Higher Education and the Referendum on Scottish Independence

During the course of the referendum campaign, the Scottish government argued that free tuition for Scottish and EU students symbolised Scotland's preference for universal services and was intrinsically fairer than the ‘marketised’ systems operating in the rest of the UK. Invoking principles of both social justice and pragmatism, three distinct critiques of the Scottish government's higher education policy were mounted and adopted by different policy actors for different political purposes. Following a discussion of these arguments, this article concludes that a more nuanced discussion of higher education policy in Scotland is required, focusing not just on the absence of tuition fees but also on the distribution of debt and allocation of funds across the entire education system. We also note that the focus on tuition fees policy suggests that higher education systems across the UK are set on a process of divergence, whereas there are strong pressures towards policy convergence in areas such as research policy and internationalisation.     

论邓小平教育发展战略思想

邓小平教育发展战略思想是邓小平理论的有机组成部分,是马列主义教育学说和毛泽东教育思想在现代的运用和发展。主要体现在中国教育发展的战略方向,新时期思想政治教育的重要性,尊重知识、尊重人才,各级政府和领导要以战略眼光抓教育等方面。     

家政服务员性骚扰问题的职业特点

文章基于打工妹之家的维权经历和调研结果,分析了家政服务员性骚扰问题的职业特点。其特点表现为:与其他行业从业人员相比,家政服务员更容易遭受性骚扰,且受害者都是女性;此类性骚扰容易导致犯罪而且取证更难。因此,改变家庭服务员遭受性骚扰的状况,需要加强法律保障和行业管理,建立多部门多系统的联合预防和救济机制。     

略论程朱教育思想对现代教育之借鉴

程颢、程颐及朱熹的教育思想 ,是他们汲取孔、孟等古代教育的思想精粹并融合自己长期的教育实践经验 ,进行深刻的总结并加以理性思考而形成的理论结晶 ,对宋直至清代的七百多年中国教育 ,产生了极为深远的影响。他们提出和实施的注重素质教育、摒弃应试教育 ;注重学习方法论教育 ;注重个性差异 ,因材施教 ,提倡启发引导 ,独立思考 ;注重躬行实践 ,强调知行并重等许多富有真知灼见的主张和见解 ,是符合人类认识规律和教学规律的 ,至今仍对现代教育具有深刻的借鉴意义。     

我国城市贫困家庭子女的教育救助问题研究

目前,贫困家庭子女教育经费拮据、受教育程度低,教育期望与职业期望不高,并已经显现出失业率高和职业稳定性差等后果性问题。建议政府在制定教育政策和制度时,在观念上建立人力资本和社会投资的理念,在行动上策划和发展有效的职业训练方案。     

谈警体课的教学评估

警体课的教学质量对实现公安教育的培养目标有着重要影响,经常、适时地对警体教学进行评估对保证各项教学任务的完成,促进教学质量的进一步提高将起到有力的保障作用。对警体教学的评估要依据警体教学的规律和特点,从教书育人、教学计划、组织教法、练习密度、运动负荷、教学效果等多方面综合进行评定。     

论民族地区教育行政制度创新--从新制度经济学视角的分析

文章运用新制度经济学的理论和方法,分析我国教育制度变迁的供求关系,分析我国民族地区教育及教育行政制度的特殊性,进而指出民族地区教育行政制度创新特殊的意义。     

中国的基础设施建设援助与国际发展援助的“共生”——援助国产业结构差异的视角

发展与援助在二战后的制度化结合是现代援助体系诞生的标志,对外援助的道德属性被框定为帮助受援国实现发展。但在现实中,西方和中国常质疑彼此的援助道德动机,前者认为后者的基建援助是"新殖民主义"、"债务陷阱",后者认为前者的软性援助人员费过高、口惠而实不至、干涉他国内政。本文尝试在国际政治经济学框架下,将对外援助决策的规范建构与理性选择双重属性理论化,发掘一国产业结构与对外援助政策间的关联性,以解释西方与中国对外援助的特征差异和误解来源。概言之,发展通过中间变量产业结构可以分解出发展理念、发展资源和发展压力等作用机制,影响一国对外援助的部门分配,因而工业国倾向基础设施与生产性援助,第三产业国则偏好投放专业服务类援助。在全球价值链分工视野下,中国对外援助的偏好和结构具备合理性和正当性,不同援助方的发展援助既会产生竞争,也可互补共生,共同推动联合国"2030愿景"和新型全球治理的实现。     

Chapter 11. The Economics of Group Care Practice

Abstract

For the past two decades, economic influences have significantly impacted the provision of health and welfare services for children, young people and their families in communities around the world. The dynamic of cost has reshaped both the nature and provision of group care services, promoting de-institutionalization and transforming the nature of caring services offered in local communities. In a reappraisal of themes identified in his seminal contribution more than two decades ago, this leading authority looks back at key themes impacting on the economics of social care that shape group care services for the new millennium.     

Production networks,economic integration and the services sector: Implications for regional trade agreements in southern Africa

Debate on an appropriate framework for economic integration in southern Africa has hitherto focused largely on matters relating to trade in final goods, with little analysis of the potential benefits of production sharing and fragmented trade, or of challenges related to the accompanying role of the services sector. The first goal of this article is thus to explore the possible benefits for the development of specialisation and trade expansion related to the international fragmentation of production, and whether such benefits may be better harnessed by southern African countries in a context of regional integration. Secondly, the critical role of the services sector in production-sharing arrangements leads to questions about developing country services sectors and regional versus multilateral services liberalisation. The article therefore considers the importance of the services sector in the fragmentation context, and the growing debates surrounding services aspects of developing country regional trade agreements. It is argued that while there may be a case for the promotion of production-sharing arrangements in regional trade agreements in southern Africa, key constraints that continue to hinder the region's trade and development agenda remain the conflicting rules of origin in economic arrangements with overlapping membership, and non-tariff barriers to trade, particularly intra-regional transport costs.