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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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Does Europe Need Its Own Rating Agencies? [PDF]
Monetary unions generally boost financial markets. But European private capital markets have progressed at an unsatisfactory pace even with the euro. What accounts for this? We focus on an increasingly key financial infrastructure: Rating Agencies (RAs).
Punziana Lacuitignola, Giovanni Ferri
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper is a systematic literature review (SLR) of research published between 2009 and 2022 that aims to identify facilitators and barriers to implementing staff development projects (SDPs) in schools in England. Twelve research papers fulfilled all inclusion criteria and were each evaluated as being at least medium‐quality research.
David Preston +2 more
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A new approach to K-nearest neighbors distance metrics on sovereign country credit rating
Kuwait Journal of ScienceThis study introduces feature importance K-nearest neighbors (FIKNN), an innovative adaptation of the K-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithm tailored for classifying sovereign country credit ratings.
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How the proposd Basel Guidelines on rating-agency assessments would affect developing countries [PDF]
Using historical data on sovereign and individual borrowers, the authors assess the potential impact on non-high-income countries of linking capital asset requirements for banks to private sector ratings, as the Basel committee has proposed.
Li-Gang Liu +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Education policy changes are believed to influence teachers' continuing professional learning (CPL) needs, but there is limited empirical evidence to support these claims. This lack of deep understanding has significant practical implications. This study used a new circular conceptual framework to analyse teachers' CPL needs. Leveraging public
Rikkert M. van der Lans +6 more
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Credit Cycles and Macro Fundamentals [PDF]
We study the relation between the credit cycle and macro economic fundamentals in an intensity based framework. Using rating transition and default data of U.S. corporates from Standard and Poor’s over the period 1980–2005 we directly estimate the credit
André Lucas +3 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall +2 more
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Exchange rate changes on export volumes in South Africa under the inflation targeting period. [PDF]
SN Bus Econ, 2022 Ndou E.
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