
Challenging Agendas
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Drawing on two international research projects, Reconstructing Relationships in Higher Education: Challenging Agendas looks behind formal organisational structures and workforce patterns to consider the significance of relationships, particularly at local and informal levels, for the aspirations and...