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Recruitment, Retention and Retirement in Higher Education

Clark, Robert L. (contributor); Ma, Jennifer (contributor) - Edward Elgar

This volume examines some of the most pressing employment and compensation issues confronting academic administrators. Contributors discuss topics such as: ageing of faculty, changing economic conditions and shifts in faculty employment patterns, rapid increases in health care costs and trends...

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International Aid and Private Schools for the Poor

Dixon, Pauline - Edward Elgar

-profit schools might serve as a successful alternative to state-run systems of education in impoverished communities around the world. …

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Educating Economists

Colander, David (contributor); … - Edward Elgar

The economics major is a central part of a college education. But is that economics major doing what it is meant to do …

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Enhancing Institutional Revenues: Constraints, Possibilities and the Question of Values

Hearn, James C. - In: The New Balancing Act in the Business of Higher Education

In this volume, higher education leaders explore the challenges facing colleges and universities operating in todayâ …

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Providing Care to the Elderly: Political Advocacy, Innovation Models and Entrepreneurship in Oslo

Godø, Helge - In: Innovation in Public Sector Services

This groundbreaking book provides new key insights and opens up an important research agenda. The book develops a new taxonomy of the different types of innovation found in public sector services, and investigates the key features and drivers of public sector entrepreneurship. The book contains...

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How universities contribute to the creation of knowledge-intensive firms: detailed evidence on the Italian case

Bonaccorsi, Andrea; Colombo, Massimo G.; Guerini, … - In: Knowledge, Diversity and Performance in European Higher …

For the first time, data on individual European higher education institutions (rather than data aggregated at the … a range of key questions, including: what is the role of non-university tertiary education, such as vocational training …

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Recruitment, retention and retirement: institutional research and the need for data

Baer, Michael A.; Freund, Deborah A.; Kuh, Chalotte v.; … - In: Recruitment, Retention and Retirement in Higher Education

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Higher Education Crossing Borders: Programs and Providers on the Move

Knight, Jane - In: Higher Education in a Global Society

Higher education functions in a global environment of consumers, employees, competitors, and partners. It has been a … emerging issues and opportunities for advancing education across borders. …

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Some Reflections on Teaching the Economics of Poverty

Ziliak, James P. - In: International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics

The International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics provides a comprehensive resource for instructors and researchers in economics, both new and experienced. This wide-ranging collection is designed to enhance student learning by helping economic educators learn more about course...

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European Higher Education and the Process of Integration

Välimaa, Jussi - In: Handbook on Globalization and Higher Education

Higher education has entered centre-stage in the context of the knowledge economy and has been deployed in the search … worldwide convergences and divergences in national higher education systems resulting from increased global co-operation and …

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