<i>Provisional Guidance on Asset Management Plans</i> (AMPs) for schools was published by the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) in August 1998. These plans will help English Local Education Authorities (LEAs) to identify, agree and address the most urgent and important priorities in their...

Des instructions relatives à la mise en œuvre de Plans de gestion des actifs (AMP) concernant les établissements scolaires ont été publiées par le ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Emploi du Royaume-Uni en août 19981. Ces plans aideront les autorités locales de l’enseignement...

This paper documents and evaluates an intervention designed to integrate the learning of selected generic skills, particularly analytical thinking and written communication skills, with the learning of accounting content. The method used was to scaffold practice in analytical thinking skills...

This study, undertaken at an Australian university, investigates undergraduate accounting students' conceptions of accounting work and discusses the relevance of such conceptions for the work readiness of graduates. Findings based on a phenomenographic investigation show variations in students'...

The issue of compliance with prescribed medication has traditionally been dominated by the perspective of the health professional although increasingly sociologists, using qualitative methods, have begun to present the patients' point of view. However, little has been published on asthma,...

The Government is planning new regulations to ensure that utility companies ‘reflect a sense of social responsibility’. Their intention to overlay social objectives on the regulatory frameworks inspired by free market economics can be seen as an attempt to find a ‘Third Way’ policy for...

Performance management has been a major initiative within UK police forces since the aftermath of the Soham murders and the London bombings. This article reports on successful breakthroughs in the interpretation of various guides from the Home Office, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of...

Improved access to intelligence data is a major initiative within UK police forces. This article describes new developments that deliver the data integration and new analytical needs of police performance and intelligence reporting. An initial solution has successfully been developed and...

Hendry C. and Brown J. (2006) Dynamics of clustering and performance in the UK opto-electronics industry, Regional Studies 40, 707-725. The spatial 'clustering' of firms, resources, and infrastructure is seen as having significant benefits for individual enterprises and regions. This proposition...