‘Qui Es-Tu Sous La Ressemblance | Qui Va Là Sous Couvert De Moi’: the Hourglass of Poetic Identity in Bernard Noël's ‘L'ombre Du Double’

Much of Bernard Noël's poetry develops out of phenomenological processes of reflection and inversion, figured metapoetically by the sablier image and its avatars. Among these is the (dark) mirror, which initiates the poet's investigation of selfhood and writing in the important poem sequence ‘L'Ombre du double’ of 1993. This study explores the complex variations which Noël weaves, here and elsewhere, on the key terms ombre and double, to construct the page as a ‘maison d'envers’—a mental space where past, present, and future merge, where self and other, poet and reader interact, and where the limits of poetic language are tested

Graduate employability: A critical oversight

This chapter considers what is meant by employability, provides an overview of the main dimensions, and critically examines whether the attention given to graduate employability in particular has delivered its potential policy, educational, business and individual outcomes in the context of a complex economic situation. The term is used widely and loosely, and has been the focus of a rapidly expanding body of literature. Consequently, we begin by offering some definitions of employability then clarify this in four broad categories. Two of these are contextual: employment policy, principally at national level; and the notion of employability as a human resources management strategy. A further two are considered in much more detail first, employability in the higher education (HE) context both in terms of HE policy and the HE curriculum. As the last of the four categories we focus on the individual perspective: self-perceived employability, or how individual graduates can make an evaluation of their own career potential going forward

Salvation from Despair and Estrangement: An Analysis of Religious Existentialism as Found in Soren Kierkegaard and Paul Tillich

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the causes and effects of existential despair and estrangement on man, and additionally the methods in which man can be saved from them by Christ, as found in seminal works of Søren Kierkegaard‘s The Sickness unto Death and Paul Tillich‘s Systematic Theology Vol. II. In-depth analysis will be given to these two works in order to show how traditional existential concepts of despair and alienation are understood within a heavily Christian framework. Within Christianity, these two authors will show the theological import of despair and estrangement on the soul of man. Both conclude that these aspects of existence are a terrible burden on the soul and, ultimately, constitute a unique interpretation of sin outside of the traditional ethical framework. Kierkegaard builds up a unique ontology of man as dialectical politics of multiple syntheses and showing how despair is actually the result of misrelations within these synthetic relationships. He also examines the consequences of conscious and unconscious despair. Tillich, on the other hand, believes that estrangement is related to the separation of man from God as a result of vices. Conscious that we are separated from God and desiring salvation, man seeks various methods of self-salvation that Tillich believes unilaterally fail. After analyzing the theology of atonement, Tillich ultimately agrees with Kierkegaard. The only thing that saves us from our despair and estrangement, which constitute sin, is the individual‘s acceptance of the saving grace of Christ‘s forgiveness

Collaboration and shared services in UK higher education: potential and possibilities

The landscape of UK higher education is changing. The pressure of domestic austerity measures and the marketisation and digitisation of higher education, together with the need to compete in global markets, is forcing institutions to review all aspects of delivery efficiency and effectiveness for services such as student support, registry, catering, accommodation, finance, HR, IT and procurement. • Support activities are being ‘externalised’ and reconfigured as ‘services to customers’. Service level agreements are based on a range of key performance measures aimed at satisfying a wide variety of stakeholder groupings. As a consequence, managers are being challenged to redefine both their role and value proposition against best practice in the higher education sector and the wider public and private sectors of the economy. • Collaboration between internal departments and with other institutions is regarded as natural. There are opportunities to apply new business models, such as shared services, which can both catalyse the transformation journey and provide a means to effect change. The higher education sector already has many successful examples of shared services, but the scale and scope of these has tended to stay ‘below the radar’. There is significant potential for a range of collaborative and sharing ventures, especially in strategic sourcing, sharing campus-based facilities and even offshoring. • Best practice and benchmarking. Even without actually sharing facilities, there are many opportunities for the new quasi-commercial service centres to share best practice with other institutions and the private sector in the pursuit of world class performance levels. As many support activities become generic, tradable, commodities, managers can no longer hide behind the defence of ‘It doesn’t apply to us; we’re different!’. • There are significant staffing implications. New end-to-end process working will routinize many tasks that are presently organised around personal roles. Computer-based workflow allocation and monitoring will squeeze the ranks of middle management and cause a polarisation of expertise, with a small number of highly skilled system design experts at the top and the bulk of employees in operational positions, performing routinized, process-based tasks, at the bottom

Employability and contingent finance professionals in the knowledge-based economy

In recent years a key theme in the careers literature has been the development of the self-managed, or boundaryless, career path in which individuals accomplish personal growth and development across a number of organisations, or indeed between different employment modes and even changes in vocation. This contrasts with the traditional assumption of the progressive, linear, career typically enacted within a single organisation, measured in terms of objective or subjective success (Greenhaus et al.1990). In contemporary and less certain employment models we place employability as the central concern for independent workers. Our focus has been on those finance professionals being transferred to remote shared service centres (SSC) and third-party business process outsourcers (BPO). We suggest that as the nature of the employment relationship becomes more delineated between core and business support workers, the ability to keep the job one has and at the same time keep oneself updated to get the next job, is for many workers more pressing than the potential shape of an overall career trajectory. This paper argues that new organisational forms, such as SSCs and BPOs, in conjunction with new working practices are creating conditions of both opportunity and insecurity for individual workers as work is dispersed across the global knowledge-based service economy. Moreover, in reviewing the psychological construct of employability, the role of economic needs in the motivation of independent workers has been underplayed because traditional career theory tends to assume that the starting point is the availability of a secure position, whereas the reality is that for many professionals there is a need to continually renegotiate the employment relationship from a zero base. A framework of motivation for employability is developed to help both workers and employers to make sense of employment opportunities and thus, better maintain workers’ employability as knowledge and skills become increasingly ephemeral

Will we recognise the university of the future?

Following yesterday’s article looking at the future role of shared services in higher education, Andrew Rothwell and Ian Herbert of Loughborough Universities’ Centre for Global Sourcing and Services highlight how digital relationships and offshoring will transform universities – and possibly secure their survival. Some north American and Australian correspondents have predicted the demise of many institutions due to institutional mergers and changing demand patterns, with widespread redundancy of academic and professional support staff as a result. Others predict the rise of the ‘high-brand’ global university, with superstar academics delivering masterclass-style lectures to tens of thousands of remote students, simultaneously – and with the potential for each to rewind and review. After all, who wouldn’t want to be taught retail management by the ‘Queen of Shops’, or innovation by James Dyson? A more measured view from a 2013 IPPR report asks – why should universities be immune to the kind of changes that have already transformed business and some other public organisations through the forces of technology and globalisation

Royal Dutch Shell: a global perspective

Royal Dutch Shell: a global perspectiv

Shared services in UK higher education: best practice and future possibilities

Shared services in UK higher education: best practice and future possibilitie

Tracking Translator Training in Tools and Technologies: Findings of the EMT Survey 2017

Over the past quarter century, translation tools and technologies have become indispensable in the language industries, and therefore also in university programmes that train student linguists for entry into them. The two Competence Frameworks established by the European Master’s in Translation (EMT) Network (Gambier 2009, Toudic and Krause 2017) each devote a major section to Technological Competences, and delivering these effectively to students is a key criterion for admission to the Network. In 2012, for the EU-funded OPTIMALE project, the present authors surveyed 50 European postgraduate translator training programmes to investigate which technological competences they were delivering and how they were doing so. In 2017 the EMT Network decided to update and re-run the 2012 survey, to track the evolution of this aspect of translator training over the intervening five-year period. This article reports the results of this latest survey and compares them with those of its predecessor, revealing a clear trend towards greater uptake and professionalization of tools and technologies training. While it is not possible to ascribe such positive developments solely to the EMT, it is probable that the Network has had a beneficial impact, both by strengthening relations between industry and academia, and by facilitating the exchange of good practices among programmes