Higher Education category: 3664 books
by Thomas Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
By almost any measure, higher education is a vital part of the U.S. economy and society. Yet there is concern that the sector is inefficient or ill equipped to adapt to a changing environment. The information revolution, an aging population, demographic shifts, and a declining fiscal base all present...
International Education Hubs
Student, Talent, Knowledge-Innovation Models
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Education hubs are the newest development in the international higher education landscape. Countries, zones and cities are trying to position themselves as reputed centres for higher education and research.
But given higher education’s current preoccupation with competitiveness, branding,...
by K. S. Chalam
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Higher Education Policy in India is fraught with several dichotomies. The incongruities in the policies of the colonial and native Indian Rulers were always there. They came out on the surface after Independence. It seems the Reform Agenda of the Successive Governments have not been able to solve...
Studio Teaching in Higher Education
Selected Design Cases
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Well-established in some fields and still emerging in others, the studio approach to design education is an increasingly attractive mode of teaching and learning, though its variety of definitions and its high demands can make this pedagogical form somewhat daunting. Studio Teaching in Higher Education...
Funds of Knowledge in Higher Education
Honoring Students’ Cultural Experiences and Resources as Strengths
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Refining and building on the concept in a sophisticated and multidisciplinary way, this book uses a funds of knowledge approach and connects it to other key conceptual frameworks in education to examine issues related to the access and transition to college, college persistence and success, and pedagogies...
Women’s Higher Education in the United States
New Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This volume presents new perspectives on the history of higher education for women in the United States. By introducing new voices and viewpoints into the literature on the history of higher education from the early nineteenth century through the 1970s, these essays address the meaning diverse groups...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Online learning has been touted as one way of reducing the cost of higher education while simultaneously addressing the increasing demand for educational opportunity and providing access to hitherto “left out” populations. Many universities are defying tradition by offering completely online degrees...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Cheating in educational institutions and society not only threatens the overall quality of the education, as well as its dissemination of knowledge, but it also affects the current social fabric. With the ever-evolving realm of the internet, the scope of plagiarism has now expanded and presents new...
Dismantling Race in Higher Education
Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
This book reveals the roots of structural racism that limit social mobility and equality within Britain for Black and ethnicised students and academics in its inherently white Higher Education institutions. It brings together both established and emerging scholars in the fields of Race and Education...
Longing for Justice
Higher Education and Democracy's Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
A timely and persuasive argument for Higher Education’s obligations to our democratic society, Longing for Justice combines personal narrative with critical analysis to make the case for educational practices that connect to questions of democracy, justice, and the common good. Jennifer S. Simpson...
Transnational Education Crossing 'Asia' and 'the West'
Adjusted desire, transformative mediocrity and neo-colonial disguise
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In this book, Phan Le-Ha identifies and discusses four growing self-sustained/sustaining fundamental phenomena in transnational education (TNE), namely (1) the planned, evolving and transformative mediocrity behind the endorsement of English-medium education legitimized by the interactive Asia-the...
The Crisis of Race in Higher Education
A Day of Discovery and Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
The compendium of writings in this edited volume sheds light on the event “Race & Ethnicity: A Day of Discovery and Dialogue” at Washington University in St. Louis and the work current students, faculty, and staff are doing to improve inclusivity on campus and in St. Louis. The book includes...
Scholarships and Grants: Free Money For Higher Education
A Guide For Academically Competent But Financially Needy Students To Help Them Find and Apply For Scholarships and Grants That Can Provide Them The Money Required For College Or Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Scholarships and grants have been put in place to try and help individuals to make ends meet whilst at university, regardless of the financial situation. Scholarships and grants, collectively known as financial aid, can really boost the financing that you have behind you and can make all the difference...
Higher Education for Sustainability
Cases, Challenges, and Opportunities from Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Student and employer demand, high-level institutional commitment, and faculty interest are inspiring the integration of sustainability oriented themes into higher education curricula and research agendas. Moving toward sustainability calls for shifts in practice such as interdisciplinary collaboration...