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Active learning. --- Active learning. --- Education / administration / general. --- Education / organizations & institutions. --- Student-centered learning. --- Student-centered learning.

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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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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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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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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