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Competition for Private and State School Teachers
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Green, Francis; Machin, Stephen; Murphy, Richard; Zhu, Yu – Journal of Education and Work, 2008
We analyse the role of private schools in the teachers' labour market. Private schools employ an increasingly-disproportionate share of teachers in Britain, relative to the number of their pupils. Their teachers are more likely than state school teachers to possess post-graduate qualifications, and to be specialists in shortage subjects.…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Private Schools, Females, Job Satisfaction
A Note on the Misconduct of Academics in UK HEIs
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Palfreyman, David – Education and the Law, 2005
The article compares the employment regime for academics in UK HEIs with that of faculty in US HEIs. It considers, "inter alia", "progressive discipline", "at will contracts", "the Model Statute", "academic freedom", "faculty misconduct" and "academic underperformance".…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Comparative Education, Higher Education
Making the Jump: 'We Can Do a Good Job'. A Pack for Adults with Learning Difficulties Who Want To Work.
Jacobsen, Yola – 2002
This document uses clear language and pictures to help adults with learning disabilities learn how other adults with learning difficulties have made the jump from courses and training into jobs and kept working. The following are among the topics discussed in Sections 1 through 9: (1) the objectives and activities of the Making the Jump project…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Adult Students