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The College of The Bahamas’ Graduate Programmes and Collaborative Partnerships: 2003 to The Present
No full textThis article provides a brief overview of the College of The Bahamas’ graduate degree offerings since the establishment of the Office of Graduate Programmes in 2003. It maps the various articulation agreements, Memoranda of Understanding, and collaborations that the College has entered into with universities in North America, Great Britain and elsewhere, to facilitate a range of graduate degree programmes in diverse disciplines, such as Health Care Administration, Reading, Library and Information Science, Early Childhood and Elementary Teaching, School Counselling, and Business Administration, among others. The Office of Graduate Studies acknowledges the important connection between graduate studies and the College’s research agenda and seeks to bring coherence to programme development and the research initiatives of the institution
Trends of Europeanization in social welfare politics. IHS Political Science Series 82, July 2002
No full textFritz W. Scharpf (2000 and 2002) defines the term Europeanization as the progressive shift of governmental tasks to the European level. According to this understanding he identifies four modes of Europeanization. Further, he recognizes the establishment of minimum standards and the open method of co-ordination as specific modes of Europeanization. This paper first relates the welfare political goals and problems of both named methods of Europeanization in social welfare politics, then describes the political processes which accompany them, and subsequently tests whether Scharpf’s analysis can be affirmed
