School-level Education Policy under New Labour and New Zealand Labour: A Comparative Update

This article compares the school-level education policies of the Labour-led coalition government elected in New Zealand in late 1999 with those of New Labour in England. It illustrates that the policies being introduced by the Labour coalition have been generally less managerial and market-oriented than New Labour's even though neo-liberal pressures are likely to constrain what appears to be a shift to the left in New Zealand. The difference between the two settings is explained through reference to party political and contextual factors and policy and research implications are also discussed.     

浅析英汉广告语中对等原则下的翻译策略

本文重点根据AIDA理论,指出广告语的功能特点及其对广告语翻译的影响。并提出＂对等理论＂在英汉广告语翻译时应遵循的两条原则,着重探讨对对等原则的理解及在广告语翻译中的应用,其旨在为教学者提供帮助。     

论新形势下会计继续教育模式的创新

传统会计继续教育模式以班级集中授课形式为主,受训人员无法获得个性化和实用性的知识和技能。借助因特网构建教学和学习的平台,可以实现会计继续教育网络化。新型的教育模式能为学习者提供符合个人需求的教育内容,提高学习者专业素质,以适应新形势发展的需要。     

在新形势下关于教育技术素质的再认识

本文对“教育技术素质”这一概念进行了分析 ,阐述了教育技术素质的丰富内涵 ,并在新形势下提出教育技术素质的现实意义。指出教育技术素质是素质教育中的重要内容 ,未来的教师必须具备一定的教育技术素质才能满足信息时代教育革新对教师的要求     

New Labour and Higher Education: Dilemmas and Paradoxes

David Blunkett's Greenwich speech (2000) set out what have become the main themes of New Labour's engagement with higher education, themes which were elaborated in the recent White Paper ( DfES, 2003a ). This paper draws attention to the dilemmas and paradoxes which arise from the difficulties of simultaneously satisfying the objectives which were set out in the aftermath of the 2001 general election, and from the trade off solutions and policies actually identified. The most fundamental conflict is between the desire to expand the system and the costs of that expansion. The author also identifies a conflict between institutional diversity and hierarchy and between exclusionism and accessibility. The paper concludes by suggesting that exclusionism is still alive and well under the government of a party that still has ‘Labour’ in its title.     

对新形势下研究生德育工作模式的探索

研究生德育工作面临诸多新的挑战,既有宏观国际环境和我国社会转型期特殊环境的挑战,也有德育施教者和德育对象自身变化带来的挑战。在新世纪新形势下,我国研究生德育的教育内容、教育方法、教育途径及教育理念、管理体制等亟需改革,需要在实践中探索研究生德育工作的新模式,以应对新时代对研究生提出的新的素质要求。     

Further Education and the New Managerialism

Abstract

As a result of the process of incorporation following the Further and Higher Education Act (1992), Cityshire College, a large further education (FE) college, left the jurisdiction of the local authority and gained greater responsibility for managing its own affairs. Arising from a case study based on interviews and questionnaires this paper considers the impact of changes within the College which took place between 1991 and 1994. Of particular interest is the development of a ‘new managerialism’, a management style which the paper identifies as having spread throughout public sector organizations during the 1980s. This paper goes on to consider the way in which quality procedures, the introduction of a technology associated with flexible learning and the introduction of market‐related mechanisms have had an impact on professional control. The evidence from a lecturer questionnaire circulated at Cityshire suggests that staff reject the values represented by these developments and are opposed to the threat they perceive to the professional culture of FE. The outcome of the various processes currently taking place at Cityshire and across the sector as a whole suggest that the deprofessionalization and, indeed, the ‘proletarianization’ of the FE lecturer may be taking place.     

新时期图书馆员的继续教育

现代高新技术的快速发展,对图书馆员的素质提出了更高的要求。通过分析新时期加强图书馆员继续教育的重要性,阐述了新时期图书馆员继续教育的内容及根据接受继续教育的图书馆员的不同需求所采取的继续教育方式。并指出了在实施继续教育过程中应注意的一些问题。     

Learning styles and retention and achievement on a two-year A-level programme in a Further Education College

This article reports on a longitudinal study of the relationship between teaching and learning styles and retention and achievement on an A-level programme in a college of further education. Honey and Mumford's (1986) learning styles questionnaire was completed by A-level students at the beginning of their programme of study and their scores as activists, pragmatists, reflectors and theorists were recorded. The A-level tutors completed a teaching styles questionnaire and their scores were also recorded. The majority of A-level students and tutors were reflectors. Students who withdrew within their first year and between the first and second years of study were interviewed about their reasons for withdrawal. The findings were that a larger number of activists withdrew in the early stages of their study than would be expected by their representation in the overall cohort. The students' final results, in terms of high raw scores and results above what would be expected based on GCSE performance, were compared with their learning styles. In this cohort of students it was found that having a high theorist tendency is beneficial to this type of academic study.     

远程开放教育中的德育工作新探

网络环境对远程开放教育系统的德育工作带来深远影响，在这一新形势下，我们必须从观念更新，队伍建设，方法策略，技术应用诸方面的结合上探索远程开放教育中德育工作的新路子。     

新时期图书馆员的继续教育

阐述了新时期加强图书馆员的继续教育工作、提高图书馆界整体素质的必要性，对目前我国图书馆界在开展继续教育活动中所存在的不足进行了详细的分析，并就如何做好图书馆员的继续教育工作提出了六项新举措。     

关于新形势下高校德育有效性问题的探讨

新时期，高校德育深陷于人们怀疑、否定的眼光之中，难有作为，探讨高校德育有效性问题已不容回避，本从高校德育的支撑点、目标和内容、运作方式和运作主体等方面就如何增强高校德育的实际效果提出了对策。     

新形势下高校成人继续教育档案管理人员素质修养之管见

随着高等教育改革的不断深入、信息技术的迅速发展和广泛应用,成人继续教育档案管理工作在高等职业院校的教育作用愈来愈突出,其工作的专业化、信息化、技术化程度增强的趋势也越来越明显,这就要求从事成人继续教育档案管理人员必须具备较强的档案职业能力和素质。本文就新形势下增强成人继续教育档案管理人员基本素质修养方面,提出对策与建议。     

Mathematics achievement,language and cognitive development: Classroom practices in Papua New Guinea

A case study was conducted of mathematics instruction at five sites in Papua New Guinea. Trial instructional materials were developed, teachers received inservice training and implementation was carefully monitored for a six-week period. English and mathematics achievement instruments and eight measures of cognitive development were administered to a sample of 201 students in grades two, four and six. Mathematics and language achievement varied significantly among the five sites. Students at all grade levels exhibited poor application of problem solving skills while showing computation, measurement and mathematical language abilities superior to results previously reported. English reading and measures of conservation and classification competence were highly correlated with mathematics achievement. Correlations between memory measures and mathematics achievement decreased from grade two to grade six while correlations between measures of language and cognitive development and mathematics achievement tended to increase. The results indicated that the non-consumable student textbooks ameliorated to some extent the problems associated with non-native language instruction for the students involved in the study. It was concluded that locally developed textbooks with an appropriate language load would enhance mathematics learning, particularly in remote-rural areas where current teaching conditions and lack of materials interact with poor English skills to create an imbalance in achievement.     

新课改背景下中小学教师继续教育的发展方向及应对

中小学教师是新课程和新教材实施的主力军,加强中小学教师继续教育已成为顺利推进新课改的关键。探索新课改背景下中小学教师继续教育的发展方向和发展措施,已成为当前和今后一段时期内中小学教师继续教育工作的一项十分重要而紧迫的任务。     

网络环境下语文课程教学方式转换课例探究

利用网络资源开展学习离不开建构主义理论的指导。建构主义学习以学生为中心,认为教师是学生＂意义建构＂的帮助者和促进者。新课程理念倡导新的语文教学方式,认为应由传统的＂授受＂范式向＂对话＂范式转变。对话是达到＂意义建构＂的重要手段之一,＂意义建构＂是整个学习过程的最终目标。     

Further Probe into the Assessment of Investment in Higher Education

The question of how to assess the returns on investment in higher education has attracted widespread attention. In the past, the lack of a comprehensive understanding of the productive nature of educational expenditure affected the purpose and methods of assessing educational investment as well as the economic return on such investments in China. A great plan for China's economic construction to improve economic efficiency and quadruple industrial and agricultural production in the coming two decades was set forth at the Twelfth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. To achieve this objective, the development of education and science was among the top three priorities. This was a brilliant policy decision, advanced for the first time in China, to promote rapid growth of the national economy by developing education. It is of paramount importance in speeding up our socialist modernization.