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Helping Students with Study Problems is written for academic staff, counsellors, personal tutors and anyone involved in helping individual students overcome academic challenges and problems. It examines the experience of 'getting stuck' academically and how students can be helped. It demystifies the process of helping undergraduates with work problems by translating theory and practice into accessible language. Moira Peelo's own practice is in a university...

All through history, certain human institutions have always reflected and focused the major social and intellectual issues of their times. Universities are a prime example, for through the Renaissance and the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, they remained as vital and complex as the societies that created them.

In "The Universities of Europe, 1100-1914: A History," Willis Rudy presents the first compact survey, in

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"Teaching for Quality Learning at University focuses on implementing a constructively aligned outcomes-based model at both classroom and institutional level. The book's 'how to' approach addresses several important issues: designing high level outcomes, the learning activities most likely to achieve them in small and large classes, and appropriate assessment and grading procedures. It is an accessible, jargon-free guide for all university teachers...

Volume 1 contains: Robert Boyle's experiments in pneumatics --The overthrow of the phlogiston theory: the chemical revolution of 1775-1789 -- The early concepts of temperature and heat -- The atomic-molecular theory.

Why has the gay freedom struggle continued to thrive despite the conservative political climate of recent years? What happens when gay and lesbian educators come out of the closet? Combining historical and political analysis with autobiography and memoir. This book brings together the essays of John D'Emilio, a pioneering gay historian and long-time movement activist. Written over a period of almost twenty years, these essays provide a unique exploration...

To some, tenure is essential to academic freedom and a magnet to recruit and retain top-flight faculty. To others, it is an impediment to professorial accountability and a constraint on institutional flexibility and finances. But beyond anecdote and opinion, what do we really know about how tenure works? In this unique book, Richard Chait and his colleagues offer the results of their research on key empirical questions. Are there circumstances under...

"Italian Renaissance universities were Europe's intellectual leaders in humanistic studies, law, medicine, philosophy, and science. Employing some of the foremost scholars of the time - including Pietro Pomponazzi, Andreas Vesalius, and Galileo Galilei - the Italian Renaissance university was the prototype of today's research university. This is the first book in any language to offer a comprehensive study of this most influential institution."--Jacket....

In recent years there has been a spate of right-wing books attacking the contemporary university. The idea that the university curriculum has been hijacked by radical professors is an article of faith among conservatives and has fueled more than one best-seller. Until now, there has been no forceful, accessible book responding in a comprehensive way for a wide audience. In The Opening of the American Mind, MacArthur award-winning historian Lawrence...

"Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships. These students then spend two or three years studying at the University of Oxford in Britain." The authors present the results of their study of Rhodes Scholars and of a "comparative history of British and American education and society over the past century."--Preface, p. xi-xii.