Higher & Further Education, Tertiary Education

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Using archival material and many unpublished sources, this work traces the origins of Oxford and Cambridge University colleges as places of learnin...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

This book has three main areas of focus. The first area of focus is the historical background to the place of ''''teachers'''' who work in Western ...

The name Wang Gungwu is iconic. He is one of the most eminent scholars and historians in Asia today and is renowned for his scholarship on the hist...

This book explores creative writing and its various relationships to education through a number of short, evocative chapters written by key players...

Public higher education in the postwar era was a key economic and social driver in American life, making college available to millions of working m...

With exclusive contributions from Richard Dawkins, Noam Chomsky, Martin Rees, Aubrey Manning, Richard Holloway, Daniel C. Dennett, Randal Keynes, B...

The autumn and winter of 2010 saw an unprecedented wave of student protests across the UK, in response to the coalition government's savage cuts in...