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Het bolwerk van de vrijheid
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 59.25Willem Otterspeer on the history of the Leiden University, a 'bastion of liberty'. Key to understanding the university as an institution. more...
Professoren und Politik
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1992; US$ 25.83Biographische Informationen Dr. Christian Jansen ist Professor für Neuere Geschichte an der TU Berlin. more...
Transforming Northicote School
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 57.95In February 1994 Northicote School, situated in a deprived area of Wolverhampton, was the first in the country to be named and shamed, OfSTED called the school 'appalling in almost every way'. Then Geoff Hampton took over as head - five years later he was awarded a knighthood for transforming the fortunes of this failing school; and its pupils. This... more...
Creative School
RoutledgeFalmer 2003; US$ 45.95Using a single case-study school as a role model, this book provides a framework for practice in primary schools. The school in question succeeds in meeting the Government's objectives within its own set of aims and values. more...
Educating the Respectable
Taylor and Francis 1991; US$ 105.00Under its first headmaster, W.B. Adams, Fleet Road Board School was an outstanding success, described by a contemporary journal as the finest elementary school in Europe.' This study explains the school's success using contemporary sources, and newspapers and the oral evidence of ex-pupils. more...
Die Universität Heidelberg im Nationalsozialismus (German Edition)
Springer 2006; US$ 54.99Wie hat sich die nationalsozialistische Herrschaft auf die Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg ausgewirkt? In dem vorliegenden Band berichten 36 Autoren erstmals umfassend über sämtliche an der Universität vertretenen Disziplinen in der Zeit von 1933 bis 1945. Untersucht werden sowohl die Entwicklungen in der Gesamtuniversität (Gleichschaltung, Durchsetzung... more...
OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education Iceland
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2008; US$ 33.00In many OECD countries, tertiary education systems have experienced rapid growth over the last decade. With tertiary education increasingly seen as a fundamental pillar for economic growth, these systems must now address the pressures of a globalising economy and labour market. Within governance frameworks that encourage institutions, individually... 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...









