Context and Comparison of Translation Programmes in China and the UK: Market Forces, Global Positions and Curriculum Content

2018 ◽  
pp. 157-234
Author(s):  
Wan Hu
Keyword(s):  
Market Forces ◽  
Curriculum Content ◽  
The Uk

Market forces or institutional factors: what hinders housing development on brownfield land?

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Hutchison ◽  
Alan Disberry
Keyword(s):  
Local Authority ◽  
Residential Development ◽  
City Council ◽  
Housing Development ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Dominant Factor ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Uk

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the barriers to housing development on brownfield land in the UK, making clear the distinction between market and institutional factors and identify appropriate public and private sector solutions to encourage more residential development. Design/methodology/approach – In this research, the city of Nottingham in the East Midlands of England was chosen as the case study city. The research was based on secondary literature review of relevant local authority reports, Internet searches, consultancy documents and policy literature. Detailed case studies were undertaken of 30 sites in Nottingham which included a questionnaire survey of developers. Officials from Nottingham City Council assisted with the gathering of planning histories of the sites. The investigation took place in 2014. Findings – Based on the evidence from Nottingham, the most frequently occurring significant constraint was poor market conditions. At the local level, it is clear that there are options that can be promoted to help reduce the level of friction in the market, to reduce delay and cost and, thus, to encourage developers to bring forward schemes when the market allows. Securing planning permission and agreeing the terms of a S106 agreement is recognised as a major development hurdle which requires time to achieve. Practical implications – Market forces were clearly the dominant factor in hindering development on brownfield sites in Nottingham. The local authority should be more circumspect in the use of S106 agreements in market conditions where brownfield development is highly marginal. Imposing additional taxation on specific developments in weak markets discourages development and is counterproductive. Originality/value – This detailed study of 30 development sites is significant in that it provides a better understanding of the barriers to residential development on brownfield land in the UK.

Intelligent Kindness: professional healthcare and the future of the UK NHS

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Campling
Keyword(s):  
Patient Care ◽  
Patient Experience ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Staff Morale ◽  
Defensive Structure ◽  
Healthcare Professions ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
The Uk

The concept of ‘intelligent kindness’ is important at all levels of healthcare from the personal, through teams and work organisations to the political. A virtuous circle is envisaged, based on what motivates and assures compassionate practice, affecting patient experience and linking to staff morale, effectiveness, efficiency and outcome. The UK NHS is a system that invites Society to value and attend to its deepest common interests; a vital expression of kinship that can improve if Society, patients and, especially, staff can reconnect to the powerful motivation and attentiveness inherent in such connectedness.The healthcare task, however, puts us in touch with deep-seated, largely unconscious existential anxieties that can undermine the work and the organization. Not only are hospitals organized in a defensive structure against such anxieties - as described by Isobel Menzies Lyth, over 50 years ago - but these same anxieties drive the constant re-structurings that are so disruptive to the service and distracting from patient care. The forces at work in Society that threaten to undermine and fragment an ethical healthcare system are also described in relation to Susan Long’s thesis on the ‘perverse organisation’ - particularly the tendency to ‘turn a blind eye’ to the dangers of unmitigated market forces and industrialization.It is argued within this article that a focus on intelligent kindness in healthcare is more urgent than ever and that such a focus could act as an integrating force, minimizing the potential for harmful fragmentation. Models of good practice are described and an active refocussing on kindness within healthcare professions is encouraged.

Financing Training in Britain(1)

1991 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 77-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.E. Hart ◽  
A. Shipman
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Skill Shortages

While the need for a greater volume of vocational training is widely recognised, it is unlikely to be achieved entirely by labour-market forces. This article, drawing on an investigation of British and German firms with skill shortages, considers the ways in which government can promote transferable training. Attention is given to coverage, likely costs, and the scope for sharing those costs with the private sector. Programmes already operating in the UK are identified and assessed, and some future approaches suggested.

The branded product and the funded project: the impact of economic rationality on the practices and pedagogy of music education in the early childhood sector

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Susan Young
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Branded Product ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

Abstract In this article, I explore how neoliberal economic discourses and techniques have profoundly influenced the way that music education in early childhood has developed in recent years in the UK. I focus on two dominant models of practice that have been shaped by market thinking; the private music session (the ‘branded product’) and short term, stand-alone projects funded by charitable organisations (the ‘funded project’). The prevalence of these two models has resulted in highly fragmented and unequal provision accompanied by narrow conceptions of music in early childhood that give rise to impoverished practice. While I base my discussion on the early childhood sector in the UK, this discussion can nevertheless warn music educators beyond this one sector and one location of the negative consequences of abandoning music education to market forces.

Developing Britain's Port Infrastructure: Markets, Policy, and Location

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
pp. 2271-2286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Asteris ◽  
Alan Collins
Keyword(s):  
Market Forces ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Container Port ◽  
Shipping Industry ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Port Development ◽  
Public Inquiry ◽  
Key Players ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Port Infrastructure

The authors draw on historical evidence, recent public inquiry documentation and maritime port-capacity forecasts to examine the logic and consistency of British seaport infrastructure development. In light of the rejection of the Dibden Bay (Southampton) container-port proposal, the authors counterpoint the UK government position with the views and evidence presented by key players in the port and shipping industry. The respective standpoints are shown to be markedly divergent in a number of key respects. The principal conclusion is that market forces are of critical importance in determining the nature and location of port developments. Consequently, unless shippers are provided with sufficiently flexible facilities in the locations they prefer, Britain could, as in the 1980s, find itself in danger of becoming little more than an appendage to the major North European continental ports. The delicate balance between interventionist and market-led port development is an issue that will inevitably be encountered in other geographical contexts.

UK Upstream Oil Policy

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 495-505
Keyword(s):  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Production Policy ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Recent Statement ◽  
Oil Policy ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Regulatory Powers

UK oil petroleum exploration and production policy is becoming more transparent and relying more and more on market forces. This article is based on the UK Government's detailed directions to petroleum exploration and production companies, together with the existing regulatory powers, prefaced by a recent statement by the UK Minister for Energy.

Assessment and specification of armourstone quality: from CIRIA/CUR (1991) to CEN (2000)

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.-P. Latham
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Model Specification ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Rock Quality ◽  
Strength Tests ◽  
Quality Testing ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
The Uk ◽  
New Research

AbstractAs a typical by-product to normal quarrying, armourstone has many attributes that make its objective specification and testing less straightforward than most producers would wish. Neither, it appears, has the market forces principle and tendering practices in the UK construction industry, leading to minimal forward planning of armourstone testing, helped to enhance quality control of materials. The undoubted advances heralded by the standardizing approach of the CIRIA/CUR Manual on the Use of Rock in Coastal and Shoreline Engineering and its model specification have done much to rationalize a previously over-simplistic view of armourstone specification. However, recent practical experience with many coastal contracts which have adopted the CIRIA/CUR specification has exposed a number of problems with the detailed implementation of the rock quality testing part of the model specification. In particular, this experience draws attention to a lack of published correlation studies between the various abrasion tests and between strength tests. Rock suppliers are reporting that designers are continuing to specify using the BS812 suite of aggregate tests. The potential for bias in the taking and preparation of representative test portions has also remained a problem.The manual specification's rationale, its strengths and weaknesses, are outlined. Correlation analysis of new research data from a suite of rocks is presented. A re-examination of the manual specification's acceptance criteria for resistance to wear and to breakage is presented. A way forward is offered for the continued use of the manual specification until its supersedence by the European CEN specification for armourstone. Improvements in the 16th draft of the CEN standard are briefly discussed, and it is found that certain problems that the manual began to address remain unsolved.

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