International periodicals and newsletters from the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives

Bib id: 4774341 "Gay rights movement. Series 11."; "Pt. 1. The Americas -- pt. 2. Europe -- pt. 3. Australia and New Zealand -- pt. 4. Asia, Africa and the Middle East."; "This collection of periodicals and newsletters addresses a wide variety of issues in the gay rights movement over the past 50 years.

International students and their academic experiences: Student satisfaction, student success challenges, and promising teaching practices.

This chapter calls for rethinking education across borders by examining the North American international student academic experience with particular focus on enhancing student satisfaction and promising teaching practices, and increasing the faculty role in campus internationalization. To meet our goals of achieving diversity, inclusivity, and internationalization within an increasingly challenged political and socio-economic context, we must turn our attention to enhancing the international student academic experience. An important first step involves paying more attention to the international student success factors along with satisfaction of international students within the classroom and across the student experience. Additional institutional actions for enhancing the international student academic experience institutions are suggested

Ministerial Accountability for Departmental Actions Across Westminster Parliamentary Democracies

This study examines the convention of individual ministerial responsibility for departmental actions in the four key Westminster countries of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The chain of ministerial responsibility traditionally began in the bureaucratic hierarchy of the public sector up to the minister, who is responsible to the parliament, which is responsible to the people. Many New Public Management reforms changed the roles and responsibilities of senior public servants, which arguably weakened the first link in the chain, despite being premised on increased public sector accountability. Various codes of conduct, guides, manuals, handbooks and legislation, have attempted to codify and clarify politico-bureaucratic relationships. They have generally captured the complexity of executive accountability and better reflect the original convention, while emphasising the preeminent role of the prime minister in upholding individual ministerial responsibility