The primary role of the vocational agriculture teacher has always been to help students learn knowledge and skills in agriculture. In order for the program to justify the time and money utilized on it, it is important that students be taught by competent teachers using a variety of teaching methods and using them appropriately (The Unfinished Agenda. 1986). A competent teacher is the essential ...

A 2011 Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) report calculated that an additional 750,000 homes would be needed by 2025 to meet projected demand in the UK. If this is to be achieved, a significant number of new communities will be developed over the next decade. Local councillors have considerable potential in influencing the social sustainability of such new developments, particularly in...

This article explores the political determinants of congressional investigatory activity. Using Mayhew’s list of high-profile probes updated through 2006, we developed five measures of the frequency and intensity of investigative oversight. Contra Mayhew, we found that divided government spurs congressional investigatory activity. A shift from unified to divided government yields a five-fold in...

In 2015, the United Nations approved 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, an opportunity for countries and their societies to face challenge of successfully addressing transition a more sustainable future people planet, leaving no one behind. The agenda defines total 17 Development Goals (SDGs) universal application promote economic growth, commitment social needs protection environment. For...

The launch of the United Nations (UN) 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 was a historic event, uniting countries around world shared agenda sustainable development with more balanced relationship between human beings and planet. SDGs affect or impact almost all aspects life, as indeed does technological revolution, empowered by Big Data their related technologies. It is inevitable ...

ABSTRACT The article has two goals. First, it describes and analyses the reasons for Brazilian ‘secular stagnation’ between 2015 2021. Second, outlines an agenda to assure macroeconomic stability social development, defined as sustainable economic growth, inflation under control, fiscal external equilibria income distribution.