| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 306 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
2. Facing the Enemies of Higher Educational Standards -- 3. Challenge of Private Universities in the EU -- 4. Institutes of Higher Education and Their Management Plans -- 5. Learning from the Leadership of the American University System -- 6. Promoting the Process of Accreditation -- 7. Teaching Novel Areas Like Personal Finance -- 8. Reversing the Trend of Functional Illiteracy in the Knowledge Society -- 9. Making University Management Effective -- 4. Devil's Advocate in University Business -- 1. Quantity or Quality in Graduate Studies? -- 2. Much Ado About Nothing: The Bologna Initiative -- 3. Financing University Research and Education -- 4. Is it Possible to Right-price Higher Education? -- 4. Complex Case of University Endowments -- 6. Promoting Not-for-Profit Foundations as Partners of Higher Education -- 7. Trustees and the Management of University Assets -- 8. It Takes More Than Good Words to Restructure Higher Education and Careers in Europe -- Appendix: Cashing a Cheque. |
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pt. II INNOVATION: THE SYNERGY OF EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT -- 5. Research, Development and Innovation -- 1. Research and Development Defined -- 2. Making Knowledge Work Productive -- 3. In a Service Economy Internal Discipline is as Important as R & D -- 4. Lessons on Innovation from Silicon Valley -- 5. Patents as a Measure of Creative Activity -- 6. Changing Influence of R & D on Corporate Performance -- 7. Planning for Market Leadership -- 6. EU Research and Development Challenge -- 1. Managing and Financing R & D in the European Union -- 2. Lag in Funding Basic Research -- 3. Benefits From Bringing Together Industry and Academia -- 4. Are Common EU Research Projects Worth Their Salt? -- 5. Common Weapons Research in the EU has Fared Worse Than Galileo -- 6. Planning and Organizing R & D -- 7. Design Reviews for Control of R & D Projects -- pt. III EMPLOYMENT IS AN OPPORTUNITY, NOT A RIGHT -- 7. Employment Means Different Things to Different People. |
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2. Taken for a Ride: The 35-hour Week -- 3. Le Contrat Premiere Embauche and Lifelong Employment -- 4. Rebels Without a Cause and Their Wrong Incentives -- 5. Culture of Anger and Violence is Spreading -- 6. Are Labour Unions a Relevant Social Partners or Anachronisms? -- 7. Thatcher Engaged with the Labour Unions and Won -- 8. Social Partners Which a Country Needs to Prosper -- 10. Continuing Search for Miracle Solutions -- 1. Brains Go Where They are Appreciated -- 2. Ill-fated Summits Which Failed to Bend Unemployment -- 3. Using Recent Experience to Improve the Employment Model -- 4. Services Industry Enters a Zone of Turbulence -- 5. Affirmative Action is Throwing Money at the Problem -- 6. Confronting the Growing Attraction of Benefits and of Self-made Unemployment -- 7. As Long as the European Labour Market Agonizes, There Will Be No New Employment Opportunities -- pt. IV PENSIONS AND THE SOCIAL SAFETY NET -- 11. Principle of Social Insurance -- 1. Bismarck's Welfare Model was Made for Yesterday's World. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Labor supply -- Effect of education on -- European Union countries.
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Labor supply -- Effect of education on. |
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European Union countries. |
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Manpower policy -- European Union countries.
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Manpower policy. |
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Education -- European Union countries.
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Education. |
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Business and education -- European Union countries.
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Business and education. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chorafas, Dimitris N. Education and employment in the European Union. Farnham, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Gower, 2011 (DLC) 2010030731 |
| ISBN |
9780566092022 (e-book) |
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0566092026 (e-book) |
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0566092018 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780566092015 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780566092015 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612963162 |
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