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Knowing education in Thailand like a global expert organisation: Politics, context and data

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Global expert organisations play increasingly significant roles in the way that education is understood and governed internationally, including by influencing the discourses through which education is conceptualised and shaping norms of what counts as success, failure, progress and the most desirable visions for the future.
Steve Puttick, Chris Atkin, Wayne Dyble, Nick Gee, Ami Montgomery, Chawin Pongpajon, Waewalee Waewchimplee   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Zdeňka Marie Baborová: The First Female Doctor of the University of Prague

Przegląd Nauk Historycznych
In the Habsburg Monarchy, the first admission of women to universities was in 1897 for the faculty of arts and in 1900 for the faculty of medicine. Prague was ready for this, and one might say that Prague directly initiated this breakthrough. Since 1890,
Milada Sekyrková
doaj   +1 more source

Administrative Traditions of the Majority World: A Commentary and Future Research Agenda

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decolonising public administration is an urgent and necessary endeavour. In this short article we argue that we cannot, however, settle for shallow decolonialisations. We argue that the specific iterations of bureaucracy evidenced in post‐colonial states across the majority world can be conceptualised through the lens of administrative ...
Ibrahim Bornoma, Nick Kirsop‐Taylor, David Benson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The "nation of Biscay" in the Castilian universities, XVI-XVIII centuries [PDF]

, 2002
Panorámica sobre la presencia de estudiantes del País Vasco, Navarra y Rioja en las universidades de la Corona de Castilla durante la Edad Moderna, siglos XVI-XVIII.
Rodríguez-San Pedro Bezares, Luis Enrique
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Scientiarum linguae commutatio : the end of Latin as a scientific language in the Habsburg Monarchy

, 2021
Die lateinische Sprache hatte über einen Zeitraum von mehreren Jahrhunderten den Status einer sogenannten Lingua franca einer Verkehrssprache inne. In der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit wird vor allem der Frage nachgegangen, ob und wie lange die lateinische ...
Topitschnig, Philipp
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Inherited Advantage and the Myth of Meritocracy in Business Education in the UK

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Business schools are frequently presented as meritocratic institutions that reward talent, effort and entrepreneurial capability. This article examines how business education can simultaneously acknowledge inequality rhetorically while continuing to legitimize unequal outcomes pedagogically.
David Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

Academies of State: Monarchy and the Universities in Tudor England

, 2012
This work examines the changing relations between the monarchy and the universities in Tudor England. It attempts to show that during this period the monarchy showed increased interest in Oxford and Cambridge, and came to believe that they were one of ...
Simmons, Anthony J.
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Change and Continuity in British Politics: Can the Starmer Government's Approach to Governance Resolve the Crisis in the British State without Radical Reform?

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 140-148, January/March 2025.
Abstract In this article, the key dilemmas that will confront the new Labour administration in Britain during its initial period in power are examined. The Starmer government is seeking to use the state pragmatically to improve British economic performance, stem the crisis in public services and strengthen the strategic capacity of Whitehall.
Patrick Diamond, David Richards, Sam Warner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

John Gray: ‘Americanism’ and the Perversion of Post‐liberalism

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article will make the case for John Gray's inclusion in the canon of post‐liberals despite his protests to the contrary, and will argue that his peculiar post‐liberalism is important for its challenges to the dominance of liberalism as both a political culture and way of theorising the ends of politics based on the model of the American ...
Paul Kelly
wiley   +1 more source

Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source