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Special topic: job creation and contracting out. Three Case Studies
Get PDFThese three case studies are based on a series of interviews conducted by Deneise Dadd of The Open University. Interviews were conducted by telephone during July 2013 and are based on a sub-sample of online respondents. We are grateful to all of our interviewees for taking the time to be involved in this project. The cases are designed to complement the Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain Q2 2013 survey special topic on job creation and contracting out
Huria :Journal of the Open University of Tanzania
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HURIA is the first journal of the Open University of Tanzania and this first issue appears about three years since the founding of the University. HURIA is an interdisciplinary journal which is intended to be a forum for exchange of views and ideas between academicians and scholars in various fields-but particularly in distance education. The launching of HURIA is very much in line with the objects and functions of the University which are amplified in the following extracts
"(i) to preserve, enhance and transmit knowledge by teaching and conducting research through various means of communication including the use of broadcasting and technological devices appropriate to higher education, by correspondence, tuition, residential courses and seminars".
"(ii) to promote the educational well being of the community generally through distance education methods".
It is therefore the hope of the.Editorial Board that HURIA will fulfill this role and thus facilitate some intellectual contacts amongst academicians in several African Universities and even beyond the continent's borders
particularly in matters concerning distance education.The launching of HURIA has also been catalysed by the fact the Open University of Tanzania is the first single mode distance education university of its kind' south of the Sahara, offering degree courses through distance learning. systems. As we go to press, the University of South Africa (UNISA) is just about to 'launch a similar program in
distance learning and in doing so become Huria's (the University)comrade-in-arms in this very important mission: It is also the hope of the Editorial Board.that HURIA will facilitate .intellectual contacts between academicians in these African Universities.Finally, like any other academic journal, Huria is also intended to be a publication forum for research papers. and results on non-distance education matters and one article in this issue is an excellent example of a publication on non-distance education research. Indeed, HURIA should strive to a reputable national/international journal.
Prof. A.M. Khamis
Chairperson,
EDITORIAL BOAR
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Special topic: mobile and web-based services. Four Case Studies
Get PDFThe case material is designed to complement the main survey report (Q1 2013), which includes a special topic section on mobile and web-based services. Interviews were conducted in April 2013 and are based on a sub-sample of respondents to the Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain. There are four case studies: Electric Marketing, Activity Chest, Fiveways Playcentre and XYZ Maps Ltd. The content is also available to view on our case studies page. This case material can be reproduced in other forms provided that the source is acknowledged. Please contact us for further information
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30th Anniversary Issue: Celebrating Three Decades of Small Firms' Research and Engagement
Get PDFThis special issue marks a particular milestone: it is now three decades since the Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain began the task of monitoring emerging trends and examining the experiences and opinions of business owners and managers. In this report, we have assembled contributions from a variety of sources with the following aims: to shed some new light on this important period in the history of small firms’ research in the UK; to explore the main changes and continuities in the small firms landscape over this extended period; and lastly, to draw some lessons for future work in this important research field. The remainder of the report comprises three parts: Section 2 sets out the historical background to the launch of the Quarterly Survey in 1984. This includes an account of the highly influential Bolton Committee Report of 1971, drafted by John Bolton’s biographer, and personal accounts from two small business specialists who were directly involved in establishing the Quarterly Survey. Section 3 opens with a small selection of the survey’s research topics and findings over the last 30 years. This is followed by a review of the technical challenges of conducting survey-based research, particularly when the work extends over such a long period, and an assessment of the Quarterly Survey’s contribution to the SME research and policy communities. We also hear from the editor in chief of the International Small Business Journal, which was also established in the early 1980s, on the challenges of establishing an academic publication that addresses the issues faced by smaller firms. In Section 4, some of our longest-serving panel respondents discuss the trends and changes that their businesses have faced over this period and comment on the prospects for 2015. They also reflect on the experience of completing all of those survey questionnaires. Section 5 offers some brief concluding remarks and comments on possible future directions for research of this kind
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