Higher education, tertiary education

Sustainability is a complex concept, and the challenge of understanding it and applying it to a diverse, multi-agent, organisational setting with its potentially conflicting priorities cannot be underestimated.

Sustainability is a phenomenon that must be pursued in a complex system of interrelated elements of business, society, and ecology.

Military spouse education is an often overlooked topic.

This volume addresses the need for an international perspective on global education, and provides alternate voices to the theme of global education.

This book presents a new vision of literacy that frames meaning-making and communication in relation to individual, collective, and ecological needs.

If you are a supply chain manager, an executive, an entrepreneur, or a stakeholder in a sustainable business, this book will help you develop the awareness and skills needed to support sustainable supply chain management in your firm.

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Success in the twenty-first century demands knowledge power - for individuals, organisations, cities, regions and countries.

Measurements in Evaluating Science Education is a comprehensive, intuitive guide to many of the key instruments created to assess science education environments, learning, and instruction.

The Eurozone crisis and the age of austerity, as well as challenges to the environment as a result of economic growth have highlighted the need for a greater understanding of those facets of economics that are of most use to businesses and their decision makers.

Examines friendship as a moral category in the Book of Job through an Aristotelian virtue ethics perspective.

The World Health Organization defines the social determinants of health as "e;the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.

The current financial and on-going ecological crises have taught us that without practical wisdom, business, organisations and leadership cannot be sustainable.

This book provides an overview of Singapore's higher education system, focusing in particular on its role in supporting and facilitating the city-state's economic development policies.

First published in 1996.

In today's business landscape, companies compete more and more as integrated supply chains rather than as individual firms.

European competitiveness in a global perspective is a major issue on the agenda of the European Union and European industry.

3 While all of these explanations seem to have merit, there is one dominant reason why the percentage of GDP and employment dedicated to services has continued to increase: low productivity.

This book focuses on how the Northern futures are transformed through regional cooperation in the Barents eduscape: a study of the social, cultural and political aspects of higher education and the exchanges of learning and people in the Euro-Arctic Barents region, especially between Norway and Russia.

This book explores teaching and learning through science investigation and practical work.

This book provides a powerful insight into strategic portfolio management and its central role in the delivery of organisational strategy, maximisation of value creation, and efficient allocation of resources and capabilities to achieve organisational strategic objectives.

This state-of-the-art Companion assembles and assesses the extant research available on teacher education and provides clear guidelines on future directions.

With increasing numbers of learners in secondary schools having English as an additional language, it is crucial for all teachers to understand the learning requirements of these students and plan distinctive teaching approaches to engage and support them.

Although women and girls participate in sport in greater numbers than ever before, research shows there has been no significant increase in women leading sport organizations.

This book examines the study of citizenship by means of reading and creating graphic novels and comics in the social studies classroom.

This book highlights the importance of talent management practices in recruiting, developing and retaining talented professionals in the digital and IT&C industry.

Are you keen to study at Master's level?

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The difference between truth and falsehood is often clear and simple.

Becoming a Global Chief Security Executive Officer provides tangible, proven, and practical approaches to optimizing the security leader's ability to lead both today's, and tomorrow's, multidisciplined security, risk, and privacy function.

This book utilizes historical evidence to describe the development of the Toyota Production System (TPS).

This book focuses on topics that business managers and project teams in global enterprises need to understand and follow to successfully deploy an Enterprise System (ES) for their organization.

Classic Writings for a Phenomenology of Practice features examples of newly translated classic phenomenological texts that have been largely forgotten or misunderstood.

This book demonstrates school-based approaches to primary science teacher education.

Knowledge of the processes of educational change is said to be the missing ingredient in attempts to bring about educational innovation and reform.

Understanding Trust in Organizations: A Multilevel Perspective examines trust within organizations from a multilevel perspective, bringing together internationally renowned trust scholars to advance our understanding of how trust is affected by both macro and micro forces, such as those operating at the societal, institutional, network, organizational, team, and individual levels.

Recent research in problem solving has shifted its focus to actual classroom implementation and what is really going on during problem solving when it is used regularly in classroom.

This volume presents work focused on underrepresented persons in a variety of levels of higher education.

This book provides a clear, easy to digest overview of Quality Management Systems (QMS).

This book focuses on the traumatic experiences within and through music that individuals and collectives face, while considering ways in which they (re)engage with their traumas in educational settings.

This practical and engaging book introduces readers to reflective practice in English language teaching.

This book contains the proceeding of the 26th International Conference on Production Research (ICPR).

In a deeply unequal world, our economic status shapes our pursuit of virtue whether we have enough resources to live comfortably or struggle to surviveOur understanding of inequality as a moral problem is incomplete.

This volume analyzes different types of knowledge and know-how used by practising professionals in their work and how these different kinds of knowledge are acquired by a combination of learning from books, learning from people and learning from personal experience.

This edited collection illuminates the benefits, drawbacks, challenges, opportunities of the push to widen access to success and social mobility through university and other post-secondary education experiences in the UK and internationally.