Chapter 1: Student Debt: Good, Bad, and Misunderstood -- Chapter 2: The Realities of Student Debt -- Chapter 3: Putting the Stories into Perspective -- Chapter 4: The Evidence About the Impact of Student Debt -- Chapter 5: How Can Public Policy. Help?. .This book analyzes reliable evidence to tell the true story of student debt in America. One of the nation’s foremost experts on college finan…
Chapter 1 Introduction: Ethical dilemmas, social values and public policy: The Context of Governance and Citizenship -- Part I: Ethics, Social Values and Public Policy -- Chapter 2 The case of Ah Bun: Euthanasia and other alternatives -- Chapter 3 The justification of the abortion law in Hong Kong: A comparative study -- Chapter 4 Compensated dating: An ethical analysis -- Chapter 5 Private sph…
Roadmap to Become a World-Class University -- International Advisory Boards in the World -- Excellence as Duty -- Excellence in Education -- Excellence in Research -- Excellence in Serving Society and Mankind -- Excellence in Strategic Planning -- Excellence in Innovation and Knowledge Economy -- Excellence in International Cooperation -- Change towards Excellence.Open AccessThis book written b…
About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- PART 1: Assessment in Education: Implications for Leaders -- PART 2: Assessment at the District/School Leadership Level -- PART 3: Leadership Assessment-related Knowledge and Behaviours -- Index.This book provides key insights into how educational leaders can successfully navigate the turbulence of political debate surrounding leading student asses…
1. Implementing Assessment for Learning: Theoretical and Practical Issues -- PART I: Assessment Policy Enactment in Education Systems -- 2. Assessment Policy Enactment in Education Systems: A Few Reasons to Be Optimistic -- 3. Making Meaning of Assessment Policy in Australia through Teacher Assessment Conversations -- 4. Effective Enactment of Assessment for Learning and Student Diversity in Au…
Preface -- Foreword -- PART I: Introduction -- PART II: Student Background -- PART III: Outcomes of Education Beyond Achievement -- PART IV: Learning in Schools -- Acknowledgements.This volume brings together educational effectiveness research and international large-scale assessments, demonstrating how the two fields can be applied to inspire and improve each other, and providing readers direc…
Chapter 1. Global Social Justice, Democracy and Leadership of Higher Education: An Introduction; Lynette Shultz and Melody Viczko -- PART I: LEADERSHIP AND THE CHANGING CONTEXT OF EDUCATION -- Chapter 2. Sustainability and Social Justice: Leadership Challenges; Chris Shiel and David Jones -- Chapter 3. Fairness, Equity and Social Cooperation: A Moderate Islamic Social Justice Leadership Model f…
PART I: CHANGING DYNAMICS OF ASIA PACIFIC GRADUATE EDUCATION -- 1. Novel Forms of Financing Cross-Border Graduate Education; Chris Ziguras.-2. Graduate Education in Asia Pacific Higher Education: Changing Roles and Purposes; Edilberto C. de Jesus -- 3. Graduate Degrees in the Emergent Political Economy of Contemporary Globalization; Deane Neubauer -- PART II: GRADUATE EDUCATION IN COMPARATIVE C…
Palgrave Critical Universities Studies Series Editor: John Smyth, University of Hudderfield, UK This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher education and research work that are underway today have not only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually be producing unemployment both for those within academia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors…
The image of the university is tarnished: economists argue that modern universities foster 'meritocratic extremism'; educationalists say they perpetuate inequality; novelists describe for us the 'barbaric rituals' of academics and philosophers say universities are engaged in 'practices of barbarism'. This book examines how these aspects of the modern university have transformed its educational …