Revealing the Invisible: The Need for Retrospective Conversion in the Virtual Future

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Missing Data ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Electronic Records ◽  
National Strategy ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Invisible

Libraries, archives and museums act as memory organizations, recording and providing access to a range of knowledge and information. In an age of increasing access to information via electronic methods, they support lifelong learning, as well as national and international goals in support of the rights of individuals to education, leisure, health and employment. The provision of new methods of accessing catalogues from a distance is severely compromised if the catalogues accessed do not record the complete stock of their institutions, and therefore the retrospective conversion of catalogues is of increasing relevance today. Items for which there are no electronic records effectively become invisible to potential users. The retrospective conversion of catalogues still in manual forms has been a goal since electronic versions were first installed, but the extent to which it has been achieved has been governed largely by financial considerations. Recent studies in the UK have revealed the extent of missing data in the electronic catalogues of libraries and archives. Some retrospective conversion is being carried out as and when funding becomes available, but progress is erratic and piecemeal, without reference to a national overview. To address this problem, a national strategy for the UK has been developed and will be taken forward by a newly formed Implementation Group.

Deconstructing Professionalism

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Tummons
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
The Uk

The problematisation of the professional standards for teachers in the UK lifelong learning sector tends to focus on the discourses that the standards embody: discourses that are posited as being based on a restricted or technicist model of professionalism, that fail sufficiently to recognise the lived experiences of teachers within the sector both in terms of professional knowledge and competences, and professional development. This paper takes a different approach, drawing on a branch of material semiotics – actor-network theory – in order to shift the locus of problematisation away from what the standards might mean, to how the standards are physically assembled or instantiated. The paper concludes by suggesting that a first point of problematisation rests not in the discourses that the standards embody, but in the inherent fragilities of any material artefact that has the intention of carrying meaning across spatial, institutional or temporal boundaries.

scholarly journals Out-of-programme experience in UK neurosurgery trainees: optimising the transition back into clinical practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-105
Author(s):  
J Lam ◽  
G Evans ◽  
RM deSouza ◽  
M Amarouche ◽  
J Cheserem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Return To Work ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Surgical Skills ◽  
Clinical Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The Uk

INTRODUCTION Out of programme (OOP) experience from training increases the skill pool of the neurosurgical workforce and drives innovation in the specialty. OOP approval criteria are well defined but transition back to clinical work can be challenging with a paucity of data published on trainee perspectives. Our study aimed to investigate factors influencing transition from OOP back to clinical work among neurosurgical trainees in the UK. METHODS An online survey was sent to all members of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons. Questions pertained to details of OOP and factors influencing transition back to clinical work. RESULTS Among the 73 respondents, 7 were currently on OOP and 27 had completed OOP in the past. Research was the most common reason for OOP (28/34, 82%) and this was generally motivated by the aspiration of an academic neurosurgery career (17/34, 50%). Although the majority (27/34, 79%) continued clinical work during OOP, 37% of this group (10/27) reported a reduction in their surgical skills. Fewer than half (15/34, 44%) had a return to work plan, of which only half (8/34, 24%) were formal plans. The majority of respondents who had completed OOP in the past (22/27, 81%) felt that they were able to apply the skills gained during OOP to their clinical work on return. CONCLUSIONS Skills learnt during OOP are relevant and transferable to the clinical environment but mainly limited to research with OOP for management and education underrepresented. Deterioration of surgical skills is a concern. However, recognition of this problem has prompted new methods and schemes to address challenges faced on return to work.

scholarly journals Revisiting Dearing: Higher Education and the Construction of the ’Belabored’ Self

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 731-753
Author(s):  
Alan Apperley
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
The Self ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Learning Society ◽  
Oil Crisis ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Uk Higher Education

Several authors have identified a ’therapeutic turn’ in education in the UK, at all levels of the system. In this paper I focus on and develop this claim, specifically in relation to the Higher Education sector. I seek to do two things: First, I argue that the ‘self’ which is identified by commentators on the therapeutic turn needs to be reworked in the direction of McGee’s idea of the ’belabored’ self. This is because the therapeutic turn serves, I argue, a set of wider economic goals arising from the restructuring of capitalism which followed in the wake of the oil crisis of 1973 and the subsequent breakdown of the post-war (1939-1945) consensus around the purpose of public policy, of which education is an important part. Second, I revisit an important document in the history of the UK Higher Education sector: the National Committee of Inquiry Into Higher Education’s 1997 report Higher Education In The Learning Society (known popularly as the Dearing Report, after its chair, Sir Ron Dearing). I argue that that the committee’s ambition to bring about a learning society characterised by lifelong learning played an important and neglected part in bringing about the therapeutic turn in higher education in the UK. The project of creating a learning society characterised by lifelong learning, advocated by the Dearing Report, should properly be recognised as an exhortation to embark upon a lifetime of labouring upon the self.

An exploration of how research can aid the development of facilities management

Facilities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 356-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Zarina Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
End Users ◽  
Facilities Management ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to explore traditional FM research and potential trends. Design/methodology/approach This was an exploratory review of literature. Findings The main thrust of the argument in this paper is that FM research develops a more communicable and proven understanding of how to apply a wide spectrum of externally developed methods in unique FM settings as well as developing new methods. Second, a more robust FM knowledge base can inform designers, engineers and architects given that FMs are experts of design in use. Research limitations/implications This research focused on the UK, Europe, America and Australia. It does not represent a comprehensive/systematic review of the research activities occurring in FM globally. Practical implications Research traditionally focuses on hard FM; in contrast, FM outcomes are heavily dependent on the way end users interact with and use organisational services and equipment. This suggests that there is a gap between practice and research, and that intuitive and in-depth FM knowledge about end users has yet to be captured and formalised through research. Social implications Development of FM research requires uptake of contemporary research trends towards partnered research, working across disciplines. Originality/value Achieving a more robust FM knowledge base would help capture the wealth of knowledge that FMs have about buildings in use; this could then be used by FMs and also by designers to improve their products and services in disciplines like engineering and architecture.

Foster employability and fight social exclusion through the development of lifelong learning (LLL) key-competences: reviewing twenty years of LLL policies

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Ceschi ◽  
Marco Perini ◽  
Andrea Scalco ◽  
Monica Pentassuglia ◽  
Elisa Righetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Decision Processes ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Methods ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Key Competences

Purpose This study aims to provide an overview of the past two decades of lifelong learning (LLL) policies for enhancing employability and reduce social exclusion in young people of European countries through the development of the so-called LLL key-competences. Design/methodology/approach Built on a quasi-systematic review, this contribution explores traditional and new methods for promoting the LLL transition, and then employability, in young adults (e.g. apprenticeship, vocational training, e-learning, etc.). Findings It argues the need to identify all the possible approaches able to support policymakers, as they can differently impact key-competence development. Originality/value Finally, based on the consolidated EU policy experience, we propose a strategy of implementation of the LLL programmes that facilitates the institutions’ decision processes for policy-making through the use of decisional support system.

Start of UK Confidential Haemophilia A Database: Analysis of 142 Patients by Solid Phase Fluorescent Chemical Cleavage of Mismatch

1999 ◽  
Vol 81 (06) ◽  
pp. 900-905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naushin Waseem ◽  
Richard Bagnall ◽  
Peter Green ◽  
Francesco Giannelli ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Viii ◽  
Solid Phase ◽  
Haemophilia A ◽  
National Strategy ◽  
Coding Region ◽  
Database Analysis ◽  
Chemical Cleavage ◽  
Signal Region ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Von Willebrand

SummaryA national strategy for optimising genetic services in haemophilia A has been initiated in the UK. Solid phase fluorescent chemical cleavage of mismatch is used to screen the entire coding region of factor VIII in six segments: four amplified from the trace of mRNA in blood lymphocytes and two from genomic DNA for the 3.4 kb exon 14 and flanking intron sequences. These segments are analysed in two threefold multiplexes so that the genes of 18 patients can be screened in a single ABI 377 gel. The promoter and polyadenylation signal region are amplified and sequenced directly. We have analysed 142 unrelated patients and identified 141 factor VIII mutations and one Normandy type von Willebrand homozygote. The former mutations include 89 missense, 10 nonsense, 5 frameshift, one 24 bp deletion and one splice signal defect. These comprise 71 different changes, of which 39 have not been previously observed.

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