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Free Download Jamil Salmi, "The Challenge of Establishing World Class Universities"
English | 2009 | pages: 136 | ISBN: 0821378651 | PDF | 1,1 mb
Governments are becoming increasingly aware of the important contribution that high performance, world-class universities make to global competitiveness and economic growth. There is growing recognition, in both industrial and developing countries, of the need to establish one or more world-class universities that can compete effectively with the best of the best around the world. Contextualizing the drive for world-class higher education institutions and the power of international and domestic university rankings, this book outlines possible strategies and pathways for establishing globally competitive universities and explores the challenges, costs, and risks involved. Its findings will be of particular interest to policy makers, university leaders, researchers, and development practitioners.

Free Download Eva Del Soldato, "Teaching Plato in Italian Renaissance Universities "
English | ISBN: 2503607853 | 2024 | 176 pages | PDF | 2 MB
During the Renaissance, the Arts curriculum in universities was based almost exclusively on the teaching of Aristotle. With the revival of Plato, however, professors of philosophy started to deviate from the official syllabus and teach Plato’s dialogues. This collection of essays offers the first comprehensive overview of Platonic teaching in Italian Renaissance universities, from the establishment of a Platonic professorship at the university of Florence-Pisa in the late 15th century to the introduction of Platonic teaching in the schools and universities of Bologna, Padua, Venice, Pavia and Milan in the 16th and 17th centuries. The essays draw from new evidence found in manuscripts and archival material to explore how university professors adapted the format of Plato’s dialogues to suit their audience and defended the idea that Plato could be accommodated to university teaching. They provide significant and fundamental insight into how Platonism spread during the 16th and 17th centuries and how a new interpretation of Plato emerged, distinct from the Neoplatonic tradition revived by Marsilio Ficino.

Free Download Managing Innovation Inside Universities: Systematic Change for Research, Service and Learning by Randolph Hall
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 215 Pages | ISBN : 3031571967 | 3.4 MB
This book offers guidance on capturing the creative forces of the faculty, staff and students at universities. Given their unique and central role in America and the world, it examines how university research, learning and service can be integrated to address the needs of society as it is both enabled and changed by technology. In turn, the book assesses the challenges and opportunities for universities to be more successful and impactful through innovation, viewing universities as integrated systems. It demonstrates how change can occur both within the "knowledge economy" and because of innovations within it. In doing so, the book provides insights into how universities can prosper and lead in a world that is constantly changed by the innovations that universities and industry jointly create.

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.