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The latest Enhancing… book for HE best practice

Enhancing Learning through Assessment is the fourth collection gathering experiences of developing best practice for students and lecturers in business and accounting, finance, hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism.

See the extract from the introduction. Look out for Enhancing Graduate Impact from the Higher Education Academy in 2011.

A farmer's wife in Jane Austen's Hampshire

‘Delicious’ said Gwyn Rushton in the Farnham Herald. ‘Ruth deftly presents her discovery, Mary Bacon’s farm ledger, as an open window into a lost world through which Mary almost seems to lean out for a chat.’

Mary Bacon’s World – an interpretation of Mary’s writing, material circumstances, recipes for food and medicines, her domestic practice and mental world – provides a fascinating insight into the life of the eighteenth century ‘middling sort’. Read an extract from Ruth's introduction.

Mary Tant's latest classic crime novel

With Players and Betrayers Mary Tant’s series of murder mysteries set in the West Country reaches its fourth volume. The fascinating combination of heritage, archaeology, theatre and suspense makes this novel a worthy sequel to The Rossington Inheritance, Death at the Priory and Friends… and a Foe.

Student-centred Learning book launched

Enhancing Student-centred Learning, edited by John Buswell and Nina Becket is the latest authoritative survey of innovation in HE teaching, learning and assessment in our series from the Higher Education Academy HLST and BMAF subject centres. Building on the foundation of Enhancing Graduate Employability, it looks at creating independent, autonomous and self-empowered learners. Read an extract from John's introduction.

Can higher education deliver?

That's the question posed by Angela Maher and Sarah Graves' second book from their FDTL project on graduate employability. The Hospitality Review's reviewer concluded that they had delivered:
…this is an excellent little book. It faces the debates and controversies head on, it engages with hard evidence about the human resource needs of the hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism sector, and it gives plenty of good advice for those who would like to develop a systematic approach to the development of graduate employability in the university curriculum. Liz Doherty

The international learning experience

Enhancing the international learning experience takes a broad perspective on this vital issue. Academics, documenting good practice in HE from across the UK, look at what international experiences contribute for 'home' students, explore cultural differences for teachers and taught alike and prove that this isn't just about international students fitting into their courses.
Important issues of assessment and critical thinking are faced head-on, and there are useful practical guidance on relationship building at institutional, subject and personal levels. Read an extract from Chris Shiel's introduction.

Angels and Citizens featured
in TLS Nightingale review

As if to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its first publication, Anne Summers’ Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses 1854–1914 and its arguments are featured in a major TLS review by Gillian Sutherland of Mark Bostridge’s new biography of Florence Nightingale. Read more
Read Anne on Nightingale’s letters from The Guardian in 2007.

Timely employability books

With the tightening of the employment market Developing Graduate Employability is of concern to every lecturer in HE. Sarah Graves and Angela Maher's survey of hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism education presents practical experience and its results from across the sector.