Reviews: Higher and further education sector

10 reviews found for "Higher and further education sector"

Book Review: Personal Tutoring in Higher Education: In their introduction to 'Personal Tutoring in Higher Education', Liz Thomas, a senior advisor for widening participation at the Higher Education Academy, and Paula Hixenbaugh, a chartered counselling psychologist and senior tutor at the University of Westminster, provide a clear rationale for the appearance of this volume at this time. They rightly say: ‘there is little published material explicitly about personal tutoring, and…much of what does...
Book Review: Teaching in Post-compulsory Education: Learning, Skills and Standards: The marketplace for textbooks for teacher educators within the post-compulsory sector and for those teachers and trainers who are undertaking a course of study leading to a qualification to teach in post-compulsory education and training (PCET), is getting increasingly crowded. This volume covers the same ground as several others: preparing and planning for teaching and training sessions; assessment of learners; theories of teaching and learning;...
Book review : Changing identities in higher education : voicing perspectives: This is a book review of Changing identities in higher education : voicing perspectives edited by Ron Barnett and Roberto Di Napoli, published by Routledge in 2008, ISBN 9780415426053. It was reviewed on behalf of ESCalate by Deborah Lee of Nottingham Trent University. This book brings together academics, managers, educational developers and students to give their perspectives on identities in contemporary higher education. Part I, offers...
Book Review: Making Learning Happen: A Guide for Post-Compulsory Education: Race is a well-known figure in HE, perhaps less so in other areas of post-compulsory education, and his “ripples on a pond” learning model offers a compelling theoretical framework for thinking about what learning might be, and how both teachers and learners can make it happen. The “ripples on a pond” metaphor allows Race to make explicit the nature of the relationship between the five factors that he identifies as underpinning successful...
Book Review: The Changing Face of Further Education: Lifelong learning, inclusion and community values in further education: This is a thoroughly stimulating book. After a brief, but appropriate, dip into the history of further education, the book takes on major issues in current education which find special expression in further education, but in one way or another touch all sectors and levels – lifelong learning, skills in education, inclusion, HE in FE, communitarian values
Book review: Dyslexia-friendly further and higher education: This is a book review of Dyslexia-friendly further and higher education by Barbara Pavey, Margaret Meehan and Alan Waugh, published by Sage in 2010, ISBN 9781847875860. It was reviewed by Liane Purnell of Newman University College on behalf of ESCalate. This book is for those studying dyslexia focused programmes at Master’s level, but also for mainstream practitioners wishing to improve their dyslexia knowledge and practice. It covers topics such...
Book review : Leadership : professional communities of leadership practice in post-compulsory education: This is a book review of Leadership : professional communities of leadership practice in post-compulsory education by Jill Jameson, published by ESCalate in 2008, ISBN 9781905788828. It was reviewed by Deborah Lee of Nottingham Trent University. This title is part of the ESCalate Discussions in Education series and explores professional communities of leadership practice in post-compulsory education. Sections of this pamphlet are titled: what is...
Book Review: Innovating in Higher Education: Teaching, Learning and Institutional Cultures: Innovation is, by definition, novel and challenging – not always positive but forcing entities to reconsider ways and means of achieving their goals. It is to be hoped that an investigation of any phenomenon takes account, if not taking on, at least some of the characteristics of the matter under investigation. Sadly, in the present case, the somewhat leaden prose style reflects none of the energy and, indeed, enterprise, shown by innovators in...
Book review : Making teaching work : teaching smarter in post-compulsory education: This is a book review of Making teaching work : teaching smarter in post-compulsory education, by Phil Race and Ruth Pickford, published by Sage in 2007, ISBN 9781412936071. It was reviewed by Kit Leighton-Kelly of the University of Bristol, on behalf of ESCalate. The book is a practical guide to managing challenges in further and higher education including: widening participation, greater student numbers, extensive social diversity, student...
Book Review: Academics and the real world: Evans's study is about 'the changing relationship between universities and society'. She clearly indicates that on the one hand society, by continuing to fund higher education, requires universities to teach students, award degrees, conduct socially beneficial research and produce a qualified workforce. On the other hand there is still, she believes, an idea of the university which must be cherished, an idea which values disinterested thought,...