试析本科院校高职学院的办学定位

文章针对目前本科院校高职学院办学定位中存在的问题,对制定本科院校办学定位的依据和策略进行了探讨,提出本科院校高职学院必须根据经济社会发展及其对人才培养的需求、自身的基础及条件等,从办学目标、办学层次、社会服务面向、人才培养规格、专业设置、办学特色等方面进行科学合理定位。     

科学发展观与贵州民族地区职业教育的发展

贵州民族地区经济文化教育发展相对滞后,科学发展观要求各方面发展要协调、可持续,就教育而言,基础教育、高等教育和职业教育也要协调发展才能可持续,对于这些地区而言,职业教育可以在较短的时间将普通劳动力训练成为具有一技之长的技能劳动力,为这些地区的发展提供积累,因而,科学发展观是这些地区职业教育发展的强大动力。     

高校考试管理改革与素质教育

文章通过分析考试与素质素质教育的关系,说明改革高校考试管理的重要性,并重点阐述了改革高校考试工作的几点看法。     

Identifying Systemically Important Banks: A temporal approach for macroprudential policies

Contrary to the general belief, systemic risk does not only regard the risk posed by balance sheet relationships and interdependencies among institutions. It also features a temporal dimension related to the inappropriate responses of financial market participants to changes in risk over time. This paper proposes a method to simultaneously address the cross-sectional and the time dimension in which systemic risk materializes. The method is based on the TOPHITS algorithm. It provides three scores, namely borrowing, lending and time scores: the first two represent the systemic importance of the borrowing and the lending activity associated with each financial institution,while the third represents an empirical Early Warning Signal of the financial crisis. Our findings reveal that the identification of the time score as an indicator for an incoming market distress could be relevant to design macro prudential policies.     

Managers in the Global Economy: A Multilevel Analysis

We examine individual‐ and country‐level determinants of managerial employment, using data from the 1989 to 2009 waves of the World Values and European Values Surveys (n = 89,336 employed adults in 59 countries). Reflecting the rise of the transnational capitalist class, we find that factors related to globalization and international political institutions are most strongly associated with opportunities to join the managerial class relative to factors related to the business‐cycle or development. Additionally, in a subset of countries with detailed occupational information, we find that global trade has a particularly strong, positive association with the odds of being a corporate manager in a large firm.     

Occupational Engagement and Academic Major Satisfaction: Vocational Identity's Mediating Role

This study examined vocational identity as a mediator of the relationship between occupational engagement (i.e., participation in a breadth of activities and interactions) and academic major satisfaction. Furthermore, the authors evaluated whether satisfaction with academic major related to academic success (i.e., grade point average). The mediational model was tested in a sample of undergraduate students (N = 215). Results indicated that occupational engagement significantly predicted academic major satisfaction and that vocational identity fully mediated that relationship. These findings support occupational engagement as an important contributor to adaptive career decision making and encourage research on occupational engagement as an intervention point for career counselors.     

Exploring narratives of education: disabled young people’s experiences of educational institutions in Ghana

Disabled young people in many low and middle-income countries experience significant levels of educational exclusion due to disabling social and physical environments and are more likely to be illiterate than their non-disabled peers. Most social sciences and development literature, however, tends to homogenise the educational trajectories of disabled young people and focuses predominantly on the perspectives of educationalists, development experts and carers in assessing educational needs and institutions. Consequently, the experiences of young people across multiple categories of social difference, and their agency in shaping their own educational trajectories, remain largely unknown. This article contributes to filling this gap by exploring the educational narratives of young people with different impairments in mainstream, special and integrated schools in Ghana. The article shows how exploring individual narratives provides new insights into the educational needs of and ‘appropriate’ education for disabled young people in the Global South.     

Friends and family: regulation and relationships on the locked ward

This ethnographic project explored the lives of women with learning disabilities on three locked wards. Aspects of these women’s lives were regulated by the service; in particular, relationships with family outside the unit, and peer relationships inside the unit. The women in this study valued these relationships, but they were treated with ambivalence by the service. Success in future community integration and accessing community resources can be dependent on the nature and quality of relationships with others, and therefore services should acknowledge that service-users need to forge relationships of their own choosing.     

高职高专英语教学改革初探

高职高专英语教学现状不容乐观,改革势在必行.文章指出应尽快转变教学观念,深入研究职业教育的特点,改革课堂教学模式和教材,提高教师素质,注重师资培养,创立多样化英语学习环境,以期提高高职高专教学的质量,办出高职高专院校的特色,培养有较高英语水平的高等技术应用型人才.这是高职高专英语教育改革与发展的当务之急.     

中职学校做好贫困生资助工作的思考

随着国家对中职学校贫困生资助政策的进一步完善,中职学校的相关工作也应该进一步加强。首先,要加强对资助工作的组织领导。其次,各中职学校应根据自身条件,制定出发放国家助学金的具体办法,并努力挖掘内部力量,形成"助、奖、勤、免、补、捐、贷"为一体的资助体系。同时,结合"加大对资助政策的宣传力度;实行弹性学制,完成工学结合;重视对贫困生的心理辅导和教育;为贫困生提供就业和家庭脱贫信息服务"等方法做好贫困生资助工作。