TY - JOUR
AB - Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1986 77 REVIEW ARTICLE Reviewed by DAVID PHILLIPS, VERNON MALLINSON, KENNETH WILSON, KARL-HEINZ GRUBER and JOHN K. BACKHOUSE Editors-in-Chief: TORSTEN HUSEN & T . NEVILLE POSTLETHWAITE, 1985 Oxford, Pergamon Press Recently an Oxford librarian bought for £10 the ten-volume International Encyclope- dia of Higher Education (Editor-in-Chief: Ada S. Knowles) published in 1977 (with a second printing in 1978) and originally sold for some £300. Such is the life expectancy of an encyclopedia which deals with themes that need constant updating in order to be of unquestioned value to the user. Knowles's work undoubtedly remains, however, a most useful source of reference to the student of higher education. Despite the seemingly unattractive prospect, as far as publishers are concerned, of a comparatively short shelf-life for a work that has taken a long time to produce and which has been technically complex, and no doubt very expensive, in production, there are still publishers willing to make the grand gesture. There is, for example, the 11- volume Enzyklopddie Erziehungswissenschaft, issued from 1982 to 1985 in single volumes by Klett-Cotta of Stuttgart, a work which is as exhaustive, within its own terms, as the International 
TI - International Encyclopedia of Education
JF - Oxford Review of Education
DO - 10.1080/0305498860120107
DA - 1986-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/international-encyclopedia-of-education-FYqopT5fZG
SP - 77
EP - 93
VL - 12
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -