Sheila Edward and Julie McLeod
This article presents key findings from a JISC‐funded research project “Developing records management in further education: responding to the requirements of the Freedom of…
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This article presents key findings from a JISC‐funded research project “Developing records management in further education: responding to the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000”, considering issues raised in a study of 15 colleges in northern England in 2003. It highlights difficulties of raising awareness of records management in this context; the value of the “Model action plan for achieving compliance with the Lord Chancellor’s Code of Practice on the management of records in higher and further education institutions”; and barriers to be overcome in institutions where the appointment of a professional records manager is not a possibility. It considers whether preparations for FoI have had an impact on records management in this sector, and whether this is likely to continue or increase in future, after the Act comes into force in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in January 2005.
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This chapter explores the theorising practices of successful researchers in higher education. The biographical case studies use teaching and learning as their focus to provide…
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This chapter explores the theorising practices of successful researchers in higher education. The biographical case studies use teaching and learning as their focus to provide four succinct accounts of how the researcher’s thinking around their signature concepts evolved over time. They analyse the narrative that surrounds these signature concepts to understand what successful researchers do with their ideas to maximise their symbolic capital in the higher education research field. The researcher’s experiences of theorising highlight the contextual factors that have influenced them as they tried to explain how they achieved the outcomes of their research. The chapter concludes with an overview of the beneficial strategies used in these four cases, so potential researchers can appreciate the approaches to theorising that are compatible with higher education research traditions.
Describes the history of the Freshwater Biological Association andits Library. Notes that the library produces a current awarenessbulletin listing over 750 freshwater ecology…
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Describes the history of the Freshwater Biological Association and its Library. Notes that the library produces a current awareness bulletin listing over 750 freshwater ecology papers each month, an annual bibliography of papers on British freshwaters and undertakes manual and on‐line retrospective information enquiries. Concludes that these flexible national and international networks of information exchange and collaboration survive despite an ever changing spectrum of political philosophies.
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EDWARD DUDLEY, WILFRED ASHWORTH, SHEILA CORRALL, TERRY HANSTOCK, MILDA MALAKUNAS, ALLAN BUNCH and EDWIN FLEMING
1. The Managing Director of Diners Club International has sent a ‘personal invitation to join and to enjoy all the privileges of membership for six months, without obligation and…
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1. The Managing Director of Diners Club International has sent a ‘personal invitation to join and to enjoy all the privileges of membership for six months, without obligation and save the £15 enrolment fee’ to:
Birgit Helene Jevnaker and Inge Hill
This chapter investigates heritage craft entrepreneurship ‘in the wild’, creative start-ups emerging within a rural context in Norway and the UK. The research asks how…
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This chapter investigates heritage craft entrepreneurship ‘in the wild’, creative start-ups emerging within a rural context in Norway and the UK. The research asks how entrepreneurs accomplish heritage craft entrepreneuring. To answer this question, we apply relational ontology, conceptualising entrepreneurship as the ongoing accomplishment of entrepreneurial activities, labelled entrepreneuring. We compare two rural heritage craft businesses: Running a spinnery located on a farm in a valley in Norway and a tweed-based textile creating organisation, co-located with other artisan entrepreneurs positioning in a community-led craft heritage building in the United Kingdom. Both entrepreneuring settings employ heritage craft in their businesses and engage in various forms of collaborations and placemaking in their creative entrepreneuring. This chapter unpacks three facets of artisan entrepreneuring through the lens of placemaking – connecting, organising, and co-developing in rural settings. We contribute to the entrepreneurship-as-practice and creative entrepreneurship literature and highlight the implications of placemaking for rural development.
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The smiling person on the cover has now left NLW — and was immediately signed up by Jane Jenkins for the Record. I am now Caretaking Editor, for this issue and for March (it seems…
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The smiling person on the cover has now left NLW — and was immediately signed up by Jane Jenkins for the Record. I am now Caretaking Editor, for this issue and for March (it seems I am doomed to be Managing Editor or some other euphemism).
This chapter focuses on the use of target-setting in Scottish higher education to boost participation by under-represented groups. The central question I address is whether the…
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This chapter focuses on the use of target-setting in Scottish higher education to boost participation by under-represented groups. The central question I address is whether the technology of New Public Management, such as performance indicators and targets, is likely to be useful in addressing the problem of social inequality in higher education. Traditionally, the Scottish Government has tended to adopt a light touch to university regulation and governance, using institutional carrots rather than sticks (Raffe, 2013, 2016). More recently, since the introduction of widening access outcomes agreements and the publication of the final report of the Commission on Fair Access (Scottish Government, 2015), universities have argued that the government’s interventions risk eroding university autonomy without achieving policy goals.
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The climate crisis is frightening for many people because of evident and often dire impacts. Although these impacts are alarming, it's often not clear what one person, or one…
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The climate crisis is frightening for many people because of evident and often dire impacts. Although these impacts are alarming, it's often not clear what one person, or one community, can do to drive down greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. For this reason, the Episcopal Diocese of California initiated the development and rollout of an Internet accessible tool – sustainislandhome.org – that can help people and communities be part of climate solutions. This chapter focuses on why sustainislandhome.org was developed, its design principles and how it works, and lessons the Episcopal Church is learning from rollout of this tool across Episcopal dioceses in the United States. It's my hope that our effort can serve as a model for other faith communities in educating and mobilizing their members for climate action and advocacy.
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Cheryl Yandell Adkisson, Ron Adkisson, Sheila Dolores Arnold, Jill Balota Cross, William J. Fetsko, Theodore D. R. Green, Valarie Gray Holmes, Christy L. Howard, Lawrence M. Paska, Teresa Potter, Jocelyn Bell Swanson, Kathryn L. Ness Swanson, Darci L. Tucker and Dale G. Van Eck