Higher & Further Education, Tertiary Education

Success: The Ultimate Guide to College, Career, and Personal Excellence sparks the reader's intrinsic motivation to unleash their full potential by...

At a time when mass shootings in schools and other public spaces have become commonplace, it might seem surprising that American college campuse...

Digital role-playing games such as Rift, Diablo III, and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning help players develop skills in critical thinking, problem...

The demanding workload and fast pace of college often overwhelm students. Without access to the right resources, many of the three million U.S. ...

More and more students are entering college in the United States without the academicliteracy skills needed to successfully complete their college ...

At a time when higher education faces the unprecedented challenges of declining revenues and increased scrutiny, questions about access, cost, and ...

The essays in this volume explore the complex relationships among events, memory, and portrayal of those events and the deepest questions of human ...

The built and landscaped spaces of colleges and universities radiate and absorb the values of the cultures in which they were created. As econom...

Caste is an inescapable aspect in terms of education in the Indian state, as it is in many other aspects of public life. Education standards have c...

The notion that public intellectuals in the US are in decline has again become fashionable with their portrayal as trapped between Academe and the ...

Written by a renowned social work educator, this thoroughly updated guide helps readers identify their weak areas so they know what to focus on to ...

Reforming medical education will be a key component in transforming the nation''''s health care delivery system from one that historically has focu...

The Higher Education Act of 1965 authorizes a broad array of federal student aid programs that assist students and their families with paying for o...

A large majority of secondary school students fail to reach proficiency in math and science, and many are taught by teachers lacking adequate subje...

This book offers a case study of a medium-sized, private metropolitan university''''s adoption, implementation, and assessment of a civic engagemen...

How did the 1950s become The Sixties? This is the question at the heart of Daniel Horowitzs On the Cusp. Part personal memoir, part collective biog...

The only guidebook of its kind to combine extensive narrative college profiles with detailed data and statistics on each institution, this tome rep...

The author, at age 60-something, decided she was ready to do tackle something different, somewhere completely different. This book recounts the ...

Higher education is a critical mechanism for socio-economic advancement among aspiring individuals and an important driver of economic mobility in ...

Higher education is universally viewed as essential, not only to economic prosperity in an increasingly globalized, knowledge-driven economies, but...

A multi-professional research team comprising practitioners, academics, service-users and students has undertaken a major research project on pre a...

This practical guide is full of advice on how to make the most of the PhD experience. It covers the practicalities of embarking on a PhD and guides...

U.S. colleges and universities hold hundreds of billions of dollars in endowments. In congressional hearings and in academic literature, some have ...

Over the last two decades, higher education in the Asia-Pacific region has witnessed a greater rate of expansion in terms of new institutions and n...

In recent decades, there has been increasing focus on the role of formal education in empowering students social and moral development. A wealth of...

In 1982, a century after the laying of the cornerstone of its first building, the University of Texas was ranked by the New York Times among the be...

The Less-Is-More Handbook: A Guide to College Writing guides the reader through the basics of college writing. This handbook clearly and efficientl...

Many people in this country grow up dreaming about the college experience hoping to obtain the education and skills they need to be successful in l...

Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges of Medical Students begins with a systematic review of quality improvement curricula for medical student...

This book is a guide to the PTLLS Award (which has been replaced with the Award in Education and Training) and is a comprehensive introduction to t...