The article suggests that stakeholders involved in quality development need a specific competence, called quality literacy, in order to successfully improve learning processes. We introduce and describe quality literacy as a set of competencies that are needed for professional quality development. Quality literacy emphasises the importance of professionalism as a necessary component for quality...

Simulated security assessments (a collective term used here for penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and related nomenclature) may need standardisation, but not in the commonly assumed manner of practical assessment methodologies. Instead, this study highlights market failures within the providing industry at the beginning and ending of engagements, which has left clients receiving am...

This study contributes to research examining how professional autonomy and hierarchy impacts upon the implementation of policy designed to improve the quality of public services delivery through the introduction of new managerial roles. It is based on an empirical examination of a new role for nurses modern matrons who are expected by policy makers to drive organizational change aimed at tackli...

The aim of the research is to determine, among others, how the nurses perceive their profession from the point of view of the prestige. On the basis of the representative research including 1040 nurses from all over the Czech Republic, we wanted to determine, how the nurses perceive the social prestige of their profession. The nurses perceive the social prestige of their profession as average (...

This paper contributes to research on short-term rentals (STRs), their suppliers and impact housing the local community, focusing Thessaloniki, a recessionary city off tourist map until recently. Through conduction of in-depth interviews with hosts other key informants, analysis quantitative data Airbnb listings, I argue that: (1) far from enabling sharing economy, facilitates (re)investment in...

The Pursuit of Legitimacy and Professionalism: The evolution of pharmacy in Ontario Jennifer D. Beales and Zubin Austin Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Canada This paper explores the development of pharmacy practice in Ontario, Canada and outlines its initial professionalisation and the landscape in which the profession has evolved: reshaping and redefining itself against...

During the last decades tennis ecosystem has been immersed in a gradual process of globalisation, professionalisation and commercialisation an attempt to effectively respond increasing challenges rapidly evolving environment. This seen number innovations being applied sport. The purpose this paper is provide overview some these practices as covered by both researchers practitioners. It conclude...

Research with a special focus on the historical dental surgical instruments of Juliusspital inWürzburg does not yet exist. This is desideratum, as objects preserved in HistoricalCollections University Würzburg can contribute to deeper understanding theprofessionalisation dentistry 19th century. Only their analysis, together that thewritten sources, provides complete picture this process. The ...