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Describes the pattern of undergraduate courses in the UK, and analyzes it in terms of theories of knowledge, the socio-economic context of higher education and models of student development, ending with a chapter on policies.

Provides a basic insight into what universities do in terms of the creation of wealth, and into what kind of organizations they might usefully become.

There are very few women who hold senior management positions in universities worldwide. This volume, written entirely by women, examines the problem and suggests ways in which it might be remedied. It is intended for those who wish to see women's talents used to their full capacity.

How and why have women academics experienced patterns of exclusion, segregation and discrimination? To what extent are academic relationships characterized by endemic sexism in defence of male privilege? This book explores these questions and investigates the relationships between gender, power and the academy.

There can be no more serious sanction taken against a child of primary school age than exclusion from school. This book explores the policy context in which exclusions are happening and presents evidence from a two year, ESRC funded national research project on the issue.

Brings together debates about sexuality with the study of schooling. This title poses controversial questions such as: How far is schooling influenced by wider public debates and scandals about sexuality? How can we understand the role and limits of moral traditionalism? And what has the impact of feminism and the lesbian and gay movement been?

Considering the challenges facing primary schools as they move towards a new century and a new millennium, this work celebrates the work of primary schools and notes their unique qualities and achievements. It provides guidance for those involved in primary school management and is suitable for staff in primary schools.

Focuses on the medicines, and the policy issues they raise. This title seeks to disentangle those issues and come up with concrete suggestions as to how we might move forward in an area of public policy that is disputed.

Assessing the needs of populations is a prerequisite for the planning and delivery of effective health services. This book presents the Life Cycle Framework as a means of organizing thought about this task from health district down to neighborhood levels.

Provides a collection of qualitative and ethnographic studies of differing groups of young people. This title examines inequality in all its complexity in the lived experience of youth and shows the continued pervasive influence of class and gender.

Looks at how lesbian and gay students fare in schools. This book includes the amenability of the subject English as a means of integrating issues of sexuality into the curriculum.

Offers an explanation of the Thatcher government's approach to improving the management of the NHS through the controlling of health professionals. This book examines in detail the various methods of control employed and assesses the consequences for the future of professional work and organization in the NHS.

Examines the place of revolution in social theory and reasserts the need for systematic study of the concept of revolution in the social sciences.

Tells the story of a higher education project, and the attempts of university teachers to enact a critical professionalism in their everyday lives in teaching and learning; and also their development of a shared and collaborative dialogue.

Examines the genesis of the reforms in the NHS, which introduced the internal market in health care, and the incentives created for the three major stakeholders, purchasing health authorities, NHS trusts and GP fundholders.

Explores the subject of racial identity and encourages readers to think about racial issues and to explore their own racial identity. This book believes that self-awareness is an essential element of competency as a therapist, and challenges white therapists to be aware of what it means to be white, and how this influences the therapy process.

Explores why it matters that texts exist in the form of stories, and how they rest upon cultural and social assumptions (how narratives are always ideological).

Explores the ethnography of truancy in its educational, political, legal, economic and ideological contexts. This text attempts to discover how absences may be construed, what absentees from school actually do, and who is responsible for them.

Over the years women's issues have begun to move higher up the health services agenda. However, there have been few attempts to set out the rationale for this, or to document the good practice initiatives that have resulted. This book undertakes both these tasks.

This book provides an alternative means of discussing the development and significance of managers and management in universities and colleges.

Tests the key assumptions underlying politicians' faith in educational markets. This book links an analysis of parental choice to flows of students between schools and their impact on school effectiveness.

Presents a portrait of how older people are perceived by the general public in the EU and how they view themselves and the ageing process.

In a mix of personal experience, theoretical debate and case study material, this book articulates the tension which often exists between theory and practice, good intentions and hard reality; and it offers concrete suggestions about how such tensions can be and have been reconciled successfully in a number of higher education institutions.

If most older people want to remain in their own homes, then why does residential care persist? The authors set out to answer this pressing question. They offer readers a comprehensive review of the history of residential care, its provision, practice and an analysis of its future role.

Staff development is recognized as one of the significant vehicles for change in higher education. This book examines the staff development, and place it in the context of other developments in higher education.

Clarifies the nature of the problems surrounding information and IT, and point the way to practical solutions. This book covers policy overview, views from within the health service, and the views of academic researchers.

'I don't like cleaning and hoovering and washing up. I do them because I have to, and I feel that James wants me to be in the house, to be there because his children are there, and the family's there. He likes me there being the mother-hen.' This is how Morag tells her story to her therapist. Just how will the six therapists approach her?

Education has risen swiftly to near the top of the political agenda. Yet in education, as in so many other areas of policy, the debate in Britain has lacked a longer term perspective. This volume addresses itself to that lack in relation to higher education.

Governments in a number of Western countries are attempting to improve the efficiency, appropriateness and equity of their health systems. This book draws on an extensive government-funded evaluation of the UK primary care led total purchasing experiment to shed light on important questions raised by these policies.