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In this thought provoking, contemporary and persuasive book, Margaret Wood and Feng Su call for a renewal of the promise of higher education as a public good and open up debates on the importance of more inclusive and pedagogically informed discourses and practices of teaching excellence. * Tanya Fitzgerald, Professor of Higher Education, The University of Western Australia, Australia * This book advances a convincing argument for an inclusive notion of excellence that recognizes the diversity of stakeholder perspectives and rejects the imposition of a single bureaucratically defined framework of outcome measures. * Jon Nixon, Visiting Professor, Middlesex University, UK * Through gathering perspectives on excellence from members of several stakeholder groups — higher education institutions, academics, students, employers and parents — Margaret Wood and Feng Su encourage us to wrestle with what excellence means not only according to members of these groups but also, importantly, at the intersections of their multiple perspectives. * Alison Cook-Sather, Mary Katharine Woodworth Professor of Education, Bryn Mawr College, USA *

In this thought provoking, contemporary and persuasive book, Margaret Wood and Feng Su call for a renewal of the promise of higher education as a public good and open up debates on the importance of more inclusive and pedagogically informed discourses and practices of teaching excellence. --Tanya Fitzgerald, Professor of Higher Education, The University of Western Australia, Australia This book advances a convincing argument for an inclusive notion of excellence that recognizes the diversity of stakeholder perspectives and rejects the imposition of a single bureaucratically defined framework of outcome measures. --Jon Nixon, Visiting Professor, Middlesex University, UK Through gathering perspectives on excellence from members of several stakeholder groups - higher education institutions, academics, students, employers and parents - Margaret Wood and Feng Su encourage us to wrestle with what excellence means not only according to members of these groups but also, importantly, at the intersections of their multiple perspectives. --Alison Cook-Sather, Mary Katharine Woodworth Professor of Education, Bryn Mawr College, USA

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Margaret Wood is Senior Lecturer at York St John University, UK. Feng Su is Senior Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University, UK.

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