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Higher education has embraced a period of increasingly rapid
development due to the speed of technological advances, increased
global competition, an ever more astute and savvier consumer base,
and ethical planetary responsibilities. One such educational
development is transnational education (TNE). The global pandemic
has made TNE a timely topic because traditional international
education, which relies on the mobility of staff and students,
experienced unprecedented challenges, with borders closed and
travel banned. This has presented the international education
community with a unique opportunity to reassess the effectiveness
and efficiency of transnational activities from a social, ethical,
and environmental perspective. The Handbook of Research on
Developments and Future Trends in Transnational Higher Education
offers a perspective of what the future of TNE may look like, what
models of TNE there are, its impact, and what institutions may have
to do to be successful moving forward. Universities around the
world are growing their TNE partnerships. This reference book
explores the benefits TNE can offer universities, staff, and
students, while increasing its global outlook and capabilities. It
further provides concrete suggestions to readers considering this.
Covering topics such as employability skill enhancement, formative
assessment, and online higher education, this major reference work
is an excellent resource for faculty and administrators of higher
education, teacher educators, entrepreneurs, researchers,
librarians, and academicians.
"Well Considered is a suspenseful but deeply moving novel that
gripped me throughout. I recommend it." -William Byers Ron Watkins
learns that his great-grandfather, Thomas, was murdered by a mob in
1907 in Maryland. He is driven to find proof that Thomas was an
innocent victim in order to protect his children's familial and
racial pride from those who might assume that Thomas committed some
crime that incited the violence. But as Ron searches for
information, Jimmy Clay, neo-Nazi owner of a dilapidated general
store and oil-and-lube who has ties to the 1907 mob, learns of his
activities. Clay becomes convinced that Ron intends to steal his
property, and with two cohorts seizes him as he jogs through the
woods. Wilma, Ron's wife, futilely searches for him and desperately
calls on neighbors for help. What Ron does not know is that the
truth he seeks is hidden in the mind of a friend. Set in former
tobacco fields in Maryland, Well Considered travels back to a time
a century ago and shows how people and events buried deep in the
past can still affect us and control our existence. This is a story
of racial conflict and reconciliation, suspense, mystery, history,
and humor with characters you will not soon forget.
""I love the way Wilfred recycles the bodies. That's fabulous stuff
with a direct line to Heller's Catch-22 and perfectly captures the
insanity of the Vietnam War."
-Richard Peabody, co-editor of Gargoyle Magazine
Counting bodies in Vietnam. In this earthy war/peace novel,
comedy frames grim pictures of war. Morris weaves combat, a love
affair, and military satire into a story that is by turns
terrifying, gruesome, and mad, and one acted by a memorable cast of
characters-grunts and hookers, Vietcong soldiers and spies, heroes
and inane officers. It begins on a huge base in the Central
Highlands in 1967 where Lieutenant Wilfred Carmenghetti falls in
love with Can and smuggles her to a forward firebase. In the field
he and his platoon win stunning victories, but spies plot his
death, Vietcong soldiers attack the platoon, and Can leaves him.
What follows is a surprising and fanciful comedic ending. "Cologne
No. 10 For Men" is a book to make us fear, weep, laugh, and
remember. A soldier in Vietnam invents a uniquely absurd solution
to the horrors of war. A relatively na ve Wilfred Carmenghetti
comes to the Far East to outmaneuver the draft and save the Western
world. A funny and serviceable satire about the gross
rationalizations that propel war and peace. -Kirkus Discoveries
British industry isn't dead. Yet. ICI was Britain's biggest
manufacturer and exporter, while GEC was its biggest employer and
Morris Motors made over half of its cars; Courtaulds dominated
global cloth production and produced the first man-made fibres; BSA
was the world's biggest producer of motorbikes; De Havilland
produced groundbreaking aeroplanes and some of the world's first
jet engines. And yet, these companies have all collapsed, taking
with them nearly 200 years of industrial pre-eminence. British
industry is dead, killed off by 'Made in China' stickers and US
market dominance. Or is it? Will Britain Make It? explores the
rise, fall and future of British industry and all the complexities
surrounding it. Who's to blame for its slow decline? What about
Brexit? Can it be resurrected? If you've ever asked any of these
questions, then this is the book for you.
Published in 1997, this text focuses on the conundrum between the
academics ability to distinguish between failing and non-failing
businesses with models of over 85.5per cent accuracy, and the
reasons why credit agencies and the like do not act on such
information. The author asks, are the models defective?
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