Higher Education: A Part-Time Perspective - Couverture souple

Tight, Malcolm

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0335096107 ISBN 13 : 9780335096107

Editeur : Open University Press, 1990

Synopsis

This book aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the past, present and future of part-time education in the United Kingdom. It examines the institutions and students involved, and describes the various kinds of provision available. Current provision in the United Kingdom is related to its historical development, and compared with the position in other developed countries. By looking at higher education from a part-time perspective, the book intends to enlarge the understanding of higher education as a whole. The final part of the book attempts to do this by comparing the value of part-time and full-time forms of provision. Alternative models of higher education are explored, and the prospects for future development are reviewed. The book concludes that, while part-time education has been seriously undervalued in recent years, it offers a viable model for a significantly expanded, more flexible and more relevant higher education system in the future.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The recent, rapid, and massive expansion of higher education in the Western world has been such that in many developed countries it is now expected that close to—or more than—half of the population will have some significant engagement with a university at least once during their lives. More than ever, universities and other institutions of higher education are major businesses; they are seen as key economic drivers by national governments. Moreover, their reach is also increasingly international through their research, knowledge-dissemination, and off-campus teaching activities.

As serious thinking about and around higher education continues to flourish and develop, this new title in Routledge’s Major Themes in Education series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of the subject’s vast literature and the continuing explosion in research output. Edited by Malcolm Tight, a leading scholar in the field, it is a five-volume collection of foundational and cutting-edge contributions.

The collection is organized into eight principal parts: teaching and learning; course design; the student experience; system policy; institutional management; quality; academic work; and knowledge and research. Close attention is also given to the various methods and theories applied to the study of higher education.

Comprehensive introductions to the collection as a whole, and to each thematic part, which have been newly written by the editor, place the collected material in its historical and intellectual context to make this Routledge Major Work an essential work of reference. It is destined to be valued by specialists in higher education and scholars working in related areas—as well as by educational policy-makers and professionals—as a vital one-stop research tool.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Open University Press
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0335096107
• ISBN 13: 9780335096107
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible