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Financial Literacy and Women: Overcoming the Barriers

Donohue, Melissa A - 2011

Women are facing increasing financial responsibility, while at the same time, the consumer financial world is evolving at an extraordinary pace. These trends make a imperative that we better understand the evolving nature of gender-based inequities across our current socio-economic systems and...

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Exploring the marketing - entrepreneurship interface: bringing an understanding of small business marketing into the curriculum

Day, John; Reynolds, Paul Lewis - 2011

The success of small firms worldwide is determined by entrepreneurship and marketing (Hills, 1995). 95% of firms worldwide are small (less than 250 employees) – and often smaller than that. Marketing and entrepreneurship are not the same but they are interconnected. Consider Apple, the fabled...

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The shaping of student knowledge: learning with dynamic geometry software

Jones, Keith - 2005

12-13 students’ use of dynamic geometry software, the focus of the analysis is on the interpretations the students make … of geometrical objects and relationships when using this form of software. The analysis suggests that the students … suggest that curriculum initiatives that encourage the use of dynamic geometry software are appropriate but that the …

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Interrogating the crisis in higher education marketing: the CORD model

Maringe, Felix - 2005

curriculum focused marketing model which should help refocus HE marketing, domesticate it appropriately and reduce the internal … of the world. It concludes by offering a curriculum focused marketing model (CORD) which could serve the basis for future … curriculum centred marketing model. Originality/value - The CORD model represents an attempt at addressing the crisis that HE …

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I'm gonna live forever: realities of long-term post investment performance for venture-backed enterprises

Reid, J.G.C.; Smith, J.A. - 2006

This paper constructs a model of long-run performance for SMEs that have received venture capital backing. The model explains performance by financial structure. FAME data are used for estimating performance equations over the period 1989 to 2004 for UK businesses in their post-investment...

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Exploring design and innovation: further developments in the innovation curriculum

Tabor, Emma; Chappell, Alison - 2001

The Exploring Design and Innovation booklet was developed as a curriculum resource to disseminate information about … innovation. Part of the research will also be looking at ways of extending the curriculum developments in the teaching of …

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Taking on Australian industrial design education: Current practices and future directions

Trathen, S; Varadarajan, S - 2009

There is much international discussion regarding the role of industrial design in a rapidly changing world. Immediate employment needs can lead to a focus on design skills and knowledge needed today. However, we also need to predict the needs of tomorrow, and recognize that industrial design...

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Changing petroleum engineering education to meet industry demand

Department of Petroleum Engineering

,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 … students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during 2006/7 saw a sudden and substantial growthin industry employment … students reduced to less than 10% of those taking the course. This loss in both student numbers and staff at the same time …

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Retention: rhetoric or realistic agendas for the future of higher education

Rowley, Jennifer - 2003

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in International Journal of Educational Management, published by and copyright Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.

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Have they learnt to interrupt?: Comparing how women management students and senior women managers in Australia perceive workplace communication dilemmas

Barrett, Mary - 2009

-year female management students evaluated strategies for the same workplace dilemmas as senior women managers (Barrett 2004 …). Findings - For short and medium term dilemmas students, like senior women managers, regarded masculine communication strategies … evaluating the strategies' probability. But when seeking promotion, students avoided some strategies they considered effective …

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