Beyond the First Degree
Published on 1. November 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-335-19976-1 (ISBN)
Description
The contributors to this volume focus on postgraduate education and training, and explore their relation to lifeling learning and graduate employment. The book addresses key questions such as: what are the major trends and develoments in graduate education worldwide; in what ways are graduate education and training structured and delivered; how are quality issues handled in graduate education worldwide; what are the major issues in graduate employment and in lifelong learning; and what are the links between postgraduate education, lifelong learning and student careers?
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 146 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-335-19976-1 (9780335199761)
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Content
Preface - the changing context of postgraduate education in the United Kingdom. Part 1 Graduate education: issues and themes in postgraduate education in the United States; policy issues in postgraduate education - an Australian perspective; quality issues in postgraduate education. Part 2 Lifelong learning: lifelong post-experience, post-graduate - symphony or dichotomy?; lifelong learning and European universities - rhetoric or future reality?; postgraduate education and lifelong learning as collaborative inquiry in action - an emergent model. Part 3 Careers: mass higher education - mass graduate employment in the 1990s; graduate employment trends - key issues in the labour market of the late 1990s and beyond; a note on reshaping the graduate education of scientists and engineers.