scholarly journals STUDENTS IN LOCAL PUBLIC POLICY OF MODERN RUSSIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-515
Author(s):  
N.A. Bazhenov ◽  
K.A. Punina
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
Urban Amenities ◽  
University City ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The article is devoted to the role of students in the local public policy of modern Russia. The specifics of students are justified by their social activities, which are supported by territorial concentration, community of interests, group self-consciousness, subculture, lifestyle, age homogeneity, which other social and professional groups do not have. The authors explain the possibility of students' participation in the public policy of the city by the provisions of the state youth policy of the Russian Federation, as well as by their status of full-fledged residents of a particular territory. Analyzing the socio-political activity of students, they conclude that as socially significant problems students can promote in the field of public policy interests related to their social status (benefits, scholarships, tuition fees, etc.), the organization of urban infrastructure (transport, social services, urban amenities, etc.), as well as their self-fulfillment and self-expression, which is manifested in their creative activity, appearance, behavior, etc. Local public policy in the logic of the research is a process of interaction between several actors to develop a joint solution to a socially significant problem, which is impossible to solve by usual procedures. Interactions of the actors form the field of public policy, and each of them tries to realize its own interest, using its own resources and agents for this purpose. Hence the main question of the research: who does the student act as, being a participant of the relationship "student-university-city"? The authors of the article have tried to construct various models characterizing the role of students in the field of public policy, which also involves the university and the city. Each theoretical model is illustrated by cases from Samara, Krasnoyarsk and Kazan.

The Role of the City in Higher Education Internationalization: French and Russian Regional Context

2021 ◽  
pp. 236-250
Author(s):  
Irina A. Skalaban ◽  
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Lyudmila A. Osmuk ◽  
Anastasia M. Pogorelskaya ◽  
Michele Debrenne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Regional Universities ◽  
High Level ◽  
University City ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Higher Education Internationalization

The competition for international students is growing among both different countries and universities within one country. Regional universities in Russia, meaning those outside Moscow and Saint Petersburg, try to use internationalization in order to contribute to the development of their regions. However, a high level of academic mobility is usually ensured by comfortable living conditions that both the university and the city the university is situated in provide. The article covers the role of the city as the factor that may contribute to higher education internationalization. The research is based on the perception of certain university cities that international students living there have. Taking into account the ideas of Machlup, Florida, and Castells, the authors consider universities the key actors of university cities development in Siberia. Thus, two Siberian university cities included in the QS Best Student Cities ranking, namely, Tomsk and Novosibirsk, were considered in the research. To evaluate their role in international students’ choice for their universities, international students in Tomsk and Novosibirsk universities were interviewed during 2018-2020. To compare the results with the international dimension of higher education internationalization, Russian students studying in France were also interviewed. As a result, the criteria of the university choice were determined that are connected with the university city characteristics. The latter include security considerations, cultural diversity and social environment tolerance, aesthetic attractiveness of the city and its sightseeing opportunities, developed transportation system, high concentration of international students, open and accessible communicative environment. However, the criteria international students chose Siberian university cities for included lower prices for education and lower living costs. The main disadvantage is the lack of comfortable communication zones that do not depend on climate. The priorities of international students in large and small university cities turned out to differ: the latter tend to value the quality of university and the city’s historical values as well as personified relations with the locals more. Comparing the opinion of Russian and international students on significant criteria of university cities, the authors found out that international students were less critical to such characteristics of Tomsk and Novosibirsk as security, tolerance and accessibility for disabled people. However, international students were more critical to the number of students in the city. Thus, the creation of comfortable and attractive conditions for international students is the common responsibility of the university, the city and the region.

scholarly journals Exploring nightlife in the university city of Cluj-Napoca (Romania): a mixed methods research study

2020 ◽  
Vol 198 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 180-195
Author(s):  
Cristian Emanuel Adorean ◽  
Jordi Nofre ◽  
Oana-Ramona Ilovan ◽  
Viorel Gligor
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Night Time ◽  
The Social ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
University City ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The university city of Cluj-Napoca in Romania is one of the clearest examples where ‘the night’ (including restaurants, bars, discotheques, clubs, and also museums, exhibitions, and theatres) has been essential for the vitality of the city. Despite the importance of ‘the night’ for the everyday life of the city, the role of the night-time leisure economy in the social and urban change of European post-socialist cities remains underexplored. Based on mixed research methods, this paper aims to examine the recent development of the night-time leisure economy of Cluj-Napoca. After a theoretical approach in which we highlight the long underexplored path that still exists in relation to the study on the political, social, cultural and economic factors of ’the night’ in post-socialist cities from South-Eastern Europe, the paper shows a quantitative approach about a range of variables that define the different (and unequal) forms of consuming the night in the city centre of Cluj-Napoca. The second part of the paper shows the results derived from the quantitative study about the different perceptions and visions that employees, residents, venue owners, and municipals have about nightlife in Cluj-Napoca. The paper concludes by suggesting that a greater institutional attention should be provided to the development of the night-time leisure economy in the city centre of Cluj-Napoca in order to avoid the reproduction of 'segmented nightscapes' that highly feature the night in Central and Western Europe.

scholarly journals Aftershocks: Globalism and the Future of Democracy

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
The City ◽  
Selection Of

This digital publication consists of a selection of 56 papers presented at the 16th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), held at the University of Zaragoza, 2-5 July 2019, the general theme of which was ‘Aftershocks: Globalism and the Future of Democracy’. Sponsored by The Aragonese Association of Sociology, the conference was well-attended – 170 participants from 28 countries met to discuss a wide variety of topics in 29 workshops. The feedback we received from participants confirmed that they had greatly enjoyed the venue of the conference, that they appreciated the warm welcome they had received and the congenial social atmosphere and opportunity to attend workshops on subjects that were not only in their own field of expertise. No one, of course, could have predicted that our world – our work and life as individuals, as communities and as nations – would change so suddenly and radically eighteen months after the conference, with the rapid and devastating spread of the Convid-19 pandemic. The current deepening global crisis along with the challenge of climate change and growing international tensions are a stark reminder of how vulnerable our societies, our civilization, and our species are. The shocks and aftershocks of these crises are felt today in every corner of the world and in every aspect of our global and local economies, and most obviously in the sociopolitical arena. As several of the conference workshops on the multiple crises Europe and the world face today – from the migrant crisis to the rise of populism and deepening inequality between rich and poor – showed – and as the Covid-19 pandemic has so cruelly brought home to us – we simply cannot take the achievements of human civilization for granted and must find ways to meet the fundamental social and political needs of human beings not only in our own neighborhoods, cities and countries, but ultimately in the world as a whole: their living conditions, livelihoods, social services, education and healthcare, human rights and political representation. Several of the workshops, as I mentioned, directly addressed these issues and emphasized the need for building social resilience based on tolerance, solidarity and equity. This too is why, as academics, we should continue to initiate and engage in collective reflection and debate on how to foster and strengthen human communities and human solidarity. Finally, I want to thank the participants and workshop chairs for their contribution to the success of the conference. It was a pleasure for me to work with the university organizing team and with ISSEI’s team in bringing this about, and I am particularly proud that my university and the city of Zaragoza hosted this conference.

scholarly journals Le pietre di Ca’ Foscari: Ruskin e il Palazzo

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanne Clegg ◽  
Emma Sdegno
Keyword(s):  
Grand Canal ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Grand Canal ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Our contribution concerns a phase in the history of the building that gives the University its name. When Ruskin came to Venice in 1845 he was horrified by the decayed state of the palaces on the Grand Canal, and by the drastic restorations in progress. In recording their features in measurements, drawings and daguerreotypes, Ca’ Foscari took priority, and his studies of its traceries constitute a unique witness. This work also helped generate new ideas on the role of shadow in architectural aesthetic, and on the characteristics of Gothic, which were to bear fruit in The Seven Lamps and The Stones of Venice. In his late guide to the city, St Mark’s Rest, Ruskin addressed «the few travellers who still care for her monuments» and offered the Venetian Republic’s laws regulating commerce as a model for modern England. Whether or not he knew of the founding of a commercial studies institute at Ca’ Foscari in 1868, he would certainly have hoped that it would teach principles of fair and just trading, as well as of respectful tourism.

Arrival and Formation

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-31
Author(s):  
Robert Garner ◽  
Yewande Okuleye
Keyword(s):  
Applied Ethics ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Oxford Group ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

This chapter serves three main functions. First, it identifies the ten core members of the Oxford Group, and documents their backgrounds and the circumstances of their arrival in the city of Oxford. The Oxford Group consisted of three married couples: Roslind and Stanley Godlovitch, Peter and Renata Singer, and Richard and Mary Keshen. Next were the three singletons who shared a house in Oxford: John Harris, David Wood, and Michael Peters. Finally, and slightly more at the periphery—partly because of his age and partly because he was not an Oxford student (or married to one)—there was Richard Ryder. Second, it describes the formation of the Oxford Group and the key role played by the gatekeepers. Here, a dynamic role was played by the Godlovitches and by Brigid Brophy who did most to bring the group together Finally, the role of what Farrell describes as the “magnet place,” in our case Oxford—and the university in particular—is dissected. The importance of access to a major seat of learning that had a unparalled reputation in the field of philosophy and which was at the forefront of the development of a new field of applied ethics is documented.

scholarly journals Amenities, economic opportunities and patterns of migration at the city level in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhonglei Yu ◽  
Hua Zhang ◽  
Zhuolin Tao ◽  
Jinshe Liang
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Coastal Region ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Population Loss ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
The City

This paper used a bootstrapped linear regression model to examine the role of amenities and economic opportunities in migration patterns in China based on the 2010 census at the city level. The results reveal that striking disparities characterize migration at the city level in China. Most migrants tend to move into several major cities in urban agglomerations in the eastern coastal region and provincial inland capitals. The cities farther away from provincial capitals have weak inflows and even suffer from serious population loss. The results suggest that job opportunities and wages contribute to the uneven pattern of migration in China even as amenities have also become important pull factors of migration. Regarding amenities, migrants prefer to move into cities with warm winters, less-humid summers, clean urban environments and friendly and open social climates. Social services, including facilities for education, recreation and commuting, also play an important role in attracting migrants. Findings from the study improve our understanding of China's internal migration and contribute to the debate on the role of economic opportunities and amenities in migration.

scholarly journals Confidentiality: Minors Assessed by Multidisciplinary Teams

1981 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 143-145
Author(s):  
Jean Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Final Draft ◽  
The University

This article is based on work undertaken at the request of my fellow members of a DHSS Working Party chaired by Professor Norman Tutt, Department of Applied Social Studies at the University of Lancaster. The terms of reference were: ‘to consider observation and assessment services for children and young persons referred to local authority Social Services Departments; to clarify the role of observation and assessment centres; to consider the promotion of non-residential observation and assessment; to consider what improvements in present assessment practice might be helpful or necessary and to make recommendations’. The report is currently in its final draft and has been sent to the DHSS for approval; and, since my contribution has necessarily been compressed into a few paragraphs, my colleagues suggested that I should seek an additional route to publication.

Book Reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 698-700
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Lecture Series ◽  
The University

Dennis Epple of Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business reviews “Information, Incentives, and Education Policy,” by Derek A. Neal. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Based on lectures presented at the Grossman Prize Lecture Series in economics at the University of Chicago, explains key economic insights concerning the role of education in modern societies and analyzes important public policy questions that surround the funding and regulation of schools.”

scholarly journals ¿Revolución cultural en Colombia?: Impresos y representaciones, 1968-1972

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 92-128
Author(s):  
Álvaro Acevedo Tarazona
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Ideological Struggle ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Cultural Magazines ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
The University ◽  
Discursive Representations

El artículo analiza las incidencias de la revolución cultural planetaria de finales de los años sesenta y principios de los años setenta en Colombia. En esos años los universitarios experimentaron una intensa actividad intelectual y política por intermedio de la lectura de revistas culturales y libros de izquierda, sin descontar nuevas modalidades de comunicación que desempeñaron el papel de difusoras de contenidos abiertamente revolucionarios, contestatarios y contraculturales. La justificación de la guerra revolucionaria comunista, la lucha ideológica en contra de la cultura capitalista o la defensa de los nuevos paradigmas del mundo artístico y ético, fueron algunas de las ideas que con más fuerza circularon en la juventud da aquel periodo. Así, el autor analiza las principales ideas, nociones, conceptos y representaciones que modificaron o motivaron las prácticas juveniles, y que esos jóvenes conocieron principalmente por intermedio de las revistas culturales y los libros más importantes del mercado editorial.Palabras clave: representaciones discursivas, revistas, libros, revolución cultural, estudiantes universitarios.  Cultural Revolution in Colombia?: Forms and Representations, 1968-1972Abstract            The article analyses the incidents of the planetary Cultural Revolution at the end of the sixties and the beginning of the seventies in Colombia. In those years, the university students experienced an intense intellectual and political activity regarding the cultural magazines and leftist books, undiscounted new modalities of media, which played the role of broadcasters for open revolutionary content, protesters and countercultural. The Communist Revolutionary War justification, the ideological struggle against capitalist culture, or the artistic and ethical new paradigms defense, were some of the ideas that more circulated on youth people of this period. For this, the author analyzes the main ideas, notions, concepts and representations that could modify or motivate youth practices, and that these young people met mainly through cultural magazines and the most important books of the publishing market.Keywords: discursive representations, magazines, books, Cultural Revolution, university students.

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