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Is the United States falling behind in the global race for scientific and engineering talent Are US employers facing shortages of the skilled workers that they need to compete in a globalized world This book offers careful examinations of the existing evidence and of its use by those involved in these debates.

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Provides readers with helpful hints and practical strategies for teaching a variety of students, including: refugees; those with Special Educational Needs (in particular, dyslexia and ASD); those for whom English is a second language; young learners (14-16); and those with behavioural difficulties.

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This intriguing book reflects on the conditions on college campuses that give rise to words and acts of hate, on the consequences of these episodes, and on strategies intended to improve intergroup harmony.

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For the University is a book both about and for the university in an age of mass and globalized education. Thomas Docherty analyses the current problems facing the university as an institution, and also offers some positive arguments for a revived and vibrant set of institutional arrangements and governing principles.

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In this book the author describes both Chinese and foreign perceptions regarding the role of foreign teachers in China's colleges and universities from 1979 to 1989. It provides a history of the role of foreigners in China's institutions of higher learning and draws from interviews.

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This book demonstrates how teaching staff in HEIs can foster students' self-efficacy beliefs to promote excellence and enable their students to sustain effective learning. Combining theory with tangible methods for everyday use, it gives the reader the core tools and methods to use in their own practical teaching.

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Helps readers to make sense of the various written and Web-based resources that are available to improve the quality of proposals and find successful funding. This book contains chapters that cover the origins and early development of an idea, drawing up a proposal, finding a funding source, submitting a proposal, and evaluation of a project.

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Current relations between the United States and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean encourage a more cooperative exchange of ideas.

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Difficult and unruly students are not exclusive to primary and secondary education, with bad behaviour and motivation being a major concern for many lecturers within the FE sector. This book aims to tackle disruptive behaviour at the outset with advice for coping with minor classroom misdemeanours through to full scale crises.

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International contributions exploring the internationalisation agenda in higher education, drawing together strategic and management issues, successful practice, giving an understanding of the new challenges.

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Features international contributions exploring the internationalisation agenda in higher education, drawing together strategic and management issues, successful practice, giving an understanding of the various challenges.

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Investigates the impact that certain globalizing practices have on European and American universities.

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A significant trend in teacher education is that of providing more clinical experiences for prospective teachers than was formerly the case, and offering them earlier in teacher preparation programs.

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A significant trend in teacher education is that of providing more clinical experiences for prospective teachers than was formerly the case, and offering them earlier in teacher preparation programs.

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Argues the necessity of higher education as a public good, defining the institutional spaces necessary for sustaining these public goods and ensuring that they flourish. This book explores the institutional and sector-wide implications of the financial crisis for higher education - and the lessons to be learnt from that crisis.

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Argues for the necessity of higher education as a public good, defining the institutional spaces necessary for sustaining these public goods and ensuring that they flourish. This book explores the institutional and sector-wide implications of the financial crisis for higher education - and the lessons to be learnt from that crisis and more.

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The book provides an overview of Higher Education discourses in Europe and beyond, devoting attention to alternative subaltern discourses that can provide the germs for a higher education which could come into fruition in the future. -- .