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INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF HIGHER EDUCATION is a completely new international reference work providing latest, comprehensive and thematically oriented overview of the state of higher education from an international perspective with special emphasis on the developing world. Truly international chapter of this work is evident from the fact that the articles are contributed by authors from 24 countries including INDIA, PAKISTAN, ISRAEL, NIGERIA, AUSTRALIA, BRITAIN, RUSSIA, CHINA, UGANDA, ARGENTINA, PHILIPPINES, VIETNAM, SWEDEN, KUWAIT, SINGAPORE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, JAPAN, MALAYASIA ETC. The articles included in these volumes cover the eight major divisions of higher education which are; perspective on higher education systems, the higher education planning and administration, management of higher education, resource management, student activities, method of teaching and research in higher education, educational reforms, and educational development. Over hundred articles by known international authorities revolve around these divisions and present latest developments and methodologies on higher education. The encyclopaedia represents more than 500 themes and ideas on various facets and faculties covering all dimensions of higher education. It also includes some articles which are of special interest, and concern, to the developing and third world representing topics like sociology of education, girls and women education, examination and evaluation reforms, youth unrest, resource generation, education for socially and economically deprived, systesm of open university and many other such areas. The text is profusely supplemented with tables and figures. Each individual article has its own extended bibliography guiding the user to further reading material. The set has an exhaustive index volume available seperately which will make access to information contained in the encyclopaedia very easy. The articles selected for inclusion in this encyclopaedia are by subkect experts including educationalists, sociologists, economics, political scientists, psychologists, scholars, administrators and planners. The encyclopaedia will be most useful to individuals and libraries having interest in education. The set will be found invaluable source of reference for teachers, students of education, researchers, government officials and policy makers, administrators and anyone concerned with higher education. March 1997, 14 * 22 cm. 2400 pp. Including diagrames, figures, tablets etc.ISBN 81-7020-724-4
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