Higher & Further Education
BIC code: JDF
See also: Education & Teaching
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£12.50Benefits For Students In Scotland Handbook 2008/09 - - Paperback
This text provides a comprehensive guide to benefits and tax credits for students in Scotland. Written for advisers, cross-referenced to the law, this guide uses easy to use checklists and examples. - £7.00Classroom Assistants: Lessons From The Pilot Projects - - Spiral
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£14.99The Crisis Of The Democratic Intellect: The Problem Of Generalism And Specialisation In Twentieth-Century Scotland - - Hardback
At the end of the First World War, the long continued and deliberate movement away from a university education of a generalist type and towards a more specialising system was put into reverse. Why did the Scots go out of their way to re-establish the primacy of intellect? -
£23.99The Democratic Intellect: Scotland And Her Universities In The Nineteenth Century - - Paperback
Scotland's generalist approach to higher education characterised the country's intellectual life, even into the 19th century, when economic, social and political pressures enforced an increasing conformity to English models. This is an account of the history of these movements. -
£70.00Flexibility And Lifelong Learning: Examining The Rhetoric Of Education - - Hardback
This title seeks to develop different approaches to policy analysis through a discursive and rhetorical engagement with the themes of flexibility and lifelong learning within Australia, England and Scotland. -
£9.99Get Set For Computer Science - - Paperback
Aimed at students who are thinking of studying computer science or a related topic at university, this text provides a brief introduction to the topics of computer science. It provides guidance in choosing universities and making applications to them and advises on making the most out of studies in the field. -
£9.99Get Set For History - - Paperback
This title offers students a comprehensive overview of what studying history at degree level entails and gives guidance on how to cope with the demands that will be made of them. -
£9.99Get Set For Study Abroad - - Paperback
This is a guide for students thinking of studying outside the UK as part of their home degree, and for others who want to know what is involved. It takes you from finding out about the opportunities available and making your selection of a programme up to completing the studies and returning home. - £15.99The Lady Of Claremont House: Isabella Elder, Pioneer And Philanthropist - - Hardback
Dr Joan McAlpine has thoroughly researched the life of this self effacing heroine of women's equality, from the John Elder Chair of Naval Architecture to the Medical School in Queen Margaret College which she helped set up. - £14.95Losing Out?: Socioeconomic Disadvantage And Experience In Further And Higher Education - - Paperback
Despite the expansion of higher education, academic success remains lowest amongst those from deprived neighbourhoods. This report identifies the factors which impact upon the experiences of the minority of disadvantaged young people who enter higher education.