INTRODUCTION This research aimed to explore differences in the implementation of case management among local breast cancer screening partnerships in New York State after changes in federal public policy in 1998 and to achieve a better understanding of case management in a new and distinct practice setting. Capacity and willingness to implement change were theorized to explain local differences ...

The ongoing restructuring of today’s labour markets and the swift changes in occupational structures and skill requirements generate a risk for unbalanced growth in the supply and demand for qualifications. This paper concentrates on the instruments employed in Scandinavia to identify labour market mismatches, understood as shortages of qualifications related to a certain occupation or educatio...

The quantitative relationship between higher education and economic growth in the tradition of “growth accounting equations” and also “neoclassical production function” approach have occupied a pride of place in economics of education, particularly the literature on more developed countries. However, production function type models that allow for isolating the “indirect” (external) effects of h...

" …the truth…involves honesty, courage and a readiness to break ranks. " ~ Terry Eagleton Imagine a large-scale public education project operating on the theoretical and practical assumptions that: (1) we are confronted with multiple crises emerging from current institutional directions, historical trajectories, intellectual traditions, and structural requisites that urgently demand new sets of...