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Learning to Stand on its own Two Feet: The Office for Students and the Crisis in Higher Education in England

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 206-210, January/March 2025.
Abstract In order to address an ever‐growing crisis in higher education in England, policy makers need tools capable of meeting the challenge. Yet the Office for Students has been roundly criticised for its shortcomings as a regulator for the sector, weakening the response to its plethora of problems.
Timothy J. Oliver
wiley   +1 more source

Cardiovascular health education intervention in the Prison of Soria

Revista Española de Sanidad Penitenciaria, 2016
Objective: To promote awareness of healthy lifestyles, to help decrease the risk factors that cause cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia, through Health Education (HE).
M.M. Martínez-Delgado, C. Ramírez-López   +1 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Research of Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network in Mine Gob Area

Gong-kuang zidonghua, 2011
A suitable routing mechanism for wireless sensor network in mine gob area was designed.Firstly, LEACH cluster heads selection mechanism was improved by adding remaining energy parameter to threshold function,then a routing algorithm of wireless sensor ...
XI Qiang, ZHU Jin-guang
doaj  

Prosocial Motivation of Prison Service Officers as an Occupational Group with a Social Mission [PDF]

Polish Journal of Social Rehabilitation, 2015
The occupation of the Prison Service officer belongs to the professions of public trust and is associated with the penitentiary social mission. In choosing their career path, officers should identify themselves with the mission of the penitentiary system
Robert Poklek
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Encountering ‘Broken’ Public Services: Defiance and Disaffection at the Frontlines of the Democratic State

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The apparently parlous state of public services in advanced liberal democracies has become a hot topic, nowhere more so than in ‘broken Britain’. Indeed, there is much debate in both politics scholarship and political rhetoric about the nature and causes of this decline, and its potential remedies. All perspectives are at pains to characterise
John Boswell
wiley   +1 more source

How Democratic Professionals Can Contribute to Democracy: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article applies a democratic professional lens to John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State: Weapons of the Meek at the Frontlines of Public Services (OUP, 2026). Democratic professionalism is defined as an approach that enables public services professionals to work more democratically with clients and other public ...
Jane Lethbridge
wiley   +1 more source

A Crisis of Representation: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this symposium contribution, we subject John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State to the scrutiny warranted by its contribution. While the book offers a rich categorisation of the myriad forms of mundane agency one can observe in the underbelly of the democratic state, we seek to extend the argument by situating it in some ...
Liam Stanley, Dillon Wamsley, Joseph Ward   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of books issued by Center for Promotion of Criminal Justice Reform to assist the specialists working with offenders

Психология и право, 2014
Russia's oldest human rights organization Center for Prison Reform Facilitation (founded in 1988) presents the results of its publishing activities addressed to professionals working in the field of socio-psychological and legal assistance to minors and ...
Dzyadko N. M.
doaj  

A Preliminary Comparative Analysis of Russian Military Operations in Grozny and Kyiv | Uma análise comparative preliminary das operações militares russas em Grozny e em Kyiv

Political Observer
The article aims at a comparative analysis of the Russian military operations in Kyiv, during the current war in Ukraine, and those carried out in Grozny, during the 1st Chechen War, namely from a discursive and operational standpoint, in order to ...
João Gomes
doaj   +1 more source

Democracy and the Mundane: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State offers a unique and compelling analysis of democracy and its challenges, and also of the mainstream academic study of citizen disengagement by political scientists and theorists. While the majority of academics focus on big structural reasons for citizens’ increasing disaffection for ...
Phil Parvin
wiley   +1 more source