Training Model of Innovative Talents for Business Administration Major——Based on the Survey of Schoolfellows of Huaqiao University

工商管理类大学生创新能力的培养越来越受到管理教育界的重视。并已成为社会各界讨论的焦点。文章基于对华侨大学校友的调研,分析了社会对工商管理人才的需求、培养方式的选择、创新性人才培养方向等问题,并得出结论：培养实用型创mtZ~l-对一般高校工商管理类学生而言非常重要。文章就实用型创新人才培养模式提出了一些建议。     

Adolescent Literacy in Europe — An Urgent Call for Action

This article focuses on the literacy of the adolescents who, in most European countries, are about to leave or have recently left basic education with the assumption that they have the command of functional literacy as required in and for further studies, citizenship, work life and a fulfilling life as individuals. First, the overall performance level in the EU member countries with a special focus on poor literacy is examined. Also, the most persistent inequities in adolescent literacy are reviewed, including the gender gap, the socio-economic gap, the migrant gap and the digital gap. Secondly, the focus turns to developing adolescent literacy and reading education in Europe in a constantly changing global context with increasing literacy demands calling for a lifelong and a life-wide development of literacy. The article outlines elements of effective literacy education for adolescents in Europe.     

An Australian''''s Perspective of an American University

Since high school I have always wanted to study in a country other than my own. However my parents always informed me that it was too expensive. This was until luck turned my way one day while I was at university. My advisor called me and asked me to go and see him as soon as possible. I just knew it had to be good news. I could barely stand the suspense and went to his office with a nervous happiness in my tummy My advisor told me that I had been offered a scholarship to study at Central W…     

An Exploratory Study of Undergraduates’ Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action Policies for Asian Americans in College

This exploratory study examined white undergraduate students’ (a) racial attitudes towards Asian Americans, (b) principled policy attitudes toward affirmative action, and (c) self-interest in relation to their support for college-based affirmative action policies for Asian Americans at a Midwestern university. A sample (n = 264, 28% male, 72% female) of white undergraduate students from a mid-sized public university in the Midwest was surveyed. The findings indicate that white undergraduate women have significantly more favorable principled policy attitudes toward affirmative action in general and for an affirmative action college policy for Asians, in particular, than do undergraduate males. Implications for issues of equity and social justice are shared.     

An Evaluation of Newspaper Reading Course for Non-English Majors in Xi’an Jiaotong University

Research on Newspaper Reading in China has not reached its prime and the study on this course evaluation is still in its infant stage. Most of the previous studies confined themselves to teaching metho...     

Staff Training for Small Businesses — Approaches to Training Needs Analysis and Information Access

Abstract

This paper is designed to encourage discussion on two particular approaches to solving two problems concerning the training of staff in small businesses. It describes ‘The Business Analyst’, a ‘do‐it‐yourself training needs analysis tool intended to be used by managers of small businesses. It has also proved to be a powerful negotiating tool between training providers and managers, and a management aid for training institutions. Secondly, the paper describes the present state of development of a hi‐tech approach to the provision of information about training opportunities.     

Reference in Translation——A Case Study of Translation of Kong Yiji

Reference is one of the cohesive devices of discourse,the comparison of which between English and Chinese will benefit translation practice,and a understanding of the differences in this aspect between the two languages is helpful in the reproduction of the original coherence of discourse.Based on the data of the Chinese novel "Kong yij" and its English translation,this paper will make a detailed analysis of the differences in reference and propose some translation strategies.     

Can Pre-entry Characteristics Account for the Ethnic Attainment Gap? An Analysis of a Flemish University

Research in Higher Education - Discussions about social justice imply discussions about higher education. After all, a whole set of literature has illustrated how ethnic minority students face all...     

An Action Research Focusing on the Improvement of Students’ Writing Competence

Based on the theory of Consciousness- Raising( CR),this paper proposes a teaching reform in her class,aiming to improve students’ writing competence.Activities have been carried out in their English study and different tasks have been performed at different stages to train the students to be more effective in writing.This paper has expounded the feasibility of this action research and carefully presented the teaching procedures,hoping to help teachers to become more reflective and innovative in their teaching.     

The relevance for pedagogy of Habermas' “Theory of Communicative Action”

In former publications the author raised the issue of the influence of Habermas' theory of Knowledge-Constitutive Interests in Pedagogy. In the present contribution he discusses the relevance of Habermas'Theory of Communicative Action for pedagogy. In the first place, it turns out that pedagogical action has to be added as a separate mode to the modes of action distinguished by Habermas. In the second place, the pedagogical institutions won't let themselves be included in the Habermasian dichotomy of system and lifeworld. They find their place on the borderline between the two, pedagogizing Habermas' recent thought results in a renewed plea for the pedagogical realm, but this time by means of social criticism.     

Standards for Specialists? A Review of the Proposals for Teacher Training for SEN Specialists

Carol Miller and Jill Porter, of the School of Education, The University of Birmingham, provide a penetrating critical response to the Teacher Training Agency's two consultation documents on SEN specialist teachers, which it is hoped will stimulate a wide-ranging debate.     

Looking for Hope——An Analysis of Grebe's Search in “Looking for Mr.Green”

Looking for Mr.Greenis a famous short story written by the renowned Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow.Grebe,the main character inLooking for Mr.Green,confronts many difficulties in delivering relief checks to the residents who were in need in the South Side of Chicago.With the analysis of Mr.Grebe and his finding Mr.Green,this paper will take Grebe’s looking for hope in his life as the main reason for his chase.What Grebe does represents the predicament of Americans and their attitudes towards life during the depression time.     

Too Little Too Late? An Assessment of National Initiatives for Women Academics in the British University System

As is the case in most countries, women academics in the United Kingdom continue to be a minority concentrated in the lower academic ranks. Although this position of women academics has been publicly acknowledged as a problem for at least fifteen years, only recently have any initiatives to bring about national change been launched. Research evidence indicates that a major reason for the position of women in universities is the discrimination that exists in the academic profession. This article will argue that the national initiatives undertaken to redress the situation, based largely on the principle of persuasion, are not only very late, but also too few to achieve any significant successes.     

Post‐Graduate Certificate of Education Students’ Training: An Additional Alternative

Abstract

This paper contends that the growth of Quality Management (QM) has been fuelled by the government's concern for greater accountability and the rise in managerialism in higher education institutions. It also notes that some members of the academic community have perceived certain aspects of QM to be a challenge to traditional academic autonomy. The differing QM roles of the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Higher Education Quality Council are examined and various stakeholders’ initial concerns with early QM structures and systems are explored. Harvey and Green's (1993) typology is used as an analytical framework to uncover the rationale for the blend of QM that is developing. There has been the tendency to utilise more mechanistic systems such as ISO 9000 and Total Quality Management because of the problems of measurement with more qualitative approaches. The paper concludes by warning that there needs to be far greater agreement amongst stakeholders on the nature of quality and the QM structures and systems if the objective of an effective, consumer‐orientated form of higher education is to be achieved.     

The Training of Adequate Leadership for Week‐Day Religious Education

The 51 abstracts of doctoral theses printed below were sent to the Bureau of Research of the National Council of Churches for abstracting in Religious Education since the last series of such doctoral abstracts was printed in this journal (see Religious Education, Vol. 56, pages 359–382, 1961). The abstracts here printed have been substantially limited to studies containing explicit reference to current educational processes, procedures, and personnel in religious institutions. Persons interested in reviewing complete dissertations usually may obtain these in one of two ways. The school granting the degree will either loan complete dissertations to local libraries on interlibrary loan, or it will direct interested persons to ordering that dissertation on microfilm. Readers are reminded that an indispensable library resource for obtaining information on available doctoral theses from many of the major academic institutions is Dissertation Abstracts. Please do not address requests for dissertations to this magazine or to the National Council of Churches