Rights and Responsibilities in Higher Education by Abhilasha Singh HARDBACK

Emerald Publishing Limited

Rights and Responsibilities in Higher EducationAuthor(s): Abhilasha Singh, Patrick Blessinger, Madasu Bhaskara Rao\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, United Kingdom\nImprint: Emerald Publishing Limited\nISBN-13: 9781836623731, 978-1836623731\nSynopsis\nParticipation in education is essential in fostering the full agency of people within society. Higher education is subject to a variety of rights for students, and often these rights are protected by law or by university policy. Rights and Responsibilities in Higher Education explores how higher education institutions have responded to this human-rights-based approach to higher education.\n\nIntroducing the concept of educational rights and their role in the emerging university of the twenty-first century, the chapters in this collection delve into how educational stakeholders must understand the nature of rights and the role they play in shaping, often implicitly, an institutions ethos, customs, norms, and tradi.