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Knowledge is now central to national economic competitiveness and to socio-economic endeavours concerned with inequalities and social exclusion, and in this context higher education is recognized as a core sector of national policy and strategy. Yet the...

This book explains the past, present, and future of textile, fashion, apparel, and related majors of South Asian countries. The chapters express the hidden potential of textiles in South Asia. In this book, experts in textile engineering of each country...

This book offers faculty and leaders of academic institutions insights on issues surrounding faculty mentoring and how national and international co-mentoring networks can contribute to the success of their members. These networks help female faculty and...

This book addresses a world-wide audience with reference to a global problem: how the PhD can serve the planet. It examines the role of the PhD, in and of itself, and, as representative of research, the university and evidence-based knowledge, in...

This book explores the module design experiences and practices of academics employed within one UK university, and during a period of social and economic change in which university staff are designing and delivering curricula for changing student...

This publication focuses on competency orientation in higher education, illustrating international assessment practices for measuring student learning outcomes. For Germany, the Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education (KoKoHs) research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836492072Author Tanya Marie TaftFormat PaperbackImprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 191g

This book will examine how universities in China and the US are responding to markets and increasing global competition. For both countries, a university education is seen as key to economic development. While China and the US have two very different...

Everybody's Business is a succinct analysis of the factors that led to the founding of American business schools and why they are the way they are. Mitroff, Alpaslan, and O'Connor consider why current business schools do not give students the knowledge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869787179Author Emily Achieng' AkunoFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint CodesriaPublisher CodesriaWeight(grams) 352g

This book serves as a reference point to inform continuing professional learning and development (CPLD) initiatives at both individual and institutional levels. It serves as a guide for faculty engaged in online teaching within the higher education...

This edited collection presents, reviews, and critically analyzes sustainable practices and long-term-oriented decision-making in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Campus closures and the quick transition to hybrid or e-learning as a result of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783030752651Author Eva ForsbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Palgrave MacMillanPublisher Palgrave MacMillanWeight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781792410215Author Renee M. BonzaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781522586104Author Yufeng QianFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Information Science ReferencePublisher Information Science ReferenceWeight(grams) 178g

This book investigates and critically interprets the underrepresentation of the global South in global knowledge production. The author analyses the serious bias towards scholars and institutions from this region: he argues that this phenomenon causes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781792410291Author George SearlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

This book asks how higher education should approach the task of educating for sustainability and then sets to answering it. It provides a guide for those who advocate for sustainability and for those who do not and makes a point of emphasising that all...

This book focuses on university teachers’ experience of teaching and learning. Following on from the 1999 volume Understanding Learning and Teaching, which focused on student experiences of teaching and learning, this book provides guidance on how...

Technology and Workplace Skills for the Twenty-First Century examines many of the rapid changes taking place at the intersection of workplace demands and higher education throughout the Asia Pacific region. The globalized, interdependent twenty-first...

This book offers new insights and perspectives on internationalization and trans-national higher education (TNHE) with contributions from three continents. These include the student experience in Malaysia, China, Japan and India as well as institutional...

A previous edition of Universities and Economic Development in Africa studied eight African countries and their flagship universities. In addition to minor updates, this edition includes a new section on the key findings in each of the eight countries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732509610Author Valarie R AustinFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Vauboix Publishing LLCPublisher Vauboix Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 152g

This book sets out a new and distinctive means of conceptualising research in the field of Education: 'Freedom Research'. Freedom research is a conceptual understanding of research free from the strictures of orthodoxy; which adapts or knowingly...

The book is a collective investigation of the structuring of theses in education, the social sciences and other disciplines that commonly do not follow the standard procedures of the scientific method. To help research students design a structure for...

This book explores the nexus between professional technical societies and engineering education by examining several societies' efforts to promote and support engineering and engineering education in the areas of pre-university education, university...

What does it mean to be an academic in the twenty first century? Clearly, there is no one answer to this question, as the diversity evident in the following chapters reveals. Elite research universities often tend to join with others of their kind, so...

This book explores the career paths of Australian women who have succeeded in achieving professorships and beyond, where for the most part, such positions are predominately occupied by males. It also explores the gendered culture that exists across...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783319870885Author Otto HutherFormat PaperbackPage Count 263Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789326195676Author Arihant ExpertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Arihant PublicationPublisher Arihant Publication

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218448387Author Luis Emilio BruniFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Smart Risk ConsultingPublisher Smart Risk ConsultingWeight(grams) 345g

JANET W. LERNER This timely volume explores issues pertinent to the emerging subject of college education for adults with learning disabilities. The inspiration for the book was a conference held at Barat College in Lake Forest Illinois on April 7, 1990,...

This book offers a nuanced analysis of a US-led foundation initiative of uncommon ambition, featuring seven foundations with a shared commitment to strengthen capacity in higher education in Sub-Saharan African universities. The book examines the...

This book explores the universal and highly topical issues of ageing and retirement. It places a particular focus on the macroeconomic aspects of the ageing and retirement of college and university teachers, through a case study of teachers and...

This book examines how Performance or Outcomes Based Funding (POBF) policies impact racial equity in higher education. Over the last decade, higher education has become entrenched in a movement that holds colleges and universities more accountable to its...

This book critically examines the ramifications of reforms to higher education institutions. All of the higher education system reforms implemented in western countries over the last three decades have had one fundamentally important aim: namely, that of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639050189Author Rabbi David NelsonFormat PaperbackImprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 195g

This book explores Learning Analytics (LA) programmes and practices in Malaysia as well as looking at the underlying forces, dilemmas and policy challenges for quality assurance in higher education institutions (HEIs). This chapters provide a...

The book describes the significant multidisciplinary research findings at the Universita Politecnica delle Marche and the expected future advances. It addresses some of the most dramatic challenges posed by today's fast-growing, global society and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788197828553Author Dr RajdulariFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint RcitPublisher RcitWeight(grams) 218g