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Purpose This paper is prompted by an analysis of accounting and accounting education by Lawrence et al. (2013) in this … resistance shown in business and accounting to the possibilities of a more substantive sustainability agenda. Design … lens through which to re-examine accounting, business and educational practice with respect to sustainability. Findings …
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and education. The purpose is two-fold. First, to better understand the dynamics of new audit spaces, and second, to …
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Purpose – The small accounting practice, despite being the most numerous part of the profession by number of firms, remains largely under-researched. Part of the reason the small practice category remains elusive is that researchers find it difficult to precisely define the object to study,...
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Purpose – The purpose of this article is to explore whether the concept of social capital is helpful in explaining the educational underachievement of looked after children. Design/methodology/approach – Analysis of data on educational achievement and social care in a cohort of 1,407...
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Transformative Education (TE) theory to existing understandings of IE. This paper aims to discuss the potential for librarians and …
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responsibility. It is therefore pivotal that professionals receive the requisite education, skills and knowledge at the earliest … inform similar education programmes.  …
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The 1988 Education Reform Act marked a fundamental shift in direction for the education service and represented a …
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How can education service managers, administrators and teachers make educational instruction more effective? Can …
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educational achievement at university level. Possible reasons for this phenomenon are examined and a formal model is proposed … education of their children. This study’s empirical analysis does not contradict this theoretical model. Using the Bank of Italy …’s representative sample of the Italian population (1995), we observe that family income does not prevent enrolment at the university …
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Over the past years a number of studies have appeared on the incidence and returns to overeducation in the labor market. In these studies various definitions of educational mismatches have been used. In this paper we analyze the validity and reliability of three of these definitions. It is found...
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