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![Modern Classics in the Economics of Education]()
Modern Classics in the Economics of Education
Edited by Clive R. Belfield
For this collection, Clive Belfield has selected the most significant recently published articles on the economics of education. Contemporary in the best sense, the articles analyse current concerns, building on what has been established... -
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![Recruitment, Retention and Retirement in Higher Education]()
Recruitment, Retention and Retirement in Higher Education
Edited by Robert L. Clark, Jennifer Ma
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 employme...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Professions, Competence and Informal Learning]()
Professions, Competence and Informal Learning
Graham Cheetham, Geoff Chivers
This book takes a fresh look at professions – their history and sociology, and at the nature both of professional practice and professional competence.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Cost Control, College Access, and Competition in Higher Education]()
Cost Control, College Access, and Competition in Higher Education
Robert E. Martin
Quality has never been more important for the future of higher education and the economy than it is today. Unfortunately, the decline in student quality is accompanied by costs that are out of control, a governance system that will not p...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Maximum Performance
Nick Forster
Based on twelve years involvement with more two thousand MBAs, managers and professionals, Maximum Performance is a comprehensive analysis of leading and managing people set against a backdrop of accelerating organizational, business and...eBook:Find out more$70.36
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Academic Entrepreneurship
Scott Shane
In this unique and timely volume, Scott Shane systematically explains the formation of university spinoff companies and their role in the commercialization of university technology and wealth creation in the United States and elsewhere. ...eBook:Find out more$71.16
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Globalization and Marketization in Education
Ka-Ho Mok, Jason Tan
Globalization has effected tremendous change to the character and functions of education worldwide. This unique book focuses on its impact upon Hong Kong and Singapore, and how these two East Asian Tigers have responded to the strong glo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Human Capital Over the Life Cycle
Edited by Catherine Sofer
Human Capital Over the Life Cycle synthesises comparative research on the processes of human capital formation in the areas of education and training in Europe, in relation to the labour market. The book proposes that one of the most i...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economics of Higher Education
Edited by Clive R. Belfield, Henry M. Levin
Higher education is beginning to play an increasingly important role in the process of globalization, which promotes information technologies, development and diffusion of innovations and the ability of economies to benefit from rapid sh... -
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![The Economic Institutions of Higher Education]()
The Economic Institutions of Higher Education
J. P. Raines, Charles G. Leathers
Working within the context of the evolutionary-institutional transformation of higher education, the authors trace the development of an economic model by which the behavioral tendencies of modern universities can be evaluated. That mode...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Incentives to Improve Education
Robert McMeekin
Incentives to Improve Education identifies three categories of incentives: rewards, (financial rewards for teachers), competition (educational choice, often in the form of payment for education by voucher) and threats (introduction of ex... -
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Reforming Economics and Economics Teaching in the Transition Economies
Edited by Michael Watts, William B. Walstad
This comprehensive and impressive volume presents the first book-length, multi-country investigation of reform of economic education in transition economies. Authors from the West and from transition economies describe the major changes ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
