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Further and Higher Education Partnerships - The Future for Collaboration by Michael Abramson (Editor); John Bird (Editor); Anne Stennett (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Society for Research into Higher Education Ser.
This text explores further and higher education partnerships, considering the overall policy context and presenting the variety of partnerships. The contributors assess their effectiveness in terms of both quality and access and offer exemplars of good practice. Partnerships are examined from the perspe ...Show more
Higher Education - A Critical Business by R. Barnett
Category: No Category | Series: Society for Research into Higher Education Ser.
Higher Education: A Critical Business is a bold statement about higher education in the modern age. It continues Ronald Barnett's thinking of his earlier books but offers a completely new set of ideas in a challenging but engaging argument.
Higher Education and the Law - A Guide for Managers by D. Warner
Category: No Category | Series: Society for Research into Higher Education Ser.
Higher education in the late-20th century has become big business. Increasingly students are demanding value for money and are willing to resort to the law if they feel they are not getting a fair deal and their complaints are being ignored. At the same time higher education managers must keep abreast o ...Show more
Managing Academic Staff in Changing University Systems - International Trends and Comparisons by David Farnham; Society for Research into Higher Education Staff
Category: No Category | Series: Society for Research into Higher Education Ser.
This text provides an analysis of how academic staff in universities are managed. It reviews developments in higher education policy in 15 countries and examines their impact on the academic profession. Whilst rates of change differ, the massifying, marketizing, and managerializing of higher education a ...Show more
On Becoming an Innovative University Teacher - Reflection in Action by John Cowan
Category: No Category | Series: Society for Research into Higher Education Ser.
Beginning each chapter with a question with which college and university teachers can be expected to identify, this text then goes on to answer the question by presenting a series of examples. Each chapter closes with second thoughts, presenting a viewpoint somewhat distinct from that of the author. The ...Show more
Racism and Anti-Racism in Higher - Policies in Universities by S. Neal
Category: No Category | Series: Society for Research into Higher Education Ser.
This is an exploration of how higher education in contemporary Britain has responded to questions of equal opportunuties (particularly questions of race), what types of responses have been made, and how effective they have been. The book analyzes the political character of equal opportunities policies, ...Show more
The Adult University by Etienne Bourgeois; Chris Duke; Jean-Luc Guyot; Barbara Merrill
Category: No Category | Series: Society for Research into Higher Education Ser.
In many universities there are now more adults as students than young people straight from school. Yet many universities continue to act as if no such change had taken place. This text asks: what are university access policies and how do they connect with practice?; how do adults experience universities ...Show more
The Adult University by Etienne Bourgeois
Category: No Category | Series: Society for Research into Higher Education Ser.
In many universities there are now more adults as students than young people straight from school. Yet many universities continue to act as if no such change had taken place. This text asks: what are university access policies and how do they connect with practice?; how do adults experience universities ...Show more
The Globalization of Higher Education by Peter Scott; Society for Research into Higher Education Staff
Category: No Category | Series: Society for Research into Higher Education Ser.
This text describes and analyzes the links between the growth of mass higher education systems and the radical processes of globalization, which include not only round-the-clock, round-the-world markets and information technologies but revolutionary conceptions of time and space. Higher education is imp ...Show more
The Globalization of Higher Education by Peter Scott; Society for Research into Higher Education Staff
Category: No Category | Series: Society for Research into Higher Education Ser.
This text describes and analyzes the links between the growth of mass higher education systems and the radical processes of globalization, which include not only round-the-clock, round-the-world markets and information technologies but revolutionary conceptions of time and space. Higher education is imp ...Show more