scholarly journals Supporting Excellence in the Science Base: The Society lobbies government on research careers

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-34
Author(s):  
Mike Withnall
Keyword(s):  
Key Factors ◽  
Recruitment And Retention ◽  
Recent Graduate ◽  
Graduate Employment ◽  
Survey Report ◽  
Science Base ◽  
Research Careers ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Government ◽  
Employment Survey

The summary of the most recent Graduate Employment Survey (The Biochemist, Feb 2002, p. 41) bore the headline ‘More good graduates shun research’. When the Survey report was being written, the Society was conducting its first on-line consultation of members, seeking views on the key factors that influence the recruitment and retention of biological scientists. The results of the two surveys armed the Society with the hard facts needed to lobby the government to introduce changes to make research careers more attractive.

scholarly journals Developing better Civic Services through Crowdsourcing: The Twitter Case Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srushti Wadekar ◽  
Kunal Thapar ◽  
Komal Barge ◽  
Rahul Singh ◽  
Devanshu Mishra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
City Government ◽  
Future Design ◽  
Mutual Knowledge ◽  
Survey Report ◽  
The People ◽  
Technology Platforms ◽  
The Government ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Civic Technology

<p>Civic technology is a fast-developing segment that holds huge potential for a new generation of startups. A recent survey report on civic technology noted that the sector saw $430 million in investment in just the last two years. It's not just a new market ripe with opportunity it's crucial to our democracy. Crowdsourcing has proven to be an effective supplementary mechanism for public engagement in city government in order to use mutual knowledge in online communities to address such issues as a means of engaging people in urban design. Government needs new alternatives -- alternatives of modern, superior tools and services that are offered at reasonable rates. An effective and easy-to-use civic technology platform enables wide participation. Response to, and a ‘conversation’ with, the users is very crucial for engagement, as is a feeling of being part of a society. These findings can contribute to the future design of civic technology platforms. In this research, we are trying to introduce a crowdsourcing platform, which will be helpful to people who are facing problems in their everyday practice because of the government services. This platform will gather the information from the trending twitter tweets for last month or so and try to identify which challenges public is confronting. Twitter for crowdsourcing as it is a simple social platform for questions and for the people who see the tweet to get an instant answer. These problems will be analyzed based on their significance which then will be made open to public for its solutions. The findings demonstrate how crowdsourcing tends to boost community engagement, enhances citizens ' views of their town and thus tends us find ways to enhance the city's competitiveness, which faces some serious problems. Using of topic modeling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithm helped get categorized civic technology topics which was then validated by simple classification algorithm. While working on this research, we encountered some issues regarding to the tools that were available which we have discussed in the ‘Counter arguments’ section. <br></p>

scholarly journals The BBC Charter Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Trevor Barr
Keyword(s):  
Public Trust ◽  
Green Paper ◽  
British Broadcasting Corporation ◽  
Future Change ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Government ◽  
Market Leadership

Both the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)  are being subjected to close scrutiny, but from different quarters. During the lead up to the British general election in 2015, the Cameron Conservative government issued a Green Paper, BBC Charter Review, July-October 2015, which broke new ground in terms of the scope of such an enquiry for its level of institutional criticism. Whilst ostensibly the document only purported to raise options for future change, and invited public submissions for consideration, there has been widespread concern about the possible serious intentions of the government for the corporation’s future. Though the ABC appears to be subject to much less vitriolic attack than its British counterpart, it too faces a range of threats and abuses. Paradoxically, such aggressive scrutiny comes at a time when both broadcasting corporations enjoy record audiences, continuing high levels of public trust, and on-line market leadership as a result their successful development of new digital platforms.

scholarly journals The BBC Charter Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-64
Author(s):  
Trevor Barr
Keyword(s):  
Public Trust ◽  
Green Paper ◽  
British Broadcasting Corporation ◽  
Future Change ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Government ◽  
Market Leadership

Both the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)  are being subjected to close scrutiny, but from different quarters. During the lead up to the British general election in 2015, the Cameron Conservative government issued a Green Paper, BBC Charter Review, July-October 2015, which broke new ground in terms of the scope of such an enquiry for its level of institutional criticism. Whilst ostensibly the document only purported to raise options for future change, and invited public submissions for consideration, there has been widespread concern about the possible serious intentions of the government for the corporation’s future. Though the ABC appears to be subject to much less vitriolic attack than its British counterpart, it too faces a range of threats and abuses. Paradoxically, such aggressive scrutiny comes at a time when both broadcasting corporations enjoy record audiences, continuing high levels of public trust, and on-line market leadership as a result their successful development of new digital platforms.

scholarly journals Rights to Education for Poor Peoples: How The Country Protect Them?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Luthfi Widyantoko
Keyword(s):  
Educational Development ◽  
National Development ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
Equal Distribution ◽  
Classic Problem ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right

This paper discusses the rights of the poor and marginalized in obtaining the right to education as one of the basic human rights. This paper is based on the condition that the urgency of educational development is one of the top priorities in the national development agenda. Educational development is very important because of its significant role in achieving progress in various fields of life: social, economic, political, and cultural. Therefore, the Government is obliged to fulfill the rights of every citizen in obtaining education services in order to improve the quality of life of the Indonesian people as mandated by the 1945 Constitution, which requires the Government to be responsible in educating the life of the nation and creating public welfare. The lack of equal distribution of education in Indonesia is a classic problem which until now there has not been any strategic steps from the government to handle it. This paper confirms that the achievement of the right to education in Indonesia has not been achieved and is motivated by several key factors, among government policies. In addition, human resources and infrastructure are also one of the causes of unequal access to education in Indonesia.

Environmental Policy and the Economic Crisis

2018 ◽  
pp. 111-132
Author(s):  
Jakob Skovgaard ◽  
Roger Hildingsson ◽  
Bengt Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Ecological Modernization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
International Pressure ◽  
The Government

This chapter employs qualitative analysis to apply the Index of Policy Activity (IPA) to climate policy in Sweden and Demark—two countries often identified as environmental leaders. It finds that the economic crisis that started in 2007–8 had substantial impacts in both states. However, Denmark, which was hit harder and for a much longer period of time than Sweden, witnessed more dismantling of its environmental policy. The analysis suggests that in both countries the political orientation of the government and changes of government proved to be key factors shaping policy ambition. Path dependence, manifested in an entrenched commitment to ecological modernization, helped to maintain support for progressive environmental policy. International pressure was also central in pushing Sweden in particular to express leadership and to promote ambitious climate policy.

Investment apportionments among participants of PPP rental retirement villages

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Shijing Liu ◽  
Hongyu Jin ◽  
Chunlu Liu ◽  
Benzheng Xie ◽  
Anthony Mills
Keyword(s):  
Pension Funds ◽  
Return Rate ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Investment Allocation ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Government ◽  
Mean Variance

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine public–private partnership (PPP) approaches for the construction of rental retirement villages in Australia and to allocate the investment proportions under a certain project return rate among three investors which are the government, private sectors and pension funds. The apportionment will achieve a minimum overall investment risk for the project. Design/methodology/approach Capital structure, particularly determination of investment apportionment proportions, is one of the key factors affecting the success of PPP rental retirement villages. Markowitz mean-variance model was applied to examine the investment allocations with minimum project investment risks under a certain projected return rate among the PPP partners for the construction of rental retirement villages. Findings The research findings validate the feasibility of the inclusion of pension funds in the construction of PPP rental retirement villages and demonstrate the existence of relationships between the project return rate and the investment allocation proportions. Originality/value This paper provides a quantitative approach for determination of the investment proportions among PPP partners to enrich the theory of PPP in relation to the construction of rental retirement villages. This has implications for PPP partners and can help these stakeholders make vital contributions in developing intellectual wealth in the PPP investment area while providing them with a detailed guide to decision making and negotiation in relation to investment in PPP rental retirement villages.

Design Guidelines for The User-System Interface of On-Line Computer Systems: A Survey Report

1981 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 509-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney L. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
System Development ◽  
Computer Systems ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Information System Development ◽  
Requirements Definition ◽  
Survey Report ◽  
On Line

From a survey of 77 people involved in information system development, it is estimated that on average more than 30 percent of operational software is devoted to the user-system interface (USI). Improvements are needed in early requirements definition, guidance and documentation of USI design.

Transformation of the Role of the Auxiliary Staff in Modern Universities

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-51
Author(s):  
Сахарова ◽  
N. Sakharova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Russian Higher Education ◽  
The Face ◽  
Education Market ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University

The article analyzes the key factors of infl uence of external and internal environment on the functioning of Russian higher education institutions, ways to improve the competitiveness of modern universities in the face of increasing global competition in the education market, reviews the activities of the Government to ensure the achievement of the strategic objectives of the Russian Federation development for the period up to 2020 in higher education, defi nes trends in requirements for the competences of certain categories of university staff , provides data on the auxiliaries staff of universities across the country, discusses diff erent points of view on the role of auxiliaries staff in the university functioning, identifi es the main control problems of auxiliaries staff.

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