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Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 199.00This is a dedicated issue of Chinese authors.The six papers here cover new initiatives/reforms in China and are presented by staff based either at Beijing Normal University or Hong Kong Institute of Education (with one joint author from Queensland University of Technology, Australia) more...
Gender Equity in Junior and Senior Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
World Bank Publications 2008; US$ 9.99Evidence of gender inequity and inequality in terms of access, retention and performance in secondary education in Sub-Saharan Africa raises many questions. While transition rates from primary to secondary are higher for girls than boys, and the repetition rates are lower, girls still significantly trail behind boys in terms of secondary GER. This... more...
Fifty Years of Higher Education in India
SAGE India 2003; US$ 75.95The University Grants Commission, which began functioning under an executive order in 1953, enters its Golden Jubilee year on 28 December 2003. From the time the UGC was set up, there has been an exponential growth in the number of higher academic institutions which today employ more than 400,000 teachers with a student body in excess of 9 million.... more...
The Challenges of Culture-based Learning
University Press of America 2009; US$ 27.99This book investigates the impact of culture-based learning among secondary school children in India and reflects that students have the potential to adapt and develop their learning styles according to society, family, religion, and cultural demands. more...
Higher Education in Asia/Pacific
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 90.00Expansion and privatization have created new concerns over the quality of education throughout the Asia/Pacific region. This volume provides a framework to examine these challenges in the region and beyond. more...
Governance of Technical Education in India
World Bank Publications 2010; US$ 9.99Higher education, and in particular technical education, is critical to Indias aspirations of becoming a major competitive player in the global knowledge economy. The technical education system is huge and complex, and reforms are imperative. Countrywide policies continue to identify Good Governance as key to the success of reforms and investments... more...
The Search for New Governance of Higher Education in Asia
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 100.00This volume sets out in the wider context of globalization to critically examine how selected countries / societies in Asia have responded to the growing pressures of globalization for improving university performance in the global market place. more...
Dispersal and Renewal
Hong Kong University Press 1998; US$ 38.00In this volume, dedicated to the memory of Hong Kong University students, faculty and members of the Court who lost their lives as a result of hostilities in the Far East during 1941-1945, we ask what happened to the University during those years of Japanese occupation when there was only the shell of a campus left standing on Pokfulam Road. more...
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong University Press, HKU 1981; US$ 38.00The University of Hong Kong is one of Hong Kongs largest single community enterprises. First incorporated as a self-governing body of scholars by the University Ordinance of 1911 its first faculties were formed from the Hong Kong College of Medicine founded in 1887. The growth and development of the University to its present internationally-recognized... more...
University Unlimited
Allen & Unwin 2012; US$ 36.35From student radicalism to global expansion, this is the story of Australia's largest and most international university. more...









