Building Education and Research

Building Education and Research
Author: Jay Yang
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2005-08-17
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 113580690X

Building Education and Research explores this new active area of research in a series of papers by internationally acclaimed experts, presented at the CIB W89 International Conference on Building Education and Research held in July 1998 (BEAR `98) in Brisbane, Australia. Sponsored in collaboratio jointly by the Queensland University of Technology, the Conseil International du Batiment (CIB) and the Australian Institute of Building (AIB), the conference was organised around the theme `Building Research and Education Beyond 2000' and looks at the factors that are changing the requirements of building education and research: economic and technological concerns; environmental concerns; government policies; Industries' demands; re-evaluation of community expectations.

Tourism and Politics

Tourism and Politics
Author: Peter M. Burns
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2007-03-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136353836

Tourism and Politics aims to disseminate ideas on the critical discourse of tourism and tourists as they relate to politics, through a series of case studies from around the world written by specialists with an emphasis on linking theory to practice. That tourism is a profoundly important economic sector for most countries and regions of the world is widely accepted, even if some of the detail remains controversial. However, as tourism matures as a subject, the theories underpinning it necessarily need to be more sophisticated; tourism cannot be simply ‘read’ as a business proposition with a series of impacts. Wider questions of politics, power and identity need to be articulated, investigated and answered. While the making and consuming of tourism takes place within complex political milieux with multiple stakeholders competing for benefit, the implications are not fully understood. Literature on tourism and politics is surprisingly limited. This book will make a substantial contribution to the theoretical framework of tourism.

Partnership in Higher Education

Partnership in Higher Education
Author: Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2019-09-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004411879

Trends in institutional partnership in higher education have shown tremendous growth in the past three decades. These trends are manifested through the growing initiatives of joint programs that promote collaborative research, academic mobility, joint curriculum development and course delivery, joint bidding for development projects and benchmarking. Partnerships in higher education have been used not only as an instrument for institutional development through a wide range of strategic alliances but also as an essential way of introducing new voices to the operations of the universities by initiating new paradigms that bring new perspectives and bear competitive advantage on the partners. As the trend of partnership in higher education grew, scholars in higher education studies have also engaged in conceptualizing higher education partnership from academic perspectives, analyzing trends and developing models of higher education collaborations. Partnership in Higher Education: Trends between African and European Institutions is a pioneer in bringing together a comprehensive perspective on matters of higher education partnership among African and European institutions. It discusses the ongoing debates on higher education partnership and internationalization strategies by providing empirical insights from various case studies.

International and Comparative Librarianship

International and Comparative Librarianship
Author: Peter Johan Lor
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 949
Release: 2019-06-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110267993

Based on his extensive experience in international librarianship, Peter Johan Lor, South Africa's first National Librarian and a former Secretary General of the IFLA, has written the first comprehensive and systematic overview of international and comparative librarianship. His book provides a conceptual framework and methodological guidelines for the field and covers the full range of international relations among libraries and information services, with particular attention to the international political economy of information, the international diffusion of innovations and policy in library and information services, LIS development and international aid. It concludes with a discussion of the practical relevance and future of international and comparative studies in LIS. See a short interview with Peter Lor on his work https://www.ifla.org/node/92590

Towards a new curriculum. The derec experience

Towards a new curriculum. The derec experience
Author: Enrica Caporali
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2009
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 8884538769

This volume presents the experience of developing a new undergraduate curriculum on "Environmental and Resources Engineering" at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje in FYR Macedonia, in the framework of the TEMPUS CD_JEP_19028_2004 DEREC - Development of Environmental and Resources Engineering Curriculum (2005-2008). This publication describes the methodology, instruments and processes employed in the curriculum development. It is divided into two main parts. The first part describes the European Consortium approach (including papers from all representatives of Consortium Member institutions in the European Union and the external project experts). The second part describes the approach adopted by the various faculty representatives of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje and the South East European University of Tetovo, in FYR Macedonia. This book is designed to serve as an updated, coherent and concrete set of instruments for the achievement of similar project objectives.

Library Project Funding

Library Project Funding
Author: Julie Carpenter
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2014-01-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1780631294

Managers and staff in libraries and information services in all sectors are increasingly required to prepare project proposals and bid for funding, usually for external funding, but also as part of internal strategic planning and management processes. The projects proposed must be realistic and feasible, because library managers and staff will be required to deliver their project on time and in budget. If managers get the planning wrong at project proposal stage, the consequences for implementation can be difficult to overcome. This book provides guidance on the various steps involved in project development, planning and the preparation of bids for funding based on the author's own experience and that of many organisations in the cultural heritage and education sectors. It guides service managers and staff through the task of scoping, developing and writing viable, realistic and winning proposals, drawing on a range of techniques from strategic planning, financial management, project management and business. - Uses practical, up-to-date examples relevant to the cultural heritage sector - Different methodologies: for example - preparing business plans, evaluation; planning cost and time/effort inputs - Templates and checklists for writing effective proposals

Reforming Social Sciences, Humanities and Higher Education in Eastern Europe and CIS after 1991

Reforming Social Sciences, Humanities and Higher Education in Eastern Europe and CIS after 1991
Author: Olga Breskaya
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2014-06-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1443862940

This volume consists of articles prepared after two conferences organized by the European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2011 and in 2012. The focus of both conferences was concentrated on the development of reforms and changes in higher education in the social sciences and humanities in Eastern Europe during the last two decades. The collapse of the communist system in Eastern Europe was followed by the enormous expansion of institutions of higher learning, especially in the ...

Cross-cultural Behaviour in Tourism

Cross-cultural Behaviour in Tourism
Author: Yvette Reisinger
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0750656689

Reisinger and Turner illustrate the importance of cultural background in the tourist experience in this in-depth study. The authors cover the concepts, definitions and measures of these cultural components and the tools used to analyse them.

East-west Co-operation in Public Sector Reform

East-west Co-operation in Public Sector Reform
Author: Frits van den Berg
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781586032357

Building on the experience of hundreds of projects and programmes over more than a decade, this is a comprehensive study of East-West co-operation in public-sector reform since the collapse of communism.