695 research outputs found
Comparaison internationale : à la recherche de jeunes diplômés de l'enseignement supérieur compétents en informatique
No full textJean-Jacques Paul und Jake Murdoch, Internationaler Vergleich : Hochschulabsolventen mit Informatikkenntnissen.
Ende der 90er Jahre erforderten zwei Drittel aller ausgeschriebenen Stellen von den Hochschulabsolventen sehr gute Informatikkenntnisse, doch bezeichneten lediglich 30% aller Hochschulab solventen ihre Computerkenntnisse als zufrieden stellend. Diese jungen Leute mussten ihre Erstausbildung deshalb vor allem durch Weiterbil- dungsmafînahmen vervollstândigen. Bessere Informatikkenntnisse gehen im Ubrigen mit bes- serer Bezahlung einher. Zu diesen Ergebnissen gelangt eine Erhebung, die mit 35.000 Hoch- schulabsolventen aller Fachbereiche aus elf euro- pâischen Làndern und Japan durchgefiihrt wurde.Jean-Jacques Paul and Jake Murdoch, An international comparison : looking for graduates with computer skills
By 1990, two-thirds of all the jobs available for graduates with higher educational qualifications required advanced computer skills. However, only 30 % of these graduates felt that they mastered these skills sufficiently well. Many of them have had to complete [their] initial vocational training by taking continuing training courses. In addition, mastering computer skills usually means earning higher wages. These results were based on a survey carried out on 35 000 people who had graduated in disciplines of all kinds in eleven European countries and Japan.À la fin des années 1990, deux-tiers des emplois requièrent, de la part des diplômés de l'enseignement supérieur, un haut niveau de compétences informatiques. Pourtant, seuls 30 % de ces diplômés se déclarent suffisamment compétents. Ces jeunes ont dû compléter leur formation initiale en recourant notamment à la formation continue. Ces compétences informatiques s'accompagnent d'ailleurs de salaires plus élevés. Ces résultats proviennent d'une enquête réalisée auprès de 35 000 diplômés de toutes disciplines dans onze pays d'Europe et au Japon.Paul Jean-Jacques, Murdoch Jake. Comparaison internationale : à la recherche de jeunes diplômés de l'enseignement supérieur compétents en informatique. In: Formation Emploi. N.82, 2003. Numéro spécial : Les enjeux des technologies de l'information et de la communication. pp. 47-60
Collaborative strategic and business planning at the micro level: The Murdoch Business School
No full textThis paper analyses and critiques the traditional top-down strategic planning process that prevails in organisations. It investigates the argument(s) for a shift from the traditional to an emergent approach to planning issues. It argues, however, for a planning approach that has active staff/employee involvement and ownership of the process to nurture real engagement with the outcome(s) and to enhance authorship of, and commitment to, the final results. The empirical component is a case study of the planning process used by the Murdoch Business School within Murdoch University in Western Australia. It concludes that although the planning process was an effective example of participative decision-making it remained a limited form of empowerment. The University can publicly proclaim that it has implemented a ‘best practice’ planning process. The reality is that it has been no more than an organisational act of game playing unlikely to be repeated in future
Illusion and reality in the fiction of Iris Murdoch: a study of The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea and The Good Apprentice
No full textThis thesis considers how Iris Murdoch radically reconceptualises the possibilities of realism through her interrogation of the relationship between life and art. Her awareness of the unreality of realist conventions leads her to seek new forms of expression, resulting in daring experimentation with form and language, exploration of the relationship between author and character, and foregrounding of the artificiality of the text. She exposes the limitations of language, thereby involving herself with issues associated with the postmodern aesthetic. The Black Prince is an artistic manifesto in which Murdoch repeatedly destroys the illusion of the reality of the text in her attempts to make language communicate truth. Whereas The Black Prince sees Murdoch contemplating Hamlet, The Sea, The Sea meditates on The Tempest, as Murdoch returns to Shakespeare in order to examine the relationship between life and art. In The Good Apprentice, Murdoch continues to interrogate the artist’s paradoxical relationship with power. These novels illustrate the creative tension in Murdoch’s work stemming from the conflict between the realist tradition and her philosophy which has led her beyond it. Murdoch makes her fiction the site of a ceaseless struggle against the self, as she ruthlessly scrutinises her own shortcomings and strips away the illusion-generating ego in a continuous process which never permits the elusive concept of reality to stabilise
Iris Murdoch and Artistic Inspiration Iris Murdoch Society Podcast
No full textIn this episode Miles is joined by artists Kevin Petrie (University of Sunderland), Matthew Richardson (University of Kingston) and Carol Sommer to discuss their latest work which has been inspired by Murdoch's writing.
Kevin Petrie is Head of the School of Art and Design and Professor of Glass and Ceramics at University of Sunderland. He is known for his artwork on ceramics and glass, especially in combination with printmaking and drawing. Kevin has also written and edited a number of books and articles about ceramics and glass and lectured around the World. Kevin’s artwork is held in a number of private and public collections including National Glass Centre and National Museums of Scotland. In recent years, Kevin has focused on his painting practice and this work can be seen on his website at kevinpetrieart.com.
Matthew Richardson is an artist and illustrator who works across physical and digital media seeing how things fit or collide through processes of collage and assemblage. He is interested in how, why and what is kept or discarded, lost or found, and left behind. He studied at Central St. Martins and Cardiff University and is currently completing a practice-based PhD at Kingston School of Art, titled Para-illustration: Gaps, fragments and spaces of the literary imagination, which explores the materiality of a writer’s notes, drafts and archives as a method for making literary images.
matthew-richardson.co.uk/
Carol Sommer visual artist and art educator based in Darlington, Co. Durham. I’m interested in the potential of piracy to interrogate value systems. Sometimes within the aesthetic context of conceptual writing, my practice includes making books, videos, performances, installation and an Instagram account @cartography_for_girls. In 2019 I completed a practice led Ph.D. at Leeds Beckett University, and I am the author of ‘Cartography for Girls, an A-Z of Orientations Identified within the Novels of Iris Murdoch’. Her work is currently being exhibited at the Phoenix Art Space in Brighton until the 19th November as part of the ‘Are you a Woman in Authority’ exhibition. www.carolsommer.net/
www.phoenixbrighton.org/Events/are-yo…in-authority
How Do Second-Generation Immigrant Students Access Higher Education? The Importance of Vocational Routes to Higher Education in Switzerland, France and Germany
No full textWe analyse the access to different institutional pathways to higher education for second-generation students, focusing on youths that hold a higher-education entrance certificate. The alternative vocational pathway appears to compensate to some degree, compared to the traditional academic one, for North-African and Southern-European youths in France, those from Turkey in Germany, and to a lesser degree those from Portugal, Turkey, Ex-Yugoslavia, Albania/Kosovo in Switzerland. This is not the case in Switzerland for Western-European, Italian and Spanish youths who indeed access higher education via the academic pathway more often than Swiss youths. Using youth panel and survey data, multinomial models are applied to analyse these choices of pathways
MANOVA modelling of a chiropractic longitudinal study using multiple imputation
No full textThe purpose of this report is to present the detailed statistical analysis of a randomised, placebo-controlled trial comparing two different treatment modalities to an intervention of no known benefit for people with acute or subacute thoracic spine pain.
The therapy arms consist of Spinal Manipulative Therapy (SMT) and Graston Technique (GT) and the placebo is a non-functional ultrasound. A placebo group was utilised because at present there are no proven treatments for non-specific thoracic pain. This trial is registered with the Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry. Ethics approval has been granted by Murdoch University Human Research and Ethics Committee, number 2007/274.
The aim of this three arm trial was to test the efficacy of SMT and GT as independent modalities compared to detuned ultrasound for the outcomes of pain and disability. The latter were measured using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and a modified Oswestry Back Pain Disability Index. The study was conducted at the Murdoch University Chiropractic student clinic in Perth, Australia, and the protocol published in Crothers et al (2008).
In this report, Section 2 provides an initial exploratory analysis of the data, Section 3 outlines the statistical models used in the final analysis, Section 4 defines these models in mathematical terms, Section 5 discusses the management of missing values via multiple imputation and Section 6 presents the results of the statistical modelling and hypothesis tests. The clinical study will be published in full elsewhere
A Remote Area Power Supply (RAPS) Training Facility utilising SMA Sunny Island Inverter technology and National Instruments measurement package
No full textRAPS systems can sometimes be a cheaper alternative for supplying power than connection to a distant utility. Most assuredly it is a cleaner method of producing electricity than coal or gas constituents, provided the diesel generator is used minimally. A modern RAPS system will generally have several sources of generation, typically they might be; solar, wind and a diesel/petrol generator coupled with a battery to store excess power. The RAPS 2 system at Murdoch University was selected for an overhaul early in 2010. The system was redesigned to include new inverter technology from SMA. The new system relies on 3 separate inverters to convert the sources directly into grid quality electricity, as opposed to some traditional RAPS systems that would have most of its elements feed a DC bus that connected to a single inverter. This novel way of setting up a mini grid finds its niche in situations when the terrain or meteorological conditions make it impractical to have generation equipment all localised and a DC bus would have higher associated cable losses.
For such a system to be of educational benefit to tertiary students, the variables within the system must be able to be monitored. To this end an advanced measurement system has been designed and procured so that every measurable point in the upgraded system is available for display.
The measurement system was designed using National Instruments compact DAQ (data acquisition) hardware, one of the first of its type to be introduced to the university. The compact DAQ unit has been coupled with isolation equipment supplied by Dataforth, which already has an existing prevalence throughout the engineering department. The subsequent measurement program monitors 31 system variables at a high sampling rate to provide real time information on the state of the system. The measurement program also monitors relevant meteorological aspects such as the solar irradiance and local wind speed.
This report documents and details the steps taken to set up a new and novel RAPS system. Discussed are the approaches taken throughout the semester to project manage and facilitate progress. A detailed description is also given of the measurement and protection system that has been designed to allow students and the general public to get a good grasp on the performance of the system
Higher Education and Graduate Employment in France
No full textInternational audiencePaul and Murdoch discuss statistics on higher education and employment in France. Higher education graduates remain in a rather privileged position compared to those from lower levels.Cet article rappelle les grandes évolutions structurelles de l'enseignement supérieur français et leurs conséquences sur les conditions de l'insertion des anciens étudiants. Le numéro de la revue dans lequel il est inclus est consacré aux liens entre enseignement supérieur et emploi en Europe
Book presentation in the Veterinary Library at Murdoch University
No full textA copy of the book 'Trace elements in human and animal nutrition, 5th edition' being presented to the Veterinary Library at Murdoch University by Mrs Erica Underwood, widow of the original author Professor Eric Underwood, who was a visiting professor to the School of Veterinary Studies in the 1970's.
Left to Right: Dr Jim Reynoldson, Chairman of the Veterinary Library Sub Committee at Murdoch University; Professor John Howell, Dean of the School of Veterinary Studies at Murdoch University; Mrs Erica Underwood and her son Dr Peter Underwood, Senior Lecturer, Department of Community Medicine at the University of Western Australia.
The complete set of 5 negatives is available at the Murdoch University Library.
These images are part of the History of Murdoch University Collection
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