Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Research

The book provides a comprehensive analysis of Engineering Education in industrialising countries, with Southern Africa as the case study, benchmarked on institutions from the industrialised world, with UK institutions as the reference. This was motivated by the perennial shortage of engineers and engineering skills to drive industry in Southern Africa, compounded by the mismatch of skills between those produced by tertiary institutions and those required by industry. This book focuses on the insufficiencies in training, through addressing the gap where the majority of engineering...

This book presents an in-depth guide designed for students, researchers and professionals seeking to harness the power of LaTeX, which is a high-quality typesetting tool widely used in academia, engineering and scientific communities for producing well-structured, complex documents. It is crafted to demystify LaTeX, equipping readers with the skills to create professional-quality documents from simple articles to complex reports, theses and books. The book covers both basic and advanced aspects of LaTeX and addresses common challenges faced by LaTeX users, such as structuring long...

This book addresses how longitudinal research approaches are used to understand young people’s lives. It elucidates how youth researchers use longitudinal approaches, and how longitudinal research can help us to both understand and shape the field of youth sociology. Chapters discuss the creation of knowledge about youth and how longitudinal research shapes the field of youth sociology and shed light on key tensions and emerging debates in longitudinal youth research ranging from research design to data collection, analysis, and use. It considers longitudinal studies using a broad range...