Quality of Research in Higher Education

Contents: 1. The International Context for U.K. Higher Education. 2. National Developments on Institutional Practice. 3. The Student Experience. 4. Aspects of Academic Management. 5. Strategic and Operational Planning. 6. Working With and Through Colleagues. 7. Creating Intellectual Wealth. 8. Postgraduate Research Degrees. 9. Managing-Research Groups. 10. Developing a Culture for Research. 11. Teaching and Learning. 12. Renewing the Curriculum. 13. Quality Assessment. 14. The Students with Disabilities. 15. Harnessing Information Technology for Learning. 16. Academic Career Development. 17. Career Long Competence. 18. Routes to Success.

In this book a comparative view of the quality of research in higher education in various countries has been taken. It is hoped that the topics discussed in the book will be found to be of immense value to the researchers, planners and the University authorities. In countries like India efforts have been made to establish IITs, Physical Sciences Laboratories and the agricultural farms for conducting research. As a result of these investments in the quality of higher education and it is needed has become very poor in technical and technological fields.