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1 online resource (301 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Walter Archer and Hans G. Schuetze -- How central is the "principal mission" of the university today? / Chris Duke -- Canada -- Access to and participation in higher education in Canada / Hans Schuetze and Walter Archer -- Aboriginal higher education and indigenous students / Michelle Pidgeon -- Minding the gap : perspectives on graduate education for students with disabilities / Mahadeo A. Sukhai -- Student affairs and services in Canadian higher education / Kyle D. Massey -- The world reforms and myths : university graduates and the labor market in Mexico / Wietse de Vries -- Policies for adult students in Mexican higher education and motives for returning to study / German Alvarez Mendiola and Brenda Yokebed Perez Colunga -- The value of degrees and diplomas in Japan / Shinichi Yamamoto -- MOOCs, students, higher education and their paradoxes / Maureen W. McClure -- The expansion of higher education and first generation students in Germany : increasing participation or continuing exclusion? / Andra Wolter -- The abolition of tuition fees in Germany : student protests and their impact, or tuition fees in Germany : in and out / Dieter Timmermann -- Conditions of learning at high-ranked universities in four countries : an international student's perspective / Jade Zhao -- Student policies and protests : the student movements of the 1960s and the Canadian "maple spring" / Hans G. Schuetze -- Collective student action and student association in Quebec / Alexandre Beaupre-Lavallee and Olivier Begin-Caouette -- European higher education reforms and the role of students / Pavel Zgaga. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives.
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Education, Higher -- Cross-cultural studies.
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College students -- Political activty.
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Student participation in administration.
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Comparative education.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Archer, Walter, editor.
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Schutze, Hans Georg, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Preparing students for life and work : policies and reforms affecting higher education's principal mission. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Sense, c2019 301 pages 9789004393066 (DLC) 2019002720 |
| ISBN |
9789004393066 |
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9789004393073 (e-book) |
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