Managing the link between higher education and the labour market: perceptions of graduates in Greece and Cyprus

Tertiary Education and Management - The paper investigates the experience of employed higher education graduates in two countries with high rates of graduate unemployment. It examines the...     

Empirical research in progressive education

While the development of empirical psychology was helpful for research in several fields of schooling, progressive education gained much from the diverse branches of child studies in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. There are several outstanding examples like G. Stanley Hall, Jean Piaget and the Geneva Institute, and the German movement of “experimental pedagogy.” Progressive education was not constituted out of empirical research, but was in need of empirical research to secure and stabilize public interest in “new education”. Research activities were launched to secure older theories of child orientation, most of them referring to Rousseau and the “naturalistic approach” to education. Without this tradition progressive education could not have been developed.     

Assessing the impact of e-procurement on the structure of the buying centre

The purpose of this research is to analyse empirically how the use of Internet at the various stages of e-procurement impacts the organisational structure of the buying centre in terms of size and composition for a capital good. In this high-risk situation organisational buyers typically undertake extensive, deliberate choice processes involving numerous sequential phases. Interdepartmental coordination is required to specify, amongst others, the most suitable type of equipment in terms of capability, maintainability or costs. Information and communication technologies have changed the way we interact and communicate at different levels, amongst individuals within a single organisation as well as amongst different organisations (for example, with suppliers). A survey was performed using a questionnaire sent to a sample of industrial firms from different sectors. Results show that the size and composition of the buying centre varies at the different stages of the e-procurement process and that the use of Internet leads to an increase in the number of functional areas that intervene in the buying centre. The aims and implications for managers and researchers are discussed.     

高校中长跑运动员科学训练初探

本文试图在吸取当前运动训练最新研究成果的基础上,将高校中长跑运动员训练纳入科学训练理论体系,进行理论指导实践的尝试。     

运用标记调控三级跳远三跳距离的教学实践

在三级跳远技术教学中,抓住单足跳和跨步跳落地时的“扒地”着地技术环节,可有效地减少着地时人体所受阻力,顺利进入下一跳。运用标记对三跳距离加以调控,通过反复练习,能使学生形成比较合理的三跳距离比例。     

跳远的选材与预测

通过对优秀跳远运动员的长期跟踪调查,发现在少年跳远运动员的早期选拔中,应在身体形态上侧重身材高、体重小两项指标;身体素质指标中偏重速度和速度力量;起跳持续时间也是选拔跳远运动员的重要参考依据。对运动员成绩的预测中,速度和速度力量占相当大的比重。     

近代中国武术传播的新特点

由于社会经济生活的急剧变化和政治军事斗争的需要,近代中国武术的传播特点相应地发生了变化,形成了传播地域扩大化、传播对象大众化、传播渠道多元化和传承关系开放化的新特点。这些新特点的出现,有力地推动了武术在近代的广泛传播。     

二十一世纪中国武术亟待解决的问题

本文从观念、目的和定位以及散手规则等方面分析了在武术的继承和发展中存在的问题,认为武术改革首先要转变观念,明确目的定好位;其次把武术整合,对其规则进行修改,取消竞技比赛形式。这是中国武术走向二十一世纪,走向世界的先决条件。     

Productivity as an indication of quality in higher education: the views of employed graduates in Greece

The paper investigates the views of Greek university graduates on the link between higher education and productivity in order to determine the extent to which productivity can be considered to be an indication of quality in higher education. It also investigates the perceived effect of the type and content of higher education on productivity; factors limiting the positive impact of higher education on productivity; and ways of reducing the influence of these factors. In-depth interviews were conducted with 40 employed university graduates in Greece. Respondents generally considered higher education to have a productivity-enhancing effect, in disagreement with the screening challenge to the human capital interpretation of the link between education and productivity. The findings also suggest that respondents embraced specific conceptualisations of quality in higher education.