scholarly journals Bureaucratic conflict between transnational actor coalitions: The diffusion of British National Vocational Qualifications to China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armin Müller
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Qualifications ◽  
Transnational Actor

Research culture and capacity in community health services: results of a structured survey of staff

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma L. Friesen ◽  
Elizabeth J. Comino
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Community Health Services ◽  
External Support ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Recent Experience ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Research Culture ◽  
Vocational Qualifications ◽  
Paper Format

Developing research capacity is recognised as an important endeavour. However, little is known about the current research culture, capacity and supports for staff working in community-based health settings. A structured survey of Division of Community Health staff was conducted using the research capacity tool. The survey was disseminated by email and in paper format. Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics. Qualitative data were analysed thematically. In total, 109 usable responses were received, giving a response rate of 26%. Respondents were predominately nurses (n=71, 65.7%), with ~50% reporting post-graduate vocational qualifications. The highest levels of skills or organisational success were in using evidence to plan, promote and guide clinical practice. Most participants were unsure of organisational and team level skills and success at generating research. Few reported recent experience in research-generating activities. Barriers to undertaking research included lack of skills, time and access to external support and funding. Lack of skills and success in accessing external funding and resources to protect research time or to ‘buy-in’ technical expertise appeared to exacerbate these barriers. Community health staff have limited capacity to generate research with current levels of skill, funding and time. Strategies to increase research capacity should be informed by knowledge of clinicians’ research experience and interests, and target development of skills to generate research. Resources and funding are needed at the organisational and team levels to overcome the significant barriers to research generation reported.

scholarly journals Features of formation and development of human capital in the agricultural sector

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
Tat'ianа Tsetsiarynets
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Vocational Qualifications ◽  
Macroeconomic Indicators ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Agroindustrial Complex ◽  
High Level ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

The relevance of the research topic is to study the features and factors of human capital formation in the agricultural sector. Purpose: the analysis and assessment of the key macroeconomic indicators, socio-economic factors and institutional conditions of investment ensuring formation of the human capital in the Republic of Belarus. Methods – analysis, synthesis, comparisons, tabular, etc. Results of work: the development of human capital allows us to solve numerous socio-economic problems and accelerate the innovative development of the agricultural sector. Human capital is becoming the main source of change in society, as well as a factor in its improvement and transition to a new quality. There is an important problem of the lack of smart and resourceful people in the agricultural sector. It requires people with a high level of professionalism, good knowledge and skills. Nowadays, the possibilities of using and developing innovative labor potential and the effective involvement of resourceful people in labor activity are unfortunately limited. Conclusions: the characteristics of the formation of human capital in the agrarian sphere have been studied, as well as the evolution of their development. The factors determining the accumulation of human capital in agroindustrial complex have been systematized. The main problems of the shortage of agricultural specialists have been identified. These problems are the decline in the vocational qualifications of workers, the outflow of personnel from rural areas, the decline in the prestige of agrarian professions and as a result reluctance of graduates to go to work after their education.

The Ford Foundation as a Transnational Actor

1971 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter D. Bell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Ford Foundation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Transnational Actor

”Foundations,” private, nonprofit institutions that make grants for public purposes, depend for their existence on the private accumulation of great wealth and on fiscal and moral incentives for its philanthropic use. Several European foundations, including the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation, the Krupp Foundation, and the Nuffield Foundation, are now comparable in organization and size to the American leaders. But modern foundations, independently directed and professionally staffed, are principally an invention of twentieth-century industrial society in the United States.1 Of 32 foundations with assets exceeding $100 million, 29 are American.

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