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Rabinowitz, Chanina, Ed.; Reichel, Michael, Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023
Every year, an average of 20% of schools replace their principals. This book will inform and enhance the process of recruiting new personnel with its insights and practical suggestions for a successful search. This book also offers current thinking and research to help school boards and policy makers retain the professional leaders they have. This…
Descriptors: Principals, Recruitment, Labor Turnover, Educational Policy
Kim, Stephanie K. – MIT Press, 2023
The popular image of the international student in the American imagination is one of affluence, access, and privilege, but is that image accurate? In this provocative book, higher education scholar Stephanie Kim challenges this view, arguing that universities -- not the students -- create the paths that allow students their international mobility.…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Student Recruitment, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
Bryan Penprase; Noah Pickus – Princeton University Press, 2023
Higher education is perpetually in crisis, buffeted by increasing costs and a perceived lack of return on investment, campus culture that is criticized for stifling debate on controversial topics, and a growing sense that the liberal arts are outmoded and irrelevant. Some observers even put higher education on the brink of death. "The New…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Educational Finance
UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2024
Effective teacher management -- aimed at building teachers' status, skills, motivation, wellbeing, and retention -- is a key policy lever that can help Uganda to achieve its aim of developing and sustaining a high-quality, inclusive, and equitable education system for all learners, including refugees and vulnerable Ugandans. This policy brief aims…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Teacher Role, Educational Administration
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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García-Peñalvo, Francisco José, Ed.; García-Holgado, Alicia, Ed.; Dominguez, Angeles, Ed.; Pascual, Jimena, Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2022
This open access book addresses challenges related to women in STEM in higher education, presenting research, experiences, studies, and good practices associated with the engagement, access, and retention of women in the STEM disciplines. It also discusses strategies implemented by universities and policymakers to reduce the existing gender gap in…
Descriptors: Females, STEM Education, College Students, Student Recruitment
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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
Andrew Joseph Pereira – Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, 2019
This book investigates the subjectivities in education arising from the triumphant mobilisation of care as portrayed in educational advertisements, and provides a novel theory of affective governmentality based on empirical research on affect, neoliberalism, and governmentality. It also takes the bold step of encouraging the re-imagination of the…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Caring, Social Change, Foreign Countries
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Lomer, Sylvie – Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of the UK's policy on recruiting international students. In a global context of international education policy, it examines changes from New Labour policies under Tony Blair's Prime Minister's Initiative, to the more recent Coalition and Conservative Government policies in the…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Foreign Students, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Burgos, Daniel, Ed.; Tlili, Ahmed, Ed.; Tabacco, Anita, Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2021
This book presents how to keep working on education in contexts of crisis, such as emergencies, zones of conflict, wars and health pandemics such as COVID-19. Specifically, this work shows a number of strategies to support global learning and teaching in online settings. Particularly, it first presents how to facilitate knowledge sharing and…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, Electronic Learning, COVID-19, Pandemics
Hill, Christopher; Lamie, Judith; Gore, Tim – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2021
This book examines issues of identity; positionality; community; value and relevance, to explore where transnational higher education is headed and what form it may take moving forwards. Transnational higher education has traditionally been viewed through the lens of access. Now, the authors argue, higher education must think more closely about…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Trend Analysis, Self Concept, Higher Education
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Tavares, Vander, Ed. – IGI Global, 2021
Canada has become one of the most popular destinations for international students at the higher education level. A number of complex factors and trends, both in Canada and globally, have contributed to the emergence of Canada as a destination for international higher education. However, more research is still needed to better understand the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Experience, Higher Education
Beatty, Alexandra; Ferreras, Ana – National Academies Press, 2018
For the past 17 years, the U.S. National Commission on Mathematics Instruction (USNC/MI) has held workshops with mathematics educators from countries that typically perform well on international assessments and have a history of strong mathematics education programs, such as Japan, China, and South Korea. Finland is among this group. Even though…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Mathematics Teachers, Conferences (Gatherings)
Mutch, Carol – NZCER Press, 2017
Beginning a new career as an academic is a daunting task. Carol Mutch's latest book aims to demystify the process by providing new and intending academics with an insight in what to expect. The book is based around the real-life concerns and questions that were raised by the early career academics she worked with in her innovative Emerging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, College Faculty, Mentors
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Chang, Maiga, Ed.; Popescu, Elvira, Ed.; Kinshuk, Ed.; Chen, Nian-Shing, Ed.; Jemni, Mohamed, Ed.; Huang, Ronghuai, Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2019
This book focuses on the interplay between pedagogy and technology, and their fusion for the advancement of smart learning environments. It discusses various components of this interplay, including learning and assessment paradigms, social factors and policies, emerging technologies, innovative application of mature technologies, transformation of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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