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Varadharajan, Meera; Buchanan, John – Springer, 2021
This book examines the lives and contributions of career change teachers: individuals who have switched careers to become classroom teachers. Their leadership experiences, industry connections, ways of embedding real world applications in classroom teaching practices and diverse skills sets are investigated in the context of their contributions to…
Descriptors: Career Change, Experience, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence
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Anderson, Peter; Blue, Levon; Pham, Thu; Saward, Melanie – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2022
This open access book provides insights from Indigenous higher degree research (HDR) students on supervision practices in an Australian context. It examines findings from qualitative studies conducted with Indigenous HDR students from different academic disciplines, enrolled higher education institutions across Australia, and supervisors of…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students, Foreign Countries, Supervision
Akiba, Motoko; LeTendre, Gerald – Teachers College Press, 2009
This groundbreaking work examines teacher quality, work norms, and professional learning opportunities, using data from 15 countries. The authors compare and contrast the United States with two high-achieving countries--Japan and Australia--that have implemented very different approaches to improving teacher quality. Drawing on both large…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Teaching Skills, Teacher Recruitment
Morgan, Michelle, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
The landscape of higher education (HE) has dramatically altered in the past 30 years and it continues to evolve and change. More students are entering HE and attending university or college on a global scale than ever before. Supporting and enhancing the undergraduate student experience across the student lifecycle, from first contact through to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Student Experience
Kogan, Maurice; And Others – 1994
This volume uses recent research in the United States, Canada, Australia, and United Kingdom and other nations to articulate the issues of faculty recruitment, training, rewards and employment in higher education. Chapter 1 looks at staffing as a policy issue. Chapter 2 explores how the academic profession is changing and touches on access to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Demography, Employment, Employment Level
Chandler, Alice – 1989
Foreign student policy in six major receiving countries (Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, and Canada) is presented. For each country considered, information is given on the following: (1) background; (2) recent developments; (3) enrollments and enrollment trends (enrollment by country of origin, distribution by level and sector,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Change Strategies, College Admission, Costs
Preece, Julia, Ed. – 1998
This book contains 12 papers exploring the problem of strengthening the notion of the United Kingdom as a learning society by making the country's higher education system more responsive to the various social groups that have traditionally been underrepresented in all areas of the nation's formal, postcompulsory education system. The following…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Action Research, Adult Learning, Case Studies