Higher & Further Education, Tertiary Education

America's research universities consistently dominate global rankings but may be entrenched in a model that no longer accomplishes their purposes. ...

The science and education talent and knowledge produced by academic research form crucial building blocks to innovation that improve the quality of...

Covering everything from the Old Well to the Speaker Ban and more, UNC A to Z is a concise, easy-to-read introduction to the nation's first public ...

What is an effective scientist? One who is successful by quantifiable standards, with many publications, citations, and students supervised? Yes, b...

Why efforts to improve American higher educational attainment haven't worked, and where to go from here During the first decade of this century, m...

The University of Oxford is the third oldest university in Europe and remains one of the greatest universities in the world. How did such an ancien...

From the University of California, Berkeley, to Middlebury College, institutions of higher learning increasingly find themselves on the front lines...

The Casa Italianaa neo-Renaissance palazzo located on Amsterdam Avenue near 117th Streethas been the most important expression of the Italian prese...

In What Universities Can Be, the high-profile educator Robert J. Sternberg writes thoughtfully about the direction of higher education in this coun...

If, like most Americans, you think an Ivy League diploma paves the way to Nobel Prizes, Wall Street riches, and a life of prosperity and happiness,...

Intended to 'relate my experiences to the background of my period and to portray incidents in the life of a woman born in the last quarter of the n...

Columbia University began the second half of the twentieth century in decline, bottoming out with the student riots of 1968. Yet by the close of th...

In 2010, Hofstra University celebrated its 75th anniversary, inviting scholars to the campus to discuss the world as it was in the year Hofstra was...

On January 20, 1968, the University of Houston Cougars upset the UCLA Bruins, ending a 47-game winning streak. Billed as the Game of the Century, t...

This book record achievements of the East Asian Institute (EAI), one of the top five think tanks in Asia under the leadership of Dr Goh Keng Swee, ...

This book record achievements of the East Asian Institute (EAI), one of the top five think tanks in Asia under the leadership of Dr Goh Keng Swee, ...

1952 saw the opening of a new Technical College in Hatfield, built on land donated by Alan S Butler, Chairman of the de Havilland Aircraft Company....

Developed specifically for students at Norfolk State University, this publication encourages students to develop strong academic skills and habits....

The essential how-to guide to successful college teaching and learningThe college classroom is a place where students have the opportunity to be tr...

Academics are not just researchers, but writers too. Using her many years of practical experience gained as a teacher and editor, Lynn Nygaard guid...

Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpos...

Northwestern University: A History is a resplendent guide to the origins and development of this university. Writer and critic Jay Pridmore offers ...

This is a well-respected resource for trainee and practicing lectures in adult learning supported by developed pedagogical features and full covera...

A School for the People tells the story of OSUs nearly 150 years as a land grant institution through more than 500 photographs, maps, documents, an...

In The Great Brain Race, former U.S. News & World Report education editor Ben Wildavsky presents the first popular account of how international...

This three-volume set is an indispensable and up-to-date guide to over 17,000 education institutions worldwide that offer at least a postgraduate d...

Academic exchange is one of the cornerstones of public diplomacy. Receiving foreign academics is one way of influencing foreign elites in an attemp...

Using archival material and many unpublished sources, this work traces the origins of Oxford and Cambridge University colleges as places of learnin...

In today's knowledge-based society universities and firms must learn to engage more effectively. Universities focus on generating new knowledge, wh...

This book builds on the tradition of concern for university innovation that has characterised higher education throughout the world. It recognises ...

Anticipate, manage, and overcome the complex issues facing community colleges Practical Leadership in Community Colleges offers a path forward thro...