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    Greenhead College: report from the Inspectorate (FEFC Inspection Report; 46/94 and 12/98)

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    Comprises two Further Education Funding Council (FEFC) inspection reports for the periods 1993-94 and 1997-9

    A contextual review of CSR policy and law in the UK

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    Administrative burdens and dairy industry competitiveness

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    The goal of this paper is to assess the effect of regulatory burdens in the European dairy industry on its competitiveness. A theoretical foundation is provided by transaction cost economics and total quality management insights. The effects of legislation on administrative requirements and competitiveness are supposed to be mediated by impacts on innovativeness, company strategy, food safety system availability, as well as the available information & communication capabilities. We will connect to previous research (Wijnands et al., 2007) and the findings therein. Four sub-questions are addressed: • what is the relationship between administrative burdens, innovation and competitiveness? • what is the relationship between administrative burdens, food safety & quality system deployment and competitiveness? • what is the relationship between administrative burdens, food labelling requirements and competitiveness? • what is the relationship between administrative burdens, supply chain transparency and competitiveness? In addition to the theoretical framework presented earlier in Bremmers et al., 2008, this paper contains the first results of a survey in the European dairy industry. They are combined with the proceeds from a literature search. The results show that (Q1) especially product innovation is negatively impacted by administrative burdens. Food safety and quality systems (Q2) serve to provide a level playing field in Europe. They would be installed also if no legal requirements would enforce them, because clients ask for it, so that administrative burdens could easily be attributed to business strategy rather than legal obligations. To reduce administrative burdens, we advice to integrate food safety and quality requirements is necessary. It would reduce monitoring and reporting costs, both for private as well as public parties. Food labeling (Q3) (a ‘made in Europe’ origin marking) could work contraproductive with respect to the competitive position of dairy firms and will have an increase of administrative burdens as a net-effect. And last but not least (Q4), increased chain transparency (mentioning the name of intermediary producers on the end-product package) will accelerate administrative burdens, but will only be beneficial for SMEs with a differentiated product. Commodity-producers in the dairy industry which only follow a cost strategy will gradually merge and/or disappear.dairy industry, competitiveness, administrative burdens, food safety, labelling, Livestock Production/Industries,

    Performance Measures Using Electronic Health Records: Five Case Studies

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    Presents the experiences of five provider organizations in developing, testing, and implementing four types of electronic quality-of-care indicators based on EHR data. Discusses challenges, and compares results with those from traditional indicators

    Teaching and Professional Fellowship Report 2004/5 : Improving reflective practice through learning journals and virtual learning environments.

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    This paper describes work carried out within the Fellowship with the intention of increasing student achievement by improving students’ abilities to reflect, evaluate, and act upon their evaluations. I also sought to improve communication across a large Course. Previous external verifiers have recognised the lack of evaluative practice within Foundation Courses as a national issue. My work since 2002 has involved the introduction, implementation and development of new learning tools. These tools have evolved from the very simple: An A5 pre-printed journal, written into by students, called the Thinktank, to more complex virtual learning environments (VLE) within the University’s Blackboard site. A survey of students’ final major project portfolios indicates that students who use these tools effectively are more likely to achieve merit & distinction grades in their final examinations. To create the VLE I built and activated a Foundation Studies Blackboard site. I have found that both the Thinktank and Blackboard have merit and have attempted to combine their use across the course. I piloted a number of Blackboard-specific assignments to encourage on-line peer group learning through the use of asynchronous discussion boards. I observed a number of advantages in using discussion boards, which facilitate a combination of live, (slowed) discussion, and personal reflective practice. The use of discussion boards also brings more benefits for learners such as flexibility of time and place, more time to engage in an online debate, transparency, a certain levelling of different language abilities, automatic archiving: (students can revisit the discussion at any point). Taking discussion board ideas back into live studio debates produced a high level of student engagement. A more open-ended pilot, the moblog, allows students working on an expressive, selfdirected project to send SMS messages to a webpage within the Blackboard site. With this pilot I was interested in exploring the potential of the mobile phone as ‘sketchbook/ journal’. Students were positive about the pilot and despite the limitations of SMS messaging, quickly established a recognisable 'voice' and the beginnings of an online communit

    Engaging young people: local authority youth work 2005–08

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