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Zvaigžņotā Debess: 2015, Vasara (228)
2015
Latvijas Universitāte
La mauvaise discipline dans les classes françaises et quelques autres résultats de PISA 2015
2017
National audience; Le résultats de PISA 2015, pour la France, ressemblent à ceux de 2012 : la performance moyenne de nos élèves -en sciences, en compréhension de l'écrit, en mathématiques -, est proche de la moyenne des 34 pays de l'OCDE, ce qui s'observe depuis le début des évaluations PISA. Mais ces performances sont distribuées de façon nettement inéquitable. D'abord parce que les inégalités entre élèves forts et faibles sont particulièrement fortes en France, ensuite parce que les inégalités de performance selon le milieu social sont les plus fortes de l'OCDE. Les élèves qui passent les épreuves de PISA répondent aussi à un questionnaire sur leur expérience scolaire. En 2015, les élèves…
Enabling environments for equity, access and quality education post-2015: Lessons from South Africa and Tanzania
2016
Abstract In this paper we seek to contribute to the post-2015 education agenda by shifting the focus from considerations of what education goals and targets should be to a people-centred exploration of enabling environments, within and beyond education, for equity, access and quality. Theoretically, the paper draws on the capabilities approach. Empirically, we present data from two independent qualitative studies conducted in South Africa (n = 40) and Tanzania (n = 10) with university students who accessed higher education despite trends of low participation for their social class and/or gender. The paper highlights the importance of taking account of both instrumental and intrinsic values …
Data from: Genotype reconstruction of paternity in European lobsters (Homarus gammarus)
2015
Decapod crustaceans exhibit considerable variation in fertilisation strategies, ranging from pervasive single paternity to the near-ubiquitous presence of multiple paternity, and such knowledge of mating systems and behaviour are required for the informed management of commercially-exploited marine fisheries. We used genetic markers to assess the paternity of individual broods in the European lobster, Homarus gammarus, a species for which paternity structure is unknown. Using 13 multiplexed microsatellite loci, three of which are newly described in this study, we genotyped 10 eggs from each of 34 females collected from an Atlantic peninsula in the south-western United Kingdom. Single recons…
The Puzzle of the New European COMI Rules: Rethinking COMI in the Age of Multinational, Digital and Glocal Enterprises
2019
EU Regulation 2015/848 (Recast) laid down new rules on the debtor’s ‘centre of main interests’ (COMI) both to make it easier to determine international jurisdiction and to prevent a debtor from fraudulently relocating his/her/its COMI from one Member State to another. However, the terms of the litigation concerning the NIKI case and an in-depth analysis of the Recast demonstrate that this operation has been unsuccessful. This paper argues: first, that the new COMI rules contain logical and teleological flaws; secondly, that the prerequisite that the COMI ‘shall be the place […] which is ascertainable by third parties’ is a duplicate of the prerequisite ‘on a regular basis’; thirdly, that th…
Evaluating Socio-economic Impact of Age-Friendly Environments
2018
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) (2007), physical and social environments are key determinants of whether people can remain healthy, independent and autonomous. Health and well-being are not only determined by our personal characteristics but also by the envi-ronment where we were born and where we live throughout our life (WHO 2015). In fact, promoting age-friendly environments (AFE) is the most effective approach for responding to demographic change because they empower elderly people to age in better health, they pro-mote their social inclusion and active participation, and they help them to live autonomously into old age (Parent 2012). AFE foster health, well-being and t…
Le criticità del post, il caso EXPO 2015
2016
A pochissimo tempo dalla chiusura di Expo Milano 2015 vi è ancora un grosso interrogativo su ciò che avverrà nell’area dell’esposizione una volta conclusi i lavori di smantellamento dell’evento. L’incertezza e l’immobilità delle istituzioni, che tanto hanno spinto affinché la manifestazione riuscisse nelle sue fasi iniziali, certamente non contribuiscono a smorzare le perplessità crescenti. Se a quanto detto vengono sommati i numerosi scandali nelle fasi iniziali della manifestazione si può capire come le preoccupazioni per la riqualificazione dell’area Expo siano molte e giustificate. Queste si fondano sulla consapevolezza che il non aver previsto per tempo il destino dell’Esposizione sia …
Defining and measuring the network flexibility of humanitarian supply chains: insights from the 2015 Nepal earthquake
2019
International audience; The efficient and effective response to disasters critically depends on humanitarian supply chains (HSCs). HSCs need to be flexible to adapt to uncertainties in needs, infrastructure conditions, and behavior of other organizations. The concept of ‘network flexibility’ is, however, not clearly defined. The lack of an unanimous definition has led to a lack of consistent understanding and comparisons. This paper makes a threefold contribution: first, it defines the concept of network flexibility for HSC in the context of sudden onset disasters. Second, it proposes a framework to measure network flexibility in HSCs. Third, we apply our framework to the 2015 Nepal earthqu…
The challenge for equity and excellence: Evidence for future successful action in bilingual Finland
2018
In 2013, the authors prepared a report on educational excellence and equity in Finland based on PISA 2009 data and asked the question “Could Finland achieve both excellence and equality goals in the coming decade? Five years later, this report re-examines the challenge faced by Finland in light of recent PISA results. The Finnish school system, both the Finnish and Swedish speaking components, have consistently ranked at the top of the list of OECD countries. However, Finland’s performance has been dropping compared to previous years, while it failed to keep pace with performance improvements in other countries. Simply working harder along the same path will no longer work. Therefore, this …