Roger Casement and the Congo

1964 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Roger Louis
Keyword(s):  
Civil Servant ◽  
British Government ◽  
Congo Reform Association ◽  
Dual Capacity

Roger Casement's role as Irish patriot has obscured his role as Congo reformer. Travelling in the interior of the Congo in 1903 as British consul, Casement gathered evidence that enabled the British government to attack the Congo State on grounds of maladministration. He did not however regard mere diplomatic action as sufficient to redress the wrongs of King Leopold's rubber trade. Convinced that only a humanitarian crusade could abolish the evils of the Leopoldian regime, Casement inspired E. D. Morel to found the Congo Reform Association. Through his dual capacity of civil servant and humanitarian, he attempted, in his own words, to choke off King Leopold ‘as a “helldog” is choked off’. His apocalyptic vision of evil in the Congo may have been exaggerated, but his influence was of the first magnitude in bringing about Belgium's annexation of the Congo in 1908.

The Mission of Sir Frederick Leith-Ross to the Far East, 1935–1936

1975 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. H. Rothwell
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Great Power ◽  
British Government ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
Far Eastern ◽  
Economic Adviser

From August 1935 to July 1936 Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, the Chief Economic Adviser to the British Government, was away from Britain on an official mission to the Far East. While accepting that, as Hankey, the secretary to the cabinet, put it, after Leith-Ross had been away for several months, he was a ‘distinguished Civil Servant’ whose ‘services could, with difficulty, be spared from European problems’, the aim of this paper is not to describe in detail what Leith-Ross did during his lengthy Far Eastern sojourn: on that he himself wrote an account which was published just before his death. The purpose is rather, by studying the origins of the mission and the reactions to it in British Government circles concerned with Far Eastern policy, to cast light on that policy during Britain's last few years as a great power in the Far East.3 Within die Foreign Office itself, Far Eastern policy was to a large degree the preserve of die professional staff concerned with it. The most senior of these in 1935 were C. W. Orde, head of the Far Eastern department, Sir John Pratt and Sir Victor Wellesley.

Ministerial Reshuffles and the Civil Service

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. K. Alderman ◽  
J. A. Cross
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
The Other ◽  
British Government ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between ministers and the senior civil servants with whom they are in closest contact has long fascinated students of British government. For all the attention lavished on it, however, the relationship remains obstinately elusive and unsusceptible to clear categorization and analysis. The problem is partly one of finding a suitable frame of reference. Despite their well-established limitations, the Weberian model of an instrumental bureaucracy and the closely-related ‘politics-administration dichotomy’ still loom surprisingly large in academic analyses of bureaucratic behaviour. But the attempt to specify roles appropriate to civil servants, on the one hand, or ministers, on the other, runs the risk either of proving inadequate in face of the empirical evidence or of leading to the conclusion that one of the groups – usually the civil servants – is usurping the other's role or roles. Elements of the latter can be seen in the concern evinced in recent years about the power of civil servantsvis-à-visministers in Britain. (Discussion of minister-civil servant relationships has, indeed, been almost entirely confined to aspects of power – particularly that of the minister's ability to get his way on policy.)

The origins of Canada's first Eastern Arctic Patrol, 1919–1922

Polar Record ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Cavell ◽  
Jeff Noakes
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
Ellesmere Island ◽  
British Government ◽  
The North ◽  
Wide Range

ABSTRACTIt is widely believed among historians that in 1920, the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen and the Danish government challenged Canada's sovereignty over Ellesmere Island. This paper draws on a wide range of Canadian and British government files and private papers to contest this view. It demonstrates that Prime Minister Arthur Meighen and others in Ottawa were initially convinced by Vilhjalmur Stefansson that Denmark harboured territorial ambitions in the north, but most realised in the spring of 1921 that they had been mistaken. However, one civil servant, J. B. Harkin, stubbornly maintained his belief in the Danish threat. After Mackenzie King's Liberals came to power, Harkin was able to obtain a hearing for his views. It was largely due to Harkin's persistence that the first Eastern Arctic Patrol went north in 1922.

KOMPETENSI PEDAGOGIK GURU

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Achmad Habibullah
Keyword(s):  
Civil Servant ◽  
Lesson Plans ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Weak Point ◽  
Islamic School ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Potential Development ◽  
Pedagogical Competence ◽  
Material Organization

AbstractPedagogical competence is one of important competencies to the teachers. Therefore, this study aims to determine how the pedagogical competence of teachers is, viewed from the aspects of learning know­ledge skills, preparation of lesson plans, and learning in the classroom. This study used the quantitative method with 631 respondents of civil servant teachers of Islamic Education at school and teachers of ge­neral subjects at madrasah (Islamic school) recruited from non-permanent teachers in 20 districts/cities in Central Java province, selected at random. The findings show that teachers’ pedagogical competence knowledge on the aspect of learning knowledge skills is in the “poor” category, the aspect of students’ potential development knowledge and reflective efforts to improve the learning quality becomes a very weak point at an average value with the “very poor” category. In addition, the aspect of ability to prepare lesson plans is in the “sufficient” category, the teaching material organization and the evaluation aspect are very weak competence aspects, which get “poor”. Meanwhile, the competence of learning implemen­tation aspect is in the “sufficient” category. AbstrakKompetensi pedagogik merupakan salah satu kompetensi yang penting bagi guru. Untuk itu, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana kompetensi pedagogik guru, dilihat dari aspek kemampuan pengetahuan pembelajaran, menyusun rancangan pembelajaran (RPP), dan pembelajaran di kelas. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuantitatif dengan responden 631 guru PNS Pendidikan Agama Islam pada sekolah dan guru mata pelajaran umum pada madrasah yang direkrut dari guru honorer di 20 Kabupaten/Kota di Provinsi Jawa Tengah yang dipilih secara random. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kompetensi pedagogik guru pada aspek kemampuan pengetahuan pembelajaran dalam kategori “kurang”, aspek pengetahuan pengembangan potensi peserta didik dan upaya reflektif untuk meningkatkan mutu pembelajaran menjadi titik yang sangat lemah dengan mendapat nilai rata-rata dengan kategori “sangat kurang”. Selain itu, aspek kemampuan menyusun RPP dalam kategori “cukup”, aspek pengorganisasian materi ajar dan aspek evaluasi merupakan aspek kemampuan yang sangat lemah dengan mendapatkan nilai “kurang”. Sedangkan, aspek kemampuan dalam melaksanakan pembelajaran dalam kategori “cukup”.

Meriel Talbot and the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women, 1919–1937

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-52
Author(s):  
Bonnie White
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Service ◽  
Agricultural Workers ◽  
British Government ◽  
Early Failure ◽  
Proper Selection ◽  
Domestic Servants ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Female Migrants ◽  
Post War ◽  
Selection Of

In 1917 the British government began making plans for post-war adjustments to the economy, which included the migration of surplus women to the dominions. The Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women was established in 1920 to facilitate the migration of female workers to the dominions. Earlier studies have argued that overseas emigration efforts purposefully directed women into domestic service as surplus commodities, thus alleviating the female ‘surplus’ and easing economic hardships of the post-war period. This article argues that as Publicity Officer for the SOSBW, Meriel Talbot targeted women she believed would be ideal candidates for emigration, including former members of the Women's Land Army and affiliated groups. With the proper selection of female migrants, Talbot sought to expand work opportunities for women in the dominions beyond domestic service, while reducing the female surplus at home and servicing the connection between state and empire. Dominion authorities, whose demands for migrant labour vacillated between agricultural workers during the war years and domestic servants after 1920, disapproved of Talbot's efforts to migrate women for work in agriculture. Divergent policies led to the early failure of the SOSBW in 1923.

Peningkatan Profesionalisme Pegawai Negeri Sipil Dilihat Dari Sistem Rekrutmen Berbasis Kompetensi

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ridwan
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Human Resource Planning ◽  
Vacant Position

Quality of human resources-civil servants, among others, which is determined by the recruitment processof seeking and finding HR activities-civil servant who has the motivation, ability, skills and knowledgerequired to carry out its duties in office. Organizational recruitment as human resource planning must becomprehensive programmed to be able to predict the needs of both quantity and quality as well asplanning professionals. Theoretically, many methods and selection techniques to evaluate applicantsaccording to a vacant position within the organizationKeywords: professionalism, recruitment, competence

Dynamic Dual Capacity Sourcing for New Ethical Drugs

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroko Okajima ◽  
Susan H. Xu ◽  
Hui Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Dual Capacity
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