Prepare your institution for a new generation of disability services that embraces the growing student, as well as staff and faculty population with disabilities. Legal compliance, reasonable accommodations, classroom instruction issues, strategies to improve the campus climate and more--this volume[...]

Media and Information Literacy in Higher Education: Educating the Educators is written for librarians and educators working in universities and university colleges, providing them with the information they need to teach media and information literacy to students at levels ranging from bachelor to do[...]

Why do we teach information literacy? This book argues that the main purpose of information literacy teaching in higher education is to enhance student learning. With the impact of new technologies, a proliferation of information sources and a change in the student demography, information literacy h[...]

Presents a suite of complementary specifications offering flexible options for science at GCSE. The GCSE Science course contains nine modules: B1 You and Your Genes; B2 Keeping Healthy; B3 Life On Earth; C1 Air Quality; C2 Material Choices; C3 Food Matters; P1 The Earth in the Universe; P2 Radiation[...]

American higher education is at a crossroads. Technological innovations and disruptive market forces are buffeting colleges and universities at the very time their financial structure grows increasingly fragile. Disinvestment by states has driven up tuition prices at public colleges, and student deb[...]

University rankings have gained popularity worldwide because they appear to fulfil demands by students, parents, policymakers, employers, and other stakeholders for information and transparency. They are often equated with quality, and are now a significant factor shaping institutional reputation. T[...]

Widening Participation in Higher Education: Casting the Net Wide? offers an authoritative up-to-date commentary on the challenges facing higher education today, through the perspectives of experts representing universities across the UK, Europe, Africa and the USA. Contributors draw on recent empiri[...]

The essential source for accurate and up-to-date information on higher education institutions throughout Africa Detailed information on more than 1200 higher education institutions Description of the educational system of 52 countries Listings of higher education bodies Invaluable information on[...]