A recommendation on how the method of setting water prices in Scotland should be changed : customer financed capital as a notional loan to the utility

It is difficult to over-estimate the importance of setting prices appropriately for a major utility like water, given that inappropriate pricing can cause unnecessary damage to the comparative competitiveness of a country’s economy. In an earlier article in the Commentary, (Cuthbert and Cuthbert, 2007), we gave a critique of the current cost regulatory capital value (CCRCV) method of utility pricing: a method used, for example, in setting revenue limits, and so prices, in the water industry in Scotland and in England. While that article identified significant problems with the CCRCV approach, we did not make detailed recommendations about how these problems might be rectified. This paper makes a specific proposal about how CCRCV should be modified: our proposal is particularly well suited to the circumstances where, as in the case of Scottish Water, CCRCV pricing is being applied in a publicly owned utility. We argue that implementation of the proposed approach would have a number of advantages: in particular, it would lead to significantly lower water charges, while being fully sustainable well within current levels of public expenditure provision; it would reduce the likelihood of eventual privatisation of the water industry in Scotland; and there is the technical advantage of greatly reducing the cost to the Scottish Budget of the capital charge levied by the Treasury on the assets of the water industry in Scotland

Research students and the Loughborough institutional repository

This paper investigates the potential role for research students in an institutional repository (IR). Face-to-face interviews with 34 research students at Loughborough University were carried out. Using a mixture of closed and open questions, the interviews explored the students’ experiences and opinions of publishing, open access and the proposed Loughborough repository. As both authors and readers, students were most interested in access to complete theses, postprints and conference papers. The ability to disseminate their work and receive feedback and commentary were the most important motivators to students depositing work in the IR, closely followed by the principle of open access. The greatest deterrents were the risk of being unable to publish elsewhere later, the ownership of copyright, and plagiarism. Appropriate recommendations are made for the implementation of an institutional repository

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Global health education in U.S. medical schools.

Interest in global health (GH) among medical students worldwide is measurably increasing. There is a concomitant emphasis on emphasizing globally-relevant health professions education. Through a structured literature review, expert consensus recommendations, and contact with relevant professional organizations, we review the existing state of GH education in US medical schools for which data were available. Several recommendations from professional societies have been developed, along with a renewed emphasis on competencies in global health. The implementation of these recommendations was not observed as being uniform across medical schools, with variation noted in the presence of global health curricula. Recommendations for including GH in medical education are suggested, as well as ways to formalize GH curricula, while providing flexibility for innovation and adaptation.RIGHTS : This article is licensed under the BioMed Central licence at http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/license which is similar to the 'Creative Commons Attribution Licence'. In brief you may : copy, distribute, and display the work; make derivative works; or make commercial use of the work - under the following conditions: the original author must be given credit; for any reuse or distribution, it must be made clear to others what the license terms of this work are

The British economy [August 1985]

The pace of economic growth rose above the underlying growth rate in the first half of 1985 as a consequence of recovery from the miners' dispute and first quarter bunching of investment expenditure. In response to higher interest rates and the Chancellor's continuing commitment to the Medium Term Financial Strategy, sterling has strengthened and has remained resilient in the face of continuing uncertanties concerning oil prices. Output is set to grow by more than 3% this year before falling back as the impetus of the rebound from the miners' dispute diminishes and investment expenditure slackens. This slowdown in activity is likely to be reinforced by the current levels of the exchange rate and of interest rates

The British economy [November 1985]

In his November Statement the Chancellor of the Exchequer has forecast continuing expansion of the economy during 1986. The recent growth of exports and investment is not expected to be maintained but consumer spending, boosted by higher real earnings and tax cuts in the Spring Budget, will rise

Outlook and appraisal [November 1985]

The Scottish economy, like that of the UK as a whole, looks set to experience a substantial shift in the relative importance of the factors determining growth in the coming year. As discussed elsewhere in the Commentary (see British Economy), growth in the recent past has been driven mainly by the expansion of investment and exports. With the interrelated factors of sterling's strength and continuing high real UK interest rates operating against a background of some deceleration in the growth of world trade, the prospect is that these influences will be largely replaced by the re-emergence of consumers' expenditure as the principal determinant of growth

The Scottish economy [November 1985]

With the inauguration of the quarterly Scottish Business Survey (SBS) in September 1984 there are now two regular up-to-date indicators of trends in the Scottish industrial sector. The combination of the new survey and the long-standing CBI Industrial Trends Survey provides a comprehensive assessment of trends in Scottish industry

The world economy [August 1985]

The recovery in the world economy which began in 1982 now appears to be moving out of its fastest growth phase. With the US economy growing more slowly in the first half of 1985 than in the corresponding period of 1984, the previous marked differences in growth rates between the US and the European economies are being eroded. Indeed, a number of European countries look set to achieve faster growth during 1984 than the US. Largely due to slower US growth, world trade is likely to expand this year by around 5J-6S as compared to 9% last year. The Bonn economic summit in May and subsequent policy statements provide no indications that the slackening momentum in the world economy is to be compensated for by reflation elsewhere

The Scottish economy [May 1985]

With the inauguration of the quarterly Scottish Business Survey (SBS) in September 1984 there are now two regular and up-to-date indicators of trends in the Scottish industrial sector . The combination of the new survey and the long-standing CBI Industrial Trends Survey provides a comprehensive assessment of trends in Scottish industry