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Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people in the United States (and beyond) access spaces for activism in varied ways, including the out‐of‐school time sector, where youth activism (YA) groups draw on informal learning pedagogies to engage young people in collective action.
Laura Weiner
wiley   +1 more source

Private Equity Market in Romania. Why Is its Infancy so Long? [PDF]

Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2016
The aim of the paper is to analyze the evolution of the Private equity market in Romania in theaftermath of the latest global financial crisis. Using data provided by European Private Equity &Venture Capital Association (EVCA), we found that the ...
Sorin Gabriel Anton
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Stochastic modeling of private equity: an equilibrium based approach to fund valuation [PDF]

In this paper, we present a new approach to measure the returns of private equity investments based on a stochastic model of the dynamics of a private equity fund.
Buchner, Axel, Kaserer, Christoph, Wagner, Niklas   +2 more
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‘A completely different space’: Teachers' perspectives on disadvantage, access to nature and outdoor learning

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examined teachers' perspectives on how children benefit from time in nature, how disadvantage shapes access and the role of schools in facilitating such access. Drawing on interviews conducted in 2022 with 25 UK primary school teachers who participated in Generation Wild, a nature connection programme for schools in economically ...
Nicola Parkin, Kersty Hobson, Wouter Poortinga, Mark Stead, Julia Newth, Jonathan Reeves, Merideth Gattis   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Private equity and employment - the Davos/WEF/Harvard study [PDF]

, 2008
The World Economic Forum at Davos has published a major study showing that workplaces of firms taken over by private equity have 10% less employees 5 years after the takeover, than other similar workplaces.
Hall, David
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‘When joy comes your way, you have to grab it!’ Troubling how queer joy features in the lives of LGBT+ school‐attending youth in South Africa

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, the concept ‘queer joy’ has gained interest in LGBT+ scholarship in the West. I use this scholarship as an entry point to explore how school‐attending LGBT+ youth express joy and how joy serves as a form of resistance against gender and sexuality norms in educational settings.
Dennis Francis
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond salaries: Teachers' experiences of navigating early years education amid economic instability in Türkiye

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The intersection of economic conditions and early years education has long been debated, particularly where financial constraints shape educational practice and professional realities. Türkiye, characterised by high inflation and structural vulnerabilities in purchasing power parity, provides a critical context for examining how economic ...
Ebru Aydın, Şerif Yüksel
wiley   +1 more source

European private equity funds: A cash flow based performance analysis [PDF]

This paper presents a cash flow based analysis of the return and risk characteristics of European Private Equity Funds. For that purpose a comprehensive data set has been provided by Thomson Venture Economics. We document the typical time pattern of cash
Diller, Christian, Kaserer, Christoph
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Private Equity and the SEC after Dodd-Frank [PDF]

, 2015
A new report by Senior Economist Eileen Appelbaum of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) shows just how much the recnt SEC investigations of private equity funds has revealed and why it remains important to continue to regulate the ...
Eileen Appelbaum
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Rozwój rynku venture capital/private equity w Polsce

Copernican Journal of Finance & Accounting, 2013
Celem niniejszego artykułu jest przedstawienie, szczegółowa analiza empiryczna oraz ocena rozwoju rynku venture capital/private equity w Polsce od początków jego powstania, z uwzględnieniem problematyki akwizycji kapitału, inwestycji oraz dezinwestycji.
Izabela Lulek
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