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Consultancy in the United Kingdom
As schools have entered a new era of in-service training they have drawn increasingly on a wider range of professional skills - both from within school and without. Large numbers of new professionals are being invited to train teachers on short, day courses or for more extended periods, in the role of consultant.
Consultants and Consultancy: the Case of Education
This book is a comprehensive study into and about consultants doing consultancy, and having influence in ways that generate concerns about an emerging ‘consultocracy’, with privileged access to governments and public services. It presents a detailed mapping of consultants and consultancy in education as a site of change and modernisation in public sector service provision. It considers consultancy at a macro-level of globalised policy, at a meso-level of national government policy, and at a micro level with vivid descriptions and analyses of consultants at work. The rapid rise of ‘edubusinesses’, combined with the restructuring of public services in western style democracies, has gen...
Educational Consultancy in Small States
Based on a pan-Commonwealth training workshop held in 1992 at the University of the South Pacific, Vanuatu Complex, this volume explores the skills required of the consultant and the ways in which institutions within small states can develop their consultancy capacity.Marie-Pierre Lloyd is a sociologist working as an independent consultant. She has worked in a number of senior public service posts in Seychelles. Steve Packer was until recently responsible for the Commonwealth Secretariat’s programme on education in small states.Educational Development in the Small States of the Commonwealth is a series of books which focuses on the impact of scale on the national education systems of small...
Teens in Crisis
In recent years a dizzying array of programs has emerged to meet the needs of struggling teens and their families-wilderness therapy programs, therapeutic boarding schools, alternative schools, mentoring and court diversion programs, independent living programs, and myriad day treatment and partial hospitalization services. Yet not all of these offerings employ mental health professionals or follow evidence-based treatment protocols. Some programs are licensed and accredited, but many are not, and some use techniques that are highly controversial, even abusive, resulting in injury and accidental death. Frederic G. Reamer and Deborah H. Siegel have written the first scholarly book on this inf...
Best 357 Colleges, 2005 Edition
Known as the smart buyer's guide to college, this guide includes all the practical information students need to apply to the nation's top schools. It includes rankings and information on academics, financial aid, quality of life on campus, and much more.
