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19 produkter
Higher Education in the Developing World
Changing Contexts and Institutional Responses
Av David W. Chapman, Ann E. Austin
E-bok, 2002
1136 kr
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Identifies five critical issues with which higher education institutions in the developing world must grapple as they respond to changing external contexts, offers examples of institutional responses to these issues, and considers these within a systems perspective which recognizes that each …
Academic Pathfinders
Knowledge Creation and Feminist Scholarship
E-bok, 2002
1136 kr
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From the 1960s to the 1980s, a range of academic possibilities for women developed, as their career histories and intellectual biographies reveal. Some women sought to generate a new knowledge specialty in their disciplines, often explicitly defying admonishments that the subject matter was an …
Globalizing Practices and University Responses
European and Anglo-American Differences
Av Jan Currie, Richard Deangelis m. fl.
E-bok, 2003
758 kr
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Investigates the impact that certain globalizing practices have on European and American universities. Due to dwindling resources and the ideology of privatization, universities are becoming more corporatized and managerial. The authors investigate the consequences of these changes on the lives of …
History of African Higher Education from Antiquity to the Present
A Critical Synthesis
Av Y. G-M Lulat
E-bok, 2005
1136 kr
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This book surveys the history of higher education—principally universities—in Africa. Its geographical coverage encompasses the entire continent, from Afro-Arab Islamic Africa in the north to the former apartheid South Africa in the south, and the historical time span ranges from the Egyptian …
Academic Staff in Europe
Changing Contexts and Conditions
E-bok, 2001
1112 kr
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Higher education is going through a turbulent period of change. Based on a research project coordinated by J^Durgen Enders at the University of Kassel in Germany, the book highlights the changes taking place in higher education and examines the working conditions of academic staff in fourteen …
History of African Higher Education from Antiquity to the Present
A Critical Synthesis
Av Y. G-M Lulat
Inbunden, 2005
1101 kr
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This book surveys the history of higher education—principally universities—in Africa. Its geographical coverage encompasses the entire continent, from Afro-Arab Islamic Africa in the north to the former apartheid South Africa in the south, and the historical time span ranges from the Egyptian …
International Assistance and State-University Relations
Av Jo Bastiaens
Häftad, 2012
545 kr
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This book explores the goals, efforts and outcomes of international assistance to higher education over the past three decades and investigates how these have impacted changing State-university relations. Focusing on the case study of Indonesia, Bastiaens demonstrates how international aid …
Merit Aid and the Politics of Education
Av Erik C. Ness
Häftad, 2013
545 kr
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While a substantial number of studies have evaluated the effects of merit aid programs, there is a surprising lack of any systematic consideration of how states determine eligibility criteria for these scholarships. The selectivity of merit aid eligibility criteria can be as important as whether or …
Inhabiting the Borders
Foreign Language Faculty in American Colleges and Universities
Häftad, 2013
871 kr
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This book focuses on the experience of foreign language faculty in American colleges and universities, the challenges they face, and ways that academia can better support language faculty, and marginalized faculty in other fields, in their important work.
Market for Academics
Av Tania G. Cassidy, Robyn L. Jones m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
871 kr
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This book addresses academic labor markets in three countries: France, Germany, and the United States. The management of faculty careers is a critical issue in university autonomy, and in many countries recent reforms have increasingly addressed this area. Musselin’s exhaustive empirical research …
WTO and the University
Globalization, GATS, and American Higher Education
Häftad, 2009
488 kr
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By and large, the debate about the merits of including higher education services within free trade policies has occurred outside of the United States, even though the U.S. Office of the Trade Representative has specifically included higher education services in its March 2003 negotiating offer to …
WTO/GATS and the Global Politics of Higher Education
Häftad, 2013
871 kr
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Since the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) was created in 1995, there has been international pressure towards the liberalization of education all over the world, as well as new challenges to the traditional internationalization rationale in the field of higher education. Nevertheless, …
Merit Aid and the Politics of Education
Av Erik C. Ness
Inbunden, 2007
1479 kr
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While a substantial number of studies have evaluated the effects of merit aid programs, there is a surprising lack of any systematic consideration of how states determine eligibility criteria for these scholarships. The selectivity of merit aid eligibility criteria can be as important as whether or …
Inhabiting the Borders
Foreign Language Faculty in American Colleges and Universities
Inbunden, 2005
2513 kr
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This book focuses on the experience of foreign language faculty in American colleges and universities, the challenges they face, and ways that academia can better support language faculty, and marginalized faculty in other fields, in their important work.
WTO and the University
Globalization, GATS, and American Higher Education
Inbunden, 2006
1479 kr
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By and large, the debate about the merits of including higher education services within free trade policies has occurred outside of the United States, even though the U.S. Office of the Trade Representative has specifically included higher education services in its March 2003 negotiating offer to …
Market for Academics
Av Tania G. Cassidy, Robyn L. Jones m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2442 kr
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This book addresses academic labor markets in three countries: France, Germany, and the United States. The management of faculty careers is a critical issue in university autonomy, and in many countries recent reforms have increasingly addressed this area. Musselin’s exhaustive empirical research …
WTO/GATS and the Global Politics of Higher Education
Inbunden, 2009
2442 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Since the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) was created in 1995, there has been international pressure towards the liberalization of education all over the world, as well as new challenges to the traditional internationalization rationale in the field of higher education. Nevertheless, …
Globalizing Practices and University Responses
European and Anglo-American Differences
Av Jan Currie, Richard Deangelis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
695 kr
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Investigates the impact that certain globalizing practices have on European and American universities. Due to dwindling resources and the ideology of privatization, universities are becoming more corporatized and managerial. The authors investigate the consequences of these changes on the lives of …
International Assistance and State-University Relations
Av Jo Bastiaens
Inbunden, 2008
1459 kr
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This book explores the goals, efforts and outcomes of international assistance to higher education over the past three decades and investigates how these have impacted changing State-university relations. Focusing on the case study of Indonesia, Bastiaens demonstrates how international aid …
