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 Free Download Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals by Walter Leal Filho, Amanda Lange Salvia English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030633985 | 560 Pages | True PDF | 12 MB  Free Download Walter Leal Filho, "Universities and Climate Change: Introducing Climate Change to University Programmes" English | 2010 | pages: 285 | ISBN: 3642107508, 3642263917 | PDF | 4,0 mb Climate change is a matter of global concern and specific sectors of society such as universities need to engage and be active in the search for regional and local solutions for what is a global problem. Despite the fact that many universities all around the world are undertaking remarkable efforts in tackling the challenges posed by climate change, few of such works are widely documented and disseminated. The book "Universities and Climate Change" addresses this gap. The book pursues three aims. Firstly, it presents a review of the approaches and methods to inform, communicate and educate university students and the public on climate change being used by universities around the world. Secondly, it introduces initiatives, projects and communication strategies undertaken by universities with a view to informing students and other stakeholders in order to raise awareness on matters related to climate change. Finally, the book documents, promotes and disseminates some of the on-going initiatives.  Free Download James Nyland, "Curriculum Challenges for Universities: Agenda for Change" English | ISBN: 9811685819 | 2022 | 226 pages | PDF | 3 MB This book develops a progressive program of engagement with issues, problems and critical thinking which helps universities and students understand and engage with some of the key issues of our time. It focuses on curriculum concerns, and presents a sustained and critical analysis and dialogue about knowledge, culture and ways of seeing important issues.
 Free Download Sigal R. Ben-Porath, "Cancel Wars: How Universities Can Foster Free Speech, Promote Inclusion, and Renew Democracy" English | ISBN: 0226823806 | 2023 | 206 pages | PDF | 611 KB An even-handed exploration of the polarized state of campus politics that suggests ways for schools and universities to encourage discourse across difference.  Free Download Research Universities in Africa By Nico Cloete; Ian Bunting; François van Schalkwyk 2018 | 314 Pages | ISBN: 1928331874 | PDF | 3 MB From the early 2000s, a new discourse emerged, in Africa and the international donor community, that higher education was important for development in Africa. Within this 'zeitgeist' of converging interests, a range of agencies agreed that a different, collaborative approach to linking higher education to development was necessary. This led to the establishment of the Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa (Herana) to concentrate on research and advocacy about the possible role and contribution of universities to development in Africa.This book is the final publication to emerge from the Herana project. The project has also published more than 100 articles, chapters, reports, manuals and datasets, and many presentations have been delivered to share insights gained from the work done by Herana. Given its prolific dissemination, it seems reasonable to ask whether this fourth and final publication will offer the reader anything new.This book is certainly different from previous publications in several respects. First, it is the only book to include an analysis of eight African universities based on the full 15 years of empirical data collected by the project. Second, previous books and reports were published mid-project. This book has benefited from an extended gestation period allowing the authors and contributors to reflect on the project without the distractions associated with managing and participating in a large-scale project. For the first time, some of those who have been involved in Herana since its inception have had the opportunity to at least make an attempt to see part of the wood for the trees.Different does not necessarily mean new. An emphasis on the 'newness' of the data and perspectives presented in this book is important because it shows that it is more than a historical record of a donor-funded project. Rather, each chapter in this book brings, to a lesser or greater extent, something new to our understanding of universities, research and development in Africa.
 Free Download Alan J DeYoung, "Lost in Transition: Redefining Students and Universities in the Contemporary Kyrgyz Republic (Hc) " English | ISBN: 1617352314 | 2011 | 186 pages | PDF | 9 MB A volume in International Perspectives on Educational Policy, Research, and Practice Series Editor: Kathryn M. Borman, University of South Florida Being a "student" has been and remains a highly desirable status for young people and their families in Kyrgyzstan. "Giving their children education" (dat detyam obrazovaniye) - meaning "higher education" - has become an imperative for many parents, even in a time of serious economic and social decline. The numbers of universities and university enrollments have increased dramatically - in fact quadrupled - since Kyrgyz independence from the former USSR in 1991. All this is happening just as the overall system of secondary education has basically collapsed. School quality and outcomes of learning for most Kyrgyz youth have become increasingly marginal - even as those who run universities widely proclaim quality improvements and desires/intentions to join international higher education space. The book thus seeks to explain the manifest versus the latent functions of higher education in Kyrgyzstan. Relying on explanations of lived experience, the research attempts to explain how the seeming contradiction of a declining resource and intellectual base of universities yet appeals to parents and students as the system continues to expand with easily compromised accountability measures. The study approaches these topics by seeking to define what it now means to be a university student in Kyrgyzstan, as well as what many state universities have turned into" in contrast in contrast to how they were remembered by those who attended and taught within them two decades ago. The work also considers a number of private and inter-governmental universities which are allowed to operate in Kyrgyzstan and award both state and international diplomas. I portray the different organizational and ideological pursuits of these universities as they contrast with those of the state universities. Lost in Transition is an empirical look at higher education reform in Kyrgyzstan, employing several methodological strategies. These include a student survey given to over 200 students at five different universities; surveys and interviews with senior instructors and administrators at these same institutions; and a two-year case study of a student and faculty cultures and subcultures at one particular national university particular university faculty in one of the larger state universities. The case study utilized participant observation, ethnographic interviews, document analysis, and social media.  Free Download Hebe Vessuri, Ulrich Teichler, "Universities As Centres of Research and Knowledge Creation: An Endangerd Species?" English | 2008 | ISBN: 9087904797, 9087904789 | PDF | pages: 280 | 2.2 mb This book primarily addresses the variety and gaps in higher education across the globe, concentrating on the challenges to transitional and developing countries. It addresses the related issues of research capacity, research productivity, and research relevance and utility.  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. 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