Preparing students for life and work : : policies and reforms affecting higher education's principal mission / / edited by Walter Archer and Hans G. Schuetze.

• TeilnehmendeR: Archer, Walter,; Schutze, Hans Georg,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Sense,, [2019]; 2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (301 pages)

Table of Contents

• Introduction / Walter Archer and Hans G. Schuetze
• How central is the "principal mission" of the university today? / Chris Duke
• Canada
• Access to and participation in higher education in Canada / Hans Schuetze and Walter Archer
• Aboriginal higher education and indigenous students / Michelle Pidgeon
• Minding the gap : perspectives on graduate education for students with disabilities / Mahadeo A. Sukhai
• Student affairs and services in Canadian higher education / Kyle D. Massey
• The world reforms and myths : university graduates and the labor market in Mexico / Wietse de Vries
• Policies for adult students in Mexican higher education and motives for returning to study / German Alvarez Mendiola and Brenda Yokebed Perez Colunga
• The value of degrees and diplomas in Japan / Shinichi Yamamoto
• MOOCs, students, higher education and their paradoxes / Maureen W. McClure
• The expansion of higher education and first generation students in Germany : increasing participation or continuing exclusion? / Andra Wolter
• The abolition of tuition fees in Germany : student protests and their impact, or tuition fees in Germany : in and out / Dieter Timmermann
• Conditions of learning at high-ranked universities in four countries : an international student's perspective / Jade Zhao
• Student policies and protests : the student movements of the 1960s and the Canadian "maple spring" / Hans G. Schuetze
• Collective student action and student association in Quebec / Alexandre Beaupre-Lavallee and Olivier Begin-Caouette
• European higher education reforms and the role of students / Pavel Zgaga.