Universities‚ governments and industry: Can the essential nature of universities survive the drive to commercialize? Simon N. Young Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Having spent 40 years in universities‚ I have had sufficient time to consider some of the idiosyncrasies‚ foibles and problems of these academic institutions. The purpose of this editorial is to discuss the current state of university research and explain why I find some aspects of the current
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issue. But we have seen some businesses start with some great enthusiasm and drive and before you know it‚ Kaboom... many great products have disappeared from shelves and warehouses because the companies that produce them went under. Business failure is a global phenomenon and cannot be associated with Nigerians alone. It cannot also be analyzed from one focal point because‚ just like businesses fail for one reason or another‚ so do governments‚ social systems‚ economic systems and so on. The
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Nowadays‚ more and more people aim towards enrolling at a university and pay a lot of money in the hopes of obtaining a degree. Everyone considers higher education essential for having a successful career. However‚ the question of whether this higher education actually helps students be prepared for the real world or not remains. It is not as simple to put into practice what one has learned at the university as students believe. The important thing is to learn how to adapt to a new environment. Thus
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Failures: Internal factors | Reasons of failure | Explanations | Team morale | Low morale‚ as not enough payment | Innovation and risk taking | No new innovation and or not willing to take risk will not bring any profit to the company | Stability | Instability‚ always new staff member‚ which ruins the team cooperativeness of the work team | Team orientation | No orientation = no goals for the team | Attention to detail | Not enough attentions will lead to the disconnections towards
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BBC News‚ UK‚ Feb 26‚ 2008. Airline in First Biofuel Flight. D. Daggett‚ O. Hadaller‚ R. Hendricks‚ and R. Walther‚ 2006 – NASA : Alternative Fuels for Aviation. http://www.energybulletin.net/23098.html David Friedman Deborah Doane‚ 2002. Market Failure: The Case For Mandatory Social and Environmental reporting Dft‚ 2003 European Federation for Transport and Environment / Climate Action Network Europe publication‚ 2006. Clearing the Air : The Myth and Reality of Aviation and Climate Change‚ T&E
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a lot of things took place. Now that the war was over the reconstruction period had many effects on the people‚ the economy and society in many ways‚ some were a great success and most were failures. Three major events during that took place during this time were the emancipation of
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Traditional Universities vs. Online Universities Traditional and online universities share a common goal‚ and that is to provide quality education to its students that will lead to career enhancement and a degree of completion; courses can range from certificate‚ undergraduate and graduate programs or higher. Traditional universities require its students to commute to and from school or provide housing for those students from other states and/or countries. Students who choose traditional learning
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International Education Journal Vol 5‚ No 3‚ 2004 http://iej.cjb.net 344 Learning at University: The International Student Experience1 Meeri Hellstén Macquarie University‚ School of Education meerihellsten@mq.edu.au Anne Prescott Macquarie University‚ School of Education anne.prescott@aces.mq.edu.au This paper reports on research that explores internationalisation of the University’s curriculum offerings and how this affects international students. The central focus of this paper is to
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business as well as government organizations. While most collaborations and coalitions experience success‚ failure is also possible. Obstacles may cause a collaboration to terminate at any stage of the collaboration continuum. The rate of at which the termination happens varies according to the original time that was invested into the collaboration. At the philanthropic stage‚ failure may prevent the coalition from beginning at all‚ or indicate that it was not started with all the right elements
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Riphah center of islamic business | Causes of Failure of IFIs in Pakistan | Supervisor : Sir lutf Ullah Saqib | | By: Muhammad Adnan | 4/10/2013 | | Introduction. More than 200 IFIs are operating all over the world with an annual growth rate between 12% to 15 % .Their combined asset is more than $200 billion and increasing day by day. Islamic financial institutions are developing very vastly over the globe. Islamic financial institutions mean where all the materials must follow
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