2011 Triennial Surveillance Review - Report of the External Advisory Group

Policy Papers ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (69) ◽  
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Advisory Group ◽  
Written Form ◽  
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This report was prepared by the External Advisory Group (EAG) for the 2011 Triennial Surveillance Review (TSR). The Group comprised the following members: Shankar Acharya, Marc Antoine Autheman, Kemal Dervis, Martin Hellwig, Takatoshi Ito, David Li, Pedro Malan, Stephen Pickford, Chukwuma Charles Soludo, Umayya Toukan, and Edwin Truman. The EAG was set up to provide an independent check on staff’s analysis and recommendations which are set out in the 2011 Triennial Surveillance Review—Overview Paper. The EAG contributed in written form and met twice during the course of the Triennial Surveillance Review (TSR)—on April 18 and July 29, 2011—to discuss the direction, emerging findings, and recommendations of the review.

The Modular Forensic Handwriting Method - 2016 Version

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 7-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan J. Found ◽  
Carolyne Bird
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Practical Method ◽  
Flow Diagram ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Legal Professionals ◽  
Decision Points ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Written Form ◽  
The Government ◽  
General Aspects

Overview:   This document provides a summary of a practical method that can be used to compare handwriting (whether text-based or signatures) in the forensic environment. It is intended to serve as an approach to forensic handwriting examination for practitioners actively involved in casework, or for those interested in investigating general aspects of the practice of forensic handwriting examination (for example researchers, academics and legal professionals). The method proposed does not cover in detail all aspects of the examination of handwriting. It does, however, form the framework of forensic handwriting methodology in the government environment in Australia and New Zealand as represented by the Document Examination Specialist Advisory Group (DocSAG). It is noted from the outset that handwriting is examined using complex human perceptual and cognitive processes that can be difficult to accurately and validly describe in written form since, for the most part, these processes are hidden. What is presented here is the agreed general approach that DocSAG practitioners use in the majority of the comparisons that they carry out. The method is based around a flow diagram which structures the comparison process and provides the reader with a guide as to the significant landmark stages commonly worked through in practical handwriting examinations. Where decision points occur within the course of the method flow diagram a series of modules have been developed which describe the nature of the decision under consideration and address relevant theoretical and practical issues. Each module is, as far as is practical, independent of other modules in the method. This assists in facilitating changes in the process over time that may result from theoretical, practical or technological advances in the field. Purchase Volume 26 - Special Issue - $40

scholarly journals Genetic Privacy: The Potential for Genetic Discrimination in Insurance

1999 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 347
Author(s):  
Pamela Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Human Genetics ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Genetic Discrimination ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Medical Genetic ◽  
Genetic Privacy ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Legal Consequences

The threat of modern genetics has been perceived as coming, rather dramatically, from genetic engineering, but the less flashy field of medical genetic testing poses significant and immediate issues. This article discusses the potential for breach of confidentiality or invasion of privacy through the acquisition of information, the disclosure of information, and the potential for prejudicial use of that information by third parties. The author concludes that New Zealand's ethical and legal aspects of human genetics needed a review at the time of writing, recommending an advisory group to be set up to monitor developments in human genetics, facilitate discussion with all relevant persons, groups and bodies, and report on issues arising from new developments in human genetics that can be expected to have wider ethical, social, economic, and legal consequences. However, the author does not find it necessary to enact genetic-specific legislation. 

Children as decision makers

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Vicary ◽  
Judy Tennant ◽  
Jade Santa Maria ◽  
Sarah Wadley
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Planning Decision ◽  
Set Up

Involving children and young people in planning, decision making and the evaluation of services and programs inevitably raises the eyebrows of adults working in the areas of service delivery, program development and policy formulation. Some adults may question young people’s ability to see the ‘big picture’ and to make decisions, and even their right to be engaged in the first place. In challenging these ideas, the Western Australian Office for Children and Youth established a Children’s Advisory Group (CAG) in 2004 – the first of its kind to be created within the Western Australia Government, and one of the first such groups to be set up in Australia.The current Children’s Advisory Group (CAG) is a diverse group often primary school children aged 9-12 years from the Perth metropolitan area. They are actively involved in all aspects of the Office’s operation. The CAG has been evaluated throughout its inaugural year of operation, both in terms of process and impact, and has been found to have a significant impact upon government policy and practice. This paper will outline the process for the establishment and implementation of a CAG and the evaluation of a CAG on government policy. It will highlight evaluation findings and discuss future directions.

scholarly journals Conducting a task while reconstructing its meaning

Pragmatics ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-423
Author(s):  
Riikka Nissi ◽  
Esa Lehtinen
Keyword(s):  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Sequential Position ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Spoken Interaction ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Made In

This article investigates the way an institutional task of a meeting is oriented to by different meeting participants and developed in and through local interaction. Our data come from a city organization, where a large organizational change is planned and prepared through a series of face-to-face encounters and accompanying written texts. Using the notion of recontextualization and by connecting it to the conversation analytical method and to the notion of intersubjectivity, the study examines how the institutional task that is verbalized in written form prior to the meeting is conceptualized by meeting participants in their turns of talk. By doing so, the study will particularly shed light on the question of how different recontextualizations are motivated by their sequential position in interaction. Based on this, it also investigates how the meeting participants construct their professional identities through the conceptualizations made. In a wider sense, the article shows how spoken interaction and written texts interweave and form a reciprocal relationship in organizational life. Thus, it contributes to a deeper understanding about the multifaceted connections between the interactional management of meetings and wider organizational practices and processes that these encounters have been set up to advance.

scholarly journals The pattern of a relational understanding of fifth-grade students on integer operations

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-129
Author(s):  
Dwi Priyo Utomo
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Relational Understanding ◽  
Fifth Grade Students ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
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Answering Questions

Relational understanding constitutes students’ awareness of appropriate procedures to solve problems along with logical reasoning.  Itis pivotal to help students solve problems in mathematics. It is necessary that the teaching of mathematics be directed to achieve relational understanding. Accordingly, students are capable of solving complicated problems in mathematics. This current research aims at analyzing and describing relational understanding and the patterns of answering questions of the fifth graders on integer operation. This study used a qualitative approach with a case study as the research design. Further, three students belonging to the fifth grade of Elementary School in Malang City, Indonesia, were set up as the research subjects. A test was administered to measure the subjects' relational understanding. All collected data were analyzed using an interactive technique. The result has indicated that the highly-proficient student was able to show excellent relational understanding. Besides, it was shown that the fairly-proficient student could show good relational understanding. The lowly-proficient student was shown to be able to achieve only half of the holistic criteria set for relational understanding. The patterns of answering the questions demonstrated by all students in all levels included jotting down the models, completing the models, and answering the questions. The highly-proficient student understood the information and wrote it down. Whilst the fairly-proficient student understood the information without translating it into the written form. At last, the lowly-proficient student did not pronounce any signals of understanding of the information

scholarly journals After National Standards

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Martin Thrupp
Keyword(s):  
Early Response ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Work Programme ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Education Work

The Labour-led government elected in 2017 quickly decided to get rid of National Standards and set up a Curriculum, Progress, and Achievement Ministerial Advisory Group in 2018. That group reported in 2019 and a related Ministry of Education work programme has begun. This provocation from May 2020 provides some background to the MAG, considers its organisation and membership, and briefly mentions some features of the report and the early response of government. The use of data and the struggle for researchers to keep up with multiple reviews are also discussed.

Bilingual Education in Schools in Aboriginal Communities in the Northern Territory

1994 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-26
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Bilingual Education ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Aboriginal Education ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Aboriginal Languages

In January/February 1973 at the request of the Minister for Education, the Hon. Kim E. Beazley, an Advisory Group was set up to make recommendations for the implementation and development of a program involving teaching in Aboriginal languages and the incorporation in the school curriculum of further elements of traditional Aboriginal arts, crafts and skills. The members of the group were:Dr. Betty H. Watts, Reader in Education, University of Queensland, Mr. W.J. McGrath, Inspector of Schools, Aboriginal Education Branch, and Mr. J.L. Tandy, Department of Education, Canberra.It is believed that many teachers will be interested in the thinking behind the bilingual education program and the manner of its recommended implementation.The extracts which follow set out the rationale and the recommended progress through the educational program. The recommended roles of both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal staff members will be outlined in the next issue.

Bilingual Education in Schools in Aboriginal Communities in the Northern Territory

1973 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-51
Keyword(s):  
Bilingual Education ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Aboriginal Education ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Aboriginal Languages

In January/February 1973 at the request of the Minister for Education, the Hon. Kim E. Beazley, an Advisory Group was set up to make recommendations for the implementation and development of a program involving teaching in Aboriginal languages and the incorporation in the school curriculum of further elements of traditional Aboriginal arts, crafts and skills. The members of the group were:Dr. Betty H. Watts, Reader in Education, University of Queensland, Mr. W.J. McGrath, Inspector of Schools, Aboriginal Education Branch, and Mr. J.L. Tandy, Department of Education, Canberra.It is believed that many teachers will be interested in the thinking behind the bilingual education program and the manner of its recommended implementation.The extracts which follow set out the rationale and the recommended progress through the educational program. The recommended roles of both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal staff members will be outlined in the next issue.

scholarly journals IRUS-UK: Improving understanding of the value and impact of institutional repositories

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross MacIntyre
Keyword(s):  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Online Portal ◽  
Item Level ◽  
External Reporting ◽  
Electronic Theses And Dissertations ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Community Advisory Group ◽  
Item Types

>> See video of presentation (21 min.) Many educational institutions have repositories for research outputs. The number of items available through institutional repositories is growing, and is expected to continue to do so due to requirements for outputs from public-funded research to be open access. But how much usage are institutional repositories and their individual items getting?Jisc-funded service IRUS-UK is designed to help institutions understand more about the usage of their institutional repositories. It follows on from the successful PIRUS2 project, which demonstrated how COUNTER-compliant article-level usage statistics could be collected and consolidated from publishers and institutional repositories. IRUS-UK collects raw usage data from participating repositories and processes these into COUNTER-compliant statistics. This provides repositories with comparable, authoritative, standards-based data and opportunities for profiling and benchmarking. It enables institutions to run reports at both repository level (e.g. total download figures) and at item level.  IRUS-UK has developed a taxonomy of 25 item types which all items are mapped to so that usage across specific item types (e.g. Article, Book Section) can be consistently compared.  IRUS-UK currently has data from 63 UK institutional repositories, and has recorded over 17 million downloads since July 2012. The data from IRUS-UK can be used to provide information for management reporting, for usage monitoring, and for external reporting (such as annual SCONUL statistics for UK academic libraries). Data can be viewed within the online portal, or downloaded for further analysis. IRUS-UK recognises that institutional repository usage statistics may not represent total usage, and is investigating ways to combine usage to support institutions in their overall usage statistics. One development is usage figures for electronic theses and dissertations; IRUS-UK has demonstrated the possibility of consolidating usage statistics from institutional repositories and from the British Library’s Electronic Theses Online Service (EThOS) to show total usage.IRUS-UK is a community-driven development, responding to user needs. User feedback has always been core to the service, and continues to develop with the establishment of a Community Advisory Group. Excellent feedback has been received from users on the ease and speed of set-up, and the value of having consistent, standards-based usage statistics and benchmarking opportunities.IRUS-UK: http://irus.mimas.ac.uk/PIRUS2: http://www.cranfieldlibrary.cranfield.ac.uk/pirus2/tiki-index.php

scholarly journals Wildlife research in Madagascar: how foreigners are helping

Oryx ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Durrell
Keyword(s):  
Human Population ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
History Of Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
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International Advisory

Much of Madagascar's wildlife is threatened and remains poorly known despite a long history of research and conservation, both by the country's governments and by foreign scientists and conservationists. The fast growing human population and fragmentation of the country's forests mean that there is an urgent need for research. Lee Durrell is Chairman of the International Advisory Group of Scientists set up in February 1983 to vet research projects in Madagascar proposed by foreign workers. In December 1984, at a London meeting held jointly by the FFPS and the British Ornithological Union, she presented a paper on recent research by foreigners; the following is an updated extract.

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