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Book Counting Out The Scholars

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Bruneau
  • Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
  • Release : 2002-03-07
  • ISBN : 9781550287110
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Counting Out The Scholars written by William Bruneau and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2002-03-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada's universities have lost their autonomy. Under the guise of accountability, reformers from government and large corporations have undermined the original purposes of these institutions, insisting that they operate according to a business model. The chief tool used to effect this change is the performance indicator, a method of evaluation and ranking well suited to measuring sales per square foot, for example, but useless in assessing qualities such as critical thinking, creativity and wisdom. Evaluating use of performance indicators in Canada, the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand, the authors challenge readers to look beyond this narrow, business-based measure of value, and to consider more creative and effective methods of evaluation. Counting Out the Scholars is a penetrating analysis of current methods of performance evaluation in the university, one that offers alternatives to the prevailing orthodoxy.

Book The Maclean s Guide to Canadian Universities   Colleges

Download or read book The Maclean s Guide to Canadian Universities Colleges written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Maclean s guide to Canadian universities  electronic journal

Download or read book The Maclean s guide to Canadian universities electronic journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maclean s Guide to Canadian Universities

Download or read book Maclean s Guide to Canadian Universities written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Maclean s Guide to Canadian Universities

Download or read book The Maclean s Guide to Canadian Universities written by Maclean's and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Maclean s Guide to Canadian Colleges

Download or read book The Maclean s Guide to Canadian Colleges written by Ann Dowsett Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medicine for Life  A Practical Guide for Success

Download or read book Medicine for Life A Practical Guide for Success written by Jacques G LeBlanc M.D., F.R.C.S.C. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deciding on a career path is difficult for many people. Deciding of the best university, of an interesting and challenging subspecialty, of where to get established, are just a few of the vast challenges you will face in preparing for a successful medical career. Whether you are a medical student, a resident, a family practitioner or a specialist, this book is an essential guide for many if not every facet of your medical career. It is a valuable resource because it covers a wide variety of topics such as choosing a medical school, a residency training program, a type of practice, establishing your practice, surrounding yourself with experts ( accountants, financial advisors, banker and others ), understanding the realities, challenges and up-coming changes in medical practice, preparing for retirement and retiring. Browse to the book as often as you want to refresh your memory, to look at a specific subject.

Book The Canadian Campus Companion

Download or read book The Canadian Campus Companion written by Erin Millar and published by Dundurn.com. This book was released on 2011-01-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and honest guide to the Canadian college and university experience, offering down-to-earth advice on everything from choosing your major to surviving residence, from acing exams to partying safely. For most students, university is a first foray into adulthood and can be a time of great personal growth, but it is also a time of difficult decisions that will impact the rest of their lives. The Canadian Campus Companion contains essential information for all prospective students and parents. Choosing a School: How to know what is right for you. (College or university? Urban or small town?) Residence Life: Tips for surviving residence without killing your roommate. Costs and Budgeting: The lowdown on the real cost of getting an undergraduate degree. Beating the Campus Blues: Tips for managing stress and beating homesickness. Jump Start Your Career: How to showcase skills acquired during your university career. Veteran post-secondary education journalist Erin Millar and co-author Ben Coli offer frank advice based on hundreds of interviews with students, professors and other university experts conducted while writing articles for Maclean’s, Chatelaine, Reader’s Digest and The Globe and Mail to help students avoid these pitfalls while maximizing opportunities for fun, learning and career advancement.

Book Introducing the IB Diploma Programme

Download or read book Introducing the IB Diploma Programme written by Marc Abrioux and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools wishing to introduce the IB diploma programme are faced with major investment in terms of time, effort and money in order to become authorised. This manual is a resource for schools already offering the diploma, as well as for prospective diploma schools.

Book Canadian Studies in the New Millennium  Second Edition

Download or read book Canadian Studies in the New Millennium Second Edition written by Mark J. Kasoff and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular textbook offers a thorough and accessible approach to Canadian Studies through comparative analyses of Canada and the United States, their histories, geographies, political systems, economies, and cultures. Students and professors alike acknowledge it as an ideal tool for understanding the close relationship between the two countries, their shared experiences, and their differing views on a range of issues. Fully revised and updated, the second edition of Canadian Studies in the New Millennium includes new chapters on Demography and Immigration Policy, the Environment, and Civil Society and Social Policy, all written by leading scholars and educators in the field. At a time in which there is a growing mutual dependence between the US and Canada for security, trade, and investment, Canadian Studies in the New Millennium will continue to be a valuable resource for students, educators, and practitioners on both sides of the border.

Book MacLean s Guide to Universities

Download or read book MacLean s Guide to Universities written by Ann Dowsett Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canadian Studies in the New Millennium

Download or read book Canadian Studies in the New Millennium written by Patrick James and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of Canadian Studies is a growing discipline, particularly in the United States. This introductory text offers a thorough and accessible approach to Canadian Studies through comparative analyses of Canada and the United States, their histories, geographies, political systems, economies, and cultures. Among the topics addressed are ways in which Canadian national development has been influenced by the U.S., the role of geography in shaping the country's evolution, and the persistent question of Canada's French-speaking minority, which has been an important and divisive issue since the 1500s. Canadian Studies in the New Millennium is an excellent introduction to Canadian Studies, with chapters written by leading scholars and educators in the field. At a time in which there is a growing mutual dependence between the U.S. and Canada for security, trade, and investment, this text is an ideal tool for understanding the close relationship between the two countries, their shared experiences, and their differing views. Canadian Studies in the New Millennium will be of significant value to students, educators, and practitioners.

Book Leadership Under Fire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ross H. Paul
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0773538879
  • Pages : 349 pages

Download or read book Leadership Under Fire written by Ross H. Paul and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the role of the university president has evolved dramatically in recent years, the recruitment pool and selection process have changed little since the 1960s. InLeadership Under Fire, Ross Paul combines leadership theory, interviews with eleven of Canada's most successful presidents, and thirty-five years of personal experience to shed light on the complexity and importance of leading a university and identifies some of the critical challenges and opportunities facing Canadian universities today. Paul illuminates some of the ways in which Canadian universities are unique and uses these differences to make clear the importance of organizational cultural and institutional fit for leaders confronting critical academic issues such as academic leadership and accountability, student success and support, university funding and fund-raising, strategic planning, government and community relations, and internationalism. His analysis reaffirms some long-standing practices, while arguing that changes are badly needed in others. While much has been written about university leadership elsewhere,Leadership Under Firefocuses on Canada and some of the men and women who have made a real difference to the quality of its post-secondary institutions. Paul builds on their stories to offer useful perspectives and advice at a time when the quality of universities was never more critical to the country's economic, social, and political success.

Book Maclean s 2014 Canadian Universities Guidebook

Download or read book Maclean s 2014 Canadian Universities Guidebook written by Maclean's Staff and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Curiosity of School

Download or read book The Curiosity of School written by Zander Sherman and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's one thing we all have in common. We've all been to school. But as Zander Sherman shows in this fascinating, often shocking account of institutionalized education, sending your kids off to school was not always normal. In fact, school is a very recent invention. Taking the reader back to 19th-century Prussia, where generals, worried about soldiers' troubling individuality, sought a way to standardize every young man of military age, through to the most controversial debates that swirl around the world about the topic of education today, Sherman tells the often astonishing stories of the men and women-and corporations-that have defined what we have come to think of as both the privilege and the responsibility of being educated. Along the way, we discover that the SAT was invented as an intelligence test designed to allow the state to sterilize "imbeciles," that suicide in the wake of disappointing results in the state university placement exams is the fifth leading cause of death in China, and that commercialized higher education seduces students into debt as cynically as credit card companies do. Provocative, entertaining-and even educational-The Curiosity of School lays bare the forces that shape the institution that shapes all of us.