{"product_id":"preparing-students-for-life-and-work-policies-and-reforms-affecting-higher-education-s-principal-mission-9789004393066","title":"Preparing Students for Life and Work: Policies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Preparing Students for Life and Work: Policies and Reforms Affecting Higher Education’s Principal Mission the editors assemble works by scholars of higher education who address various aspects of the policies and reforms that affect the education and ultimately the lives and work prospects of students. Chapter topics include the social and government policy context of higher education in various countries, including Canada, Mexico, the USA, Japan, Germany, Europe generally and the Bologna process specifically. Aspects of teaching and learning in higher education, including MOOCs, student services, and treatment of international students are also addressed. Finally, how students themselves have had major impacts on higher education in various countries is touched upon in several chapters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures and Tables  Notes on Contributors    Introduction   Walter Archer and Hans G. Schuetze  1 How Central Is the “Principal Mission” of the University Today?   Chris Duke    PART 1: Canada  2 Access to and Participation in Higher Education in Canada   Hans G. Schuetze and Walter Archer  3 Aboriginal Higher Education and Indigenous Students   Michelle Pidgeon  4 Minding the Gap: Perspectives on Graduate Education for Students with Disabilities   Mahadeo A. Sukhai  5 Student Affairs and Services in Canadian Higher Education   Kyle D. Massey    PART 2: The World  6 Reforms and Myths: University Graduates and the Labor Market in Mexico   Wietse de Vries  7 Policies for Adult Students in Mexican Higher Education and Motives for Returning to Study   Germán Álvarez Mendiola and Brenda Yokebed Pérez Colunga  8 The Value of Degrees and Diplomas in Japan   Shinichi Yamamoto  9 MOOCs, Students, Higher Education and Their Paradoxes   Maureen W. McClure  10 The Expansion of Higher Education and First Generation Students in Germany: Increasing Participation or Continuing Exclusion?   Andrä Wolter  11 The Abolition of Tuition Fees in Germany: Student Protests and Their Impact, or Tuition Fees in Germany: In and Out   Dieter Timmermann  12 Conditions of Learning at High-Ranked Universities in Four Countries: An International Student’s Perspective   Jade Zhao    PART 3: Students and Their Influence on Higher Education Policies  13 Student Policies and Protests: The Student Movements of the 1960s and the 2012 Canadian “Maple Spring”   Hans G. Schuetze  14 Collective Student Action and Student Association in Quebec   Alexandre Beaupré-Lavallée and Olivier Bégin-Caouette  15 European Higher Education Reforms and the Role of Students   Pavel Zgaga","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51535923282263,"sku":"9789004393066","price":104.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/preparing-students-for-life-and-work-policies-and-reforms-affecting-higher-education-s-principal-mission-9789004393066","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}