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Mastering Fashion Styling
By Jo Dingemans
Paperback
Published 09-Aug-1999
| RRP: | £20.99 |
| Our price: | £16.79 |
| You save: | £4.20 |
Fashion styling is one of the least well researched areas in fashion colleges. This "how to" book aims to provide an insight into the processes you have to follow to work in this area, be it editorial, commercial or show styling. It includes an eight-week introductory programme to the subject.
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Becoming a Psychologist
By Ronald Francis
Paperback
Published 29-Oct-2003
| Our price: | £21.99 |
Both a guide to psychology as a career and a comprehensive reference tool, with details of a wide variety of resources for the aspiring professional, this volume aims to help and encourage students to make the right choice and smooth their path to becoming a psychologist.
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Managing Your Placement
By Ian Herbert
Paperback
Published 27-Aug-2004
| Our price: | £26.99 |
Managing Your Placement presents students with a comprehensive guide to making the most of the opportunities available to them on a work placement. The book will guide students through everything, from the questions to ask to admission tutors on university open days, to selecting the best placement and securing a job upon graduation.
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Academic Career Handbook
By Loraine Blaxter
Hardback
Published 01-May-1998
| Our price: | £25.99 |
With an emphasis on supporting staff development, this handbook offers guidance on the craft of performing five key tasks - networking, teaching, researching, writing and managing. It discusses issues such as getting published, networking, obtaining research funding, principles of teaching and assessment, and seeking promotion.
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Counselling in Careers Guidance
By Migel Jayasinghe
Hardback
Published 01-Feb-2001
| Our price: | £22.99 |
Making the right career choice has a profound impact on our lives. It influences our welfare, our sense of well-being and our state of mind. This book introduces the principles and concepts of career development and shows how theoretical ideas can be put into counselling practice. It also explores the major influences on careers counselling.
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Work-based Learning
By David Boud
Paperback
Published 01-Feb-2001
| Our price: | £29.99 |
This book is a radical approach to the notion of higher education. Students undertake study for a degree or diploma primarily in their workplace and their learning opportunities are not contrived for study purposes but arise from normal work. Work-based Learning is the first comprehensive book on this major innovation.
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Research Careers and Cultures
By Sara Delamont
Paperback
Published 01-Apr-2004
| Our price: | £26.99 |
Based on the authors' research on research groups, and on their experience as Head of Department, Dean and Pro Vice-Chancellor, this book provides advice for younger academics making their way in the system, and for more senior people who need to mentor research staff, build research groups and shape research-led careers.
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Working Knowledge
By Colin Symes
Paperback
Published 01-Nov-2002
| Our price: | £28.99 |
Analyses the development of partnerships business from a number of perspectives: critical, historical, philosophical, sociological and pedagogical. This book argues that work-based approaches contain much that is challenging to the university, and also much that could help to create frameworks of learning and roles for academics.
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From Vocational to Higher Education
By Gavin Moodie
Paperback
Published 01-Oct-2008
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This book discusses current issues in vocational and higher education and the relations between them.
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Facilitating Action Learning
By Mike Pedler
Paperback
Published 01-Jan-2013
| Our price: | £19.99 |
This book is a clear, concise and straightforward guide to the action learning approach to problem-solving and learning in groups.
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