Educating for Professional Life
Educating for Professional Life

Author: Elaine Penn

Publisher: University of Westminster Press

Published: 2017-09-26

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 191153498X

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The story of the University of Westminster is the fifth volume in a series of titles exploring the University's long and diverse history. This book celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the institution gaining university status, the right to award its own degrees and to participate in publicly funded research. Drawing on extensive research conducted in the University of Westminster Archive this volume investigates the evolution from Polytechnic to University within the broader context of the transformation of UK higher education in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Leicester in the 1960s
Leicester in the 1960s

Author: Stephen Butt

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2015-05-15

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1445640902

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As the fifties faded away, sixties style swept Leicester into the modern age

The 'Accreditation' Model
The 'Accreditation' Model

Author: John Pratt

Publisher: Symposium Books Ltd

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1873927746

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In 1993 the Austrian government introduced legislation to create a new Fachhochschul-sector of vocationally oriented higher education. This established a new kind of body – the Fachhochschulrat – to ‘accredit’ courses and eventually to designate institutions. The Fachhochschul-policy appears, against many predictions at the time, to have been highly successful. The introduction of this ‘accreditation model’ was remarkable in that it drew on experience of the Council for National Academic Awards and polytechnic policy in the United Kingdom – a country with a very different tradition in higher education and with a different political and constitutional context. The model was a radical departure from the Austrian tradition of central political control and was, controversially, favoured over more obvious alternatives. This book reports on research (funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council) into this new approach to policy and control in higher education in Austria. It offers an unusual opportunity to explore this ‘policy transfer’ and to compare the use of similar institutional mechanisms in different contexts. It assesses the factors that led to the acceptance and success of the policy, and its impact on the higher education system more widely.

Stakeholders in the Law School
Stakeholders in the Law School

Author: Fiona Cownie

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-01-28

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1847315585

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This collection brings together a distinguished group of researchers to examine the power relations which are played out in university law schools as a result of the different pressures exerted upon them by a range of different 'stakeholders'. From students to governments, from lawyers to universities, a host of institutions and actors believe that law schools should take account of a vast number of (often conflicting) considerations when teaching their students, designing curricula, carrying out research and so on. How do law schools deal with these pressures? What should their response be to the 'stakeholders' who urge them to follow agendas emanating from outside the law school itself? To what extent should some of these agendas play a greater role in the thinking of law schools?

The Magic Screen
The Magic Screen

Author: Joost Hunningher

Publisher: University of Westminster Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1911534238

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The story of the (now restored) Regent Street Cinema is the fourth volume exploring the University of Westminster's long and diverse history. This multi-authored volume tells its history from architectural, educational, legal and cinematic perspectives and is richly illustrated throughout with images from the University of Westminster archive.

Routledge Library Editions: Higher Education
Routledge Library Editions: Higher Education

Author: Various

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-03-29

Total Pages: 9066

ISBN-13: 0429790414

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The volumes in this set, originally published between 1964 and 2002, draw together research by leading academics in the area of higher education, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volume examines the concepts of learning, teaching, student experience and administration in relation to the higher education through the areas of business, sociology, education reforms, government, educational policy, business and religion, whilst also exploring the general principles and practices of higher education in various countries. This set will be of particular interest to students and practitioners of education, politics and sociology.

The Idea of a University
The Idea of a University

Author: David Cecil Smith

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9781853027284

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The contributors look at the motivation behind the various interested parties in higher education reform - administrators, politicians and the students themselves - in an attempt to determine how universities will be shaped in the future. The book will appeal to all those with an interest in the university as an institution, and its historical - and future - role in society.

Dictionary of British Education
Dictionary of British Education

Author: Professor Peter Gordon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1135783101

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This is an up-to-date guide for teachers and parents, administrators, governors , students and others to help the find their way about the increasingly complex world of education. The main section provides a dictionary that is more than a simple set of definitions: many words in education have been put into some kind of historical context to become fully meaningful. The second part gives some important landmarks from the nineteenth century to the present time, and also provides a list of political heads of education since state education was established. The final section is devoted to a list of acronyms and abbreviations, both of which have been the subject of multiple definitions in recent years.

Routledge Library Editions: Education Mini-Set L Sociology of Education
Routledge Library Editions: Education Mini-Set L Sociology of Education

Author: Various

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-06-23

Total Pages: 11232

ISBN-13: 113645957X

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Mini-set L: Sociology of Education re-issues 48 volumes originally published between 1928 and 1990. The books in this mini-set discuss: Teaching and social change, research processes in education, class, race, culture and education, marxist perspectives in the sociology of education, the family and education, the sociology of the classroom and school organization.

Education and the Social Condition
Education and the Social Condition

Author: Harold Silver

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-12-08

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0415506174

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This book reviews the educational experience of the 1960s and 1970s and to suggest ways of approaching major contemporary themes such as equality, accountability and standards. The author underlines a nineteenth and twentieth-century sociological tradition in analysing education and covers a range of educational themes including aspects of schooling and higher education, education as social policy, knowledge as power, and teaching and adolescence. He draws on the social history of many of the processes, concepts and debates. Parts of the book derive from research into the history and contemporary forms of these problems in the USA. The volume therefore illuminates important contemporary issues in education and society by using historical, sociological and comparative insights.