Factors affecting the career progress of academic accountants in Australia: Cross-institutional and gender perspectives

Since the late 1980s, Australian highereducation has undergone significant reforms andpolicy changes based on economic rationalismand modernisation of management. This paperexamines the outcomes of the reform processesbased on the career attributes, status andperceptions of work environment of academicaccountants in Australian universities.Similarities and differences between academicaccountants are explored fromcross-institutional and gender perspectives.The data provide insight into a number ofsystemic inequalities between the older andmore established universities and the neweruniversities. In specific, across-institutional analysis based on fouruniversity types: Sandstones/Redbricks,Gumtrees, Unitechs and New (Marginson 1999)indicates that academic accountants in Newuniversities employ a much lower proportion ofstaff with PhD qualification, a weakerpublication profile, and perceive greaterbarriers for conducting research in terms of ashortage of research mentors, colleagues withresearch experience, and post-graduatestudents. Further, the commitment to flexiblelearning and delivery strategies iscomparatively stronger in Unitechs, and posesadditional demands on accounting academics'overall workload. Perceptions of gender-baseddiscrimination by female academic accountantsare generally stronger than their malecounterparts, particularly, in Newuniversities. These results raise severalissues for academic accountants at both theinstitutional and individual level in terms ofequal employment opportunities, management ofresearch programmes, development of teachingstrategies and individual time management.     

The emergence and institutional co-determination of sustainability as a teaching topic in interdisciplinary science teacher education

This paper takes an institutional perspective on the topic of sustainability in order to analyse how this ‘idea’ enters science teacher education through an interdisciplinary approach. It shows how the development and implementation of a course for Danish pre-service teachers was conditioned and constrained by a complex web of interactions in and among the teaching disciplines of biology, geography and physics/chemistry and among the institutions of school, teacher college and university. The data collected are used to identify influences among the disciplines as well as disciplinary differences, conceptualised through a new reference model that separates the analysis from the usual sustainability dimensions. The findings reveal how sustainability as a teaching topic can be a unifying idea in an interdisciplinary setting. Disciplinary differences evidently impact course planning and implementation significantly, but not exclusively. By elaborating on the interactions between these circumstances, the paper provides insight into the processes of developing interdisciplinary teacher education.     

土地征用制度的经济学分析及改革思路

从经济学角度出发，运用生产者与消费者剩余，分析了土地征用制度的市场效率；指出现行制度供给不足是导致征地权滥用与征地行为不规范的根源；并指出制度的“路径依赖”性导致制度变迁的阻力较大。鉴于此，提出了改革的两种思路——完善土地征用制度和规范土地流转市场。当前应完善土地征用制度，随着经济发展与制度环境的改善，再过渡到全面改革土地征用制度上。     

转变教育思想:知识经济的呼唤

本文拟从知识经济这一视角,审视我国高等教育,指出必须转变过于大一统的教育思想,以学生主体性和个性的培养为教育的出发点和落脚点,才能培养与知识经济时代具有本质联系的创新型人才,改变培养的人才脱离和滞后经济建设的社会发展需要的现象。     

当代制度发展的特征研究

第二次世界大战结束之后，人类社会的发展出现了很大的变化。与上述发展变化相伴随的，是制度的改革与创新，在这一过程中，制度的发展呈现出一系列的明显特征，其中比较重要的是制度发展的人性化、民主化、法律化和全球化。     

找准位置整体优化办出特色--地方高等财经院校新经济学专业培养方案研究

根据1998年7月教育部新修订的《普通高校本科专业介绍》中对新经济学专业培养目标的要求，地方财经院校在人才培养目标和模式上应找准位置，合理设计课程体系，办出特色，以培养出具 有宽厚基础知识、创新能力和较高综合互质的适应新世纪需要的合格人才。     

School district size and student educational attainment: evidence from Denmark

This paper analyses the effects of the size of school districts on educational attainment of students after compulsory school in Denmark. Using administrative microdata for individual students and their parents, logit models for the probability of obtaining different levels of education are estimated where the explanatory variables include district size, per student expenditure, and a wide range of controls for family background and district socioeconomic characteristics. It is found that attending schools in districts with a population of less than 15,000 (corresponding to less than 1800 students in public primary and lower secondary schools) has negative effects on educational attainment later in life: The probability of completing a secondary education (upper secondary school or vocational education) or a further or higher education is reduced by approximately 3 percentage points compared to having attended primary and lower secondary school in a district with more than 15,000 inhabitants.     

连续时间系统的极大值原理及其经济学解释

对动态经济系统最优控制的数学模型极大值原理作出经济学解释，以便人们对数学领域中的极大值原理及其在经济系统中的应用能够有更加直观而深刻的理解．     

在开放教育实践中创建教学管理新模式

江苏电大在“人才培养模式改革和开放教育试点”实践过程中,结合开放教育教学模式的改革,从“以人为本”的教育理念出发,遵循远程开放教育的特点,切合江苏的实际情况,运用现代质量管理的理论。着重教学全过程的监控,构建出“教学管理制度化、支持服务人性化、质量监控全程化”的教学管理“三化”模式。