Paradise Restored: The significance of coincidence in some children's books

Pat Pinsent is a Principal Lecturer in English at the Roehampton Institute, London, where she teaches children's literature to undergraduates as well as courses on language and literacy for in-service teachers.     

BASIC UBRARY SKILLS: A CHOICE OF LEARNING MEDIA

The paper describes an attempt to provide students with a choice of learning media with which to absorb basic library skills. We were interested in seeing whether students particularly favoured one medium rather than another, and also, from the point of view of our Media Services section, we were concerned with comparing the various formats with regard to their effectiveness in communicating this particular information     

Good jobs – but places for women?

This article is concerned with men and women's experience of elite positions and with the extent to which such positions are seen as places for women, so as to provide an insight into their commitment to continuing in them. Senior management in universities are elite positions in terms of income; those who occupy them are relatively powerful internally, although relatively powerless in relation to the state and the market. Drawing on a purposive study of those at the top three levels (i.e. presidential, vice-presidential, and dean) in public universities, it finds little difference between men and women's perceptions of the advantages/disadvantages of these positions. However, in a context where roughly four-fifths of those in university senior management are men [O'Connor, P. 2014. Management and Gender in Higher Education. Manchester: Manchester University Press.], at the level of organisational narratives and at the interactional level, gender differences persist. These differences are reflected in variation in commitment to continuing in senior management positions.