Tag: Universities

Free Download Ana Biočić, "Science and Catholicism in the Universities of South-East Europe: 1800 to 1920 "
English | ISBN: 1636671527 | 2023 | 236 pages | EPUB, PDF | 659 KB + 15 MB
This edited collection sheds new light on the complex dialogue between religion and science that played out at universities in South-East Europe during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Free Download Hazing (Ragging) at Universities: A Legal Perspective by Aashish Srivastava , Neerav Srivastava , D.K. Srivastava
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 162 Pages | ISBN : 981995214X | 4.5 MB
This is the first socio-legal multi-jurisdictional study on hazing (ragging). This book considers four countries: the USA, India, Sri Lanka, and Australia. It states the legal position, identifies lacunas in law, and proposes possible legal solutions. Unfortunately, laws, regulations, and policies have failed to stamp out hazing from university campuses and residential colleges.

Free Download Maggi Savin-Baden, "Digital and Postdigital Learning for Changing Universities "
English | ISBN: 1032362952 | 2023 | 290 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 5 MB
This book explores the purpose, role and function of the university and examines the disconnection between students’ approaches to learning and university strategy. It centres on the idea that it is vital to explore what counts as a university in the twenty-first century, what it is for, and for whom, as well as how it can transcend social divisions. The universities of the twenty-first century need to have larger audiences, a broader voice, a shift away from othering and an effective means of progressing such shifts. What is central to such exploration is the idea that learning needs to be seen as postdigital. With a focus on how the growth of technology has and continues to affect university learning, this book:

Free Download Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences During the Cold War (Cold War and the University) By Christopher Simpson (editor)
1998 | 273 Pages | ISBN: 1565843878 | PDF | 16 MB
Examines the politics of intellectual life during the Cold War, and the effects of U.S. intelligence and propaganda agencies on academic culture and intellectual life

Free Download Bryan Penprase, "The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century"
English | ISBN: 0691231494 | 2023 | 352 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Reimagining higher education around the world: lessons from the creation of eight new colleges and universities in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North America

Free Download Thomas Allmer, "Universities and Academic Labour in Times of Digitalisation and Precarisation "
English | ISBN: 0367654946 | 2023 | 144 pages | PDF | 8 MB

Free Download Universities with a Social Purpose: Intentions, Achievements and Challenges
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819989590 | 376 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3.4 MB
This book is a narrative of conversations between two professors, with different backgrounds, academic disciplines, life experiences, and from different continents. It shows how their discourse has brought them to a single destination defined by a mutual interest in the social purposes of universities, and a hope in common that their academic efforts will somehow do good in the world.

Free Download Iddah Aoko Otieno, "Kenyan Public Universities in the Age of Internationalization: Challenges and Prospects"
English | ISBN: 1498536166 | 2018 | 156 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book presents a comprehensive institutional level analysis of a single public institution of higher education in the Republic of Kenya using the case study method of investigation. It is the first case study to use both qualitative and quantitative research methodology to illuminate the experiences of Kenyan public universities with internationalization post-independence. Focusing on Kenya’s oldest national public university-the University of Nairobi’s experimentation with internationalization, Kenyan Public Universities in the Age of Internationalization is a first in the East African region. The book argues that attempts by institutions of higher education in Africa to engage in internationalization with the much more older and well established IHEs in the developed world has perpetuated the colonial legacy that has relegated these institutions to the position of the Other in the new international order. Several policy implications are offered on what it means to participate in internationalization from a marginal, peripheral position. The conventional assumption that political independence would bring to most African countries, and by extension their national public universities, a period of freedom from political, economic and cultural subjugation and exploitation by the more powerful world nations has proved elusive. This book is intended for a broad audience in the field of Comparative International Education. The mixed research methods used in this book will certainly appeal to instructors, students, and general readers interested in understanding the experiences of historically marginalized developing World institutions of higher education with internationalization.

Free Download Renee Mallett, "Haunted Colleges and Universities of Massachusetts (Haunted America)"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1609498496, 1540232700 | EPUB | pages: 144 | 5.6 mb
Among the throngs of students attending colleges and universities across the state of Massachusetts linger the apparitions of those who met their untimely ends on campus grounds. In 1953, Eugene O’Neill, an Irish American playwright, died in room 401 of the Sheraton Hotel-today a Boston University dormitory. Named Writer’s Corridor in O’Neill’s honor, the fourth floor draws students in search of creative inspiration and a sighting of the ghostly writer. A grief-stricken widow roams the halls of Winthrop Hall at Endicott College in her pink wedding gown. She threw herself from her widow’s walk after receiving news of her husband’s death at sea and is known to students today as the pink lady." Author Renee Mallett offers these and other eerie stories from dozens of colleges and universities throughout the Bay State."

Free Download Ken S. Coates, Bill Morrison, "Dream Factories: Why Universities Won’t Solve the Youth Jobs Crisis"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1459733770 | EPUB | pages: 232 | 2.1 mb
Two professors look at the mystique around universities and the consequences of "credentialism."