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Higher education and the state

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  • Right to Learnby Ken Brown

    RoutledgeFalmer 2001; US$ 53.95

    The Right to Learn raises questions about the future of the learning society. It suggests that the rights of children and parents are not being addressed by the UK Government's concentration on a highly centralised education system. more...

  • Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Educationby Norman Evans

    RoutledgeFalmer 2001; US$ 61.95

    The Institute of learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ILT) was launched in 1999 as a result of the recommendations of the Dearing Committee. This book documents the establishment of the ILT and gives help to those engaging with it. more...

  • Access, Participation and Higher Educationby Annette Hayton; Anna Paczuska

    RoutledgeFalmer 2002; US$ 58.95

    With issues such as student fees and high drop-out rates still political hot-potatoes, this book is a timely and important survey of the real issues behind participation, and non-participation, and is sure to be as controversial as it is useful. more...

  • Women and Philanthropy in Educationby Andrea Walton

    Indiana University Press 2005; US$ 31.95

    This book illuminates the philanthropic impulse that has influenced women's education and its place in the broader history of philanthropy in America. Contributing to the history of women, education, and philanthropy, the book shows how voluntary activity and home-grown educational enterprise were as important as big donors in the development of philanthropy. The essays in Women and Philanthropy in Education are generally concerned with local rather than national effects of philanthropy, and the giving of time rather than monetary support. Many of the essays focus on the individual lives of female philanthropists (Olivia Sage, Martha ... more...

  • Education Reform and Education Policy in East Asiaby Joshua Ka Ho Mok

    Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 170.00

    Examining how the interdependent economic system has driven policy change and education reform, this book assesses the impact of globalization on the education systems of key East Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the "tiger economies" of South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. more...

  • Girls and Literacy in Americaby Jane Greer; Miriam Forman-Brunell

    ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 85.00

    This work offers a tour of the opportunities, obstacles and achievements in girls' education from the limited possibilities of colonial days to the wide-open potential of the Internet generation. It features six essays focused on particular historical periods. more...

  • Schooling and the Politics of Disasterby Kenneth J. Saltman

    Routledge 2007; US$ 35.95

    Addresses how disaster is used for a radical social and economic reengineering of education. This collection explores how education policy is reshaped by disaster politics. It tackles issues such as No Child Left Behind, the War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, the making of educational funding crises in the US, and the Iraq War. more...

  • The Open World and Closed Societiesby Voldemar Tomusk

    Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 90.00

    This book is about higher education reforms in the post-socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, seen through the eyes of somebody who has spent the last decade analyzing these reforms as well as negotiating and supervising reform projects in countries from Serbia and Montenegro to Mongolia. more...