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Between public service and market: Portraying the bifront university in a platformized world

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the international debate on the changes affecting recruitment and orientation processes toward higher education. Based on qualitative research involving 19 Italian public universities, the study analyses the transformations in communication, recruitment and orientation activities within platformization and increasing ...
Marco Pitzalis, Ciro Cangiano, Alessandro Lovari   +2 more
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Bridging home, school and community to address educational inequality: Supporting educational trajectories through community bridge work

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the role of community stakeholders in supporting the educational trajectories of students experiencing socio‐economic disadvantage in the Irish context. Building on international and national policy debates, the study examines how community‐based organisations, statutory services and outreach initiatives work alongside ...
Aoife Joy Keogh, Deirdre McGillicuddy
wiley   +1 more source

The distribution systems for organic farming produce in Poland and Spain – similarities and differences

DIE ERDE: Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 2014
At the turn of the 21st century, European countries experienced a dynamic growth of interest in organic farming and the development of distribution systems for organic farming produce.
Kacprzak, Ewa, Maćkiewicz, Barbara
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Contrasting roles of school and public libraries in lower primary pupils' reading

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Libraries represent an important institutional component of children's reading socialisation, yet their role is often treated as uniform despite substantial differences between school and public libraries. This study examines how visits to school and public libraries relate to pupils' reading attitudes, practices and self‐assessed reading ...
Kateřina Balcarová, Jiří Balcar
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of the Quality of Life in the Communes of the Poznań Agglomeration: A Quantitative Approach

Quaestiones Geographicae, 2014
Since the 1990s, large urban agglomerations in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have shown highly dynamic functional and spatial changes resulting from the transformation of their political systems.
Mizgajski Andrzej, Walaszek Marzena, Kaczmarek Tomasz   +2 more
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‘Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’: Understanding the learning of Indigenous girls during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the districts of Chongwe and Solwezi in Zambia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah, Leigh Jarvis, Ane Turner Johnson, Chidi Ezegwu, Priscillah Nsama, Austine Nakanga   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of the Disbursement of EU Cohesion Policy 2014–2020 Funds on Improving the Energy Efficiency of Buildings in Poland and Germany

Energies
Improving the energy efficiency of buildings (IEEBs) is crucial to achieving the European Union’s ambitious climate and energy goals. To channel these efforts, new policies, legislation, sources of funding, mechanisms for distributing funds, programs ...
Dagmara Kociuba, Maciej Janczak
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The Process of Shrinkage as a Challenge to Urban Governance

Quaestiones Geographicae, 2016
For many decades most researchers, planners and local authorities have been focusing almost exclusively on urban growth and its socio-economic and spatial consequences.
Stryjakiewicz Tadeusz, Jaroszewska Emilia   +1 more
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Measuring of quality of life in Polish metropolises – application of method of standardized indicators

Rozwój Regionalny i Polityka Regionalna, 2013
Quality of life surveys should be an important part of the comprehensive management of urban areas. This especially refers to Poland where the integration but also a competition between metropolises has just started.
Marzena Walaszek
doaj   +1 more source

Shaping research in marine functional connectivity for integrated and effective marine science and management

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Effective knowledge of ecological connectivity at sea and at the land–sea interface is key to supporting global policy goals to conserve and restore ocean biodiversity and function. However, a persistent lack of commonality in terminology and understanding around the concept of connectivity in marine ecological studies hampers its integration ...
Audrey M. Darnaude, Susanne E. Tanner, Andreu Blanco, Anna M. Sturrock, Yael Teff Seker, Angel Pérez‐Ruzafa, Jonne Kotta, Tamar Guy‐Haim, Francisco R. Barboza, Manuel Hidalgo, Katell Guizien, Jerneja Penca, Lucía López‐López, Maria Beger, Federica Costantini, Sophie Arnaud‐Haond, Cynthia Riginos, Kris Hostens, Gil Rilov, Stelios Katsanevakis, Ewan Hunter   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source