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Marsha W. Lilly · 2006
The title of this paper is a reminder that skilling does not exist for its own sake, but to support competitive industry. It is an important point to make because skilling is an enormous investment...
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Andreas Schleicher · Strong performers and successful reformers in education · 2018
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Repository of the University of Ljubljana (University of Ljubljana) · 2015
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David J. Smith · Industrial Vehicle Technology International · 2019
JCB RETURNS TO ELVINGTON AIRFIELD TO CLAIM THE UNDISPUTED TITLE OF WORLD'S FASTEST TRACTOR
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David James, Ian Warwick · 2017
Every school is different, but all schools face very similar challenges. Drawing on their combined teaching experience of over fifty years in both independent and state schools, educationalists David James and Ian Warwick have chosen ten questions that tackle the most difficult challenges that face schools today, and invited leading education experts to address them in stimulating and accessible essays, which are each under a thousand words. With contributions from John Hattie, David Blunkett, Doug Lemov, Anthony Seldon, Sandy Speicher, Tim Hawkes and many more, this insightful and engaging book features exclusive essays with some of the world’s most well-known and well-respected thinkers and speakers in education, business and politics, accompanied by thought-provoking introductions. The contributors provide new perspectives on some of the issues that occupy educationalists today; they challenge conventional wisdom and, above all, put forward practical, workable, evidence-based solutions that can transform teaching and learning. World Class is a powerful manifesto for change that nobody interested in education today can ignore.
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Peggy Shinn · University Press of New England eBooks · 2018
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William Gaudelli · 2014
How have school curricula been affected by the ripple effects of globalization? How do teachers and students attempt to understand their complex world? Most states require world teaching in some form, yet little is known about how teachers and students engage in this critical curricular area. World Class: Teaching and Learning in Global Times directly fills this need by providing a detailed, inside look at global education in three high schools. The data from the study, drawn from extensive interviews and observations, illustrate the daily challenges and complexities of global teaching and learning. Comprehensive yet scholarly, this volume: *raises thought-provoking questions for both theorists and practitioners; *addresses controversial issues embedded in global education and throughout the social studies curriculum, such as the tension between universalism and cultural relativism, the problematic nature of identity in classroom discourse, and the apparent duality of national and global loyalties; *connects issues particular to global education with wider scholarship in education; *examines the interplay of theory and practice in global education and, more broadly, the social sciences; and *provides an exploratory and provocative look at dimensions of global civics, with an analysis of the events of 9/11/01 and how they have shaped global perspectives about living as one planet. The book is organized in three parts--contexts, problems, and alternatives. Contexts allows readers to consider global education from multiple perspectives: teacher, student, administrator, community member, and scholar. Problems focuses on pedagogical challenges associated with global education. Alternatives provides reflection points that encourage readers to consider different ways we might converse about global teaching and learning. Written for scholars, practitioners, and students in social studies, curriculum and instruction, global/multicultural education, and related fields, World Class: Teaching and Learning in Global Times is an excellent text for preservice and graduate-level courses in these areas.
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Nasser Al‐Nuaimi, Hilal Al-Kuwari · Civil engineering · 2023
The eight soccer stadiums that hosted the 2022 World Cup in Qatar are inspiring feats of civil engineering. With one designed like a traditional Middle Eastern hat, another shaped as a Bedouin tent, and one made of nearly a thousand shipping containers, the stadiums were certainly one of the highlights of the quadrennial tournament.
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Iftikhar Ahmad · Journal of airport management · 2014
New Orleans is one of the most interesting cities in America. It has received accolades for its centuriesold architecture, celebrated cuisine, parade pageantry and sounds of cool jazz. But New Orleans today is much more than that. As a community, it is a unique city of neighbourhoods with their own distinct character and flavour. It is the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. According to the 2010 US Census, its population was 343,829 and it continues to grow today as more and more visitors decide to become residents. New Orleans is charting a new and different course as a leading centre for culture and commerce, attracting high-tech jobs while becoming a hub for entrepreneurship. The city is blending the past with the present and the recent modernisation of Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) is a fine example. The New Orleans Aviation Board (NOAB), the governing body of MSY, has recently invested over US$300 million to modernise the airport through remodelling and new construction. The NOAB is now soaring towards the future with a Long-term Infrastructure Development Plan that includes the design and construction of a world-class airport by 2018.
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Pümpin, Cuno 1939- · 1991
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Ellen Hazelkorn · Arrow - TU Dublin (Technological University Dublin) · 2009
The articles discusses two policy drivers: world class universities or world class higher education systems - with implications for developing countries.
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Long Range Planning · 1992
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V. Daniel Hunt · Elsevier eBooks · 1988
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Clive Morton · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 1994
This book addresses the issues concerned with the achievement of world class competitiveness by major international companies. It is the story of creating success where failure was endemic and demonst
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Glover, W. Gerald, Shames, Germaine W. · Florida International University Digital Commons (Florida International University) · 1988
In the discussion - World-Class Service - by W. Gerald Glover, Associate Professor, Restaurant, Hotel and Resort Management at Appalachian State University and Germaine W. Shames, Hilton International, New York, Glover and Shames initially state: “Providing world-class service to today's traveler may be the key for hospitality managers in the current competitive market. Although an ideal, this type of service provides a mandate for culturally aware managers. The authors provide insight into several areas of cultures in collision.” Up to the time this essay is written, the authors point to a less-than-ideal level of service as being the standard in the hospitality industry and experience. “Let's face it - if we're ever to resurrect service, it will not be by going back to anything,” Glover and Shames exclaim. “Whatever it was we did back then has contributed to the dilemma in which we find ourselves today, handicapped by a reactive service culture in an age that calls for adaptiveness and global strategies,” the authors fortify that thought. In amplifying the concept of world-class service Glover and Shames elaborate: “World-class service is an ideal. Proactive and adaptive, world-class service feels equally right to the North American dignitary occupying the Presidential Suite, and the Japanese tourist staying in a standard room in the same hotel.” To bracket that model the authors offer: “At a minimum, it is service perceived by each customer as appropriate and adequate. At its best, it may also make the customer feel at home, among friends, or pampered. Finally, it is service as if culture matters,” Glover and Shames expand and capture the rule of world-class service. Glover and Shames consider the link between cultures and service an imperative one. They say it is a principle lost on most hospitality managers. “Most [managers] have received service management education in the people are people school that teaches us to disregard cultural differences and assume that everyone we manage or serve is pretty much like ourselves,” say Glover and Shames. “Is it any wonder that we persist in setting service standards, marketing services, and managing service staff not only as if culture didn't matter, but as if it didn't exist?!” To offer legitimacy to their effort Glover and Shames present the case of the Sun and Sea Hotel, a 500-room first class hotel located on the outskirts of the capital city of a small Caribbean island nation. It is a bit difficult to tell whether this is a dramatization or a reality. It does, however, serve to illustrate their point in regard to management’s cognizance, or lack thereof, of culture when it comes to cordial service and guest satisfaction. Even more apropos is the tale of the Palace Hotel, “…one of the grande dames of hospitality constructed in the boom years of the 1920s in a mid-sized Midwestern city in the United States.” The authors relate what transpired during its takeover in mid-1980 by a U.S.-based international hotel corporation. The story makes for an interesting and informative case study.
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Gerhard Plenert, Shozo Hibino · 2026
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Shohibul Anshor Siregar · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2018
Di manakah tempat orang miskin dalam world class city itu? Modal dan para pemiliknya malas mengalokasikan waktu untuk mendiskusikan itu. Dunia akan merujuk pada model-model bantuan sosial yang direkomendasikan badan-badan dunia. Itu sama sekali tidak merubah keadaan. Kondisi kesenjangan internal dalam sebuah kota dalam sebuah Negara, pada dasarnya sama dengan kondisi kesenjangan antara satu dan lain Negara yang begitu parah. Dunia sangat faham, itu hanya perlu diteriakkan berkala untuk tujuan politik belaka tanpa kemauan untuk melakukan perubahan secara struktural.
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Shohibul Anshor Siregar · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2018
Di manakah tempat orang miskin dalam world class city itu? Modal dan para pemiliknya malas mengalokasikan waktu untuk mendiskusikan itu. Dunia akan merujuk pada model-model bantuan sosial yang direkomendasikan badan-badan dunia. Itu sama sekali tidak merubah keadaan. Kondisi kesenjangan internal dalam sebuah kota dalam sebuah Negara, pada dasarnya sama dengan kondisi kesenjangan antara satu dan lain Negara yang begitu parah. Dunia sangat faham, itu hanya perlu diteriakkan berkala untuk tujuan politik belaka tanpa kemauan untuk melakukan perubahan secara struktural.
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