Managing Equal Opportunities in Higher Education: A Guide to Understanding and Action

Combines personal experience, theoretical debates, and case studies to examine the tension which often exists between theory and practice in the field, and offers suggestions on how to reconcile such tensions, looking at issues including gender of students and staff, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, and social class. For both new and experienced managers responsible for the implementation and monitoring of equal opportunity policies. Woodward is dean of the Graduate School at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, UK. Ross is director of the Center for Communication Studies at Coventry University, UK. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)