The EQF is an instrument aimed at promoting workers’ and learners’ mobility and lifelong learning through referencing national qualifications systems. Analysing the relevance, implementation and first outcomes, one can conclude that although the implementation of the EQF could be assessed as...

One feature of the global economy in recent years has been the increasing number and importance of new investment funds (private equity (PE), hedge funds (HFs), and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs)), which are sometimes referred to as alternative investment funds (AIFs). This increase has...

This report examines whether investment funds – in particular, private equity, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds – help to revive underperforming companies and thereby contribute to employment growth or whether, on the contrary, they strive to maximise financial returns at the expense...

The hedge fund industry has risen in 2007 to the top of the international political agenda, yet the debate surrounding it is limited by a lack of understanding of how the industry functions, or even how it is to be defined. The industry consists largely of investment funds operating from...

Diese zwischen Oktober 99 und März 2000 durchgeführte Umfrage stellt die Maßnahmen und Strategien vor, die von den Regierungen der fünfzehn Mitgliedstaaten durchgeführt wurden, um jedem Menschen, ob jung oder alt, die Möglichkeit zu geben, ein ganzes Leben lang zu lernen. Nach einem...

The objective of this study is to contribute to the gathering of data available on womens participation in lifelong learning and to make recommendations concerning non-academic lifelong learning, in particular adult education, for women. The relationship of learning for access to, and promotion...