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Death of the Public University?: Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy by Susan Wright 9781789200911
RRP: £27.95£22.58Universities have been subjected to continuous government reforms since the 1980s, to make them `entrepreneurial', `efficient' and aligned to the predicted needs and challenges of a global knowledge economy. Under increasing pressure to pursue... -
The Idea of a University by Cardinal John Henry Newman 9780300064056
RRP: £25.00£23.94Since its publication almost 150 years ago, The Idea of a University has had an extraordinary influence on the shaping and goals of higher education. The issues that John Henry Newman raised-the place of religion and moral values in the university... -
53 Interesting Ways of Helping Your Students to Study by Hannah Strawson 9781907076282
RRP: £30.00£24.12If you teach in higher or professional education, 53 interesting ways of helping your students to study is designed to help you. This book provides practical suggestions, each tried and tested, for helping students to improve their learning. The book is... -
Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University by Robert A. McCaughey
RRP: £35.00£28.74Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater Through the storms of Time abide Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater Through the storms of Time abide. "Stand, Columbia!" by Gilbert Oakley Ward, Columbia College 1902 (1904) Marking the 250th anniversary of one of America's... -
Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Guide to the Process, and How to Develop a Project from Start to Finish by Cathy Bishop-Clark 9781579224714
RRP: £26.99£23.46This is a book for anyone who has ever considered engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning - known familiarly as SoTL - and needs a better understanding of what it is, and how to engage in it. The authors describe how to create a SoTL... -
53 Ways to Enhance Researcher Development by Robert Daley 9781907076954
RRP: £30.00£24.12As the result of recent changes in the research landscape, researchers are now commonly required to do more than just research. For example, they are often expected to take responsibility for post-research activities, including engagement with... -
Academic Resilience: Personal Stories and Lessons Learnt from the COVID-19 Experience by Marian Mahat 9781802623901
RRP: £17.99£13.22The COVID-19 pandemic undoubtedly tested the resilience of academics in higher education. Many universities were severely affected by reduced student enrolment, with widespread job losses reported across universities. For many academics, the impact of... -
The University: An Owner's Manual by Henry Rosovsky 9780393307832
RRP: £21.00£17.05A view of America's colleges and universities and how they are run, the challenges they face and the issues that affect their "owners" - students, faculty, alumni, trustees and others. Among the issues covered are tenure, the admission process in elite... -
The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies by Robert Boyers
RRP: £17.00£9.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982127190Author Robert BoyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)... -
Gamification in Higher Education: A How-To Instructional Guide by Sierra Adare-Tasiwoopa ápi 9781642673937
RRP: £31.99£28.33Gamification in Higher Education is a user-friendly text for anyone curious about gamification and how it increases student engagement.This book presents actual examples from gamified college courses, furnishing strategies and detailed plans for... -
Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research by Mario Biagioli 9780262537933
£52.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537933Author Mario BiagioliFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm -
Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education by Ilana Redstone
RRP: £29.49£20.39Open inquiry and engagement with a diverse range of views are long-cherished and central tenets of higher education and are pivotal to innovation and knowledge creation. Yet, free inquiry on American campuses is hampered by a climate that constrains... -
The "Junior Dean" Rb Mcdowell: Encounters with a Legend by Anne Leonard
RRP: £9.99£9.92Dr RB McDowell is a legend. To graduates of Trinity College, Dublin, he is a symbol of their years at university, the enduring source of endless amusing anecdotes and memories. Now, for the first time, reminiscences by graduates and friends, recording... -
The Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing by Tonette S. Rocco 9780470393352
RRP: £30.99£27.88Focusing on writing for publication, The Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing discusses the components of a manuscript, types of manuscripts, and the submission process. It shows how to craft scholarly papers and other writing suitable for... -
The College Handbook They Never Gave You: The Ultimate How-To Guide for Success in College by Dan Stevens 9781519716385
RRP: £19.99£17.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519716385Author Dan StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Advancing Online Teaching: Creating Equity-Based Digital Learning Environments by Kevin Kelly
RRP: £27.99£24.68The goal of teaching online is fundamentally the same as teaching face-to-face: facilitating the learning of all students to the greatest extent possible. This book differs from other books on online teaching in that, in the process of offering guidance... -
The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief by George M. Marsden 9780195106503
RRP: £24.99£17.53Only a century ago, almost all state universities held compulsory chapel services, and some required Sunday church attendance as well. In fact, state-sponsored chapel services were commonplace until the World War II era, and as late as the 1950s, it was... -
An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence by Abigail J. Stewart
RRP: £23.00£15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545266Author Abigail J. StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty by James M. Lang 9780674724631
RRP: £26.95£21.41Nearly three-quarters of college students cheat during their undergraduate careers, a startling number attributed variously to the laziness of today's students, their lack of a moral compass, or the demands of a hypercompetitive society. For James Lang,... -
Children of the Dictatorship: Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the 'Long 1960s' in Greece by Kostis Kornetis 9781785330339
RRP: £27.95£22.58Putting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the "Long 1960s," this book traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-74). It explores the cultural as well as ideological... -
Agile Faculty: Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching by Rebecca Pope-Ruark
RRP: £21.00£20.31Digital tools have long been a transformative part of academia, enhancing the classroom and changing the way we teach. Yet there is a way that academia may be able to benefit more from the digital revolution: by adopting the project management techniques... -
Active Learning in Higher Education:: Student Engagement and Deeper Learning Outcomes by Kayoko Enomoto 9781911450474
RRP: £42.00£36.78This is the latest volume in the Learning in Higher Education series. Active Learning has at least two major benefits: 1) it engages students in their learning, and 2) it enhances their deeper learning outcomes. In this book, authors from universities in... -
How They Got Into Harvard by Staff of the Harvard Crimson 9780312343750
RRP: £19.00£11.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312343750Author Staff of the Harvard CrimsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams)... -
The Higher Learning in America: The Annotated Edition: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men by Thorstein Veblen 9781421416786
RRP: £26.50£23.29Since its publication in 1918, Thorstein Veblen's The Higher Learning in America has remained a text that every serious student of the American university must confront. Intellectual historian Richard Teichgraeber brings us the first scholarly edition of... -
A Connected Curriculum for Higher Education by Dilly Fung 9781013287664
RRP: £28.95£25.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013287664Author Dilly FungFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)... -
Becoming Great Universities: Small Steps for Sustained Excellence by Richard J. Light 9780691212593
RRP: £28.00£18.67How campus communities of every kind can transform themselves from good to greatBecoming Great Universities highlights ten core challenges that all colleges and universities face and offers practical steps that everyone on campus-from presidents to... -
Teaching Naked Techniques: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes by Jose Antonio Bowen 9781119136118
RRP: £24.99£22.81Put Teaching Naked to work in your classroom with clear examples and step-by-step guidance Teaching Naked Techniques (TNT) is a practical guide of proven quick ideas for improving classes and essential information for designing anything from one lesson... -
Do Babies Matter?: Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower by Mary Ann Mason
RRP: £35.00£27.36The new generation of scholars differs in many ways from its predecessor of just a few decades ago. Academia once consisted largely of men in traditional single-earner families. Today, men and women fill the doctoral student ranks in nearly equal numbers... -
The Courage to Learn: Honoring the Complexity of Learning for Educators and Students by Marcia Eames-Sheavly
RRP: £23.99£20.99It takes courage to engage in the kind of deep, transformational learning that so many people need in their lives, and this book is designed to help find and nurture that courage in learners, including those that are engaged in facilitating the... -
Learning to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector by Ewan Ingleby
£43.04This is a comprehensive guide to the requirements for achieving Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS) status. This textbook is a complete guide to achieving QTLS. Key themes of teaching and learning are explored in the context of the lifelong... -
Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University by Kathleen Fitzpatrick 9781421440057
RRP: £16.50£13.31Can the university solve the social and political crisis in America?Higher education occupies a difficult place in twenty-first-century American culture. Universities-the institutions that bear so much responsibility for the future health of our... -
The Hidden Curriculum: First Generation Students at Legacy Universities by Rachel Gable
RRP: £30.00£23.29A revealing look at the experiences of first generation students on elite campuses and the hidden curriculum they must master in order to succeedCollege has long been viewed as an opportunity for advancement and mobility for talented students regardless... -
Dr Dr I Feel Like... Doing a PhD by Lucy Russell
£43.02What is it like to undergo the process of doing a doctorate? This book provides an insight into life as a research student; the elation, the guilt, the isolation, the self-doubt, the loneliness. It provides guidance on the practical issues - such as... -
Neo-nationalism and Universities: Populists, Autocrats, and the Future of Higher Education by John Aubrey Douglass
RRP: £43.00£38.12The rise of neo-nationalism is having a profound and troubling impact on leading national universities and the societies they serve. This is the first comparative study of how today's right-wing populist movements and authoritarian governments are... -
Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers Using Relationships, Resilience, and Reflection by Jose Antonio Bowen
RRP: £25.00£20.83This pathbreaking book for educators shows that focusing on relationships, resilience, and reflection can better prepare graduates for the future.Learning something new-particularly something that might change your mind-is much more difficult than most... -
Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University by James Axtell 9780691149592
RRP: £30.00£23.69When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research... -
Decline of Donnish Dominion: The British Academic Professions in the Twentieth Century by A. H. Halsey 9780198279730
£33.73British higher education is internationally perceived as being in crisis. In this book A. H. Halsey examines how the present-day situation developed. Beginning with the 1963 Robbins Report, he argues that, despite the subsequent expansion of higher... -
Moving towards Internationalisation of the Curriculum for Global Citizenship by Catherine Montgomery 9781873576816
£13.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873576816Author Catherine MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint OcsldPublisher OcsldWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm -
What Universities Owe Democracy by Ronald J. Daniels
RRP: £25.00£20.09Universities have historically been integral to democracy. What can they do to reclaim this critical role?Universities play an indispensable role within modern democracies. But this role is often overlooked or too narrowly conceived, even by universities... -
Game On!: Gamification, Gameful Design, and the Rise of the Gamer Educator by Kevin Bell 9781421423968
RRP: £35.00£33.07The changing student body in American higher education demands a new approach to teaching, one that moves toward inclusive, hyperpersonalized learning environments that have much in common with games and social media. Kevin Bell's Game On! presents...