Identification Of Skills Gaps Among Persons With Disabilities And Their Employment Prospects

In 2013, the Irish Government published its National Disability Strategy Implementation Plan 2013-2015. As part of this strategy, a number of goals were set around participation, including job access for people with disabilities. This specific objective recommended a number of actions, including the commitment to publish a comprehensive employment strategy (CES) for people with disabilities. This strategy, the Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities, was published in 2015 for the period 2015-2024. The objective of this strategy, which is cross-governmental, is to support people with disabilities in accessing the labour market. Building on existing actions in the CES, the National Disability Authority (NDA) commissioned the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) to undertake quantitative research into the workplace skills and abilities of persons with disabilities. To undertake this research, a number of nationally representative data sources were utilised to characterise the skills/educational endowments and gaps among persons with disabilities compared to those without. Specifically, data from the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC), the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), the Census of Population, and the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) were examined. Where the data permitted, we differentiated those with a disability by type, everyday difficulties (e.g. difficulty dressing), and/or severity level. We also examined the employment characteristics of people with disabilities compared to persons without, and investigated the impact of having a disability on an individual’s employment prospects. What follows is a summary of the principal findings from this research, including some discussion on future directions.

BETWEEN ACTUAL AND VIRTUAL REALITY. TECHNOLOGIES AND FUNCTIONALITIES OF DEVICES IN THE BUYING PROCESS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF (POLISH) CONSUMERS

In modern times, the buying process involves utilisation of technologies from the virtual world as well as appropriate devices and their functionalities. Strategies of this type are also appreciated by young Polish people for whom balancing between actual and virtual reality is becoming an intrinsic element of consumer awareness. Based on selected papers and research reports, including their own and ones not yet published, the authors of the paper present various ways of moving between two realities throughout the whole buying process, from the stage of creating needs to completion of the purchase. In this respect, they draw attention to such issues as the kind of devices and their functionalities used or preferred in this process, the differentiation of actions in the individual buying categories, the involvement of third parties in the buying process, responses to messages, and willingness to disclose personal information. In addition to the empirical character (presentation of the relevant data obtained during the research) of the study, the authors consider the extent of autonomy and rationality of consumer decisions. The paper presents empirical research as it was based on the authors’ consumer studies, the full descriptions of which, along with the conclusions, are included in two reports constituting elements of a project implemented by the Social Research Institute at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Pedagogical University of Krakow (IFiS UP) and the Interia Group, under the name ‘Studies on the construction of an innovative platform, compliant with the latest global trends and enabling creation of services in the “Shopping Assistant” model’, funded by the Regional Operating Programme for Mazowieckie Province for 2014–2020 (Priority axis 1: Knowledge Economy; Action 1.2 Research and innovation in enterprises, Sub‑measure 1.2.1 R&D projects for enterprises).

DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR EARLY SCHOOL LEAVERS

The started education reform School 2030 in Latvia requires to implement essential changes in approaches to education. The content and the way of learning, how the teachers manage everyday teaching and learning are being revised starting from kindergarden to the graduating of the school.The vision of the student includes the active and mindful participation of everybody in the life of the society, has deepened the necessary knowledge,developed skills and attitudes to be useful for the society. It means that the accent is put on every child to be involved in education.Education has to be built on equity, equality and quality. At the same time there is a great discrepancy between reality and aim of education in Latvia. There is a quite big drop out of students from general and professional education.According to the research of Baltic social research institute (2014) 26% of students from secondary schools and gymnasiums leave school before graduating it. Schools have a great potential to prevent it.The authors discuss the opportunity to develop support system in general education schools to prevent and avoid drop out of learning. The great attention is being paid to the cooperation and collaboration in the system of education, development of teachers’ competences.

¿Quién es mi padre? ¿Quién soy yo?. Los crímenes contra la humanidad de la "Wehrmacht" en la literatura de habla alemana = Who is my father? Who am i?. The crimes against humanity commited by the “Wehrmacht” in the German-speaking literature

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-language: ES;" lang="ES">En el año 1995 el Instituto de Investigación Social de Hamburgo puso en marcha la exposición itinerante Guerra de Exterminio. Los Crímenes del Ejército 1941-1944, desmantelando la existente diferenciación entre el ejército alemán y las SS, mientras se demostraba la participación del ejército en los crímenes durante las "operaciones de limpieza étnica" de la población en el este de Europa. Autores como Klaus Schlesinger (1971) o Ulla Hahn (2003) intentaron de destabuizar a través de su escritura esta etapa oscura de Alemania, empleando como detonante de la desconfianza las fotografías que dejaron como prueba los soldados del ejército alemán. Mi ponencia se centrará en el enfrentamiento literario con las fotografías de los verdugos nazis, que hoy ocupa un espacio importante en el trabajo analítico de los crímenes contra la humanidad cometidos por los nazis.</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-language: ES;" lang="ES"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-language: ES;" lang="ES">In 1995 the Social Research Institute of Hamburg launched the traveling exhibition War of Extermination. The Army Crimes 1941-1944, dismantling the existing differentiation between the German army and the SS. He demonstrated the participation of the Wehrmacht in crimes against humanity during the "ethnic cleansing operations" of the population in Eastern Europe. Authors like Klaus Schlesinger (1971) or Ulla Hahn (2003) tried to destabilize through this writing this dark stage of Germany, using as a trigger of distrust the photographs that the German soldiers left as proof. My article will focus on the literary confrontation with the photographs of the Nazi executioners, which today occupies an important place in the analytical work of crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis.</span></p>

Clinical Coder Training Initiatives in Ireland

The Hospital In-Patient Enquiry and National Perinatal Reporting System (HIPE & NPRS) Unit of the Economic and Social Research Institute in Ireland requested a review of its coder training programs and data quality initiatives, primarily because of the decision to implement a major change in Ireland's morbidity classification in January 2005. In August 2004, a formative evaluation using qualitative methods was conducted to assess the Unit's programs and initiatives. A number of opportunities for building on the solid frameworks the Unit has implemented were identified. In this paper, we focus on the Unit's coder training programs. The Unit's data quality initiatives will be discussed in a subsequent paper (Bramley & Reid 2005).

Morbidity Data Quality Initiatives in Ireland

In 2004, the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry and National Perinatal Reporting System (HIPE & NPRS) Unit of the Economic and Social Research Institute in Ireland requested a review of its coder training programs and data quality initiatives, primarily because of the decision to implement a major change in the morbidity classification in January 2005. In August 2004, the authors conducted a formative evaluation using qualitative methods to assess the Unit's programs. A number of opportunities for building on the solid framework the Unit has implemented were identified. The preceding paper focused on the Unit's coder training programs (Bramley & Reid 2005). In this paper, the Unit's data quality initiatives are examined.