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Physiocracy, Antiphysiocracy and Pfeiffer
Springer 2011; US$ 94.99Physiocracy, or the economic theory that a nation's wealth comes from is agricultural and land development, was a popular school of thought in France in the 18th century. The contribution and significance of the Physiocrats and Antiphysiocrats are explored in detail through chapter contributions by economists, philosophers, and social historians.... more...
University Autonomy: Higher Education in Russia Since Perestroika
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 170.00This study focuses on the national higher education policies and institutional strategies that foster or hinder individual Russian universities in applying newfound principles of autonomy. more...
Education and Society
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 180.00The British Journal of Sociology of Education has established itself as the leading discipline-based publication. This collection of selected articles published since the first issue provides the reader with an informed insight and understanding of the nature, range and value of sociological thinking, its development over the last twenty-five years... more...
Academic Interests and Catholic Confessionalisation
BRILL 2010; US$ 278.00Focussing on an anomaly - highly controverisal, but at face value useless privileges granted to the university of Louvain -, this book explores the entanglement of material, political, religious and intellectual interests nurtured by early modern academics in the Confessional Age. more...
Whose University Is It?
Amsterdam University Press 2006; US$ 30.00A thought-provoking examination of the role of universities in contemporary society more...
Transitions from Education to Work
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 105.00Bringing together contributions from international scholars, this book explores the changing nature of young people's transitions and challenges assumptions about pathways from education into employment in contemporary society. more...
The Transformation of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in the Baltic States
Springer 2008; US$ 119.99Various states of the EU, among them the Baltic states, are involved in the Copenhagen process and are a source of enormous (human) potential that can enrich Europe. As the Baltic States have enjoyed special attention in European VET policy, the reforms in VET and its structures are the subject of debate in this book. 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...
Vocational Education in the New EU Member States
World Bank Publications 2007; US$ 9.99Vocational education often is ignored during discussions of secondary education reform even though it accounts for between 25 percent and 79 percent of upper secondary enrollment in the former centrally-planned countries of the European Union. Based on information, data, and feedback from most of these countries, this paper develops a set of propositions... more...
Education in Scotland
Taylor and Francis 1997; US$ 65.95Education in Scotland is markedly different from what happens in the rest of the UK - with a different National Curriculum, school boards to oversee school management and a General Teaching Council which has been in existence since 1965. Whilst there are many examples of successful and innovative practice in Scotland, the system is quite often not... more...









