Higher Education category: 3664 books
Revolutionizing Global Higher Education Policy
Innovation and the Bologna Process
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The ‘traditional’ university model has been transformed globally, fueled by disruptive technologies, new learning platforms, increasing fiscal austerity, and the rise of knowledge economies. The Bologna Process, a European initiative intended to streamline higher education standards and qualifications,...
Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education
Neoliberal Policies of Funding and Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher education and research work that are underway today have not only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually be producing unemployment both for those within academia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors....
Implausible Dream
The World-Class University and Repurposing Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Why the paradigm of the world-class university is an implausible dream for most institutions of higher education
Universities have become major actors on the global stage. Yet, as they strive to be “world-class,” institutions of higher education are shifting away from their core missions...
Diploma Mills
How For-Profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The most significant shift in higher education over the past two decades has been the emergence of for-profit colleges and universities. These online and storefront institutions lure students with promises of fast degrees and "guaranteed" job placement, but what they deliver is often something...
The Physical University
Contours of space and place in higher education
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The great universities of the world are to a large extent defined in the public imagination by their physical form: when people think of a university, they usually think of a distinctive place, rather than about say the teaching or the research that might go on there. This is understandable, both...
The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education
Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Performance funding ties state support of colleges and universities directly to institutional performance on specific outcomes, including retention, number of credits accrued, graduation, and job placement. The theory is that introducing market-like forces will prod institutions to become more efficient...
Grading Student Achievement in Higher Education
Signals and Shortcomings
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
A lot hangs on the summative grades that students are given. A good degree opens doors which otherwise might remain closed. Yet, as higher education is now a mass rather than an elite system, what is expected of its graduates is different from the expectations of previous generations. Students are...
by D. Teferra
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Virtually all countries in the world are struggling to provide the necessary resources to Higher Education. The challenges are particularly complex for economically poor countries in Africa, which have recorded massive expansion in the past decade. This book analyzes the state of funding and financing higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
“[This book] provides invaluable information for aspiring African American women administrators as well as for institutions who wish to support their success and development."?Mary B. Coburn, Vice President for Student Affairs, Florida State UniversityFor Black women faculty members, as well as academic...
University Expansion in a Changing Global Economy
Triumph of the BRICs?
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
This is a study of higher education in the world's four largest developing economies—Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Already important players globally, by mid-century, they are likely to be economic powerhouses. But whether they reach that level of development will depend in part on how successfully...
The Dialogue between Higher Education Research and Practice
25 Years of EAIR
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2007
This book addresses the interface between research, policy and practice in the fields of Higher Education Management and Institutional Research. It provides an overview of the current state of research and best managerial practice in the field of HE Management, so vital to the well-being of higher...
International Trends in University Governance
Autonomy, self-government and the distribution of authority
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Governance is becoming increasingly important in universities just as it is in the wider world of commerce and banking. Historically, universities were run by their academic communities but as mass higher education has taken root, as university research has become a critical element in national economies...
Universities and Engagement
International perspectives on higher education and lifelong learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Universities and Engagement is a timely and insightful book that examines what universities can contribute to their communities and economies through lifelong learning, a topic which is of increasing importance to Higher Education Institutions across the world.
The book will offer an answer...
by D. Scott, G. Hughes, P. Burke
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This book draws on a study of student transitions in higher education institutions to both unpack the concept of a learning transition and develop pedagogic strategies to enable learners to develop their learning careers. This book provides an original perspective on teaching and learning in higher education.