Ist Akademikermangel unvermeidbar?

Für die kommenden Jahre wird ein drastischer Akademikermangel in Deutschland vorausgesehen. In den letzten 150 Jahren sind Akademikermangelphasen wiederholt aufgetreten. Der Beitrag verknüpft bildungshistorische und aktuelle Daten, um einen Mechanismus zu rekonstruieren, der aus einer Akademikermangelphase unausweichlich die n?chste entstehen l?sst. Er besteht aus der Folge von Eigenausbauphasen des Bildungssystems und Breitenwachstumsphasen der anderen akademischen Berufe. Die Unvermeidlichkeit des Mangels ergibt sich daraus, dass die Berufsdauer der Lehrer/-innen gleich lang ist wie diese Phasenfolge (ca. 30–35 Jahre). In der „Tiefe“ dieses Mechanismus liegen die Altersstrukturwellen der Lehrer, die die Zeitpunkte der Mangelphasen bestimmen.     

A practice–theoretical account of privacy

This paper distinguishes between two main questions regarding the notion of privacy: “What is privacy?” and “Why do/should we value privacy?”. In developing a social-ontological recognitional model of privacy (SORM), it gives an answer to the first question. According to the SORM, Privacy is a second order quality of roles within social practices. It is a function of who is or should be recognized as a “standard authority”. Enjoying standard authority means to have the right to interpret and contest role behavior and role obligations within a specific practice (first level), as well as evaluate the normative structure, the fundamental practice norms as well as the roles and their status (second level). The SORM utilizes the concept of standard authority to explicate privacy with regard to two categories that capture the relevant phenomena of privacy: decisional and informational privacy. Within a practice, an actor is said to have decisional privacy if she as a BCR does not (or does not have to) recognize bearers of accidental roles as standard authorities. Vice versa, an actor is said to enjoy informational privacy if all other BCRs (and especially data collecting actors) recognize her as a standard authority. Additionally, the requirement of mutual recognition by the practice participants as standard authorities introduces a “weak normativity” into the theory, which can be used to identify deficient privacy arrangements within practices.     

Federal guidelines for censorship

The center is a public interest law firm whose attorneys represented Judith S. Kleinfeld and J. Donald Silva.     

Work integrated learning for engineering qualifications: a spanner in the works?

Work-integrated learning (WIL) has been identified as a way of equipping graduates with attributes that make them work-ready. Many higher education institutions (HEIs) require their students to go through a compulsory work place learning form (WPL) of WIL. The complications of WPL can affect HEIs’ student throughput. To address this challenge, a university of technology (UoT) in South Africa is curriculating engineering diplomas and degrees which do not make WPL a compulsory module. This is in line with the new Higher Education Qualifications Sub-framework and Engineering Council of South Africa requirements. We employed in-depth interviews to gain an insight into the new programmes without WPL. Our findings indicate that WPL, in its current form, does not make graduates work-ready. Employers use it either to get extra cheap labour or as a recruitment process. It is envisaged that the new programme will increase the UoT’s throughput without adverse effects on the graduates’ attributes. These findings have important implications for HEIs, students and employers. It implies that HEIs will greatly improve throughput, which is desirable for both the HEIs and the students. For employers, this means they will have qualified people who might need higher wages, in comparison with students on WPL and they will need to plan for more in-house induction.