The major purpose of this paper was to examine the quality of various aspects of higher education in the private sector of Pakistan by adopting a descriptive method of research. The population of the study constituted 270 administrators, 6,180 teachers and 61,108 students in existing 54 private universities and degree-awarding institutions of…

Presents the results of an exploratory survey on collegiate addictions studies programs offered in the United States. Eighteen percent of these programs are at the graduate level, 13% at the bachelor's level, and 69% at the associate's level. Counseling courses by far were the most cited addiction studies offered at all academic levels with…

The authors argue that the affective is the most-overlooked of the three domains identified by Bloom & Krathwohl's committees. Research suggest the affective domain is the gateway to learning, yet the cognitive and psychomotor domains take precedence. Some complexities of the affective domain are neglected. They further suggest that many college…

As a requirement of APA accreditation, many PhD programs in applied psychology subscribe to some variant of the scientist-practitioner model. However, critics have argued that integrating science into an applied psychology curriculum may be too challenging a task. This article describes the development of The New School Psychology Bulletin, a…

In the seventeenth century the status of chemistry changed remarkably. Chemistry was no longer regarded as a manual practice subordinated to medicine but as an independent discipline that was taught both privately and in universities. In Germany, it became part of the medical teaching in several universities, while in the rest of Europe the…

The University of New York created a curriculum program for physical educators, stressing flexibility in subject matter content, options for personal choices, and beginning specialization within the structure of preparing a physical education generalist. (JS)

Explores the postmodern critique of higher education, which presents a challenge to discard the contemplative conception of knowledge and promotes a pragmatic conception of inquiry. Discusses how higher education curricula, particularly scientific inquiry, can be renewed, taking into account this understanding of knowledge but also acknowledging…

Bloom's book, "The Closing of the American Mind," is an argument for intellectual isolationism and, as such, is potentially dangerous. In addition, Bloom has misconstrued Plato's "Republic," a text central to his critique of modernity and its education. (IAH)

Liberal knowledge is indispensable, and expert knowledge alone can be, and often is, dangerously impractical. To make it practical, expertise should always be explicitly related to the real-world political and cultural context that only liberal knowledge can provide. (MSE)

Discusses the need for environmental literacy instruction for students not enrolled in programs focused on the environment. Outlines ways to maximize college-level opportunities to develop responsible environmental behavior and different approaches taken by universities to strengthen their environmental literacy instruction. Describes the…

To address the influx of a diverse population of students, Michigan's Olivet College undertook a complete overhaul of its curriculum. In an effort to increase student awareness of diversity and address the diverse needs of students, it created the Olivet Plan, a combination of academic and co-curricular initiatives. This article discusses the…

Inspiring exercises are used to guide students at all levels to rediscover the essential meaning of various individual pieces of mathematics. Presents five sets of examples including Abel's identity, Hensel's lemma, finitely generated Abelian groups, Baire's category theorem, and the Weierstrass preparation theorem. (Author/ASK)

In 2005, Lumina Foundation for Education supported five colleges in the Northwest--Evergreen State College (TESC), Grays Harbor College (GHC), Northwest Indian College (NWIC), Salish Kootenai College (SKC), and Bainbridge Graduate Institute--to work together to develop Native teaching cases as a culturally relevant and engaging resource for Native…

This thesis points out the main problems consisting in general education in higher education institutions (HEIs) of China mainland. General education needs to be further improved and so does the quality of general education curriculum. The faculty construction should be more reasonable; the teaching administration models and the evaluation system…

This article explores the response to cultural diversity and international mindedness at international schools in Malaysia and Brunei. It shows that the curriculum at these schools is set within a liberal-humanist framework, which some might suggest facilitates the project of "Westernization". It argues, however, that under the (local)…