Higher Education category: 3664 books
International Organizations and Higher Education Policy
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally?
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Higher Education operates in an increasingly global context, and yet the examination of what drives and moves the field has remained largely focused on domestic campus leaders, national governments and institutional actors. International Organizations and Higher Education Policy expands the analysis...
Enhancing Quality in Higher Education
International perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Interest in the quality of higher education provision has been steadily increasing over the last twenty years. This has been driven largely by the international creation of explicit policies and reporting requirements to review, audit and evaluate provision. The interest is associated in many countries...
On Higher Education
Five Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
During the session of 1964-65, the Ontario College of Education sponsored this series of lectures on Higher Education. The first two lectures in the volume, by Robin Harris, Principal of Innis College, and Professor of Higher Education are entitled "The Establishment of a Provincial University...
Development of Higher Education in Africa
Prospects and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
The global education revolution of the 20th century resulted in massive developments in education worldwide, but the higher education sector throughout Africa remains surprisingly underdeveloped. Although impressive expansion and reform of higher education in Africa have occurred since 1990, the higher...
Higher Education Finance Research
Policy, Politics, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
There is a void in the literature on how to conduct research in the finance and economics of higher education. Students, professors, and practitioners have no concise document that examines the field, provides history, definitions of terms, sources of data, and research methods. Higher Education Finance...
Researching Higher Education
International perspectives on theory, policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Research on higher education has yielded many insights that have improved our theoretical and practical understanding but there are still many themes that continue to appear on research agendas, provoking renewed focus on these complex questions and problems. Researching Higher Education explores...
by Brent D. Ruben
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The concept of quality in higher education is by no means a new one. By one set of definitions or another, colleges and universities throughout the world have always held the pursuit of excellence as their primary goal. Why then has the quality approach, developed and popularized in industry, and...
Student Voices on Inequalities in European Higher Education
Challenges for theory, policy and practice in a time of change
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
This book focuses on the voices and experiences of non-traditional students in European higher education. It examines the impact that access to higher education is having on these students’ lives and discusses what this tells us about European education and society. In particular, it explores the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Knowledge is now central to national economic competitiveness and to socio-economic endeavours concerned with inequalities and social exclusion, and in this context higher education is recognized as a core sector of national policy and strategy. Yet the changing pressures, directions and practices...
Changing Pedagogical Spaces in Higher Education
Diversity, inequalities and misrecognition
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Higher education is in a current state of flux and uncertainty, with profound changes being shaped largely by the imperatives of global neoliberalism. Changing Pedagogical Spaces in Higher Education forms a unique addition to the literature and includes significant practical pointers in developing...
Reinventing Higher Education
The Promise of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The inspiration for this timely book is the pressing need for fresh ideas and innovations in U.S. higher education. At the heart of the volume is the realization that higher education must evolve in fundamental ways if it is to respond to changing professional, economic, and technological circumstances,...
Student Financing of Higher Education
A comparative perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
The financing of higher education is undergoing great change in many countries around the world. In recent years many countries are moving from a system where the costs of funding higher education are shouldered primarily by taxpayers, through government subsidies, to one where students pay a larger...
The Working Classes and Higher Education
Inequality of Access, Opportunity and Outcome
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Within the broader context of the global knowledge economy, wherein the "college-for-all" discourse grows more and more pervasive and systems of higher education become increasingly stratified by social class, important and timely questions emerge regarding the future social location and...
Transforming Higher Education
Economy, Democracy, and the University
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The university is being transformed and can be transformed. This doubleness informs this book. 'Transforming' in 'transforming higher education' can be read as adjective, suggesting that higher education is being transformed by the social and political situation in which it is enmeshed. 'Transforming'...