The University Challenge Changing universities in a changing world

Ed Byrne is an Academic Neurologist who has worked in Australia and the UK. His research contributions are in the fields of mitochondrial disease and neuromuscular disorders. He was Professor of Neurology and Director of the Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne, and then had a numb...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Byrne, Edward, Clarke, Charles (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Harlow Pearson Education 2020
Edition:New edition
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 03028nmm a2200421 u 4500
001 EB002110001
003 EBX01000000000000001250091
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 221017 ||| eng
020 |a 1292276525 
050 4 |a LB2322.2 
100 1 |a Byrne, Edward 
245 0 0 |a The University Challenge  |b Changing universities in a changing world  |c Edward Byrne, Charles Clarke 
250 |a New edition 
260 |a Harlow  |b Pearson Education  |c 2020 
300 |a 1 online resource 
653 |a Universities and colleges / http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85141086 
653 |a Enseignement supérieur / Aspect social 
653 |a Education, Higher / Aims and objectives / http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041068 
653 |a Universités 
653 |a Education, Higher / Social aspects 
653 |a Education, Higher / Aims and objectives / fast 
653 |a Universities 
653 |a Education, Higher / Economic aspects / fast 
653 |a Enseignement supérieur / Finalités 
653 |a Universities and colleges / fast 
653 |a Enseignement supérieur / Aspect économique 
653 |a Education, Higher / Economic aspects 
653 |a Education, Higher / Social aspects / fast 
700 1 |a Clarke, Charles  |e author 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b OREILLY  |a O'Reilly 
776 |z 9781292276526 
776 |z 9781292276519 
856 4 0 |u https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781292276533/?ar  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 378.001 
520 |a Ed Byrne is an Academic Neurologist who has worked in Australia and the UK. His research contributions are in the fields of mitochondrial disease and neuromuscular disorders. He was Professor of Neurology and Director of the Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne, and then had a number of leadership positions in health and in the university world including Dean of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University, Vice-Provost for Health at UCL and Vice-Chancellor of Monash University. He is now the President and Principal at King's College London. He is currently the Chairman of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. He has long-standing interests in working to improve the contribution that the university sector can make to society at large. Charles Clarke studied at King's College, Cambridge. He was President of the National Union of Students from 1975 to 1977 and then advised Neil Kinnock, Education spokesman and then Leader of the Labour Opposition. He was MP for Norwich from 1997 to 2010 and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Education and Skills. He introduced and implemented the major university reforms of the 2004 Higher Education Act. He also served as Labour Party Chair and Home Secretary. He works on international education reform for parts of Cambridge University and has held Visiting Professorships at the Universities of East Anglia, Lancaster and King's College London