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...
Leadership for World-Class Universities reveals how "world-class" thinking and policy can help university leaders employ modern solutions to the challenges facing higher education today. Readers will benefit from best practice advice offered by distinguished international contributors who have excelled by thinking globally without losing sight of their respective national and local environments. Their essays are grounded in empirical research and written to engage the reader, stimulate reflection and enhance performance. This book focuses especially on developing and middle-income...
Leadership for World-Class Universities reveals how "world-class" thinking and policy can help university leaders employ modern solutions ...
The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government, academic freedom, and the responsibilities of the academic profession, among others. Edward Shils argues that higher education has a central role in society, and that distractions, such as pressures from government, disinterest of students and faculty in education, and involvement of institutions of higher learning in social questions, have damaged higher education by deflecting it from its commitment to teaching, learning, and...
The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education t...
Philip G. Altbach, Liz Reisberg, Jamil Salmi, Isak Froumin
During the past several decades, several “highly-resourced, accelerated research universities” have been established around the world to pursue—and achieve—academic and research excellence. These institutions are entirely new, not existing universities that were reconfigured. Accelerated Universities provides case studies of eight such universities and highlights the lessons to be learned from these examples. Each of the cases is written by someone involved with leadership at the early developmental stages of each university, and provides insights that only senior executives can...
During the past several decades, several “highly-resourced, accelerated research universities” have been established around the world to pursue—...
Philip G. Altbach, Edward Choi, Mathew R. Allen, Hans de Wit
Although an entirely unknown part of higher education worldwide, there are literally hundreds of universities that are owned/managed by families around the world. These institutions are an important subset of private universities—the fastest growing segment of higher education worldwide. Family-owned or managed higher education institutions (FOMHEI) are concentrated in developing and emerging economies, but also exist in Europe and North America. This book is the first to shed light on these institutions—there is currently no other source on this topic. Who owns a university? Who is...
Although an entirely unknown part of higher education worldwide, there are literally hundreds of universities that are owned/managed by families aroun...
Philip G. Altbach, Edward Choi, Mathew R. Allen, Hans de Wit
Although an entirely unknown part of higher education worldwide, there are literally hundreds of universities that are owned/managed by families around the world. These institutions are an important subset of private universities—the fastest growing segment of higher education worldwide. Family-owned or managed higher education institutions (FOMHEI) are concentrated in developing and emerging economies, but also exist in Europe and North America. This book is the first to shed light on these institutions—there is currently no other source on this topic. Who owns a university? Who is...
Although an entirely unknown part of higher education worldwide, there are literally hundreds of universities that are owned/managed by families aroun...
