Crisis Response in Higher Education

The idea for this book began to take shape in June 2019, under the working title ‘The new public university: local missions and global goals’. As with many plans at the time, the ability to dedicate time to write the book and indeed the actual substance of the book were overtaken by events. The emergence of COVID at the end of 2019, and its global spread in the first half of 2020, …

Higher education ICT integration in Africa: readiness, implementation and tra…

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Equity Policies in Global Higher Education

This book discusses and analyses global policies and practices aimed at promoting equity in higher education participation and attainment. Although the massification of higher education systems has facilitated the participation of students from deprived backgrounds, socioeconomic inequalities persist in access to the most prestigious institutions and programmes. Privileged students benefit from…

Girls coming to tech! :a history of American engineering education for women

"Engineering education in the United States was long regarded as masculine territory. For decades, women who studied or worked in engineering were popularly perceived as oddities, outcasts, unfeminine (or inappropriately feminine in a male world). In Girls Coming to Tech!, Amy Bix tells the story of how women gained entrance to the traditionally male field of engineering in American higher educ…

The distributed classroom

"Joyner and Isbell describe a model for higher education -- the distributed classroom -- that combines the best aspects of traditional college attendance with the accessibility of online classes"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The manifesto for teaching online

"An expanded version of a document that was first released in 2011 and updated in 2016, the Manifesto presents a critical and research-informed position on teaching online in higher education"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Higher Education in Romania: Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Opportunities

This open access book includes a series of relevant policy research articles, elaborared in the framework of the “Quality in higher education: internationalisation and databases to enhance the Romanian education system” project, implemented by the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI), together with the Ministry of Education. The proj…

(Re)Discovering University Autonomy: The Global Market Paradox of Stakeholder…

(Re)Discovering University Autonomy has far reaching implications for leaders and managers, researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers by addressing modern challenges to university autonomy in Europe and beyond in a new and innovative way.