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  • Reform and Change in Higher Education

    Challenges and Innovations

    Edited by Alberto Amaral, Orlanda Tavares, Cristina Sin ...
    This insightful book explores the complexities and opportunities of implementing reform in higher education systems. Chapters analyse the diverse factors taken into account at the system level, the institutional level and the individual grass-root level, outlining potential causes of resistance from the academic community and highlighting innovative avenues for change.Leading global scholars delve ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Higher Education in Portugal 1974-2009

    A Nation, a Generation

    Edited by Guy Neave, Alberto Amaral ...
    A comprehensive, wide ranging and detailed account of the unfolding of higher education and higher education policy in Portugal from 1974 to 2009 by leading policy-makers and scholars, with the explicit purpose of showing how different disciplinary canons and perspectives contribute to the study of higher education and higher education policy including Law and Science Policy perspectives. Whilst ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Equity Policies in Global Higher Education

    Reducing Inequality and Increasing Participation and Attainment

    Edited by Orlanda Tavares, Carla Sá, Cristina Sin, Alberto Amaral ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book discusses and analyses global policies and practices aimed at promoting equity in higher education participation and attainment. Although the massification of higher education systems has facilitated the participation of students from deprived backgrounds, socioeconomic inequalities persist in access to the most prestigious institutions and programmes. Privileged students benefit from a ... Read more

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  • European Policy Implementation and Higher Education

    Analysing the Bologna Process

    by Cristina Sin, Amélia Veiga, Alberto Amaral ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a critical analysis of the implementation of the Bologna Process, its achievements and consequences, as well as its failures and lack of convergence problems. Over the last decade the implementation of the Bologna Process, an ambitious reform of European higher education systems, has attracted attention from politicians, academics, students and scholars in higher education ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Consumption

    The Right to a Healthy Environment

    Edited by Alberto do Amaral Junior, Lucila de Almeida, Luciane Klein Vieira ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book provides a broad understanding of whether law plays a role in influencing patterns of sustainable consumption and, if so, how. Bringing together legal scholars from the Global South and the Global North, it examines these questions in the context of national, transnational and international law, within single and plural legal systems, and across a range of sector-specific issue areas.The ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism

    A Developing Country Perspective

    Edited by Alberto do Amaral Júnior, Luciana Maria de Oliveira Sá Pires, Cristiane Lucena Carneiro ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the Dispute Settlement Mechanism (DSM) by bringing together contributions from legal scholars and political scientists. Most of the authors belong to a tightly knit legal epistemic community, trained at the University of São Paulo and at the top-ranked research and policy centers on WTO law in Europe.Presenting a novel and unique perspective on the ... Read more

    $218.99 CAD

  • European Integration and the Governance of Higher Education and Research

    Edited by Alberto Amaral, Guy Neave, Christine Musselin, Peter Maassen ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The high level Douro seminars are now a well-established tradition in the annual activities promoted by Hedda, a European consortium of nine centres and ins- tutes devoted to research on higher education, and CIPES, its Portuguese associated centre. At the seminars, each member of a small group of invited researchers presents and discusses an original research-based paper that is revised ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • The Higher Education Managerial Revolution?

    Edited by Alberto Amaral, V.L. Meek, Waelgaard Lars ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Hedda, founded on 1 January 2001, is a consortium of nine European centres and institutes devoted to research on higher education (see web site: www. uv. uio. nolhedda). Theconsortium·saims are to strengthen the relationship between higher education research and practice, organise and support available academic expertise, and further knowledge on higher education in Europe in such a way that it ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Governing Higher Education: National Perspectives on Institutional Governance

    Edited by Alberto Amaral, B. Karseth, Glen Jones ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Over the last decades higher education has gone through an unprecedented growth period, and as a result the average university or college has now more students and a larger output than ever before. At the same time, the socio-economic and political demands with respect to higher education have grown dramatically. These developments have taken place without a proportional increase of the budgets ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Cross-Border Higher Education and Quality Assurance

    Commerce, the Services Directive and Governing Higher Education

    Edited by Cláudia S. Sarrico, Orlanda Tavares, Alberto Amaral, Maria João Rosa ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book analyses the range of potential measures national quality assurance agencies may have to employ to deal with the new issues caused by Cross Border Higher Education (CBHE). The expansion of CBHE raises quality problems, which are currently assessed differently depending on the countries concerned. This has been exacerbated by the growth of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) which have ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

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