Higher Education category: 3664 books
by Cui Bian
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
The book mainly investigates the challenges that confront France’s unique dual system of higher education in facing internationalization and the recruitment of international students. This book focuses on the development of the institutional strategies in two groups of higher education institutions:...
The New Talent Acquisition Frontier
Integrating HR and Diversity Strategy in the Private and Public Sectors and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
• Get practical tools to assess integrated HR/diversity strategic planning, and see why organizations are not making more diversity progress• Develop specific performance indicators to track your progress in implementing synergistic HR/diversity approaches• Case studies of SHRM, federal and state...
by J. Hemsley-Brown, I. Oplatka
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Higher Education Consumer Choice provides a comprehensive and highly focused critical analysis of research on HE consumer choice behaviour in the UK and around the world. Ideal for students, scholars and marketing practitioners interested in consumer choice and behaviour in higher education markets,...
Rethinking Assessment in Higher Education
Learning for the Longer Term
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
Assessment is a value-laden activity surrounded by debates about academic standards, preparing students for employment, measuring quality and providing incentives. There is substantial evidence that assessment, rather than teaching, has the major influence on students’ learning. It directs attention...
MOOCs and Their Afterlives
Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
A trio of headlines in the Chronicle of Higher Education seem to say it all: in 2013, “A Bold Move Toward MOOCs Sends Shock Waves;” in 2014, “Doubts About MOOCs Continue to Rise,” and in 2015, “The MOOC Hype Fades.” At the beginning of the 2010s, MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses,...
As the World Turns
Implications of Global Shifts in Higher Education for Theory, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
"As the World Turns" examines two of the major problems confronting higher education in this modern world: access to higher education remains a persistent problem for disadvantaged students around the world; universities that are highly segregated by race, culture, language, nationality,...
by Kai Yu, Yinhan Wang
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
This book provides readers a comprehensive overview of the role of female higher education administrators in China. On the basis of more than 7,500 collected CVs, it compares and discusses different groups of female university administrators in China.
The study found that the number of female...
by Robin Harris
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
The 1971 Supplement adds some 3,500 entries to the approximately 7,000 listed in the original volume and the 1965 Supplement. Like its predecessors this volume provides a full list of the secondary sources related to Canadian higher education – books, articles, theses, dissertations, and reports...
by Robin Harris
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
This Supplement to the 1960 Bibliography by Harris and Tremblay adds some 3,500 entries to the approximately 4,000 listed in the first volume, providing a full list of articles, books, pamphlets, and theses bearing on all aspects of higher education in Canada for the period 1959-1963. The organization...
by Yoruba T. Mutakabbir, Tariqah A. Nuriddin
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
The most recent addition to the Key Issues on Diverse College Students series bridges theory to practice in order to help student affairs and higher education professionals understand the needs and experiences of religious minorities on college campuses. Religious Minority Students in Higher Education...
Evolving Agendas in European English-Medium Higher Education
Interculturality, Multilingualism and Language Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
English medium-of-instruction (EMI) is transforming modern-day universities across the globe, creating increasingly complex linguistic and intercultural realities which lecturers, students and decision-makers must negotiate. Teaching subject matter at higher-education level through the medium of English,...
by Michael Gecan, Maria Avila
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Maria Avila presents a personal account of how, from her experience as a teenager working in a factory in Ciudad Juarez, she got involved in community organizing and how she has since applied its distinctive practices to civic engagement in higher education. Her premise is that community organizing can...
The Engaged University
International Perspectives on Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
The Engaged University is a comprehensive empirical account of the global civic engagement movement in higher education. In universities around the world, something extraordinary is underway. Mobilizing their human and intellectual resources, institutions of higher education are directly tackling...
The Higher Learning in America
A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Perhaps the pivotal book in the reform of higher education in the United States, Robert M. Hutchins' classic is once again available, with a brilliant personal and professional appreciation by Harry S. Ashmore. When it was published in 1936The Higher Learning in Americabrought into focus the root...