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Australia under construction: nation-building past, present and future
No full textThe Australian nation is a work in progress. So conclude the authors whose views are represented in this most recent offering in the ANZSOG monograph series. From its beginnings as a settler society through to present day concerns about ‘broadbanding the nation’, the nation-building narrative has resonated with Australians. The very idea of nation-building has both excited the popular imagination about what we might achieve as a society and a nation, and has occasioned despair about missed opportunities. The eleven authors contributing to this monograph reflect on these, and other themes from a variety of perspectives. They challenge our understanding of the term ‘nation-building’, reflect on its contemporary relevance as a framework for public policy and even re-appraise the contribution of past ‘iconic’ nation-building endeavours. To this subject the authors bring intelligence, wit and a healthy disdain for sacred cows. A stimulating read for anyone interested in the history, challenges and prospects of nation-building in Australia
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'Taking me back to my school days...'The experiences of adult learners from disadvantaged backgrounds in a distance learning HE environment
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Mentoring in professional development: the English and Welsh experience
No full textIntroduction [The Three Sector Solution : Delivering public policy in collaboration with not-for-profits and business]
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No full textPartitioned general linear methods for separable Hamiltonian problems
No full textPartitioned general linear methods possessing the G-symplecticity property are introduced. These are intended for the numerical solution of separable Hamiltonian problems and, as for multivalue methods in general, there is a potential for loss of accuracy because of parasitic solution growth. The solution of mechanical problems over extended time intervals often benefits from interchange symmetry as well as from symplectic behaviour. A special type of symmetry, known as interchange symmetry, is developed from a model Runge–Kutta case to a full multivalue case. Criteria are found for eliminating parasitic behaviour and order conditions are explored
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Outreaching: two approaches to outreach with adult learners from disadvantaged backgrounds (and an emerging evaluation toolkit)
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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To what extent does structure and voice in Access level curriculum improve the learning experience of widening participation students’
Full text linkThe UK Open University (OU) offers a part-time Access Programme (Level 0) through distance learning. The programme is presented twice per year and lasts 30 weeks. The OU has an open entry policy, and consequently the Access Programme is designed with the needs of particular students in mind: adult learners who lack confidence and may have been out of education for many years, and who may also have low prior entry qualifications. It is additionally worth noting that a far higher proportion of OU Access students come from ‘disadvantaged’ backgrounds, and have characteristics
associated with widening participation (the UK term for learners from
under-represented groups) than enter the OU at undergraduate level. The programme’s purpose, therefore, is twofold – to deliver on the OU’s social justice mission by opening up access to higher education for students who come from groups that have traditionally been excluded, and to prepare those learners for higher education. The programme seeks to achieve these key objectives by preparing students to succeed and helping them to develop the skills to progress to undergraduate study
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