Product Description: The topic of achieving and assuring quality in every higher education institution continues to be both relevant and urgent worldwide. This volume presents a considered discussion of a range of facets of the issue, drawing on the findings of a 3 year EU research programme involving seven countries: Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Latvia, Portugal, Poland, Slovakia and the Netherlands...read more

Product Description: As the ability of each higher education system to produce the highly-skilled citizens required in the twenty first century becomes crucial, governments are recognizing and responding to global, as well as local, economic and cultural changes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 'This book contains ideas, conceptual and practical, with which it may be possible to negotiate with both government and institutional managers a role for academic development that is established, worthwhile and 'scholarly' in ways recognized by other academics' - "Teaching in Higher Education"...read more

Product Description: There are very few women who hold senior management positions in universities worldwide. This volume, written entirely by women, examines the problem and suggests ways in which it might be remedied. It contextualizes the situation by discussing management styles, the ethics of leadership, and the influence of career trends outside academia; and then presents a series of fascinating case studies based on interviews with, and the experience of, senior academic women...read more

Product Description: In a nation where 40-50% of graduates emerging from higher education are arts students, the debate is how the country can best prepare them for work within the European Community; and, in so doing, help them extend their skills to contribute to the development of the United Kingdom...read more

Product Description: This volume considers the new dimensions being introduced into higher education, which are likely to have a marked effect in the 1990s. The contributors to this volume are drawn from a wide range of different experience, standpoints, and convictions...read more