ABSTRACT
This volume is a detailed and up-to-date reference work providing an authoritative overview of the main issues in higher education around the world today. Consisting of newly commissioned chapters and impressive journal articles, it surveys the state of the discipline and includes the examination and discussion of emerging, controversial and cutting edge areas.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|4 pages
Introduction
part II|68 pages
Teaching and Learning
chapter 6|12 pages
Study Success of Students from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds
An Overview of Explanations for Differences in Study Careers
part III|60 pages
Course Design
chapter 9|14 pages
"An Alignment of the Planets"
Mapping the Intersections Between Pedagogy, Technology and Management in Australian Universities
part IV|62 pages
The Student Experience
chapter 12|14 pages
Tuition Fee Policies in a Comparative Perspective
Theoretical and Political Rationales1
chapter 13|16 pages
From Senior Student to Novice Worker
Learning Trajectories in Political Science, Psychology and Mechanical Engineering1
part V|70 pages
Quality
chapter 15|12 pages
What Can Students' Perceptions of Academic Quality Tell Us?
Research Using the Course Experience Questionnaire
chapter 18|12 pages
Still Balancing Improvement and Accountability?
Developments in External Quality Assurance in the Nordic Countries 1996–2006
part VI|74 pages
System Policy
chapter 23|12 pages
Shifting Roles and Approaches
Government Coordination of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, 1995–2006
chapter 24|12 pages
Bachelor Graduates on the Labour Market
A Cross-National Comparison of the Employers' Viewpoint
part VII|70 pages
Institutional Management
chapter 26|12 pages
The Shaping of the Departmental Culture
Measuring the Relative Influences of the Institution and Discipline1
chapter 29|12 pages
Building Democracy's University
University–Community Partnerships and the Emergent Civic Engagement Movement
part VIII|60 pages
Academic Work
part IX|54 pages
Knowledge
chapter 36|10 pages
Out with Humboldt and in with the Knowledge Society
On the Consequences of the Redefinition of the Role of Higher Education and Research
