This volume is a detailed and up-to-date reference work providing an authoritative overview of the main issues in higher education around the world today. Consisting of newly commissioned chapters and impressive journal articles, it surveys the state of the discipline and includes the examination and discussion of emerging, controversial and cutting edge areas.

Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Editorial Introduction, Malcolm Tight; Part 2 Teaching and Learning; Chapter 2 Approaches to Learning, Jennifer M. Case, Delia Marshall; Chapter 3 Student Learning Research, Tamsin Haggis; Chapter 4 Conceptualising Teaching and Learning Interactions in Researching Higher Education, Paul Ashwin; Chapter 5 International Students from Asia, David Kember; Chapter 6 Study Success of Students from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds, Sabine Severiens, Rick Wolff; Part 3 Course Design; Chapter 7 Curriculum, Kelly Coate; Chapter 8 Problem-based Learning, Anna Kwan; Chapter 9 An Alignment of the Planets, Ilana Snyder, Simon Marginson, Tania Lewis; Chapter 10 Diverse Student Groups, Marybeth Gasman, Julie Vultaggio; Part 4 The Student Experience; Chapter 11 Tertiary Education in the Noughties, Naomi Rosh White; Chapter 12 Tuition Fee Policies in a Comparative Perspective, Pamela N. Marcucci, D. Bruce Johnstone; Chapter 13 From Senior Student to Novice Worker, Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren, Håkan Hult, Lars Owe Dahlgren, Helene Hård af Segerstad, Kristina Johansson; Chapter 14 Postgraduate Research Students' Experience, Coralie McCormack; Part 5 Quality; Chapter 15 What Can Students' Perceptions of Academic Quality Tell Us?, John T. E. Richardson; Chapter 16 Grading Student Achievement in Higher Education, Mantz Yorke; Chapter 17 National Monitoring of Higher Education, John Taylor; Chapter 18 Still Balancing Improvement and Accountability?, Trine Danø, Bjørn Stensaker; Chapter 19 A Global Survey of University Ranking and League Tables, Alex Usher, Massimo Savino; Part 6 System Policy; Chapter 20 Reflections on the Reform of Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe, Peter Scott; Chapter 21 Globalisation and Higher Education Restructuring in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, Ka Ho Mok; Chapter 22 Performance-based Funding as an Instrument of Competition in German Higher Education, Dominic Orr, Michael Jaeger, Astrid Schwarzenberger; Chapter 23 Shifting Roles and Approaches, Theresa Shanahan, Glen A. Jones; Chapter 24 Bachelor Graduates on the Labour Market, Bettina Alesi; Part 7 Institutional Management; Chapter 25 Institutional Structures, Colin Pilbeam; Chapter 26 The Shaping of the DePart mental Culture, Jenny J. Lee; Chapter 27 Economies of Scale and Mergers in Higher Education, Colin Green, Geraint Johnes; Chapter 28 University-based Economic Growth, Iryna Lendel, Phil Allen, Maryann Feldman; Chapter 29 Building Democracy's University, Matthew Hartley, David Soo; Part 8 Academic Work; Chapter 30 Interpreting Changing Academic Roles and Identities in Higher Education, Kerri-Lee Krause; Chapter 31 Academic Development, Ranald Macdonald; Chapter 32 The Changing Nature of Academic Work, Jan Currie, Lesley Vidovich; Chapter 33 Understanding Academic Freedom, Gerlese S. Åkerlind, Carole Kayrooz; Part 9 Knowledge; Chapter 34 Academic Research in Contemporary Society, Angela Brew; Chapter 35 Disciplinarity, Ruth Neumann; Chapter 36 Out with Humboldt and in with the Knowledge Society, Merle Jacob; Chapter 37 The University, Neoliberal Reform and the Liberal Educational Ideal, Tony Harland;