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Non-University Higher Education in Europe
Springer 2008; US$ 54.99This book represents the first-of-its-kind comprehensive discussion of the non-university higher education sector in Europe. Higher education throughout the world is facing rapid change. Despite the enormous attention devoted to that reality, this volume fills an important void. It describes and offers critical comparisons between the systems in 10... more...
A Good School for Every Child
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 37.95Sir Cyril Taylor has been at the heart of English education for over two decades, serving as an adviser to ten successive UK Education Secretaries and Four Prime Ministers, both Conservative and Labour, including Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. His passion for education has led directly to real school improvement, from the creation of City... more...
1764-1804
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 238.00The first volume of letters written to Pestalozzi contains 713 letters written between 1764 and 1804 by illustrious correspondents such as Karl Viktor von Bonstetten, Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg, Hans Caspar Hirzel, Isaak Iselin, Johann Caspar Lavater, Anna Schulthess and 170 further writers, some of them unknown. The letters demonstrate Pestalozzi?s... more...
Improving Quality Assurance in European Vocational Education and Training
Springer 2009; US$ 79.99Many resources are invested in the development and introduction of Quality Assurance Systems in educational institutions all over the world. This book reports on the study of Quality Assurance structures and activities in 36 educational institutes in 6 European Countries and presents guidelines for Quality Assurance. more...
The Bastion of Liberty
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 69.50Willem Otterspeer on the history of the Leiden University, a 'bastion of liberty'. Key to understanding the university as an institution. more...
Higher Education Financing in the New EU Member States
World Bank Publications 2007; US$ 9.99This paper summarizes the experiences to date of the new EU countries (the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Sloveniathe EU8) in the reform of higher education systems in a period of growing demand; changing patterns of access; rapid expansion and increased participation rates; and an apparent dilution... more...
Philosophers as Educational Reformers (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 10)
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 147.00This volume assesses how far the ideas and achievements of the 19th century British Idealist philosophical reformers are still important for us today when considering fundamental questions about the structure and objectives of the education system in England and Wales. Part 1 examines those ideas of the Idealists, especially T. H. Green, which had... more...
A History of the University of Manchester, 197390
Manchester University Press 2004; US$ 74.95This is the second volume of a history of the University of Manchester since 1951. It spans seventeen critical years in which public funding was contracting, student grants were diminishing, instructions from the government and the University Grants Commi more...
L'Académie de Lausanne entre Humanisme et Réforme (ca. 1537-1560)
BRILL 2011; US$ 158.00Based on a vast body of archival sources, this book examines the development and the operations of the Lausanne Academy, the first Protestant Academy of Higher Education created in a French-speaking territory, and an essential milestone in the history of European education. more...
De studentenpopulatie van de Leidse universiteit, 1575-1812
Leiden University Press 2011; US$ 86.90Deze studie schetst een, soms vermakelijk, beeld van hoe het was om aan 's lands oudste universiteit te studeren. Martine Zoeteman-van Pelt toont overtuigend aan dat de telling van het begin van de vorige eeuw grote lacunes vertoont. De analyse van de studentenpopulatie is gedaan aan de hand van een zelf ontworpen database van de ruim 60.000 inschrijvingen... more...









