Higher Education

This book shows how disabled students experience university life. Crucially, it foregrounds the views of disabled students themselves, giving rise to a complex, contradictory and fascinating picture of university life...

This thought provoking book from a major research project looks at the roles of learners, tutors, managers and institutional leaders in Further Education Colleges, Adult and Community Learning Centres and in Work based Learning sites...

Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning investigates the experiences of mature adult learners returning to formal education...

Utilising examples from a wide variety of institutions from around the world this edited collection provides a well-researched evidence base of current thinking and developments in assessment practices in higher education. However, this book’s unique focus brings together assessment and student enga..

Underpinned by research this book provides best practice examples of innovative and inclusive curriculum designined to improve student retention in HE...

This book outlines a new student lifecycle framework for practitioners together with working solutions to real problems in the form of exemplar case studies from the UK and internationally...

This book outlines a new student lifecycle framework for practitioners together with working solutions to real problems in the form of exemplar case studies from the UK and internationally...

This book provides a unique insight into ‘what is really learned at university’ and how much it differs between students and between the universities they attend, challenging notions of ‘best’ or ‘top’ universities...

Inclusion and Diversity is structured around the life-cycle and day to day experiences of staff and students as they make contact with each other. With reference to international examples and best practice, it covers a wider range of useful topics...

This book is not a simplified 'how to' guide on tactics to improve your assessment. Instead, it provides a fundamental analysis of the role and purpose of assessment and how change can realistically be managed...

This book is not a simplified 'how to' guide on tactics to improve your assessment. Instead, it provides a fundamental analysis of the role and purpose of assessment and how change can realistically be managed...

Despite deans playing critical roles in education, little is known about the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed for the job, or the practical dilemmas they face on an almost daily basis. Each chapter of this international collection opens the role up for examination and critique, developing ..