'Holding the door open' for continuing education in the UK: Strategies for survival until its time comes again.

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-157
Author(s):  
Mark O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Skills Acquisition ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Tuition Fees ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
The Many ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

Higher education (HE) in the UK, as in other parts of the world, is now big business, with revenues measured in the many ?billions annually. Organisational and cultural changes that have accompanied this 'new world' for HE represent the rise of a 'business model' of the university that is far more engaged with income generation than in the even relatively recent past. However, while increases in tuition fees have not put off young people from applying for and taking up university places, mature student recruitment has dropped precipitously. Alongside this, commitments to community and lifelong models of learning have fared badly. Continuing education services, for example, are not well positioned to contribute significantly to their host universities' income streams. The trends accompanying these changes have also affected notions of skills acquisition and even how 'learning' itself is conceptualised. This paper briefly considers the historical trajectory of continuing education as well as potential strategies that might be mobilised to make its position in the modern university more secure.

scholarly journals Hans Walter Kosterlitz. 27 April 1903 — 26 October 1996

2013 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 171-192
Author(s):  
R. Alan North ◽  
John Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Carbohydrate Metabolism ◽  
Peptide Hormone ◽  
Laboratory Animals ◽  
Endogenous Opioid ◽  
Opiate Drugs ◽  
Entire Career ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Experimental Skills

Hans Walter Kosterlitz will be remembered as the winner of an international race to identify the first endogenous opioid, enkephalin. He came to the UK from Berlin in 1934, one of the many scientific émigrés of that period who later so enriched biochemistry, physiology and pharmacology. His entire career was spent at the University of Aberdeen, where he developed a reputation first in carbohydrate metabolism and later in the pharmacology of opiates. His strong experimental skills, and particularly the use of bioassays on tissues from laboratory animals, allowed him to predict the effectiveness and abuse potential of opiate drugs. Most notably, this led to the isolation of the peptide hormone enkephalin, the first of a group of such peptides now often known as endorphins. This work was done in his seventies, after his official retirement, with an energy and enthusiasm that could leave younger colleagues physically tired but intellectually stimulated.

Teaching Technology and Business

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 378-382
Author(s):  
Bill Gerrard ◽  
Keith Macrosson
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Similar Degree ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Business Studies ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Education Of Students ◽  
The University

Research conducted 25 years ago in the UK established at that time that businesses required able, enthusiastic and broadly educated people who were willing to master quickly a firm's techniques and procedures and to advance to a position of responsibility and leadership. The BSc Honours degree in Technology and Business Studies (TBS) at the University of Strathclyde was designed to meet that requirement by providing students with an understanding of the language of technology and the language of business, and to link these two to provide a fluency in the communication skills used by managers on a daily basis. In an earlier paper Macrosson described the TBS degree, established in October 1974, as a new approach to the education of students wishing to enter industry, commerce or public service. Now, 23 years on from the first intake, this paper briefly outlines the current structure of the course, reviews its overall performance, and extracts the five principal lessons which the authors believe will be of help to those either establishing or reviewing a similar degree. The factual parts of the paper are based on a recently completed survey of the 190 TBS students currently on the course.

scholarly journals A Decade of GOSAT Proxy Satellite CH<sub>4</sub> Observations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Parker ◽  
Alex Webb ◽  
Hartmut Boesch ◽  
Peter Somkuti ◽  
Rocio Barrio Guillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Excellent Agreement ◽  
Seasonal Cycle ◽  
Total Carbon ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Global Bias

Abstract. This work presents the latest release (v9.0) of the University of Leicester GOSAT Proxy XCH4 dataset. Since the launch of the GOSAT satellite in 2009, this data has been produced by the UK National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) as part of the ESA Greenhouse Gas Climate Change Initiative (GHG-CCI) and Copernicus Climate Change Services (C3S) projects. With now over a decade of observations, we outline the many scientific studies achieved using past versions of this data in order to highlight how this latest version may be used in the future. We describe in detail how the data is generated, providing information and statistics for the entire processing chain from the L1B spectral data through to the final quality-filtered column-averaged dry-air mole fraction (XCH4) data. We show that out of the 19.5 million observations made between April 2009 and December 2019, we determine that 7.3 million of these are sufficiently cloud-free (37.6 %) to process further and ultimately obtain 4.6 million (23.5 %) high-quality XCH4 observations. We separate these totals by observation mode (land and ocean sun-glint) and by month, to provide data users with the expected data coverage, including highlighting periods with reduced observations due to instrumental issues. We perform extensive validation of the data against the Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON), comparing to ground-based observations at 22 locations worldwide. We find excellent agreement to TCCON, with an overall correlation coefficient of 0.92 for the 88,345 co-located measurements. The single measurement precision is found to be 13.72 ppb and an overall global bias of 9.06 ppb is determined and removed from the Proxy XCH4 data. Additionally, we validate the separate components of the Proxy (namely the modelled XCO2 and the XCH4/XCO2 ratio) and find these to be in excellent agreement with TCCON. In order to show the utility of the data for future studies, we compare against simulated XCH4 from the TM5 model. We find a high degree of consistency between the model and observations throughout both space and time. When focusing on specific regions, we find average differences ranging from just 3.9 ppb to 15.4 ppb. We find the phase and magnitude of the seasonal cycle to be in excellent agreement, with an average correlation coefficient of 0.93 and a mean seasonal cycle amplitude difference across all regions of −0.84 ppb. This data is available at https://doi.org/10.5285/18ef8247f52a4cb6a14013f8235cc1eb (Parker and Boesch, 2020).

scholarly journals A decade of GOSAT Proxy satellite CH<sub>4</sub> observations

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 3383-3412
Author(s):  
Robert J. Parker ◽  
Alex Webb ◽  
Hartmut Boesch ◽  
Peter Somkuti ◽  
Rocio Barrio Guillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Excellent Agreement ◽  
Seasonal Cycle ◽  
Total Carbon ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Global Bias

Abstract. This work presents the latest release (v9.0) of the University of Leicester GOSAT Proxy XCH4 dataset. Since the launch of the GOSAT satellite in 2009, these data have been produced by the UK National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) as part of the ESA Greenhouse Gas Climate Change Initiative (GHG-CCI) and Copernicus Climate Change Services (C3S) projects. With now over a decade of observations, we outline the many scientific studies achieved using past versions of these data in order to highlight how this latest version may be used in the future. We describe in detail how the data are generated, providing information and statistics for the entire processing chain from the L1B spectral data through to the final quality-filtered column-averaged dry-air mole fraction (XCH4) data. We show that out of the 19.5 million observations made between April 2009 and December 2019, we determine that 7.3 million of these are sufficiently cloud-free (37.6 %) to process further and ultimately obtain 4.6 million (23.5 %) high-quality XCH4 observations. We separate these totals by observation mode (land and ocean sun glint) and by month, to provide data users with the expected data coverage, including highlighting periods with reduced observations due to instrumental issues. We perform extensive validation of the data against the Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON), comparing to ground-based observations at 22 locations worldwide. We find excellent agreement with TCCON, with an overall correlation coefficient of 0.92 for the 88 345 co-located measurements. The single-measurement precision is found to be 13.72 ppb, and an overall global bias of 9.06 ppb is determined and removed from the Proxy XCH4 data. Additionally, we validate the separate components of the Proxy (namely the modelled XCO2 and the XCH4∕XCO2 ratio) and find these to be in excellent agreement with TCCON. In order to show the utility of the data for future studies, we compare against simulated XCH4 from the TM5 model. We find a high degree of consistency between the model and observations throughout both space and time. When focusing on specific regions, we find average differences ranging from just 3.9 to 15.4 ppb. We find the phase and magnitude of the seasonal cycle to be in excellent agreement, with an average correlation coefficient of 0.93 and a mean seasonal cycle amplitude difference across all regions of −0.84 ppb. These data are available at https://doi.org/10.5285/18ef8247f52a4cb6a14013f8235cc1eb (Parker and Boesch, 2020).

Assessing laparoscopic skills in the novice

2008 ◽  
Vol 90 (7) ◽  
pp. 246-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
DE Fielding ◽  
E Ferguson ◽  
B Baxendale ◽  
A Mannion ◽  
CA Maxwell-Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Simulator Training ◽  
Psychomotor Skills ◽  
Skills Acquisition ◽  
Laparoscopic Skills ◽  
Graduate Entry ◽  
Medical Undergraduates ◽  
Surgical Career ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Invasive Techniques ◽  
The University

Graduate-entry degrees are common in the US and Australia and are offered by 14 universities in the UK. The University of Nottingham has recently seen the integration of its graduate-entry medicine (GEM) students with its traditional medical undergraduates (BMedSci) on their first clinical attachment. Those pursuing a surgical career will be subject to shortened training as part of Modernising Medical Careers. Furthermore, the increase in minimally invasive techniques will lead to simulator training being utilised as this is a method to which laparoscopic skills acquisition lends itself. A number of validated curricula have been developed since the use of simulators was first suggested as a tool for endoscopic surgical training. Indeed, recent work has shown that simulation may improve psychomotor skills within the context of a surgical procedure.

Diritto e impegno civile. Una laurea honoris causa

2009 ◽  
pp. 383-389
Author(s):  
Bruno Veneziani
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Legal Scholar ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
European Institutions ◽  
Personal Profile ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

- In the laudatio given on the occasion of the conferral of the honoris causa degree granted by the University of Bari, the author outlines the scientific, academic and personal profile of Sir Bob Hepple, a major legal scholar who has made a huge contribution to the development of legal studies in the UK and internationally. His knowledge and experience in several fields of law as well as in the judiciary sphere, his engagement in public issues both at national and international levels, the many institutional functions he played in his adoptive country (Great Britain) as well as in his native one (South Africa) and his collaboration within European and extra-European institutions, are all combined in his scholarship and in his activity of research in the field of employment law and of industrial relations. The author touches upon Hepple's many scientific works and outlines his outstanding contribution in offering perspectives of investigation and techniques of protection, at times original and innovative, in keeping with the objectives of social justice which are clearly identified and pursued throughout his work.

National Astronomy Meeting, Portsmouth (United Kingdom), 23rd–26th June, 2014

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-137
Author(s):  
Pamela Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Solar Physics ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Physics Community ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

Around six hundred astronomers and space scientists gathered at the University of Portsmouth in June 2014 for the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM). NAM is one of the largest professional astronomy conferences in Europe, and this year’s gathering included the UK Solar Physics annual meeting as well as attendance from the magnetosphere, ionosphere and solar-terrestrial physics community. Conference tracks ranged from discussion of the molecular universe to cosmic chronometers, and from spectroscopic cosmology to industrial applications of astrophysics and astronomy.

Past

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Kellerman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
First Century ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Lao Tzu ◽  
Leadership And Management ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
The Many

The chapter focuses on how leadership was taught in the distant and recent past. The first section is on five of the greatest leadership teachers ever—Lao-tzu, Confucius, Plato, Plutarch, and Machiavelli—who shared a deep belief in the idea that leadership could be taught and left legacies that included timeless and transcendent literary masterworks. The second section explores how leadership went from being conceived of as a practice reserved only for a select few to one that could be exercised by the many. The ideas of the Enlightenment changed our conception of leadership. Since then, the leadership literature has urged people without power and authority, that is, followers, to understand that they too could be agents of change. The third section turns to leadership and management in business. It was precisely the twentieth-century failure of business schools to make management a profession that gave rise to the twenty-first-century leadership industry.

Archaeologists and the Dead

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
International Context ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Experience Effect

This volume addresses the relationship between archaeologists and the dead, through the many dimensions of their relationships: in the field (through practical and legal issues), in the lab (through their analysis and interpretation), and in their written, visual and exhibitionary practice--disseminated to a variety of academic and public audiences. Written from a variety of perspectives, its authors address the experience, effect, ethical considerations, and cultural politics of working with mortuary archaeology. Whilst some papers reflect institutional or organizational approaches, others are more personal in their view: creating exciting and frank insights into contemporary issues that have hitherto often remained "unspoken" among the discipline. Reframing funerary archaeologists as "death-workers" of a kind, the contributors reflect on their own experience to provide both guidance and inspiration to future practitioners, arguing strongly that we have a central role to play in engaging the public with themes of mortality and commemoration, through the lens of the past. Spurred by the recent debates in the UK, papers from Scandinavia, Austria, Italy, the US, and the mid-Atlantic, frame these issues within a much wider international context that highlights the importance of cultural and historical context in which this work takes place.

scholarly journals Changing landscapes: Gay men in the west and northwest of Ireland

Sexualities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 136346072098169
Author(s):  
Aidan McKearney
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
The Many ◽  
Northwest Region ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

This article focuses on the experiences of gay men in the rural west and northwest region of Ireland, during a period of transformational social and political change in Irish society. These changes have helped facilitate new forms of LGBTQI visibility, and local radicalism in the region. Same-sex weddings, establishment of rural LGBT groups and marching under an LGBT banner at St Patricks Day parades would have been unthinkable in the recent past; but they are now becoming a reality. The men report continuing challenges in their lives as gay men in the nonmetropolitan space, but the emergence of new visibility, voice and cultural acceptance of LGBT people is helping change their lived experiences. The study demonstrates the impact of local activist LGBT citizens. Through their testimonies we can gain an insight into the many, varied and interwoven factors that have interplayed to create the conditions necessary for the men to: increasingly define themselves as gay to greater numbers of people in their localities; to embrace greater visibility and eschew strategies of silence; and aspire to a host of legal, political, cultural and social rights including same-sex marriage. Organic forms of visibility and local radicalism have emerged in the region and through an analysis of their testimonies we can see how the men continue to be transformed by an ever-changing landscape.

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