The Role of the Mentor

2018 ◽  
pp. 225-234
Author(s):  
Chris Farrell
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The Other ◽  
English Studies ◽  
Mentor Program ◽  
Academic Quality ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
External Context ◽  
The Uk

This chapter focuses on the role of the mentor the context of a modern language institution. It looks at two strands of mentorship: within the organization and while interacting with the wider ELT world. In the first context the authors look at the various functions a mentor is expected to perform with a particular focus on the scheme as it exists in Centre of English Studies in the UK and Ireland. Here we have a comprehensive mentor program in operation for the summer quarter of the year with weekly sessions and comprehensive support provided. For the other three quarters of the year, the mentor role is more ad-hoc, with a flexible program and timetable dictated by the teachers' needs. In both of these situations, the mentor has to play a number of key roles and be relatively proficient in these. In terms of the role of the mentor in an external context, this chapter looks at the role of mentor in the Irish Research Scheme for Teaching, a national research scheme aimed at promoting academic quality through research in Ireland.

The constitutional influence of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on the UK apex court: institutional proximity and jurisprudential divergence?

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-302
Author(s):  
Roger Masterman
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Privy Council ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Uk Supreme Court ◽  
Proportionality Test ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

It is often claimed that the constitutional role of the UK’s apex court is enriched as a result of the experiences of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as interpreter of constitutions within its overseas jurisdiction. This paper considers the relationship between the House of Lords/UK Supreme Court and the Judicial Committee and its effect on the importation of external influences into the UK’s legal system(s), further seeking to assess how far the jurisprudence of the Judicial Committee has influenced constitutional decision-making in the UK apex court. While ad hoc citation of Privy Council authorities in House of Lords/Supreme Court decisions is relatively commonplace, a post-1998 enthusiasm for reliance on Judicial Committee authority – relating to (i) a ‘generous and purposive’ approach to constitutional interpretation and (ii) supporting the developing domestic test for proportionality – quickly faded. Both areas are illustrative of a diminishing reliance on Judicial Committee authority, but reveal divergent approaches to constitutional borrowing as the UK apex court has incrementally mapped the contours of an autochthonous constitutionalism while simultaneously recognising the trans-jurisdictional qualities of the proportionality test.

scholarly journals The Imagination of the Other in a (Post-)Sectarian Society: Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Divided City of Belfast

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike M. Vieten ◽  
Fiona Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The City ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees ◽  
Do So

This article explores the ways a salient sectarian community division in Northern Ireland frames the imagination of newcomers and the experiences of asylum seekers and refugees. We examine the dominant ethno-national Christian communities and how their actions define the social-spatial landscape and challenges of manoeuvring everyday life in Northern Ireland as an ‘Other’. We argue all newcomers are impacted to some degree by sectarianism in Northern Ireland, adding a further complexified layer to the everyday and institutional racism so prevalent in different parts of the UK and elsewhere. First, we discuss the triangle of nation, gender and ethnicity in the context of Northern Ireland. We do so in order to problematise that in a society where two adversarial communities exist the ‘Other’ is positioned differently to other more cohesive national societies. This complication impacts how the Other is imagined as the persistence of binary communities shapes the way local civil society engages vulnerable newcomers, e.g. in the instance of our research, asylum seekers and refugees. This is followed by an examination of the situation of asylum seekers and refugees in Northern Ireland. We do so by contextualising the historical situation of newcomers and the socio-spatial landscape of the city of Belfast. In tandem with this, we discuss the role of NGO’s and civil support organisations in Belfast and contrast these views with the experiences of asylum seekers and refugees. This article is based on original empirical material from a study conducted in 2016 on the experiences of asylum seekers and refugees with living in Northern Ireland.

scholarly journals Poverty as a Political Choice: a Comparative Analysis of Reports of the UN Rapporteur’s Visits to the UK and Spain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Cummins ◽  
Emilio José Gómez-Ciriano
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis paper presents a comparative analysis of two reports by the UN Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, one for Spain and one for the UK. In both countries, austerity policies were introduced following the banking crisis of 2008. The UN Rapporteur reports highlight the damage that was done by welfare retrenchment. In particular, the reports document the impact of austerity on the most vulnerable individuals and communities. The paper uses Somers' (2008) conceptual model of citizenship as the basis for a comparative analysis of two reports. Somers' (2008) model of citizenship is a triadic one which sees the state, market and civil society as competing elements. Each one can serve to regulate and limit the influence or excesses of the other two. Somers argues that neoliberalism has seen the dominance of the market at the expense of the role of the state and the institutions of civil society. Austerity policies saw the market dominating. Having examined the context of the two reports and their conclusions, the paper discussed the implications for individual social workers’ practice and the role of social work as a profession in tackling poverty and marginalisation.

The role of the medical director in mental health

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 404-410
Author(s):  
Neil Deuchar ◽  
Elizabeth Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Medical Director ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Contribution ◽  
History Of ◽  
Medical Directors ◽  
The Uk

SummaryThis article sets out the history of medical directorship, outlines the authors' view of the current contribution that medical directors can and should be making to the mental health arena and looks forward to the possibilities of this evolving role. The focus of the article is mainly on English policy and healthcare structures, recognising that these vary in the other jurisdictions of the UK. However, certain principles should be of wider interest and application.

Financing universities through waqf, pious endowment: is it possible?

Humanomics ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 430-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Mashitoh Mahamood ◽  
Asmak Ab Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Board Of Trustees ◽  
Academic Quality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Financing Higher Education ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to highlight the importance of waqf in financing higher education. Nowadays, higher education is costly and this has prevented students, especially those who are self-financed, from accessing such learning environments. This paper offer an alternative solution to relieve such a situation, namely, through the application of an endowment-based or waqf educational institution. The study suggests a way to establish an endowment university by concentrating the discussion on the concept and principles of its establishment, as well as sharing the experiences of the Malaysian waqf universities and the Turkish Foundation Universities/Vakif Üniversitesi in financing their universities using waqf, i.e. a pious endowment instrument. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical data were mainly collected using in-depth interviews with the universities’ higher management authorities and some of the members of the board of trustees. Findings – The findings show that the role of waqf or pious endowment is significant in providing financial assistance to their communities as well as strengthening their academic quality. In addition, tawhidic epistemology together with morality and ethics have influenced waqf donors or founders to donate their wealth and property to enrich and sustain universities and higher education. Originality/value – This article provides the experiences of the Malaysian Waqf Universities and the Turkish Foundation Universities/Vakif Üniversitesi in financing their universities using waqf. It also contains some good examples from the experience of several earlier Islamic civilizations, in particular those of the Ottoman Empire and the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt. In addition, examples of the implementation of waqf and endowment-based universities in the UK and USA as well as the Al-Azhar University of Egypt is also included.

scholarly journals STUDI EVALUATIF PERAN HAKIM AD HOC dALAM PENYELESAIAN PERSELISIHAN HUBUNGAN INdUSTRIAL dI PENGAdILAN HUBUNGAN INdUSTRIAL YOGYAKARTA

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tata Wijayanta Wijayanta ◽  
Ari Hernawan
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Relation ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Labor Union ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
The Supreme Court

<p align="center"><strong><em>Abstract</em></strong></p><p><em>The research aim to evaluate the role of ad hoc judges in the settlement of industrial relation disputes, as well as to explore further what are the obstacles which may occur in the course of performing their duties. The research is a normative-empiric legal research. The data research comes from secondary data derived from literature studies and primary data from field researches. The data analyzed by qualitatively. The results of this research will show that ad hoc judges are appointed by the Supreme court and assigned to cases by the President of the court of Industrial Relations. Since its establishment, there has only been two appointments of ad hoc judges (one from the enterpreneur and the other from the labor union), and the court has tried and decided upon 104 cases (2006-2011). The most paramount obstacle turns out to be the lack of knowledge of the ad hoc judges in civil procedural laws while trying and deciding cases before them.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><strong>: </strong><em>c</em><em>ourt of Industrial Relations</em>, <em>Ad hoc Judge</em></p><p align="center"><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p>Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengevaluasi peran hakim <em>ad hoc </em>dan untuk mengkaji hambatan-hambatan yang dialami hakim <em>ad hoc </em>dalam penyelesaian perselisihan hubungan industrial di Pengadilan Hubungan Industrial (PHI). Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian hukum empiris bersumber pada data sekunder dan data primer melalui penelitian kepustakaan dan penelitian lapangan Data dianalisis secara kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa hakim <em>ad hoc </em>diangkat oleh Mahkamah Agung dan ditunjuk dalam suatu perkara oleh Ketua PHI. Sejak didirikan PHI yogyakarta hanya terdapat dua hakim <em>ad hoc </em>yang masing-masing merupakan perwakilan dari pengusaha dan pekerja. Sebanyak 104 perkara diperiksa dan diputus oleh PHI yogyakarta antara 2006-2011. Hambatan utama yaitu kurangnya pengetahuan dan pemahaman hakim <em>ad hoc </em>tentang hukum acara perdata yang menghambat ketika para hakim <em>ad ho</em>c ini harus memeriksa dan memutus perkara.</p><p><strong>Kata kunci:  </strong>Pengadilan hubungan industrial, Hakim <em>ad hoc</em></p>

scholarly journals The International Centre for the Protection of Catholic Interests in Palestine: Cultural Diplomacy and Outreach in the British Mandate Period

2020 ◽  
pp. 353-379
Author(s):  
Paolo Maggiolini
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
The Other ◽  
British Mandate ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Of

AbstractThe chapter reconsiders the Latin Patriarchate’s efforts to develop and defend the Catholic community’s interests in Palestine according to the notion of cultural diplomacy and cultural outreach. It focuses on an initiative dedicated to establishing a solid relationship of cooperation between local and international Catholic dimensions through the dissemination of ad hoc content in newspapers and thematic conferences. The chapter develops its analysis according to two specific perspectives. On the one hand, it looks at the Latin Patriarch’s efforts to promote the defence of Catholic interests in Palestine through cultural outreach to a Western Catholic audience. On the other, it focuses on the role of the Latin Patriarchate in this field as the manifestation of its aim to adapt to and influence the changing political conditions and balances of power in the Mandate.

Models of paediatric palliative care

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard D.W. Hain ◽  
Satbir Singh Jassal
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Palliative Medicine ◽  
The Other ◽  
Paediatric Palliative Care ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk

The UK has a variety of resources for children with life-limiting conditions that are perhaps unrivalled in the world. This is both good and bad. It offers the potential for children and their families to have choices about the location of their care. On the other hand, a multiplicity of agencies brings with it the risk of miscommunication and internecine strife. This chapter summarizes ideal models of palliative care, defining the four categories of life-limiting conditions in childhood and the role of paediatric palliative medicine specialists.

scholarly journals Pronominal objects in English–Italian and Spanish–Italian bilingual children

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 725-751 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUDOVICA SERRATRICE ◽  
ANTONELLA SORACE ◽  
FRANCESCA FILIACI ◽  
MICHELA BALDO
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Multifaceted Approach ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Linguistic Behavior ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Italian Children ◽  
Object Pronouns

ABSTRACTThis study investigated the role of typological relatedness, language of the community, and age, in predicting similarities and differences between English–Italian, Spanish–Italian bilingual children and their monolingual child and adult counterparts in the acceptability of pre- and postverbal object pronouns in [±focus] contexts in Italian and in English. Cross-linguistic influence occurred in [−focus] contexts as a function of typological relatedness and language of the community. English–Italian bilinguals in the UK accepted pragmatically inappropriate postverbal pronouns in [−focus] contexts in Italian twice as often as all the other groups. Cross-linguistic influence was unidirectional from English to Italian as shown by the categorical rejection of preverbal pronouns in [−focus] contexts in English. In [+focus] contexts, in English no significant differences existed between the monolinguals and the bilinguals in the low accuracy with which they chose pragmatically appropriate stressed pronouns. Similarly, the choice of appropriate pronouns in [+focus] contexts in Italian was problematic for monolingual and bilingual children irrespective of the language of the community and of the bilinguals’ other language. Age was a factor only for the Italian children who approached adultlike performance in [+focus] contexts only by the age of 10. These findings point to the need for a multifaceted approach to account for similarities and differences between the linguistic behavior of bilingual and monolingual children.

A Larger Role for the Private Sector in Financing UK Health Care: the Arguments and the Evidence

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 685-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
CAROL PROPPER ◽  
KATHERINE GREEN
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Care ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Finance ◽  
System A ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

This article examines whether an extension of private finance would improve either the efficiency or the equity of the UK health care system. A number of arguments for increasing the role of private finance that focus on the impact of private finance on the efficiency of the public sector are examined in conjunction with empirical evidence from a number of OECD countries. The conclusion is that the case for some extension of private finance is finely balanced. There is little evidence to show that increasing private finance would improve the efficiency of the NHS. On the other hand, the evidence suggests that it is unlikely that increasing private finance at the margin will alter the support for the NHS, and thus willingness of individuals to pay taxes for public care. In addition, if private finance is supplementary, increased finance will be progressive in terms of payments for health care.

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