scholarly journals Fatter or Fitter? On rewarding and training in a contest

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Clark ◽  
Tore Nilssen
Keyword(s):  
Incomplete Information ◽  
Selection Problem ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Heterogeneous Players ◽  
Fixed Budget ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Effort Provision ◽  
And Training

Competition between heterogeneous participants often leads to low effort provision in contests. We consider a principal who can divide her fixed budget between skill-enhancing training and the contest prize. Training can reduce heterogeneity, which increases effort. But it also reduces the contest prize, which makes effort fall. We set up an incomplete-information contest with heterogeneous players and show how this trade-off is related to the size of the budget when the principal maximizes expected effort. A selection problem can also arise in this framework in which there is a cost associated with a contest win by the inferior player. This gives the principal a larger incentive to train the expected laggard, reducing the size of the prize on offer.

scholarly journals Maudsley International: improving mental health and well-being around the world

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Bouras ◽  
Silvia Davey ◽  
Tracey Power ◽  
Jonathan Rolfe ◽  
Tom Craig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
And Training

Maudsley International was set up to help improve people's mental health and well-being around the world. A variety of programmes have been developed by Maudsley International over the past 10 years, for planning and implementing services; building capacity; and training and evaluation to support organisations and individuals, professionals and managers to train and develop health and social care provisions. Maudsley International's model is based on collaboration, sharing expertise and cultural understanding with international partners.

“Bridging the Gap”: School Nurse Experiences Providing Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse Students and Their Parents/Guardians

2021 ◽  
pp. 105984052110254
Author(s):  
Tammy Neiman ◽  
Laurie Sieve ◽  
Louise Stenberg ◽  
Nicole Molesky ◽  
G. Nic Rider
Keyword(s):  
School Nurses ◽  
Parental Acceptance ◽  
Institutional Barriers ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Gender Affirmation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Interpersonal Collaboration ◽  
And Training

School systems are often not set up to support transgender and gender diverse (TGD) students, which results in unsafe and unsupportive environments and other institutional barriers to helping TGD students thrive. An important factor to students' feeling safe and supported in schools may be their relationship with school nurses. The purpose of this study was to describe school nurses' experiences working with TGD students and their parents/guardians, their role in working with this community, and the challenges nurses face when trying to serve TGD students. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 23 school nurses across a Midwestern state. Thematic analysis was used to identify themes: gender-affirming education and interpersonal collaboration, bridging the gap between TGD youth and parents/guardians, gender-affirming care and confidentiality, and navigating parental acceptance and gender-affirmation. School nurses expressed a strong desire to support TGD students but lack the structure and training within schools.

International education governance in the francophone microcosm

2021 ◽  
pp. 174549992110614
Author(s):  
Isabelle Le Mouillour
Keyword(s):  
International Education ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
And Training

International cooperation is high on the agenda of policy makers in times of globalisation and shared challenges such as climate change, poverty, equity or digitalisation. The present paper investigates strategies and actors involved in international cooperation policy in the field of vocational education and training within the francophone area. Using a discursive institutionalism approach as an analysis frame, the article traces and identifies the development of ideas and discourses. It also examines the changes and tensions in the French public institutional set-up in that specific policy field. The analysis builds on analysis of policy documents, mission statements of actors involved (ministries, public and private actors, non-for-profit organisations, international and European actors).

scholarly journals Overcoming Equity-Related Challenges for the Education and Training Systems of Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 305
Author(s):  
Stephen Gorard
Keyword(s):  
Grade Retention ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Clear Correlation ◽  
Absolute Level ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Training Systems ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Set Up ◽  
And Training

This paper is a discussion of the challenges to equity faced by the education and training systems of the 28 EU countries (at time of writing), based on secondary sources and official reports by individual countries. The data are descriptive and simply summarised for this paper. The systems of all countries are fairly similar, modelled on those set up to deal with challenges of early industrialisation, and all now face several similar problems and opportunities. There is a clear correlation between family background, average attainment, and subsequent participation in education and training. All 28 countries show some signs of progress over time, both in terms of the absolute level of attainment, and in terms of reduced gaps between social and economic groups. These trends are historical, and thus hard to link to specific policies. However, looking at the common characteristics of countries with similar levels of equity can produce a tentative guide to its determinants. Some of the main suggestions are: More countries to set up monitoring systems for school intakes and outcomes; more robust evaluations of policy interventions; fair funding and opportunities for all students; extra funding for students facing challenges; no selection by ability or anything else; all taught in mainstream settings; no tracking or grade retention; more recognition of prior experience and learning; respectful interaction with all students; and use of context when allocating places in higher education, or simply more open access.

Function and Training of the Clinical Psychologist

1950 ◽  
Vol 96 (404) ◽  
pp. 710-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. Eysenck
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
American Psychological Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
Veterans Administration ◽  
Clinical Psychologist ◽  
Training Schemes ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Similar Growth ◽  
And Training

The past ten years have seen a spectacular increase in the number of psychologists who have elected to take up the type of work usually referred to as “clinical,” This increase has been most marked in the U.S.A., where now some 25 per cent. of the members of the American Psychological Association are employed in this field, and where Government regulations and training schemes set up under the V.A. (Veterans' Administration) make it almost certain that within a few years clinical psychology will constitute the main field of employment for psychologists (1). In Canada, too, there has been a similar growth, leading to all the problems of registration and certification which are currently being tackled in the United States (2). In this country, while psychologists have occasionally been employed in hospitals for the mentally ill, the development of “clinical psychology” in any formal sense may be said to have started in 1947 with the foundation of the Psychological Department at the Institute of Psychiatry (Maudsley Hospital), one of whose objects was to give a course of training in clinical psychology to graduate students of psychology (7).

Waiting for the Payday? The Market for Startups and the Timing of Entrepreneurial Exit

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashish Arora ◽  
Andrea Fosfuri ◽  
Thomas Rønde
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Model ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Exit Strategy ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Early Exit ◽  
Early Acquisition ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Exclusive Choice ◽  
Early Market ◽  
Technology Startups

Most technology startups are set up for exit through acquisition by large corporations. In choosing when to sell, startups face a trade-off. Early acquisition reduces execution errors, but later acquisition both improves the likelihood of finding a better match and benefits from increased buyer competition. Startups’ exit strategies vary considerably: Some startups aim to sell early; others remain in stealth mode by developing the invention for a late sale. We develop an analytical model to study the timing of the exit strategy. We find that startups with more capable founding teams commit to a late exit, whereas those with less capable founding teams commit to an early exit. Finally, startups with founding teams of intermediate capabilities remain flexible: They seek early offers but eventually sell late. If trying the early market is so costly that startups have to make a mutually exclusive choice between an early and late sale, startups sell inefficiently late. Instead, if they can collect early offers at no cost before deciding on the timing of sale, there are too many early acquisitions. This paper was accepted by David Simchi-Levi, business strategy.

Analysis on the Architecture of the General Aviation Operation Control System Software

2014 ◽  
Vol 687-691 ◽  
pp. 18-21
Author(s):  
Li Qun Li
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
General Aviation ◽  
System Structure ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Management Level ◽  
Operation Control ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Ocean Monitoring ◽  
And Training ◽  
Operation And Management

General aviation, is refers to the civil aviation activities that is used a civil aircraft engaged in outside of public air transport, including industry, agriculture, forestry, fisheries and homework flight of the construction industry and medical and health, disaster relief, meteorological observation, ocean monitoring, scientific experiment, education and training, culture and sports and other party and flight activities. Therefore, every airline is necessary to set up its own set of flight operation control system. This paper introduces the concept of flight operation control system, system structure and functions of each module, and is given flight operation control system application solutions; provide reference for improving the flight operation and management level in our country.

Honduras transparency body may fail to meet demands

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
Judicial Process ◽  
Content Type ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
American States ◽  
Vested Interests ◽  
Set Up ◽  
And Training

Subject A new anti-corruption body has been put in place in Honduras. Significance On January 19, the Organization of American States (OAS) signed an agreement with Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez to set up an anti-corruption mission in the country. The mission, known as the Mission for Support against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH), will work to improve the judicial process with particular focus on anti-corruption cases. Impacts The MACCIH is likely to trigger protests by groups who wanted a different type of international mission. Vested interests within the state will see attempts to divert the mission's attention to corruption networks outside of state institutions. Cleaning up and training the judiciary will be a key aim for the MACCIH, but will be met with resistance from long-serving judges. The failure of the MACCIH could undermine the credibility of the OAS both within Honduras and more widely.

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