Malcolm Tight, Ka Ho Mok, Jeroen Huisman, Christopher Morphew

" . . .Four of the sections—teaching and learning, course design, the student experience, and quality—are exceptionally exhaustive and valuable compendia of what is currently known about approaches to learning; how to organize, deliver, and assesss curriculum; how to deal with increasing diversity of learners with diverse needs, and how to measure quality in higher education."—Review of Higher Education

• Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Editorial Introduction, Malcolm Tight; Part 2 Teaching and Learning; Chapter 2 Approaches to Learning, Jennifer M. Case, Delia Marshall; Chapter 3 Student Learning Research, Tamsin Haggis; Chapter 4 Conceptualising Teaching and Learning Interactions in Researching Higher Education, Paul Ashwin; Chapter 5 International Students from Asia, David Kember; Chapter 6 Study Success of Students from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds, Sabine Severiens, Rick Wolff; Part 3 Course Design; Chapter 7 Curriculum, Kelly Coate; Chapter 8 Problem-based Learning, Anna Kwan; Chapter 9 An Alignment of the Planets, Ilana Snyder, Simon Marginson, Tania Lewis; Chapter 10 Diverse Student Groups, Marybeth Gasman, Julie Vultaggio; Part 4 The Student Experience; Chapter 11 Tertiary Education in the Noughties, Naomi Rosh White; Chapter 12 Tuition Fee Policies in a Comparative Perspective, Pamela N. Marcucci, D. Bruce Johnstone; Chapter 13 From Senior Student to Novice Worker, Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren, Håkan Hult, Lars Owe Dahlgren, Helene Hård af Segerstad, Kristina Johansson; Chapter 14 Postgraduate Research Students' Experience, Coralie McCormack; Part 5 Quality; Chapter 15 What Can Students' Perceptions of Academic Quality Tell Us?, John T. E. Richardson; Chapter 16 Grading Student Achievement in Higher Education, Mantz Yorke; Chapter 17 National Monitoring of Higher Education, John Taylor; Chapter 18 Still Balancing Improvement and Accountability?, Trine Danø, Bjørn Stensaker; Chapter 19 A Global Survey of University Ranking and League Tables, Alex Usher, Massimo Savino; Part 6 System Policy; Chapter 20 Reflections on the Reform of Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe, Peter Scott; Chapter 21 Globalisation and Higher Education Restructuring in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, Ka Ho Mok; Chapter 22 Performance-based Funding as an Instrument of Competition in German Higher Education, Dominic Orr, Michael Jaeger, Astrid Schwarzenberger; Chapter 23 Shif