The Routledge international handbook of higher education/ edited by Malcolm Tight

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section I: Introduction
Chapter 1 Editorial Introduction. Malcolm Tight

Section II: Teaching and Learning
Section Introduction:
Chapter 2 Approaches to Learning. Jennifer Case and Delia Marshall
Chapter 3 Student Learning Research: a broader view. Tamsin Haggis
Chapter 4 Conceptualising Teaching and Learning Interactions in Researching Higher Education. Paul Ashwin
Chapter 5 International Students from Asia. David Kember
Chapter 6 Study Success of Students from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds: an overview of explanations for difference in study careers. Sabine Severiens and Rick Wolff

Section III: Course Design
Section Introduction
Chapter 7 Curriculum. Kelly Coate
Chapter 8 Problem-based Learning. Anna Kwan
Chapter 9 - An Alignment of the Planets?: mapping the intersections between pedagogy, technology and management in Australian universities. Ilana Snyder, Simon Marginson and Tania Lewis
Chapter 10 Diverse Student Groups: teaching with a goal of inclusivity. Marybeth Gasman and Julie Vultaggio

Section IV: The Student Experience
Section Introduction
Chapter 11 - Tertiary Education in the Noughties: the student perspective. Naomi White
Chapter 12 - Tuition Fee Policies in a Comparative Perspective: theoretical and political rationales. Pamela Marcucci and Bruce Johnstone
Chapter 13 - From Senior Student to Novice Worker: learning trajectories in political science, psychology and mechanical engineering. Madeleine Dahlgren, Hakan Hult, Lars Dahlgren, Helene Segerstad and Kristina Johansson
Chapter 14 Postgraduate Research Students? Experience: it?s all about balancing living. Coralie McCormack

Section V: Quality
Section Introduction
Chapter 15 What can Students? Perceptions of Academic Quality tell us? Research using the Course Experience Questionnaire. John Richardson
Chapter 16 Grading Student Achievement in Higher Education: measuring or judging? Mantz Yorke
Chapter 17 National Monitoring of Higher Education: motives. Methods and means. John Taylor
Chapter 18 - Still Balancing Improvement and Accountability? Developments in external quality assurance in the Nordic countries 1996-2006. Trine Dano and Bjorn Stensaker
Chapter 19 - A Global Survey of University Ranking and League Tables. Alex Usher and Massimo Savino

Section VI: System Policy
Section Introduction
Chapter 20 - Reflections on the Reform of Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe. Peter Scott
Chapter 21 - Globalisation and Higher Education Restructuring in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China. Ka-Ho Mok
Chapter 22 Performance-based Funding as an Instrument of Competition in German Higher Education. Dominic Orr, Michael Jaeger and Astrid Schwarzenberger
Chapter 23 Shifting Roles and Approaches: government coordination of post-secondary education in Canada, 1995-2006. Theresa Shanahan and Glen Jones
Chapter 24 Bachelor Graduates on the Labour Market: a cross-national comparison of the employers? viewpoint. Bettina Alesi

Section VII: Institutional Management
Section Introduction
Chapter 25 Institutional Structures: where legitimacy and efficiency meet. Colin Pilbeam
Chapter 26 - The Shaping of the Departmental Culture: measuring the relative influences of the institution and discipline. Jenny Lee
Chapter 27 Economies of Scale and Mergers in Higher Education. Colin Green and Geraint Johnes
Chapter 28 University-based Economic Growth. Iryna Lendel, Phil Allen and Maryann Feldman
Chapter 29 Building Democracy?s University: university-community partnerships and the emergent civic engagement movement. Matthew Hartley and David Soo

Section VIII: Academic Work
Section Introduction
Chapter 30 Interpreting Academic Roles and Identities in Higher Education. Kerri-Lee Krause
Chapter 31 Academic Development. Ranald Macdonald
Chapter 32 The Changing Nature of Academic Work. Jan Currie and Lesley Vidovich
Chapter 33 - Understanding Academic Freedom: the views of social scientists. Gerlese Akerlind and Carole Kayrooz

Section IX: Knowledge
Section Introduction
Chapter 34 Academic Research in Contemporary Society. Angela Brew
Chapter 35 Disciplinarity. Ruth Neumann
Chapter 36 Out with Humboldt and in with the Knowledge Society: on the consequences of the redefinition of the role of higher education and research. Merle Jacob
Chapter 37 The University, Neoliberal Reform and the Liberal Educational Ideal. Tony Harland