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The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession: The Brics and the United States
ISBN: 9780230369788 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This is the first book to critically analyze the future of higher education systems in the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and the USA, analyzing academic salaries, contracts and working conditions and how national policy will affect the academic profession in each context.
This is the first book to critically analyze the future of higher education systems in the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and...
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384,63 zł |
The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession: The Brics and the United States
ISBN: 9781137493613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This is the first book to critically analyze the future of higher education systems in the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and the USA, analyzing academic salaries, contracts and working conditions and how national policy will affect the academic profession in each context.
This is the first book to critically analyze the future of higher education systems in the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and...
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384,63 zł |
The Decline of the Guru: The Academic Profession in Developing and Middle-Income Countries
ISBN: 9781403960542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The academic profession faces new challenges everywhere. The pressures of mass higher education, accountability, fiscal constraints, distance education and the new technologies, and changing attitudes concerning academic work have combined to place unprecedented strains on the professoriate. There is no country that has avoided these challenges, although the changes vary. This book brings together some of the best analysts of the academic profession in a wide ranging comparative analysis of the changing academic workplace. The stress here is on middle income and developing countries, but the...
The academic profession faces new challenges everywhere. The pressures of mass higher education, accountability, fiscal constraints, distance educatio...
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192,30 zł |
The Decline of the Guru: The Academic Profession in Developing and Middle-Income Countries
ISBN: 9780312295912 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The academic profession faces new challenges everywhere. The pressures of mass higher education, accountability, fiscal constraints, distance education and the new technologies, and changing attitudes concerning academic work have combined to place unprecedented strains on the professoriate. There is no country that has avoided these challenges, although the changes vary. This book brings together some of the best analysts of the academic profession in a wide ranging comparative analysis of the changing academic workplace. The stress here is on middle income and developing countries, but the...
The academic profession faces new challenges everywhere. The pressures of mass higher education, accountability, fiscal constraints, distance educatio...
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192,30 zł |
International Higher Education Volume 1: An Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9781138006379 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 590 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This encyclopedia is the result of a highly selective enterprise that provides a careful selection of key topics in essays written by top scholars in their fields. Comprehensive and in-depth coverage of a limited number of countries, regions and themes is provided. The essays not only feature statistical and factual information but significant interpretation of those facts and figures. The chapters on themes and topics are both analytic and interpretative and deal with the most important topics relevant to higher education everywhere. More than a compendium of facts and figures the... This encyclopedia is the result of a highly selective enterprise that provides a careful selection of key topics in essays written by top scholars ... |
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252,64 zł |
International Higher Education Volume 2 : An Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9780415684354 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This encyclopedia is the result of a highly selective enterprise that provides a careful selection of key topics in essays written by top scholars in their fields. Comprehensive and in-depth coverage of a limited number of countries, regions and themes is provided. The essays not only feature statistical and factual information but significant interpretation of those facts and figures. The chapters on themes and topics are both analytic and interpretative and deal with the most important topics relevant to higher education everywhere. More than a compendium of facts and figures the... This encyclopedia is the result of a highly selective enterprise that provides a careful selection of key topics in essays written by top scholars ... |
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644,64 zł |
International Higher Education, Volume 2: An Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9780415750691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 574 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This encyclopedia is the result of a highly selective enterprise that provides a careful selection of key topics in essays written by top scholars in their fields. Comprehensive and in-depth coverage of a limited number of countries, regions and themes is provided. The essays not only feature statistical and factual information but significant interpretation of those facts and figures. The chapters on themes and topics are both analytic and interpretative and deal with the most important topics relevant to higher education everywhere. More than a compendium of facts and figures the... This encyclopedia is the result of a highly selective enterprise that provides a careful selection of key topics in essays written by top scholars ... |
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164,98 zł |
International Higher Education Volume 1 : An Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9780415684316 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 606 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This encyclopedia is the result of a highly selective enterprise that provides a careful selection of key topics in essays written by top scholars in their fields. Comprehensive and in-depth coverage of a limited number of countries, regions and themes is provided. The essays not only feature statistical and factual information but significant interpretation of those facts and figures. The chapters on themes and topics are both analytic and interpretative and deal with the most important topics relevant to higher education everywhere. More than a compendium of facts and figures the... This encyclopedia is the result of a highly selective enterprise that provides a careful selection of key topics in essays written by top scholars ... |
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954,06 zł |
The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession: The Brics and the United States
ISBN: 9781349350643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This is the first book to critically analyze the future of higher education systems in the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and the USA, analyzing academic salaries, contracts and working conditions and how national policy will affect the academic profession in each context.
This is the first book to critically analyze the future of higher education systems in the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and...
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384,63 zł |
From Dependence to Autonomy: The Development of Asian Universities
ISBN: 9789024737772 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book is an example of an international editorial enterprise. The two editors, located in the United States and Singapore, coordinated a team of authors in ten countries. Linked by common concerns, the lengthy process of preparing such a complex volume proved to be a pleasantly cooperative task - proof that there is a kind of invisible college of colleagues working on similar topics in different countries. This book is also an indication that scholars from the Third World and the industrialized nations can work together in a spirit of equality and understanding. This project has an...
This book is an example of an international editorial enterprise. The two editors, located in the United States and Singapore, coordinated a team of a...
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576,96 zł |
From Dependence to Autonomy: The Development of Asian Universities
ISBN: 9789401076586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book is an example of an international editorial enterprise. The two editors, located in the United States and Singapore, coordinated a team of authors in ten countries. Linked by common concerns, the lengthy process of preparing such a complex volume proved to be a pleasantly cooperative task - proof that there is a kind of invisible college of colleagues working on similar topics in different countries. This book is also an indication that scholars from the Third World and the industrialized nations can work together in a spirit of equality and understanding. This project has an...
This book is an example of an international editorial enterprise. The two editors, located in the United States and Singapore, coordinated a team of a...
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576,96 zł |
Paying the Professoriate: A Global Comparison of Compensation and Contracts
ISBN: 9780415898072 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How are professors paid? Can the 'best and brightest' be attracted to the academic profession? With universities facing international competition, which countries compensate their academics best, and which ones lag behind? This book examines these questions and much more.
How are professors paid? Can the 'best and brightest' be attracted to the academic profession? With universities facing international competition, whi...
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293,91 zł |
Leadership for World-Class Universities: Challenges for Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780415800280 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Reveals how 'world-class' thinking and policy can help university leaders employ modern solutions to the challenges facing higher education today. This book focuses especially on developing and middle-income countries, which face special problems where higher education is expanding most rapidly.
Reveals how 'world-class' thinking and policy can help university leaders employ modern solutions to the challenges facing higher education today. Thi...
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902,49 zł |
Global Perspectives on Higher Education
ISBN: 9781421419268 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Over the past half-century, globalization has had a profound impact on postsecondary education. The twin forces of mass higher education and the global knowledge economy have driven an unprecedented transformation. These fundamental changes have pulled in opposite directions: one pushes for wider access and accompanying challenges of quality, the other toward exclusive, -world class- research-oriented universities. In Global Perspectives on Higher Education, renowned higher education scholar Philip G. Altbach offers a wide-ranging perspective on the implications of these key... Over the past half-century, globalization has had a profound impact on postsecondary education. The twin forces of mass higher education and the gl... |
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135,71 zł |
Paying the Professoriate: A Global Comparison of Compensation and Contracts
ISBN: 9780415898065 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How are professors paid? Can the best and brightest be attracted to the academic profession? With universities facing international competition, which countries compensate their academics best, and which ones lag behind? Paying the Professoriate examines these questions and provides key insights and recommendations into the current state of the academic profession worldwide. Paying the Professoriate is the first comparative analysis of global faculty salaries, remuneration, and terms of employment. Offering an in-depth international comparison of academic salaries in 28 countries across...
How are professors paid? Can the best and brightest be attracted to the academic profession? With universities facing international competition, which...
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902,49 zł |
Tradition and Transition : The International Imperative in Higher Education
ISBN: 9789087900533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A global and comparative perspective is central to understanding the rapidly changing world of higher education. Tradition and Transition analyzes many of the key themes of academic change in the 21st century. It brings a unique comparative approach, citing examples from many national contexts to illustrate themes. Among the topics considered are the logic of mass higher education, globalization and inequality, the role of research universities, academic freedom, private higher education, and the academic profession and its problems. These topical chapters are accompanied by in-depth...
A global and comparative perspective is central to understanding the rapidly changing world of higher education. Tradition and Transition analyzes man...
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236,46 zł |
The Road to Academic Excellence: The Making of World-Class Research Universities
ISBN: 9780821388051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 363 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The positive contribution of tertiary education is increasingly recognized as not limited to middle-income and advanced countries, since it applies equally to low-income economies. Tertiary education can help countries become more globally competitive by developing a skilled, productive, and flexible labor force and by creating, applying, and spreading new ideas and technologies. Research universities are reckoned among the central institutions of the 21st century knowledge economies. This book extends the analysis of the framework presented in The Challenge of Establishing World-Class...
The positive contribution of tertiary education is increasingly recognized as not limited to middle-income and advanced countries, since it applies eq...
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162,58 zł |
Student Politics in America: A Historical Analysis
ISBN: 9781560009443 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Students have periodically played an important role in campus political life as well as in societal politics. Students were active in the anti-slavery movement; they rebelled against military service in the Civil War; they staged demonstrations during the Depression; and they were vocal during the 1960s. While activism has subsided somewhat in the past three decades, students continue to be involved in significant political issues. Student Politics in America is the first book to chronicle the entire history of student political activism in America--dealing not only with the... Students have periodically played an important role in campus political life as well as in societal politics. Students were active in the anti-slav... |
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149,50 zł |
Nonformal Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: Stability, Reform, or Revolution?
ISBN: 9780275920784 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the past two decades, there has been a number of nonformal education programs in Latin America and the Caribbean, among them literacy programs, community development, technical/vocational training, cooperatives, agricultural assistance, and popular education. "Nonformal Education and the Poor in Latin America and the Caribbean" is a comprehensive overview of these programs--their goals, methods, and actual accomplishments. The book also assesses the impact these programs have had on community and individual development and behavior especially in light of political events in these... In the past two decades, there has been a number of nonformal education programs in Latin America and the Caribbean, among them literacy programs, ... |
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380,00 zł |
Comparative Higher Education: Knowledge, the University, and Development
ISBN: 9781567503807 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Higher education is increasingly international. The issues that affect universities in one country are important globally. There are a myriad of links among academic systems worldwide. Comparative Higher Education is the first book to systematically explore many of the most important implications of the globalization of higher education. It explores the links among universities, including foreign students and scholars, the impact of the Western higher education idea on universities throughout the world, and especially the current importance of American academic ideas worldwide, and the... Higher education is increasingly international. The issues that affect universities in one country are important globally. There are a myriad of li... |
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298,57 zł |