A Novel Online Education Reform Model Based on Risky Decision-Making under the Situation of Internet Plus

In the new situation of Internet plus, information technology has been widely applied in education, and hence online education has attracted wide attention from all walks of life. Today’s society is a risk society, and risk is everywhere. Online education reform is also risky, which is determined by many reasons. Some risks will cause certain losses to the online education reform, so based on risky decision-making, it is necessary to carry out online education reform under the new situation of Internet plus. At first, the risky decision-making in online education reform is analyzed, which is the risk of online education reform in risk society and the allocation logic of online education reform. Then, taking interval type-2 fuzzy logic (IT2FL) as the information environment, this study proposes the optimal risky decision-making method based on IT2FL utility functions, IT2FL entropy, and risk preference factor of online education reform to solve the multipath risky decision-making problem of online education reform. Finally, the experimental results show that, in the risky decision-making model, the decision-maker’s risk preference has an impact on the path weight and the ranking of the scheme, and the idea has a certain reference role for risky decision-making. Compared with the three benchmarks, the proposed method has the fewest ranking time with the same ranking results.

Controversial Results of the Reform of the Russian Electric Power Industry in 1986–2008

The article discusses the ambiguous results of the reform of the Russian electric power industry. Some of the intended goals of the reform have been achieved, while others have not yet been achieved, and the reform should be continued. Although more than 13 years have passed since the final stage of the reform, there is no agreement in the literature on many key issues characterizing the reform: an explanation of the reasons and factors that influenced the decision to reform the Russian electric power industry, the goals of the reform, the type of the reform model, the validity of its adaptation to the real Russian conditions and institutions that had developed by the beginning of the reform, the results of the reform and their value for society. It was found that contradictory results of the reform are caused by both objective and subjective factors. Along with obvious successes (e.g., denationalization of the industry) and obvious failures (including failure to create retail electricity markets) many results (elimination of vertical integration, level of competition on wholesale electricity markets, etc.) are not observable and have not received a clear and unambiguous assessment of their usefulness to society. Studies using modern economic theory and economic-mathematical modeling were required. No statistically significant economies of scale in electricity generation have been found in large companies generating electricity. Thus, the use of competition as a mechanism to coordinate the interests of society, producers and consumers of electricity and the creation of a wholesale electricity market is scientifically justified. Unification of small producers for their withdrawal to the wholesale electricity market should be accompanied by an economic analysis of the cost function of the united company. It is shown that in the short term the wholesale electricity market created in the first and second price zones is close to competitive, but in the long term there is a threat: this market may become uncompetitive.

STEM EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF FUTURE PEDAGOGICAL STAFF TRAINING

STEM education is one of the important directions of educational reform of the XXI century. The article focuses on modern initiatives that are made in the field of STEM learning and require the development of a model of education reform that responds modern needs of society. It is noted that the proposed educational scenario confirms the hypothesis underlying this study, namely, the need to reform the existing model of educational staff training in the direction from classical education to innovative STEM education. It is substantiated that the issues of STEM education are not only issues and problems in the field of natural and mathematical sciences, engineering, advanced technologies, but also, first of all, educational policy, methodology, management and organization of activities. It is confirmed that STEM education is best implemented through a combination of its different levels: formal, non-formal, informal. The article proposes mechanisms of reforming pedagogical education for the introduction of STEM education at the Pedagogical University with aim of the training of educators of the new formation and the main components of this model. The model of pedagogical staff training includes: creation of scientific and research STEM centre, educational policy (conceptual and methodological developments of education reform model in STEM direction), increase of communication intensity on STEM education topic, promotion of STEM education ideas among the general public, increase of educators’ qualifications and practitioners involved in education. A study was conducted to test this model in practice during 2016-2020. STEM-education in Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University (TNPU) was implemented taking into account the updating of the content of educational and professional programs in accordance with the requirements of the labour market, personal approach, formation of competencies and skills in the field of advanced technologies. It is established that the main indicators of the results of STEM education implementation at the university are: active participation of pupils, students, teachers in various forms of STEM training in the STEM centre of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of TNPU, growing interest in STEM projects and STEM practices with help of excursions, competitions, festivals, science picnics.

The Politics of Land Law: Poverty and Land Legislation in Bangladesh

<p>This thesis examines the major colonial and post-colonial land laws of Bangladesh and their relationship with poverty. It interprets them in the light of historical developments and social realities. The thesis argues that land laws in Bangladesh are essentially anti-poor. They contribute to the perpetuation of poverty. At present, two-thirds of the poor in Bangladesh are land-related poor. The land system that prevailed in colonial Bengal during the British period deprived the peasants of their land rights. This situation demanded a radical land reform based on a distributive approach upon decolonisation in 1947. Unfortunately, in the post-colonial political and legal settings of Bangladesh, land distribution has been unequal. Such inequality coupled with a weak land tenure system and fragile institutional reform created widespread poverty. The Bangladeshi land laws are complex and vague and dominated by politics. Its land law regime has structural loopholes and ideological drawbacks, which are enough to make reform attempts dysfunctional. Poverty in Bangladesh is a result of cumulative and mutually reinforcing deprivations. Land law is a major participant in it. Poverty will persist unless law addresses the true reasons of the poverty and a pro-poor approach to land reform is pursued. The gap between “law” and “land” is exposed and a distributive land law reform model is proposed.</p>

The Politics of Land Law: Poverty and Land Legislation in Bangladesh

<p>This thesis examines the major colonial and post-colonial land laws of Bangladesh and their relationship with poverty. It interprets them in the light of historical developments and social realities. The thesis argues that land laws in Bangladesh are essentially anti-poor. They contribute to the perpetuation of poverty. At present, two-thirds of the poor in Bangladesh are land-related poor. The land system that prevailed in colonial Bengal during the British period deprived the peasants of their land rights. This situation demanded a radical land reform based on a distributive approach upon decolonisation in 1947. Unfortunately, in the post-colonial political and legal settings of Bangladesh, land distribution has been unequal. Such inequality coupled with a weak land tenure system and fragile institutional reform created widespread poverty. The Bangladeshi land laws are complex and vague and dominated by politics. Its land law regime has structural loopholes and ideological drawbacks, which are enough to make reform attempts dysfunctional. Poverty in Bangladesh is a result of cumulative and mutually reinforcing deprivations. Land law is a major participant in it. Poverty will persist unless law addresses the true reasons of the poverty and a pro-poor approach to land reform is pursued. The gap between “law” and “land” is exposed and a distributive land law reform model is proposed.</p>

Dichotomy model based on the finite element differential equation in the educational informatisation teaching reform model

The dichotomy model of education informatisation is essential, which means the measurement of education informatisation construction and development. Finite element differential equations play an essential role in signal and information teaching. To improve teaching information, the paper applies the dichotomy model of finite element differential equations to the reform of physics education information teaching. This article fully introduces the basic principles of the dichotomy model in finite element differential equations and introduces several analysis methods of the inverse Laplace transform of differential equations. At last, the method is applied to the informatisation of physics education to improve the quality of teaching.

An Evaluation Model for the Teaching Reform of the Physical Education Industry

In order to promote the development of sports industry teaching and accurately evaluate the teaching reform of sports industry, this paper constructs an evaluation model based on the teaching reform of sports industry. In addition, the k-means method is used to classify the teaching effect and simplify the data collection process, so as to improve the accuracy of teaching reform evaluation. The sample data come from the data released by the sports department and the government from 2017 to 2020, as well as the actual survey. The 26 evaluation indexes were determined by expert survey, questionnaire interview, and relevant domestic literature. In addition, the Euclidean distance in K-means method is used to calculate the weight of each index, and the results of the evaluation model are analyzed. The results show that the evaluation accuracy of the sports industry teaching reform model proposed in this paper is 98.4% and the error is 1.3%. The evaluation result is better than the previous ant colony model and is suitable for the evaluation of sports teaching reform.

New-style Banks and The Agent Governance Strategies of the Beiyang Government: A Study on the History of the Development of China's Documentary Railway Billing Business in Modern Times

Under the "weak state" regime of modern China, it was difficult for the country’s modernization process to develop without the effective intervention of a centralized state. In the process of government governance, absorbing social organizations and civil forces as agents had proved to be an effective method. Beiyang government’s governance strategy of ‘using agents to regulate agents’ in the documentary railway billing business could be regarded as typical of the diversity of government management. Qing Dynasty, government departments were not directly responsible for railway freight for various reasons, instead, they allowed railway transshipment companies to act as agents for freight management. Then transshipment companies gradually became an obstacle to Beiyang government’s reform on freight transport. However, under the Republic of China, the new-style bank discovered a benign opportunity to develop documentary railway billing service and created a bottom-up institutional reform model. Through the service, the bank became the new agent for the supervision of the transshipment company, which not only regulated the operation, but also forced railroad bureaus in the Yangzi Delta to be primarily responsible for railway freight. The Central Ministry of Transportation of Beiyang Government decided to promote this agency governance model and billing service nationwide. Received 11th January 2021; Revised 2nd June 2021; Accepted 20th July 2021

PERBANDINGAN REFORMASI MANAJEMEN PUBLIK INDONESIA DAN PERANCIS

AbstrakKajian perbandingan administrasi publik telah berkembang sejalan dengan perkembangan ilmu administrasi publik. Tujuan paper ini adalah mengetahui reformasi manajemen publik di Indonesia dikomparasikan dengan Prancis. Komparasi ini tidak mendudukkan Indonesia vis a vis dengan Prancis, namun untuk menemukan lesson learned untuk membangun Indonesia menjadi lebih baik. Metode yang digunakan adalah studi pustaka. reformasi manajemen publik di Indonesia mempertahankan banyak fitur inti dari negara neopatrimonial yang fundamental, di mana elit politik dan ekonomi yang berkuasa melakukan kontrol ketika beroperasi dalam administrasi publik Weberian. Model reformasi negara Prancis sebagaimana negara-negara eropa kontinental berdasarkan modernisasi (Bouckaert, Pollitt, 2000). Pada negara Prancis, menganggap administrasi negara sebagai domain otonom terpisah dari masyarakat sipil '(Clark, 1998, hal. 100) dan diatur oleh aturan hukum. Berdasarkan studi komparasi reformasi manajemen publik di Indonesia dan Prancis lesson learned yang dapat penulis sampaikan adalah: a) Pelaksanaan Reformasi pada suatu negara harus memperhatikan aspek proses sosial-ekonomi, sistem politik, kebijakan elit berkuasa, dan sistem administrasi; b) Reformasi pada negara maju maupun negara berkembang cenderung mengarah pada penciptaan good government dengan mengadopsi prinsip-prinsip NPM pada tata pemerintahan; c) Dorongan reformasi untuk membangun good government dengan menerapkan NPM melalui paket-paket reformasi harus dibaca ulang disesuaikan dengan karakteristik sosial, budaya, politik dan kondisi masyarakat suatu negara. Kata kunci: perbandingan reformasi, manajemen publik. AbstractComparative studies of public administration have developed in line with the development of public administration science. The purpose of this paper is to find out public management reform in Indonesia compared to France. This comparison does not place Indonesia vis a vis with France, but to find lessons learned to build a better Indonesia. The method used is literature study. Indonesia's public management reforms retain many of the core features of a fundamentally neopatrimonial state, over which the ruling political and economic elite exercise control while operating within the Weberian public administration. The French state reform model as continental European countries is based on modernization (Bouckaert, Pollitt, 2000). The French state considers state administration as an autonomous domain separate from civil society' (Clark, 1998, p. 100) and governed by the rule of law. Based on a comparative study of public management reform in Indonesia and France, the lessons learned that the author can convey are: a) The implementation of reform in a country must pay attention to aspects of socio-economic processes, political systems, policies of the ruling elite, and administrative systems; b) Reforms in both developed and developing countries tend to lead to the creation of good government by adopting the principles of NPM in governance; c) The impetus for reform to build good government by implementing NPM through reform packages must be re-read in accordance with the social, cultural, political and social characteristics of a country. Keywords: comparative reform, public management

A Muslim Dualism? Inter-Imperial History and Austria-Hungary in Ottoman Thought, 1867–1921

Historians often look for genealogies of nationalism in Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman imperial history. In this article, I use an inter-imperial framework to argue that the formative period of contemporary Eastern Mediterranean-European regionalism was the last five decades of these two empires. The diplomatic, economic and cultural relations between the two middle powers compose an alternative history to national narratives. I show that dualism (‘independence’ within empire) was an attractive imperial reform model for Ottoman Muslim intellectuals. I describe first a forgotten Egyptian-Ottoman dualist vision, and then I analyse the more well-known Arab-Turkish dualist plans up to 1921.