23 research outputs found
On the making and taking of professionalism in the further education workplace
This paper examines the changing nature of professional practice in English further education. At a time when neo-liberal reform has significantly impacted on this under-researched and over-market-tested sector, little is known about who its practitioners are and how they construct meaning in their work. Sociological interest in the field has tended to focus on further education practitioners as either the subjects of market and managerial reform or as creative agents operating within the contradictions of audit and inspection cultures. In challenging such dualism, which is reflective of wider sociological thinking, the paper examines the ways in which agency and structure combine to produce a more transformative conception of the further education professional. The approach contrasts with a prevailing policy discourse that seeks to re-professionalise and modernise further education practice without interrogating either the terms of its professionalism or the neo-liberal practices in which it resides
BE Department Annual Report 2009
The Beams Department hosts the Groups responsible for the beam generation, acceleration, diagnostics, controls and performance optimization for the whole CERN accelerator complex. This Report describes the 2009 highlights for the BE Department
The impact of future socio-economic and climate changes on agricultural land use and the wider environment in East Anglia and North West England using a metamodel system
This paper describes a procedure to use a model interactively to investigate
future land use by studying a wide range of scenarios defining climate,
technological and socio-economic changes. A full model run of several hours has
been replaced by a metamodel version which takes a few seconds, and provides the
user with an immediate visual output and with the ability to examine easily
which factors have the greatest effect. The Regional Impact Simulator combines a
model of agricultural land use choices linked with models of urban growth,
flooding risk, water quality and consequences for wildlife to estimate plausible
futures of agricultural land on a timescale of 20â50 years. The model examines
the East Anglian and North West regions of the United Kingdom at a grid
resolution of 5 Ă 5 km, and for each scenario estimates the most likely cropping
and its profitability at each location, and classifies land use as arable,
intensive or extensive grassland or abandoned. From a modelling viewpoint the
metamodel approach enables iteration. It is thus possible to determine how
product prices change so that production meets demand. The results of the study
show that in East Anglia cropping remains quite stable over a wide range of
scenarios, though grassland is eliminated in scenarios with the 2050s High
climate scenario â almost certainly due to the low yield in the drier
conditions. In the North West there is a very much greater range of outcomes,
though all scenarios suggest a reduction in grassland with the greatest in the
2050s High climate scenario combined with the âRegional Stewardshipâ
(environmental) socio-economic scenario. The effects of the predicted changes in
land use on plant species showed suitability for species to vary greatly,
particularly between the socio-economic scenarios, due to detrimental effects
from increases in nitrogen fertilisation. A complete simulation with the
Regional Impact Simulator takes around 15 seconds (computer-dependent), which
users who responded felt was adequate or better than adequate. The main areas
for future improvement, such as the speed of the system, user interaction and
the accuracy and detail of the modelling, are c
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BE Department Annual Report 2011
The Beams Department hosts the Groups responsible for the beam generation, acceleration, diagnostics, controls and performance optimization for the whole CERN accelerator complex. This Report describes the 2011 highlights for the BE Department
The paradox of professionalism in english further education: A TLC project perspective
This paper examines the shifting nature of Further Education (FE) professionalism through the lenses of the Transforming Learning Cultures in FE (TLC) project. Despite over a decade of market and managerial reform professionalism in FE remains an elusive and paradoxical concept. With some notable exceptions there exists little official data or research evidence of who its practitioners are, their dispositions or how they define professionalism in the contested contexts of their work. In addressing this neglected issue, albeit in a brief fashion here, the paper engages with wider debate concerning the culturally oriented nature of FE practice, as it mediates contradictory policy agendas, at college level. The paper highlights some of the paradoxes involved in a public management discourse that seeks to modernize FE professionals whilst, at the same time, displaying little understanding of their current practice or contexts in which they work. Drawing on the narratives of experienced practitioners participating in the TLC project (2001-2005) the paper explores their perceptions and experiences of professionalism through cultures of learning that simultaneously enhance and restrict their professional room for manoeuvre