Are you: * thinking about returning to college or university? * wondering how to reconcile the demands of career and study? * looking for ways to sharpen up your study skills and make the most of your course of study? If so, then look no further. This sympathetic book has been written specifically for professional people returning to study. Returning to study as an adult learner may seem a daunting and intimidating experience but as Stuart Powell shows, this need not be the case. With an emphasis on enabling students to make the most of the courses in which they participate, the book provides practical guidance and strategies to increase confidence, enhance skills and develop critical awareness and creativity. The book draws upon the experiences of students in a wide range of disciplines from social work to engineering to provide essential support for any professional person studying in higher education.

Returning to Study

Education & Teaching

Powell, Stuart

Higher & Continuing Education

Open University Press

Returning to Study: A Guide for Professionals

Business & Money

Education & Reference

Open Univ Pr

Doctoral Study in Contemporary Higher Education

Covers the differing kinds of doctorate award and discusses the issues that arise from the ways in which related forms of doctoral study are organized and assessed. This book focuses on doctoral study, in its various forms, in the higher education sector in the United Kingdom.

Green, Howard

How can the full range of doctoral study in the UK be best described? What are the key features that are driving change to the system? What are the implications of current initiatives and the increasingly international context of research degree study? This book covers the differing kinds of doctorate award that exist currently and discusses critically issues that arise from the ways in which related forms of doctoral study are organized and assessed. It focuses on doctoral study, in all its forms, in the higher education sector in the United Kingdom, while being contextualised within an international dimension. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data, the book focuses on the diversity in doctoral study. It examines the current state of the full range of doctoral awards, describes them, and then critically analyses tensions that exist. For example, it assesses the definitions and relations between different kinds of doctoral award, the pedagogy that surrounds them and the examination phases of each. The book also offers suggestions of ways to resolve the tensions associated with different forms of study and indicates possible future directions. "Doctoral Study in Contemporary Higher Education" is an essential text for those who manage, fund and deliver education at doctoral level.

This book critically analyses the provision of doctoral education worldwide and discusses core issues for educators, administrators and policy-makers when planning and delivering doctoral education programmes. It is the first to summarise key aspects of doctoral education worldwide in a consistent way, in order to: 
<ul>
<li> Inform the sector on the full range of doctoral awards worldwide </li>
<li> Allow international comparisons to be made more easily </li>
<li> Provide a base line for the international development of the doctorate </li>
<li> Give a critical commentary on the state of doctoral education </li>
<li> Help identify good practice</li>
</ul> Taking a country-by-country approach, The Doctorate Worldwide examines doctoral study in North and South America, South Africa, Europe, Australia, India, China, Japan and Thailand. Each chapter presents demographic and other data, and considers key questions such as:<ul>
<li> What are the different forms of doctoral study and qualification available? </li>
<li> How are institutions organised? </li>
<li> How are candidates supervised, funded and examined? </li>
<li> Are there identifiable differences in gender, race, religion etc.? </li>
<li> What is the role of the doctorate in relation to national research policy?</li>
</ul> Written in an accessible style, with extensive use of charts, tables and visual summaries, The Doctorate Worldwide will be a valuable resource for all academics and administrators involved in organising and delivering doctoral study.

The Doctorate Worldwide

Health, Fitness & Dieting

This book critically analyses the provision of doctoral education worldwide and discusses core issues for educators, administrators and policy-makers when planning and delivering doctoral education programmes. It is the first to summarise key aspects of doctoral education worldwide in a consistent way, in order to: iform the sector on the full range of doctoral awards worldwide; allow international comparisons to be made more easily; provide a base line for the international development of the doctorate; give a critical commentary on the state of doctoral education; and, help identify good practice.Taking a country-by-country approach, "The Doctorate Worldwide" examines doctoral study in North and South America, South Africa, Europe, Australia, India, China, Japan and Thailand. Each chapter presents demographic and other data, and considers key questions such as: What are the different forms of doctoral study and qualification available? How are institutions organised? How are candidates supervised, funded and examined? Are there identifiable differences in gender, race, religion etc.? What is the role of the doctorate in relation to national research policy? Written in an accessible style, with extensive use of charts, tables and visual summaries, "The Doctorate Worldwide" will be a valuable resource for all academics and administrators involved in organising and delivering doctoral study.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Are you thinking about returning to university to do a research degree? Do you have concerns about balancing your career with your studies? How can you maximise your learning, and ultimately your career prospects, through the choices you make now and during your research degree? If these questions resonate with thoughts you are having, then this book can help. It is written to answer the specific needs and concerns of those who return to study at research degree level during their career and as a part of their own professional and personal development.The book provides practical guidance to help returning students to balance study, work, leisure and family life as well as suggesting strategies that will help them to enhance their skills, develop critical awareness and become more creative.This is a substantially rewritten and updated version of a previous book by Stuart Powell ("Returning to Study," 1999) which now focuses entirely on study for research degrees and incorporates his many years of experience working with individual research degree students and managing research degree provision at institutional level.With examples from a wide variety of subject disciplines, this book is essential reading for anyone seeking grounded advice on the issues facing returning students.

Returning to Study for a Research Degree

Studying & Workbooks

<ul>
<li> Are you thinking about returning to university to do a research degree? </li>
<li> Do you have concerns about balancing your career with your studies? </li>
<li> How can you maximise your learning, and ultimately your career prospects, through the choices you make now and during your research degree? </li>
</ul> If these questions resonate with thoughts you are having, then this book can help. It is written to answer the specific needs and concerns of those who return to study at research degree level during their career and as a part of their own professional and personal development. The book provides practical guidance to help returning students to balance study, work, leisure and family life as well as suggesting strategies that will help them to enhance their skills, develop critical awareness and become more creative.
 This is a substantially rewritten and updated version of a previous book by Stuart Powell (Returning to Study, 1999) which now focuses entirely on study for research degrees and incorporates his many years of experience working with individual research degree students and managing research degree provision at institutional level.
 With examples from a wide variety of subject disciplines, this book is essential reading for anyone seeking grounded advice on the issues facing returning students.

Returning To Study For A Research Degree

Understanding and Teaching Children with Autism

Autism is a lifelong condition that requires special care and consideration right into adulthood, and has an impact on many lives. This book is aimed at those concerned with the education and welfare of children with autism; particularly at teachers in Special Education and the psychologists and care professionals who work with teachers and parents of children with autism. Although there is no miracle cure for autism, this book brings a message of hope: that early intervention is advantageous and that, by a better understanding of autism and the different ways it is experienced by individual children, more effective ways can be found to meet educational needs and improve quality of life. Understanding the development processes and problems of children with autism, and the implications of these problems for social and educational learning, is the purpose of this book. The authors provide an accessible account of psychological concepts and research in social and emotional development, communication, cognition and behaviour, as related to individuals with autism. The fundamental problems of autism relationships, communication and flexibility of thought and behaviour are addressed, and practical guidance is offered on how these might be overcome or circumvented, in both home and school. This book specifically addresses the needs of children, but much of it will remain relevant to those working with adults who will appreciate the book s exploration of the roles played by emotion and cognition in the autistic condition, and the way in which these affect teaching and learning.

Jordan, Rita

Psychology & Counseling

wiley

Medical Books

Medicine

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Returning to Study

Returning to Study: A Guide for Professionals

Doctoral Study in Contemporary Higher Education

Doctoral Study in Contemporary Higher Education

The Doctorate Worldwide

The Doctorate Worldwide

Returning to Study for a Research Degree

Returning To Study For A Research Degree

Understanding and Teaching Children with Autism

Understanding and Teaching Children with Autism