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  • The Role of Principles and Practices of Financial Management in the Governance of With-Profits UK Life Insurers

    by Ian Dewing, Peter Russell ...
    PPFMs have emerged as key internal and external governance documents for the management and regulation of with-profits funds as boards must ensure that financial management practices are in accordance with PPFMs. This book presents the results of the special corporate governance arrangements of financial services firms. Management accountants have a role not only in the development and operation ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Neoliberal Crises and the Academisation of the English School System

    Why Governing Boards Choose to Join Multi-Academy Trusts

    by Ian Dewes ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines the impact of neoliberalism on the academisation of the English school system. The growth of multi-academy trusts (MATs) has been a significant change in the English educational landscape. While some schools have been forced to join MATs, many of them have made this change because their governing board has chosen to do so. The author of this book examines the reasons why many ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

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    by Christoph Knill, Jale Tosun ...
    Series series Textbooks in Policy Studies
    A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining underpinned by cutting-edge research. Bringing together analysis of classic works alongside the most recent developments in the field, this book is guided by the following three crucial questions: What is public policy? ... Read more

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  • Introduction to Comparative and International Education

    by Jennifer Marshall ...
    This book introduces major themes surrounding comparative and international education, giving you a nuanced understanding of key debates, and thinkers, and the tools necessary to conduct comparisons using secondary sources. Social, economic, historical, and cultural factors are examined in order to investigate the varied contexts in which education takes place around the globe.This new edition ... Read more

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  • Social Policy for Social Work

    Placing Social Work in its Wider Context

    by Karen Clarke, Lorraine Green ...
    Contemporary social work cannot be understood without an appreciation of the broader context of social policy in which it takes place. Such an understanding is increasingly important as social workers are expected to work across institutional, professional and even national boundaries in new ways profoundly affected by the changing global context.This insightful book examines how shifts in the ... Read more

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  • Social Policy

    Theory and Practice

    by Paul Spicker ...
    Social Policy: Theory and practice is a fully revised, updated and extended edition of a bestselling social policy textbook, extensively reworked and adapted to meet the needs of its international readership. The book lays out the architecture of social policy as a field of study, binding the discussion of theory to the understanding of social policy in practice. It aims to provide students and ... Read more

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  • The Education Debate

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Policy and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
    Education policy in England is constantly evolving and becoming increasingly incoherent and it is therefore becoming harder to keep up with, and make sense of, all the changes. This bestselling book looks at the role of the UK as a social laboratory for global education policy. Covering key concepts, it then examines new areas, including:• Global education policy mobility• Edu-business and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Public Policy and Research in Africa

    Edited by E. Remi Aiyede, Beatrice Muganda ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book responds to the need for a specifically African focus on public policy. It outlines the fundamental principles of public policy research, and engages with major issues in the study of public policy from an African perspective, covering essential topics such as the location and centrality of social sciences in relation to public policy, leadership, methodology, institutions, ... Read more

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  • Key Issues in Education and Social Justice

    by Emma Smith ...
    Series series Education Studies: Key Issues
    ‘This highly accessible book weaves together discussion of recent research findings, policy developments and theoretical perspectives. It provides a thought-provoking and at times contentious introduction that will challenge students and teachers to look beyond the easy and glib rhetoric, helping them understand the complexities of educating for a more equal world.′Shereen Benjamin, Senior ... Read more

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  • Polling and Public Opinion

    A Canadian Perspective

    by Peter Marshall Butler ...
    The importance of polling public opinion is widely recognized today. Indeed, it is sometimes argued that in mass societies, polls have also become an important medium for communicating ideas and beliefs, especially since many people have become less involved in community organizations and interest groups that formerly connected them to events and issues. Polling and Public Opinion examines the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Young Citizens in the Digital Age

    Political Engagement, Young People and New Media

    Edited by Brian D. Loader ...
    A social anxiety currently pervades the political classes of the western world, arising from the perception that young people have become disaffected with liberal democratic politics. Voter turnout among 18-25 year olds continues to be lower than other age groups and they are less likely to join political parties. This is not, however, proof that young people are not interested in politics per se ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Reforming Education

    From Origins to Outcomes

    by Benjamin Levin ...
    Ambitious programs of education reform have been introduced by many governments around the world. Reforming Education is an important study of large-scale education reform in five different settings: England, New Zealand, the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Manitoba and the US state of Minnesota. The book looks at a variety of reforms covering: school choice; charter schools; increased testing ... Read more

    $72.99 USD