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Product Description: The promise of this admission policy reader arises from the embodiment of research from 58 authors, six continents, 20 time zones, 20+ first languages, and a broad array of research methodologies. Four sections aggregate key themes within the text: (1) National Perspectives on Higher Education Admission Policy; (2) Theoretical Approaches to Higher Education Admission Policy; (3) Applicant Recruitment and Student Support Services in Higher Education; and (4) Diversity and Equity in Higher Education Admission Policy Implementation...read more
By Virginia Stead (editor)

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9781433121647 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 30, 2014, cover price $219.95 | About this edition: The promise of this admission policy reader arises from the embodiment of research from 58 authors, six continents, 20 time zones, 20+ first languages, and a broad array of research methodologies.

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9781433121630 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 23, 2014, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: The promise of this admission policy reader arises from the embodiment of research from 58 authors, six continents, 20 time zones, 20+ first languages, and a broad array of research methodologies.

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By Veronica Bamber (editor), Murray Saunders (editor) and Paul Trowler (editor)

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9780415880626, titled "Tribes and Territories in the 21st Century: Rethinking the Significance of Disciplines in Higher Education" | Routledge, January 11, 2012, cover price $180.00

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9781138021037, titled "Tribes and Territories in the 21st Century: Rethinking the Significance of Disciplines in Higher Education" | Routledge, December 23, 2013, cover price $54.95

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By Tony Adams (editor)

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9781412999212 | Sage Pubns, August 20, 2012, cover price $185.00
9780256092653, titled "Business Research Methods" | 4th edition (Richard d Irwin, April 1, 1991), cover price $65.95 | also contains Business Research Methods

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Product Description: Trevor Kerry draws together contributions from leading academics in the field based in Europe, Canada and Australia to examine key themes in higher education, including: • academic freedom• leadership and management• the nature of learning and teaching • ethical behaviour• curriculum innovation•attitudes to globalization and internationalization The contributors explore what might constitute effective higher education provision, drawing on innovative practice from around the world and encouraging higher education practitioners to become more analytical and critical about their institutions, about their own roles, and about the ways in which they and their work serve their client-base...read more
By Trevor Kerry (editor)

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9781441102034 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, July 26, 2012, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Trevor Kerry draws together contributions from leading academics in the field based in Europe, Canada and Australia to examine key themes in higher education, including: • academic freedom• leadership and management• the nature of learning and teaching • ethical behaviour• curriculum innovation•attitudes to globalization and internationalization The contributors explore what might constitute effective higher education provision, drawing on innovative practice from around the world and encouraging higher education practitioners to become more analytical and critical about their institutions, about their own roles, and about the ways in which they and their work serve their client-base.

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Product Description: Engages a topic of pressing concern for government, business, and education leaders around the world: the race to establish 'world-class' universities. Some herald the globalization of higher education as the key to a dynamic and productive 'knowledge society...read more
By Ian P. Wei (editor)

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9780230392458 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 24, 2012, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Engages a topic of pressing concern for government, business, and education leaders around the world: the race to establish 'world-class' universities.

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By Roccio M. Teixeira (editor)

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9781612096865 | Nova Science Pub Inc, April 1, 2011, cover price $245.00

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9780415990431 | 1 edition (Routledge, August 14, 2009), cover price $185.00

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9780415890830 | Reprint edition (Routledge, February 4, 2011), cover price $54.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203876664 | Routledge, August 5, 2009, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: Globalization, the information age, and the rise of the knowledge-based economy are significantly transforming the way we acquire, disseminate, and transform knowledge. And, as a result, knowledge production is becoming closer and more directly linked to economic competitiveness...read more
By Claes Brundenius (editor) and Bo Goransson (editor)

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9781441975089 | Springer Verlag, November 24, 2010, cover price $229.00 | About this edition: Globalization, the information age, and the rise of the knowledge-based economy are significantly transforming the way we acquire, disseminate, and transform knowledge.

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Product Description: The movement to broaden access to public universities, the dominant strategy during the 1970s and 1980s, has largely shifted to enable the marketplace, rather than the government, to shape the contours of higher education. Government funding is being reduced, affirmative action and other programs designed to insure broader access are in decline and personal fulfillment is replacing a public good designed to insure greater equality of opportunities...read more
By Matt Evans (editor), N. Jayaram (editor) and Fred Lazin (editor)

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9780739146699 | Lexington Books, September 1, 2010, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: The movement to broaden access to public universities, the dominant strategy during the 1970s and 1980s, has largely shifted to enable the marketplace, rather than the government, to shape the contours of higher education.

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Product Description: Undoubtedly the most important development in higher education in recent years has been the seemingly inexorable expansion of national systems. In a comparatively short time period many countries have moved from an elite to a mass model...read more
By David Palfreyman (editor) and Ted Tapper (editor)

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9780415426046 | Routledge, October 17, 2008, cover price $195.00 | About this edition: Undoubtedly the most important development in higher education in recent years has been the seemingly inexorable expansion of national systems.

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Product Description: 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...read more
By Malcolm Tight (editor)

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9780415432641 | Routledge, April 8, 2009, cover price $225.00 | About this edition: 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.

Miscellaneous:

9780203882221 | Routledge, April 8, 2009, cover price $44.95

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Product Description: Higher education worldwide, including the university and other related academic programs, is currently undergoing intensive change and transformation perhaps as no other time in its long history. One factor contributing to this rapid transformation is the global expansion of higher education at unprecedented rates...read more

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9780762314874, titled "The Worldwide Transformmation of Higher Education" | Jai, June 10, 2008, cover price $113.99 | About this edition: Higher education worldwide, including the university and other related academic programs, is currently undergoing intensive change and transformation perhaps as no other time in its long history.

Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education contains theoretical rationale, resources and examples to help readers understand and deal with situations involving contact between learners or educators from different cultural backgrounds, as well as giving insights into the new global context of higher education.
By Dawn Lorraine McBride (editor) and David Palfreyman (editor)

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9780230542839 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 27, 2007, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education contains theoretical rationale, resources and examples to help readers understand and deal with situations involving contact between learners or educators from different cultural backgrounds, as well as giving insights into the new global context of higher education.

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9780230279674 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 15, 2010, cover price $38.00

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Product Description: The Eleventh Edition of Business Research Methods continues to provide the most timely, richest, and most comprehensive coverage of the research experience in Business Research Methods. Students and instructors will find thorough coverage of all business research topics –backed by solid theory...read more

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9780077224875 | 10 har/dvd edition (Irwin Professional Pub, November 1, 2007), cover price $193.75
9780073214870 | 9 har/cdr edition (Irwin Professional Pub, September 9, 2005), cover price $208.75
9780072979237 | McGraw-Hill College, July 29, 2005, cover price $138.80
9780072819793 | 8 har/cdr edition (Irwin Professional Pub, July 1, 2002), cover price $168.30
9780072407419 | 7 har/cdr edition (McGraw-Hill College, August 1, 2000), cover price $140.60
4 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)

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9780071156776 | 6 edition (McGraw-Hill Book Co Ltd, December 1, 1998), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: This text offers coverage of the fundamentals of research concepts and practical applications.

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Product Description: Investigates the impact that certain globalizing practices have on European and American universities. Due to dwindling resources and the ideology of privatization, universities are becoming more corporatized and managerial. The authors investigate the consequences of these changes on the lives of academics and analyze how globalizing practices such as managerialism, accountability, and employment flexibility penetrate different universities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Jan Currie (editor), Harry De Boer (editor), Richard Deangelis (editor), Jeroen Huisman (editor) and Claude Lacotte (editor)

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9780897898683 | Praeger Pub Text, January 30, 2003, cover price $88.00 | About this edition: Investigates the impact that certain globalizing practices have on European and American universities.

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Product Description: This book contains research-based essays by established scholars from four continents. It analyzes the development of international policies in higher education and the impact of mutual observation and policy borrowing on national policies, and offers insights into recent changes and challenges for students, staff, and labour market relationships...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Jurgen Enders (editor), Oliver Fulton (editor) and Ulrich Teichler (editor)

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9781402008634 | Kluwer Academic Pub, November 1, 2002, cover price $209.00 | About this edition: This book contains research-based essays by established scholars from four continents.

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9780761817482 | New sub edition (Univ Pr of Amer, September 1, 2000), cover price $54.99

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Product Description: Private higher education is perhaps the most rapidly growing segment of postsecondary education worldwide. In this collection, the authors provide a multifaceted and comparative analysis of private higher education and consider both broad issues and specific case studies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Philip G. Altbach (editor)

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9780313312489 | Praeger Pub Text, December 30, 1999, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Private higher education is perhaps the most rapidly growing segment of postsecondary education worldwide.

By Zane Ma Rhea (editor) and G. R. Teasdale (editor)

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9780080434537 | Emerald Group Pub Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $147.99

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Product Description: Higher education institutions are now operating in a rapidly-changing environment, as economic, societal and technological developments such as cost containment and lifelong learning force them to adopt flexible structures that can adapt quickly to market demands...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781853027819 | Jessica Kingsley Pub, June 1, 1999, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Higher education institutions are now operating in a rapidly-changing environment, as economic, societal and technological developments such as cost containment and lifelong learning force them to adopt flexible structures that can adapt quickly to market demands.

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Product Description: In many universities there are now more adults as students than young people straight from school. Yet many universities continue to act as if no such change had taken place. This text asks: what are university access policies and how do they connect with practice?; how do adults experience universities, and how do universities assist them?; what can universities realistically do to improve the access to and experience of university for adults...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780335199082 | Open Univ Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: In many universities there are now more adults as students than young people straight from school.

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9780335199075 | Open Univ Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $45.95

Product Description: The subject of disabled students in universities has been overlooked in educational research. Building on the content of his first book "steps towards graduation" Alan Hurst has worked with colleagues from overseas to compile a collection of papers which explore aspects of policy and provision for this important student minority...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Alan Hurst (editor)

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9781859725085 | Avebury, September 1, 1998, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: The subject of disabled students in universities has been overlooked in educational research.

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