This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has p...
London is one of the world’s leading cities. It is home to an extraordinary concentration and diversity of people, industries, politics, religions and ideas, and plays an important role in our highl...
During the First World War, conflicts between the people’s sacrifices and their political participation led to crises of parliamentary legitimacy. This volume compares British, German, Swedish and F...
This insightful collection of essays explores the ways in which open education can democratise access to education for all. It is a rich resource that offers both research and case studies to relate t...
Bordering intimacy is a study of how borders and dominant forms of intimacy, such as family, are central to the governance of postcolonial states such as Britain. The book explores the connected histo...
Coffeeshops are the most famous example of Dutch tolerance. But in fact, these cannabis distributors are highly regulated. Coffeeshops are permitted to break the law, but not the rules. On the premise...
This book provides an alternative insight to the debate on inequality in Malaysia, by focusing on the distribution of wealth or assets, rather than income. Despite tremendous increase in national inco...
One of the noteworthy global achievements of the past two decades has been the remarkable increase in thenumber of children attending school and the number of children completing the primary cycle. A...
There has been much international effort to improve or transform Vocational and Technical Education (VTE). However, the outcomes often remain elusive. VTE continues to be largely shunned by society as...
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The Republic of Korea is now bracing up for its next miracle. After the establishment of the Republic in 1948 and three years of the Korean War, it has made a remarkable economic growth and political ...
This book describes patterns of behavior, which collectively allow universities to exchange knowledge more effectively with industry, accelerate innovation and eventually contribute to economic growth...
- Bridging a collaborative learning in process writing through Weblog: An experiment for Indonesian learners -Learning social studies at primary schools: a multilevel analysis for research policies ...
-Attitude of school principals toward the implementation of e-learning in school -The role of computer-assisted language learning in teaching English as a foreign language -The influence of genre-ba...
Focus on what matters: productivity Iwan Jaya Azis The Effect of self-leadership towards academic performance: the mediating effect of-academic self-efficacy. Case study on generation Y students in...
-The strategy of nation's character education -The development of character education and its' implementation at educational unit in Indonesia -Developing a civilized nation's character -The develo...
- Devolving authority : public secondary school’s perception and response to scholl-based management policy in Indonesia (Bambang Sumintono, Nora Mislan,Lokman Mohd. Tahir, and Hamdan Said - The de...
Today, more than ever, the state of a country's science and technology is a critical factor for economic competitiveness and long-term growth. This book traces the development of science and technolog...
The strategi assessment of Indonesia's higher education system and current policy is the first output of the newly established strategic Policy Working Group Within the Ministry of Education....
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This book highlights decisions governments have to make about their public education system, the options they have before them and the consequences of their decisions. As well as covering issues such ...
This book first emerged from a seminar series funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, key topics in this book is: the role of learning analytics and educational data science in schools, a ...
Indonesia has an extreme diversity of linguistic wealth, with 707 languages by one count, or 731 languages and more than 1,100 dialects in another estimate, spoken by more than ethnicities spread acro...
Lessons from Lockdown explores the impact of COVID-19 on our schooling systems, on the young people and families that they serve and on all who work in- and with our schools, and asks what the long-te...
Rethinking Schools and Renewing Energy for Learning presents a comprehensive view on the major challenges educators face in the 21st century, and the ways in which schools can make a difference. It de...
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Includes indexThis guide to how economic policy is made in modern Britain is designed tohelp the reader understand how the policy process works: who the key actorsare, the links between theory and pra...
Globalization; Science education; Science curricula; Large scale international assessments; Trends in International Mathematics and Science Survey; TIMSS; Policy borrowing; Curriculum reform; IEA Rese...
The question of quality has become one of the most important framing factors in education and has been of growing interest to international organisations and national policymakers for decades. Politic...
This volume brings together excellent scholarship and innovative policy discussion to demonstrate the essential role of higher education in the development of Africa and of the world at large. Based o...