Paige Blasts "Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations": Says Every School Must Teach Every Student of High Level with High Standards

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Low Expectations ◽  
High Standards ◽  
High Level

Factors discourage Kuwaiti employees to participate in the private sector labour force (Kuwaitization)

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 969-983
Author(s):  
Abdulla Al-Mutairi ◽  
Kamal Naser ◽  
Fatema Fayez
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Long Working Hours ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Computing Skills ◽  
Low Expectations ◽  
High Standards ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify factors discouraging Kuwaiti nationals from participating in the private sector labour force (Kuwaitization). Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire was distributed to a sample of Kuwaiti nationals to identify the main reasons that prevent them from joining the private sector labour force. Findings The study revealed that low expectations of private sectors’ employers regarding Kuwaiti nationals discourage them from joining the sector. Kuwaiti nationals believe that the private sector employers look for high standards of communication and computing skills. They avoid working for the private sector because some jobs require working for two shifts and long working hours, and they cannot obtain frequent leave. Other factors that appeared to affect Kuwaiti nationals’ participation in the private sector labour force were lack of job security, fewer holidays, difficulty to obtain special pay leave or early retirement at lucrative terms, uncertainty about the prospect of promotion and job insecurity. Research limitations/implications The current study targets Kuwaiti national employees. To formulate a clear picture about the main factors that influence the success or otherwise of the Kuwaitization policy, it is of paramount importance to explore the opinion of the private sector employers. Practical implications The outcome of this study would be used by policymakers to promote Kuwaitization and increase Kuwaiti nationals’ participation in the private sector labour force. This will increase the country’s reliance on its national labour force and ensure sustainable economic and social development. Originality/value The outcome of this study is expected to assist the Kuwaiti authorities in reformulating the current Kuwaitization policies to achieve its objectives. The study is expected to draw some lessons applicable to other Gulf Cooperation Council countries.

scholarly journals InCar plus: High Level of Maturity for High Standards

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 6-7
Author(s):  
Karsten Kroos ◽  
Heinrich Hiesinger ◽  
Heribert R. Fischer
Keyword(s):  
High Standards ◽  
High Level

scholarly journals Opportunities for Refinement of Non-Human Primate Vaccine Studies

Vaccines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 284
Author(s):  
Mark J. Prescott ◽  
Carolyn Clark ◽  
William E. Dowling ◽  
Amy C. Shurtleff
Keyword(s):  
Social Housing ◽  
Environmental Enrichment ◽  
International Workshop ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
High Quality ◽  
National Centre ◽  
High Standards ◽  
High Level ◽  
Scientific Value ◽  
Human Primate

Non-human primates (NHPs) are used extensively in the development of vaccines and therapeutics for human disease. High standards in the design, conduct, and reporting of NHP vaccine studies are crucial for maximizing their scientific value and translation, and for making efficient use of precious resources. A key aspect is consideration of the 3Rs principles of replacement, reduction, and refinement. Funders of NHP research are placing increasing emphasis on the 3Rs, helping to ensure such studies are legitimate, ethical, and high-quality. The UK’s National Centre for the 3Rs (NC3Rs) and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) have collaborated on a range of initiatives to support vaccine developers to implement the 3Rs, including hosting an international workshop in 2019. The workshop identified opportunities to refine NHP vaccine studies to minimize harm and improve welfare, which can yield better quality, more reproducible data. Careful animal selection, social housing, extensive environmental enrichment, training for cooperation with husbandry and procedures, provision of supportive care, and implementation of early humane endpoints are features of contemporary good practice that should and can be adopted more widely. The requirement for high-level biocontainment for some pathogens imposes challenges to implementing refinement but these are not insurmountable.

A Message From The New President

1934 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 213-214
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
National Council ◽  
High Standards ◽  
High Level

In assuming the duties of the office of president of the National Council I must confess to a feeling of apprehension because of the responsibility entailed. During the fourteen years of the Council's existence a high level of achievement has been set by its seven able presidents, aided by thirty-five other teachers serving in various official capacities and by numerous contributers to the Mathematics Teacher and the yearbooks. To direct the activities of the Council in such a manner as to maintain the present high standards is a task that presents a challenge to any man. It cannot be done by one person alone. For the work of the Council to be a success there must be cooperation.

scholarly journals Other oriented perfectionism, player-coach relationships and performance in tennis

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (78) ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
John Hollowell ◽  
Richard Buscombe ◽  
Andry Preston
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
High Standards ◽  
And Performance ◽  
High Level ◽  
Unrealistic Expectations

Other oriented perfectionism describes a pre-occupation with the expectation that others will achieve excessively high standards of performance.  Projecting unrealistic expectations on to each other in a player-coach dyad may disrupt the working relationship and impact on the athlete’s experience within the sport.  This study uses Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis to explore, from the coach’s viewpoint, the effects of other oriented perfectionism in tennis coaching.  After conducting semi-structured interviews with high level coaches from the United Kingdom, two superordinate themes emerged. ‘Negative effects of coaches’ other-oriented perfectionism’ and ‘Redefining perfectionism’. The findings of this study assist in highlighting areas for possible intervention as well as identifying avenues for future research.

scholarly journals Socio-Adaptive Dimension of Students’ Personal Space

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Iryna Havryliuk
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Mental Image ◽  
Personal Space ◽  
Psychological Adaptation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
Psychological Space ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
High Standards ◽  
High Level

Psychological literature presents such notions as "living space," "mental image," "psychological space," etc.; however, only a few pieces of research practically view the modal content of students' spatial organization within the limits of their social and adaptive security. Therefore, it is essential to develop empirical programs for studying the modal features of students' personal space in a socio-adaptive dimension. The article aims to introduce and apply conceptual and methodological support for studying the issue mentioned above; explain the psychological content of modal signs of students' personal space in a socio-adaptive dimension. The following methods were used to conduct the research: theoretical (analysis, synthesis, comparison, abstraction, systematization, and generalization); empirical (observation and conversation); mathematical statistics (Kruskal-Wallis H Test). Data were processed using SPSS Statistics software, version 13.0. One hundred fifty-seven students aged 18 to 25 were invited to participate in research. After specifying the study stages, defining strategies and applying various psychodiagnostic methods, the results were as follows: a) Students with a high level of personal space sovereignty (45.9 % of testees) demonstrated profound control over life; it indicates excellent socio-psychological adaptation and mental well-being of an individual, combined with high standards of autonomy and self-identity; b) Students with a medium sovereignty level (38.2 % of testees) expressed an uncertain position related to determining their personal space. It is often associated with social factors of an individual's self-realization, which impede and even destroy the potential establishment of a holistic, full-fledged own space; c) Students with a low level of psychological space sovereignty (15.9 % of testees) showed the signs of deprivation; such young people might experience alienation and fragmentation of their own life, complications in the search for the object of identification. 

Socio-Adaptive Dimension of Students’ Personal Space

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Iryna Havryliuk
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Mental Image ◽  
Personal Space ◽  
Psychological Adaptation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
Psychological Space ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
High Standards ◽  
High Level

Psychological literature presents such notions as "living space," "mental image," "psychological space," etc.; however, only a few pieces of research practically view the modal content of students' spatial organization within the limits of their social and adaptive security. Therefore, it is essential to develop empirical programs for studying the modal features of students' personal space in a socio-adaptive dimension. The article aims to introduce and apply conceptual and methodological support for studying the issue mentioned above; explain the psychological content of modal signs of students' personal space in a socio-adaptive dimension. The following methods were used to conduct the research: theoretical (analysis, synthesis, comparison, abstraction, systematization, and generalization); empirical (observation and conversation); mathematical statistics (Kruskal-Wallis H Test). Data were processed using SPSS Statistics software, version 13.0. One hundred fifty-seven students aged 18 to 25 were invited to participate in research. After specifying the study stages, defining strategies and applying various psychodiagnostic methods, the results were as follows: a) Students with a high level of personal space sovereignty (45.9 % of testees) demonstrated profound control over life; it indicates excellent socio-psychological adaptation and mental well-being of an individual, combined with high standards of autonomy and self-identity; b) Students with a medium sovereignty level (38.2 % of testees) expressed an uncertain position related to determining their personal space. It is often associated with social factors of an individual's self-realization, which impede and even destroy the potential establishment of a holistic, full-fledged own space; c) Students with a low level of psychological space sovereignty (15.9 % of testees) showed the signs of deprivation; such young people might experience alienation and fragmentation of their own life, complications in the search for the object of identification.

scholarly journals MONOTOWNS: PROS AND CONS

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Владимир Бердников ◽  
Vladimir Berdnikov ◽  
Маргарита Вахтина ◽  
Margarita Vakhtina
Keyword(s):  
Process Design ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
The State ◽  
Development Economic ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Macroeconomic Factors ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
High Standards ◽  
High Level ◽  
Institutional Order

The paper features some factors that influence economic and social situation of monoprofile municipal units in modern Russia. The macroeconomic factors breaking social and economic balance of the monotown can be of technical and process design, economic and (or) institutional nature. Technical and process design factors are connected with objective change of technological ways and assume the advancing actions of subjects of the market for innovative development. Economic factors are defined by state policy in the field of formation of cumulative demand and regulation of inflation. Institutional factors depend on the institutional order established in the society. Based on statistical indicators and results of sociological researches, the current study proves that because of inflation of the offer, the high level of differentiation of income of the population and poverty in modern Russia the consumer demand and demand for investments decreases. The operating institutional order, created with direct participation of the state, prevent a properly correlation between the social contribution of market subjects and remuneration, which, in its turn, prevents economy from performing its main goals compatible to high standards of life of most of people and leads to socio-economic and regional inequality. The authors conclude that the macroeconomic nature of deterioration factors in economic and social situation of modern Russian monoprofile municipal units predetermines the leading role of the federal center in their elimination, and the volume of the financial means allocated for these purposes has to be increased and balanced. When developing concrete measures of the state support of the monotowns in the current complicated socio-economic situation, one should analyze the character of the causes and the system of indicators. The complex of the indicators of economic and social situation of monotowns, which are formally established by the Russian government, is unbalanced now and includes only outdated indicators.

TOWARDS AN INTERNATIONALISATION OF NATIVE TITLE AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS

2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 741
Author(s):  
J.R. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Resource Development ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Community Consultation ◽  
Native Title ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Under Performing ◽  
High Standards ◽  
High Level ◽  
Development Practice

The 20th Century has witnessed the consolidation of global industry and finance. It has also seen the growth of criticism of some developments associated with globalisation. This has been particularly the case with the resource extraction industries and their downstream counterparts. These industries now have to consider a range of factors as central to the management of risk and of reputation that would not have been necessary 30 years ago. One of these factors is the need for community consultation regarding the nature of specific resource development and often some form of compensation for the impacts of development.Central to the Australian formulation of community consultation and development in the context of land use and natural resource development have been the Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Rights Act (ALRA) and the Native Title Act (NTA) as well as the setting up of Land Councils and representative bodies. These laws have been crucial, not just to the administration of land, but to the concept of aboriginality and citizenship as a whole. Like the ALRA, the Native Title Act has had a fundamental impact on the relationship between Aboriginal land interests and resource development. It has often, however, been mired in uncertainty, conflict, and amendments. This has contributed to a climate of legalism that has not necessary always been to the benefit of on-the-ground agreement processes.In Indonesia there is no basis in law for native title issues and a high level of risk exists as a result of social and political transition. As a result some companies operating in Indonesia have begun to develop new approaches to issues of community relations and development. A new understanding of the necessity of carefully planned partnerships in the context of resource development has begun to emerge in Indonesia. The BP Tangguh project in the Bintuni Bay area of West Papua has set high standards for consultative practices relating to community consultation and community development practices. Whatever the commercial success of the Tangguh project, the processes and systems developed for that project indicate the likely future direction of other best-practice resource development projects in Indonesia and elsewhere.In the past, development in Indonesia has been heavily influenced by rent capitalism, which has tended to emphasise the giving of permission over effective business and development practice. While the proponents of Native Title in Australia have often seen Australia as setting an international standard for development practice, this is belied by the actual results of Native Title and what is being undertaken in other international contexts. Native Title also often seems to act as a form of rent capitalism. As such it may be that Native Title does not necessarily define best practice, and, in the international context, may be under-performing in terms of risk and reputation management.Rather than assuming that emerging practices in either Indonesia or Australia are somehow occupying the higher ground in terms of best-practice development, it is suggested that Native Title and international practice can usefully be cross-fertilised in a critical manner. This process can be beneficial to companies and to stakeholders alike, particularly in the context of transparent consultation and negotiation practices that focus on the possibilities for cooperation in development, rather than conflict.

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