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1 online resource (xix, 306 pages) : illustrations |
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2. Facing the Enemies of Higher Educational Standards -- 3. The Challenge of Private Universities in the EU -- 4. Institutes of Higher Education and Their Management Plans -- 5. Learning from the Leadership of the American University System -- 6. Promoting the Process of Accreditation -- 7. Teaching Novel Areas Like Personal Finance -- 8. Reversing the Trend of Functional Illiteracy in the Knowledge Society -- 9. Making University Management Effective -- 4. The Devil's Advocate in University Business -- 1. Quantity or Quality in Graduate Studies? -- 2. Much Ado About Nothing: The Bologna Initiative -- 3. Financing University Research and Education -- 4. Is it Possible to Right-price Higher Education? -- 4. The Complex Case of University Endowments -- 6. Promoting Not-for-Profit Foundations as Partners of Higher Education -- 7. Trustees and the Management of University Assets -- 8. It Takes More Than Good Words to Restructure Higher Education and Careers in Europe -- Appendix: Cashing a Cheque |
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pt. II INNOVATION: THE SYNERGY OF EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT -- 5. Research, Development and Innovation -- 1. Research and Development Defined -- 2. Making Knowledge Work Productive -- 3. In a Service Economy Internal Discipline is as Important as R & D -- 4. Lessons on Innovation from Silicon Valley -- 5. Patents as a Measure of Creative Activity -- 6. The Changing Influence of R & D on Corporate Performance -- 7. Planning for Market Leadership -- 6. The EU Research and Development Challenge -- 1. Managing and Financing R & D in the European Union -- 2. The Lag in Funding Basic Research -- 3. Benefits From Bringing Together Industry and Academia -- 4. Are Common EU Research Projects Worth Their Salt? -- 5. Common Weapons Research in the EU has Fared Worse Than Galileo -- 6. Planning and Organizing R & D -- 7. Design Reviews for Control of R & D Projects -- pt. III EMPLOYMENT IS AN OPPORTUNITY, NOT A RIGHT -- 7. Employment Means Different Things to Different People |
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2. Taken for a Ride: The 35-hour Week -- 3. Le Contrat Premiere Embauche and Lifelong Employment -- 4. Rebels Without a Cause and Their Wrong Incentives -- 5. The Culture of Anger and Violence is Spreading -- 6. Are Labour Unions a Relevant Social Partners or Anachronisms? -- 7. Thatcher Engaged with the Labour Unions and Won -- 8. Social Partners Which a Country Needs to Prosper -- 10. The Continuing Search for Miracle Solutions -- 1. The Brains Go Where They are Appreciated -- 2. Ill-fated Summits Which Failed to Bend Unemployment -- 3. Using Recent Experience to Improve the Employment Model -- 4. The Services Industry Enters a Zone of Turbulence -- 5. Affirmative Action is Throwing Money at the Problem -- 6. Confronting the Growing Attraction of Benefits and of Self-made Unemployment -- 7. As Long as the European Labour Market Agonizes, There Will Be No New Employment Opportunities -- pt. IV PENSIONS AND THE SOCIAL SAFETY NET -- 11. The Principle of Social Insurance -- 1. Bismarck's Welfare Model was Made for Yesterday's World |
| Summary |
Dimitris Chorafas argues that European educational standards, from primary schools through to universities, leave much to be desired. He then turns to employment. Already affected by problems with education, employment is fettered by structural issues, ra |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Labor supply -- Effect of education on -- European Union countries
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Manpower policy -- European Union countries
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Education -- European Union countries
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Business and education -- European Union countries
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Human Resources & Personnel Management.
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Business and education
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Education
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Labor supply -- Effect of education on
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Manpower policy
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European Union countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010030731 |
| ISBN |
9780566092022 |
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0566092026 |
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0566092018 |
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9780566092015 |
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1317145933 |
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9781317145936 |
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1317145925 |
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9781317145929 |
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1282963163 |
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9781282963160 |
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9786612963162 |
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6612963166 |
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