International Studies in Higher Education – serie
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Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education
Emerging perspectives on institutional transformation
Häftad, 2016
871 kr
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In addition to many other issues that touch higher education around the world, diversity and equity in higher education is fast becoming a major opportunity and challenge to institutions, countries and regions. The increasing centrality of diversity is fueled in part by changing demographics, …
Towards the Private Funding of Higher Education
Ideological and Political Struggles
Av David Palfreyman, Ted Tapper m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
672 kr
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An almost universal driving force for contemporary change in universities is the shifting view of higher education as more of a private than a public good. Towards the Private Funding of Higher Education presents a contemporary global picture of this move towards the privatisation of higher …
International Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education
Critical Thinking for Global Challenges
Av Jill Jameson
Häftad, 2020
743 kr
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There is an increasing pressure for leading universities to perform well in competitive global and national ranking systems. International Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education studies the complexity involved in the development and upkeep of good higher education provision. Without taking …
Structuring Mass Higher Education
The Role of Elite Institutions
Av David Palfreyman, Ted Tapper
Inbunden, 2008
2981 kr
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Undoubtedly the most important development in higher education in recent years has been the seemingly inexorable expansion of national systems. In a comparatively short time period many countries have moved from an elite to a mass model. Furthermore, expansion has invariably changed the whole …
Affirmative Action Matters
Creating opportunities for students around the world
Av Laura Dudley Jenkins, Michele S. Moses
Inbunden, 2014
2442 kr
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Affirmative Action Matters focuses specifically on affirmative action policies in higher education admissions, the sphere that has been the most controversial in many of the nations that have such policies. It brings together distinguished scholars from diverse nations to examine and discuss the …
Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education
Emerging perspectives on institutional transformation
Inbunden, 2014
2669 kr
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In addition to many other issues that touch higher education around the world, diversity and equity in higher education is fast becoming a major opportunity and challenge to institutions, countries and regions. The increasing centrality of diversity is fueled in part by changing demographics, …
Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education
The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce
Av Celia Whitchurch, George Gordon
Häftad, 2012
871 kr
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The latest volume in the Routledge International Studies in Higher Education Series, Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education: The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce, reviews the implications of new forms of academic and professional identity, which have emerged largely as a …
Cross-border Partnerships in Higher Education
Strategies and Issues
Av Robin Sakamoto, David Chapman
Häftad, 2012
871 kr
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Cross-border Partnerships in Higher Education looks beyond student and faculty exchanges to examine the myriad ways international colleges and universities work together as institutions. These partnerships have involved the creation of branch campuses, joint research and technology initiatives, …
International Research Collaborations
Much to be Gained, Many Ways to Get in Trouble
Av Melissa S. Anderson, Nicholas H. Steneck
Häftad, 2012
871 kr
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Encouraged by their institutions and governments and aided by advances in technology and communication, researchers increasingly pursue international collaborations with high hopes for scientific breakthroughs, intellectual stimulation, access to research equipment and populations, and the …
Student Financing of Higher Education
A Comparative Perspective
Av Donald Heller, Claire Callender
Inbunden, 2013
2981 kr
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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 …
Physical University
Contours of space and place in higher education
Av Paul Temple
Inbunden, 2014
2442 kr
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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 …
Affirmative Action Matters
Creating opportunities for students around the world
Av Laura Dudley Jenkins, Michele S. Moses
Häftad, 2016
871 kr
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Affirmative action. Discrimination positive. Reservations. Quotas. Such policies aim to increase access to and equity within higher education. How do different national and social contexts affect how affirmative action policy is conceptualized, discussed, justified, and designed? Scholars from …
Enhancing Quality in Higher Education
International Perspectives
Inbunden, 2013
2981 kr
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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 …
Enhancing Quality in Higher Education
International Perspectives
Häftad, 2016
743 kr
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This book focuses on recent developments in higher education, provides snapshots of changing practices around the world and analyses the varied theoretical perspectives of quality enhancement. It draws on a wide range of international case studies, examined by a host of contributing experts.
Global Student Experience
An International and Comparative Analysis
Av Camille Kandiko, Mark Weyers m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2074 kr
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There are 100 million students in higher education throughout the world today. This collection provides some indication of what are they are learning and of their wider experiences. It also outlines the changing global context of provision for undergraduate students as countries and universities …
Global Student Experience
An International and Comparative Analysis
Av Camille Kandiko, Mark Weyers m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
545 kr
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There are 100 million students in higher education throughout the world today. This collection provides some indication of what are they are learning and of their wider experiences. It also outlines the changing global context of provision for undergraduate students as countries and universities …
Engaged University
International Perspectives on Civic Engagement
Av David Watson, Robert Hollister m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
871 kr
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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 …
Future University
Ideas and Possibilities
Häftad, 2013
871 kr
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Winner of the Comparative and International Education Society Higher Education Special Interest Group Best Book Award for 2014!As universities increasingly engage with the world beyond the classroom and the campus, those who work within higher education are left to examine how the university’s …
Universities and the Public Sphere
Knowledge Creation and State Building in the Era of Globalization
Av Brian Pusser, Ken Kempner m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
871 kr
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Universities have been propelled into the center of the global political economy of knowledge production by a number of factors: mass education, academic capitalism, the globalization of knowledge, the democratization of communication in the era of the Internet, and the emergence of the knowledge …
International Trends in University Governance
Autonomy, self-government and the distribution of authority
Inbunden, 2014
2981 kr
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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 …
Accountability in Higher Education
Global Perspectives on Trust and Power
Av Bjorn Stensaker, Lee Harvey
Inbunden, 2010
2981 kr
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The latest volume in the Routledge International Studies in Higher Education series, Accountability in Higher Education takes an in-depth look at accountability initiatives around the world. Various evaluations, reporting schemes, and indicator systems have been initiated both to inform the public …
Accountability in Higher Education
Global Perspectives on Trust and Power
Av Bjorn Stensaker, Lee Harvey
Häftad, 2010
800 kr
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The latest volume in the Routledge International Studies in Higher Education series, Accountability in Higher Education takes an in-depth look at accountability initiatives around the world. Various evaluations, reporting schemes, and indicator systems have been initiated both to inform the public …
Engaged University
International Perspectives on Civic Engagement
Av David Watson, Robert Hollister m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2981 kr
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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 …
International Research Collaborations
Much to be Gained, Many Ways to Get in Trouble
Av Melissa S. Anderson, Nicholas H. Steneck
Inbunden, 2010
2981 kr
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Encouraged by their institutions and governments and aided by advances in technology and communication, researchers increasingly pursue international collaborations with high hopes for scientific breakthroughs, intellectual stimulation, access to research equipment and populations, and the …
Cross-border Partnerships in Higher Education
Strategies and Issues
Av Robin Sakamoto, David Chapman
Inbunden, 2010
2981 kr
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Cross-border Partnerships in Higher Education looks beyond student and faculty exchanges to examine the myriad ways international colleges and universities work together as institutions. These partnerships have involved the creation of branch campuses, joint research and technology initiatives, …
Universities and the Public Sphere
Knowledge Creation and State Building in the Era of Globalization
Av Brian Pusser, Ken Kempner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2981 kr
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Universities have been propelled into the center of the global political economy of knowledge production by a number of factors: mass education, academic capitalism, the globalization of knowledge, the democratization of communication in the era of the Internet, and the emergence of the knowledge …
Tribes and Territories in the 21st Century
Rethinking the significance of disciplines in higher education
Av Paul Trowler, Murray Saunders m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2981 kr
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The ‘tribes and territories’ metaphor for the cultures of academic disciplines and their roots in different knowledge characteristics has been used by those interested in university life and work since the early 1990s. This book draws together research, data and theory to show how higher education …
Future University
Ideas and Possibilities
Inbunden, 2011
2981 kr
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Winner of the Comparative and International Education Society Higher Education Special Interest Group Best Book Award for 2014!As universities increasingly engage with the world beyond the classroom and the campus, those who work within higher education are left to examine how the university’s …
Universities in the Knowledge Economy
Higher education organisation and global change
Av Paul Temple
Inbunden, 2011
2669 kr
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Universities are fundamental to the contemporary knowledge economy. They directly and indirectly support economic growth in both developing and advanced economies. In addition to their traditional teaching and research functions, they often also have important roles in supporting regional …
Structuring Mass Higher Education
The Role of Elite Institutions
Av David Palfreyman, Ted Tapper
Häftad, 2010
743 kr
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Undoubtedly the most important development in higher education in recent years has been the seemingly inexorable expansion of national systems. In a comparatively short time period many countries have moved from an elite to a mass model. Furthermore, expansion has invariably changed the whole …
