scholarly journals Skill Shortage or Credential Inflation? Qualification mismatch in Great Britain and Germany, 1984-2017

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Wiedner
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Second World War ◽  
West Germany ◽  
The Other ◽  
Educational Expansion ◽  
World War ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Second World ◽  
Positional Value

The dramatic expansion of education since the second world war has been recognized as one of the major forces shaping social change. However, the question whether educa-tional expansion has outstripped the demand for qualified labour, or whether modern economies face a skill-shortage despite increases in education remains debated. Focus-sing on the United Kingdom and West Germany, this paper asks to what degree expan-sion of education has been absorbed by labour markets. I point out shortcomings of wage-centred analyses and develop an approach that focuses on trends in self-assessed over- and underqualification. Using repeated surveys, I link cohort-level expansion to mismatch prevalence. Results show that educational expansion gave rise to credential inflation and a positional value of education in the United Kingdom. West-Germany, on the other hand, is affected by a mild skill-shortage. I relate these findings to the con-trasting institutional logics of education systems in the two countries.

Roman Inscriptions in the City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

1976 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 28-43
Author(s):  
J. J. Wilkes
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Small Collection ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World

The nineteen stones described below form a small collection of Latin inscriptions now housed in the City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. They have been acquired since the Second World War from older collections assembled at various places in the United Kingdom. With the exception of two, all are recorded as found in Rome and sixteen have been published in volume VI of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL). The findspot of one (no. 6) is not recorded, while that of another (no. 13), although not attested, was almost certainly Rome. The publications in CIL were based in most cases on manuscript copies made between the fifteenth and ninetenth centuries; in the case of eight stones this republication (nos. 2, 3, 5, 9, 11, 12, 17 and 18) provides corrections or amendments to the relevant entries in CIL. All measurements are metric.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Surgical Care ◽  
Second World War ◽  
British Association ◽  
Paediatric Surgery ◽  
World War ◽  
Surgical Specialty ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Second World

Paediatric surgery is the surgical care of children from fetus to adolescent. It is a comparatively new surgical specialty, only formally recognized after the Second World War. This chapter provides a history and overview of the specialty, including the associations related to paediatric surgery, and biographies of famous surgeons who contributed to the field throughout their careers. The main organization in the United Kingdom is the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS) founded in 1953 with Sir Denis Browne as the first president. Though based in London, it now has many international contacts and, through its conferences and symposia inside and outside the United Kingdom, is a leading educational provider in the specialty.

Operational Research and the British Bombing Offensive against Germany, 1941–1945: Calculating Choices in War

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-554
Author(s):  
Victor Bissonnette
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Operational Research ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
Research Section ◽  
Second World ◽  
Conflicting Goals

Operational research is a scientific discipline that appeared in Great Britain on the eve of the Second World War. Bomber Command’s Operational research section began its studies in September 1941, using civilian scientists to analyse the bombing operations. Two potentially conflicting goals were pursued, one intended to maximize the offensive power against Germany, the other striving to minimize bomber losses. This article uses the Operational research performed during the conflict to illustrate the choices made by Bomber Command between those two possibilities, concluding on a clear priority in favour of the offensive.

George Riddoch and Ludwig Guttmann: Wartime correspondence 1940–1947

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-107
Author(s):  
Marie-France Weiner ◽  
John Russell Silver
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
World War ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Second World

Recently discovered primary sources in the form of letters, memoranda and private communications between George Riddoch and Ludwig Guttmann provide much information on the setting up of spinal units in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. The two men developed a close relationship and in Guttmann, Riddoch found a man who had the knowledge, the ability and the energy to implement this shared vision.

Human Rights: Have the Public Benefited?

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lord Woolf
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Second World War ◽  
European Convention ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Second World

This lecture discusses the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), which was established due to the atrocities committed by the Nazis during the Second World War. It looks at the scale of the changes that occurred in constitutional arrangements, and considers the fact that these changes have been achieved without damaging the underlying constitutional arrangements and traditions of the United Kingdom. The lecture also considers whether these changes would benefit the public, and studies some of the arguments that are both in favour of and against the ECHR in becoming a part of the country's law.

scholarly journals Frank Featherstone Bonsall. 31 March 1920—22 February 2011

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 63-77
Author(s):  
T. A. Gillespie
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Linear Operators ◽  
World War ◽  
The North ◽  
Research Supervision ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Mathematical Life ◽  
Second World

Frank Bonsall played a significant role in the mathematical life of the United Kingdom in the decades following the Second World War. He had a particular impact in Scotland and the north of England, especially in research and graduate education. His research interests focused primarily on functional analysis, the area of mathematics that brings together various strands of analysis under a single abstract framework, and on the related theory of linear operators on Banach spaces. He influenced a generation of young mathematicians with the elegance of his written and oral expositions, both of his own research and that of others. The quality of his caring and thorough research supervision was reflected in his many PhD students who would continue in research and go on to successful academic careers in their own right, both in the United Kingdom and beyond.

Norway and the United Kingdom/Scotland after the Second World War

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tore T. Petersen
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Alliance Politics ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Second World

This chapter examines events following, the Second World War, and argues that Norway and the United Kingdom have not had as close a relationship as the official rhetoric suggests. Although the countries do share common interests, Petersen argues that they lack “real-life alliance politics and relations”, using as material the details of state visit by Norwegian Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen and his wife Werna to Britain in 1956. The major issues discussed in the press at the time dealt largely with simple matters of protocol, and the visit did not even include discussion of the imminent Suez conflict, in which many Norwegian owned cargo ships were involved. Like Scotland, Norway was a small client state and although World War II presented the countries with a common enemy, and Norway’s king governed in exile from London during the Nazi occupation of his country, Petersen argues that the difference in size, power and influence between the British Empire and Norway overshadowed bilateral relations between Britain and Norway, as well as those between Scotland and Norway.

The National Art Slide Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum

1977 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertie Maxwell
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Accession Number ◽  
World War ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Victoria And Albert Museum ◽  
Second World ◽  
Storage Units

Growing from modest beginnings in 1898, the collection was reorganised after the Second World War and now totals more than half a million slides. These are listed in a catalogue on site and in printed catalogues and lists which are available to libraries and individuals; slides are retrieved by accession number from electrically-operated storage units. Slides may be borrowed free of charge, in person or by post, by any resident of the United Kingdom.

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