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Mr Hopkins Men: Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century

The 19th century was a key period in the development of the mathematical sciences in Britain. Subjects such as rigid-body ...

Narrowing the Achievement Gap

This volume is an important and impressive collection of scholarship that addresses one of the more intractable education ...

New Forms of Governance in Research Organizations

This book undertakes to develop a sector specific theory of governance of the public research sector and applies it to the ...

Non-University Higher Education in Europe

This book represents the first-of-its-kind comprehensive discussion of the non-university higher education sector in Europe. ...

Portraits of Influential Chinese Educators

This book conveys an understanding of China’s educational development from within. It does so through portraits of eleven ...

Professional Learning Conversations: Challenges in Using Evidence for Improvement

This volume provides informed arguments, theory and practical examples based on research about what it looks like when educators, ...

Quality-of-Life Research in Chinese, Western and Global Contexts

The majority of studies on the quality of life have been conducted in Western contexts and are based on Western participants. ...

Race, Ethnicity and Education in Globalised Times

This book broaches what has become a ‘noisy silence’ whereby conversations about race and ethnic relationships are understood ...

Reform and Change in Higher Education

Starting from the now classical book by Ladislav Cerych and Paul Sabatier (1986), the editors present a critical appreciation ...

Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education

This book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from ...

School Decentralization in the Context of Globalizing Governance

This book extensively reviews outcomes of educational decentralization using research findings from different parts of the ...

Scientism and Education

This volume offers a critical examination of the growing pressure to apply scientific principles as a means to improve education. ...

Stanford University

During the almost thousand-year history of universities, campuses have always been physical spaces. As we end the twentieth ...

Successful Principal Leadership in Times of Change : An International Perspective

The research reported in the book present an interesting and rich picture of successful principals in different socio-cultural ...

Teaching Entrepreneurship

This book offers various examples for teaching and learning entrepreneurship in academia. Readers gain insight into the real ...

Technical Universities Past, present and future

This book analyses the past, present and future of the technical university as a single faculty independent institution. ...

The Academic Book of the Future

This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Part of the AHRC/British Library Academic Book of the Future Project, this ...

The Challenges of Educating People to Lead in a Challenging World

This volume will help educators and the educational enterprise become more innovative, efficient, and effective in addressing ...

The Changing Governance of the Sciences

The establishment of national systems of retrospective research evaluations is one of the most significant of recent changes ...

The Distributed University for Sustainable Higher Education

This book is discusses the re-imagining of the higher education sector. It exposes problems that relate to the way that universities ...

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