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This two-volume work examines the history of Mount Allison University and its antecedent secondary schools from the earliest years to 1963. Mount Allison's evolution is considered not only for its own internal dynamics but also in the context of the social, economic, and intellectual history of Canada's Maritime provinces. Volume 1 covers the years up until the beginning of the First World War. The Mount Alliance Wesleyan Academy for boys was opened in Sackville, News Brunswick, in 1843, four years after its foundation had been proposed by the local merchant Charles Frederick Allison. Although it was a Methodist institution, its students came from several religious denominations. In 1854, a branch academy for female students was opened, and eight years later the degree-granting college that ultimately became known as Mount Allison University. Although the college remained for many years the smallest of the three institutions in terms of student numbers, it grew steadily and gradually assumed primacy. From 1872 onwards, its courses were open to women as well as men. This far-reaching concession had antecedents both in the previous arrangements at Mount Allison, where even in 1854 the female branch of the academy had been conceived with the idea of imposing rigorous intellectual standards on its pupils, and in the United States where Wesleyan University (a Methodist institution with which Mount Allison had close ties) had recently admitted women. Elsewhere in Canada and in the British Empire women had a more protracted struggle. Thus it was a Mount Allison student who, in 1875, because the first woman to be awarded a Bachelor's degree in the British Empire. Fuelled by industrial development in the Maritime region, the last two decades of the nineteenth century were a period of rapid expansion for Mount Allison. The university's importance as a centre for music and the fine arts both in the Maritimes and in the country as a whole developed; schools of engineering and domestic science were also founded. At the same time, modern trends in religious thought and the problems of industrialization were creating strains, and the social gospel and the impulse for reform began to take hold. Mount Allison experienced problems common to most Canadian denominational colleges and continued the struggle to cope with scholarly and scientific developments in such a way as to maintain its dual commitment to Christianity and to intellectual vigour in teaching and scholarship. As the period of expansion ended early in the twentieth century, both the university and the world were facing even more serious problems. Amid it all, Mount Allison had to grapple with a crisis of identity: to become a large university, or to remain a small denominational college. Or were there other alternatives?
EDUCATION / Administration / Higher. --- Mount Allison University --- History. --- University of Mount Allison College --- New Brunswick
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Independent study --- Continuing education --- Education, Higher --- Open learning --- Administration --- Independent study. --- Open learning. --- Arbeids- en organisatiepsychologie --- Lerarenopleiding --- Administration. --- personeelsbeleid en -opleiding --- algemeen --- personeelsbeleid en -opleiding. --- algemeen. --- Personeelsbeleid en -opleiding. --- Algemeen. --- Continuing education - Administration --- Education, Higher - Administration
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Since the Middle Ages, universities have displayed impressive resourcefulness in their ability to adapt to the changing dynamics and demands of their times. But in the last fifty years, the landscape of higher education - with the emergence of online and mass education, skyrocketing tuition, and a controversial system for ranking institutions - has begun evolving so rapidly and profoundly that the concept of the university now needs to be rethought. This book explores the future of modern higher education by looking at it on a global scale. Bert van der Zwaan compares European developments with those taking place in North America and Asia to argue that the phoenix of an entirely new type of university will rise from the ashes of the classical system: less tied to buildings and set locations, the new university will embed itself more deeply in society by offering innovative forms of digital knowledge and making customized teaching available on demand. A timely discussion of a topic whose worldwide impact continues to grow, this is essential reading for anyone concerned about the state of higher education - both for today's students and in the decades to come.
Higher education and state --- Hochschule --- Zukunft --- Globalisierung --- EDUCATION / Administration / General. --- Weltwirtschaft --- Weltgesellschaft --- Globalisation --- Globalization --- Internationalisierung --- Zukunftsentwicklung --- Zukunftsvorstellung --- Zeit --- Prognose --- Hochschulwesen --- Hochschulsystem --- Hochschulen --- Tertiärbereich --- Education, Higher --- State and higher education --- Education and state --- Government policy --- Wetenschap, Universiteit, Onderwijs.
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higher education --- educational policy --- educational leadership --- educational administration --- higher education policy --- higher education administration --- Education, Higher --- Educational leadership --- Administration --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- Education
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This is a book about the struggle of many New Zealand families to have their children with learning disabilities included in local community schools. It reviews the influences in the post war period that shaped the state response to the right of all children to attend school. Reflections from both education policy makers and parents of that time are included. The book also examines the more recent impact of neoliberal politics on education policy and the consequences experienced by families with school-aged children with disabilities who may well become ‘collateral damage in the enterprise of improving schools.’ After examining the families’ experience the book asks how inclusion can be fostered in schools and classrooms? Practitioners and academics present research findings that indicate alternative ways of thinking and acting that attest to more ethical and humane responses to human difference. Citizens, school personnel, politicians and policy makers should be challenged by the tales from school arising from attempts to achieve a ‘world class, inclusive education system.’ Cover photograph by Rod Wills, “Oratia District School”.
Education. --- EDUCATION / Administration / General. --- EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions. --- Education, Higher -- United States -- Evaluation. --- Learning disabled children -- New Zealand. --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Education - General --- Learning disabled children. --- Education, general. --- Children with mental disabilities --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training
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Higher education leaders today recognize the need to develop an international strategy for their institutions but may lack the knowledge and perspective.
Education. --- EDUCATION / Administration / General. --- Education, Higher -- Administration. --- Higher education and state. --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Education - General --- Education, Higher --- International cooperation. --- Administration. --- Aims and objectives. --- Education, general. --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- State and higher education --- Education and state --- Government policy
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The integration of second-generation immigrants has proved to be a major challenge for Europe in recent years. Though these people are born in their host nations, they often experience worse social and economic outcomes than other citizens. This volume focuses on one particular, important challenge: the less successful educational outcomes of second-generation migrants. Looking at data from seventeen European nations, Camilla Borgna shows that migrant penalties in educational achievement exist in each one-but that, unexpectedly, the penalties tend to be greater in countries in which socio-economic inequalities in education are generally more modest, a finding that should prompt reconsideration of a number of policy approaches.
Education and state --- Children of immigrants --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General --- EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions --- EDUCATION / Administration / General --- First generation children --- Immigrants' children --- Second generation children --- Immigrants --- Education --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Social aspects. --- Education. --- Social aspects --- Government policy --- Western Europe. --- West Europe --- Western Europe --- Educational inequalities. --- PISA. --- QCA. --- educational achievement. --- educational systems. --- second-generation immigrants.
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Amy Lai examines the current free speech crisis in Western universities. She studies the origin, history, and importance of freedom of speech in the university setting, and addresses the relevance and pitfalls of political correctness and microaggressions on campuses, where laws on harassment, discrimination, and hate speech are already in place, along with other concepts that have gained currency in the free speech debate, including deplatforming, trigger warning, and safe space. Looking at numerous free speech disputes in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, the book argues for the equal application of the free speech principle to all expressions to facilitate respectful debates. All in all, it affirms that the right to free expression is a natural right essential to the pursuit of truth, democratic governance, and self-development, and this right is nowhere more important than in the university..
Academic freedom. --- Education, Higher --- Freedom of speech. --- Freedom of speech --- EDUCATION / Administration / Higher --- LAW / Constitutional --- Political aspects. --- Free speech --- Liberty of speech --- Speech, Freedom of --- Civil rights --- Freedom of expression --- Assembly, Right of --- Freedom of information --- Intellectual freedom --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- Educational freedom --- Freedom, Academic --- Liberty --- Law and legislation --- Education
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Higher Education in the UK operates in a rapidly changing and highly complex environment. Universities need to adapt quickly to this environment and managers must begin to explore ‘new angles’ and approaches in addressing the challenges they are now facing. This book offers a tool box of metaphors and associative Operational Research (OR) approaches. Metaphors are a powerful ‘way of seeing’ but also ‘a way of not seeing’. Furthermore, the OR discipline has significantly evolved over the last 30 years which has led to the emergence of three distinctive intellectual areas, namely Hard OR, Soft OR and Methodological Pluralism OR. Drawing on these intellectual areas and on the experience of educational and OR practitioners, the book highlights the use of various OR approaches to a variety of complex and uncertain problems encountered in higher education management. The book aims to explore ‘new perspectives’ in HE management thinking and to describe and illustrate the use of OR methodologies, methods and techniques in helping HE managers to make informed management decisions.
Education -- Administration. --- Education, Higher -- Administration. --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Theory & Practice of Education --- Education - General --- Education, Higher --- Administration. --- School management and organization. --- Education, Higher. --- College students --- Higher education --- Educational administration --- Inspection of schools --- School administration --- School inspection --- School operation policies --- School organization --- Schools --- Inspection --- Management and organization --- Education. --- Education, general. --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Teaching --- Training --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- Educational planning --- Management --- College administrators
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