Preparing the public workforce for the twenty‐first century: the challenge

Work Study ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arie Halachmi
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Public Workforce

scholarly journals Professionalization and Innovations in Nigerian Public Service: How far the Dream of Success?

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Salami Issa Afegbua
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
The State ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Made In

Public service accounts for a substantial share of a country’s economic activity. It is designed as an agent of fruitful change and development in the state. The transformation of any society or system depends on the effectiveness and efficiency of its civil service. The article examines the nature of professionalization and innovation in Nigerian public service. It argues that professionalization in the public service is an overarching value that determines how its activities will be carried out. The article note that various attempts have been made in Nigeria to professionalised and encourage innovation in the public service, but these have not bring about the expected changes in the public service. It therefore advocates for professionalization and innovations as panacea to the ills of public service in Nigeria. The article concludes that no public service can meet the challenges of the twenty first century without a stronger commitment to the professionalization of its workforce.

scholarly journals Canadian Legal Ethics: Ready for the Twenty-First Century at Last

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 1047-1087 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam M. Dodek
Keyword(s):  
Public History ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
First Century ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Legal Ethics ◽  
The Public ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century

This article analyzes the transformation in the scholarship of legal ethics that has occurred in Canada over the last decade, and maps out an agenda for future research. The author attributes the recent growth of Canadian legal ethics as an academic discipline to a number of interacting factors: a response to external pressures, initiatives within the legal profession, changes in Canadian legal education, and the emergence of a new cadre of legal ethics scholars. This article chronicles the public history of legal ethics in Canada over the last decade and analyzes the first and second wave of scholarship in the area. It integrates these developments within broader changes in legal education that set the stage for the continued expansion of Canadian legal ethics in the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Twenty-first century vaccines

2011 ◽  
Vol 366 (1579) ◽  
pp. 2756-2758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rino Rappuoli
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Group A Streptococcus ◽  
Emerging Infectious Diseases ◽  
Meningococcal Meningitis ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Group A ◽  
Disability Free Life Expectancy ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Syncytial Virus

In the twentieth century, vaccination has been possibly the greatest revolution in health. Together with hygiene and antibiotics, vaccination led to the elimination of many childhood infectious diseases and contributed to the increase in disability-free life expectancy that in Western societies rose from 50 to 78–85 years (Crimmins, E. M. & Finch, C. E. 2006 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 103, 498–503; Kirkwood, T. B. 2008 Nat. Med 10, 1177–1185). In the twenty-first century, vaccination will be expected to eliminate the remaining childhood infectious diseases, such as meningococcal meningitis, respiratory syncytial virus, group A streptococcus, and will address the health challenges of this century such as those associated with ageing, antibiotic resistance, emerging infectious diseases and poverty. However, for this to happen, we need to increase the public trust in vaccination so that vaccines can be perceived as the best insurance against most diseases across all ages.

scholarly journals Global development in the twenty-first century

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Garnaut
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
First Century ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Global Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Twenty First Century

Frank Holmes was a New Zealand leader of what my recent book, Dog Days: Australia after the Boom, calls the independent centre of the polity. He saw great value in careful and transparent analysis of the public interest, separate from any vested or partisan political interest. The success of public policy in any democracy in these troubled times depends on the strength of a strong independent centre.

Coda: Gertrude Stein Icon

2018 ◽  
pp. 295-305
Author(s):  
Chris Coffman
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gertrude Stein ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Queer Culture ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Important Character

The coda expands on the implications of the textual and visual artefacts of Stein’s masculine homosocial desires by cross-reading her ambivalent reflections on celebrity in Everybody’s Autobiography (1936) with her frequent appearances in the public consciousness from 2011 to 2012. Although Chapter One showed that by the early twenty-first century Stein had emerged as an icon both of modernism and of queer culture, that high standing has recently been challenged because of her homonational attitudes and masculine homosocial bonds with Vichy collaborator Bernard Fäy. If Gertrude Stein’s Masculinity uses psychoanalytic theory to present Stein as an important character in the stories of modernism and queer theory, that story will continue as she circulates into new contexts. As she does so, there will likely be further changes to the ways that her masculinity is made available for view, with unpredictable consequences for her iconicity.

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