Life of Petrarch

Life of Petrarch
Author: Ernest Hatch Wilkins
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1961
Genre: Authors, Italian
ISBN: UOM:39076006900125

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Biography of the 14th century Italian scholar.

Harquitectes

Harquitectes
Author: Ilka Ruby,Andreas Ruby,Javier García-Germán
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Architectural firms
ISBN: 3863359348

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The architecture studio HARQUITECTES was established in 2000 and based in Sabadell, Barcelona. It is managed by four partner architects: David Lorente Ibáñez, Josep Ricart Ulldemolins, Xavier Ros Majó and Roger Tudó Galí. They have lectured all over Europe and America, and their works have been recognized with several awards and selected for exhibitions at home and abroad. They have addressed the parlous Spanish economy by adapting their work to any type of commission, from public buildings - such as schools and university facilities - to single-family houses. This publication represents the first comprehensive monograph on their work.

Academic Freedom in Africa

Academic Freedom in Africa
Author: Mahmood Mamdani,Mamadou Diouf
Publsiher: Codesria
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1994
Genre: Education
ISBN: STANFORD:36105006074004

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Eighteen of Africa's most distinguished scholars have contributed to this major and timely work, including Claude Ake, Archie Mafeje, Ali Mazrui, Issa Shivji and Joseph Ki-Zerbo. As a first step towards greater consideration of the nature of the research environment in Africa and to reflect on the social and material context of research as an intellectual activity, CODESRIA co-organised a major conference on academic freedom and research in Africa in Kampala in 1990. A selection of the conferencepapers are contained in this volume. The papers cover the relationship of capital and the state to academic freedom, the historical processes which have shaped intellectuals in Africa, issue of autonomy and democracy andthe question of funding relationships, and the difficulty of alliances that question the right to independence. The book is divided into fivesections: Reflections; Methodological Perspectives; Global Influences andLocal Constraints; Intelligentsia and Activism; and Organizing Academics.

Legislation in Europe

Legislation in Europe
Author: Ulrich Karpen,Helen Xanthaki
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781509924707

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Following on from the first volume, this unique book is the only collection of native analyses of the status of legislation in 30 European jurisdictions plus the EU. Each chapter, written by a national authority in the legislative field, presents and critically assesses: - the national constitutional environment and its connection with EU law; - the nature and types of legislation; - the legislative process; - the drafting process; - jurisprudence conventions; - the training of drafters. The book opens with a comparative chapter on the these six themes, and concludes with an analysis of trends and best practices in Europe. Legislation in Europe is a necessary addition to law and policy libraries, law-making institutions and agencies, and an invaluable tool for constitutional and drafting academics and practitioners.

Caught Between Two Fires

Caught Between Two Fires
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 42
Release: 1989
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: UTEXAS:059173020515290

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Scholars in the Marketplace The Dilemmas of Neo Liberal Reform at Makerere University 1989 2005

Scholars in the Marketplace  The Dilemmas of Neo Liberal Reform at Makerere University  1989 2005
Author: Mahmood Mamdani
Publsiher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2007-09-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9782869784192

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Scholars in the Marketplace is a case study of market-based reforms at Uganda's Makerere University. With the World Bank heralding neoliberal reform at Makerere as the model for the transformation of higher education in Africa, it has implications for the whole continent. At the global level, the Makerere case exemplifies the fate of public universities in a market-oriented and capital friendly era. The Makerere reform began in the 1990s and was based on the premise that higher education is more of a private than a public good. Instead of pitting the public against the private, and the state against the market, this book shifts the terms of the debate toward a third alternative than explores different relations between the two. The book distinguishes between privatisation and commercialisation, two processes that drove the Makerere reform. It argues that whereas privatisation (the entry of privately sponsored students) is compatible with a public university where priorities are publicly set, commercialisation (financial and administrative autonomy for each faculty to design a market-responsive curriculum) inevitably leads to a market determination of priorities in a public university. The book warns against commercialisation of public universities as the subversion of public institutions for private purposes.

Political Leadership

Political Leadership
Author: Jean Blondel
Publsiher: Sage Publications (CA)
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1987
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: UOM:39015012879618

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"Political leaders are the most universal, recognized, and talked about element of political life. However, the general analysis of political leadership has been little advanced. In this book Professor Blondel provides a general framework for the systematic study of leadership to make possible future empirical study and comparative analysis of political leadership. After examining the current state of political leadership studies, Professor Blondel categorizes the leaders of the world taking into account both their goals and the constraints and opportunities resulting from the environment. Important features and influences on leadership are identified: the sources of personal power, the role of leaders' own psychology and perspective, the instruments of power available to leaders, their relationship with subordinates and citizens, the influence of institutions on leadership and the impact of leaders"--Provided by publisher.

University Crisis and Student Protests in Africa

University Crisis and Student Protests in Africa
Author: Francis B. Nyamnjoh,Walter Gam Nkwi,Piet Konings
Publsiher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789956727070

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Faced with a deepening crisis in their universities, African students have demonstrated a growing activism and militancy. They have been engaged in numerous, often violent, strikes for improvements in their deteriorating living and study conditions and the introduction of a democratic culture in the universities and society as a whole, including the right to express their views, organise in student unions and participate in university management. This book focuses on a recent violent strike action in Cameroon's state universities, with special attention to the University of Buea - the only English-speaking university in the country between 1993 and 2011. Such a detailed study on student strikes is still rare in African studies, and maybe even more important, this book pays special attention to certain elements that have been of great significance to the strike but are often overlooked in narratives of other student actions in Africa, namely the use of cell phones, differences in gender roles of student activists, the religious dimensions of the strike, the central role of some public spaces like bars and cafés for the planning and execution of student strikes, and the power of the photocopier. The book goes far beyond simply documenting the various protest actions of students against the state and university authorities. It also provides ample room for comments from journalists and other civil-society members and groups on various aspects of the strike.