Reputation Management: A Holistic Business Tool

If we picture a company as a living organism, say a tree, then half of the mass or more of that tree is underground in the root system. And whereas the flavour of the fruit and the...

Sterilization, disinfection and antisepsis

In 1866 J lister suggested antiseptic surgery. His rational was (????????) : * Putrefaction is caused by microbes * Wound sepsis is a form of putrefaction * Wound sepsis is caused by microbes * In the previous year Lister had heard that ‘carbolic acid’ was being used to treat sewage...

PhD Shortage Breakfast Discussion

Preliminary demographic report on expected retirements * Gary Previts – reported early indications from a current research project with data supported by Jim Hasselback from his database * Bruce Behn and George Krull are working with Jim to develop some understandings of impending...

Challenges Facing The African Capital Markets Introduction

This paper discuses the challenges facing the African Stock Markets and is presented as a response to the cordial request of UNECA in Addis Ababa - – as a contribution to the African Capital Markets development workshop held n Cairo from March 30th to April 1st 2004, in association...

Digital Music Survey – Background & Methodology

* 1,008 online interviews conducted in October 2009 amongst GB adults aged 16-50 years * Representative of online population * Covering: o Awareness and usage of official digital music services o Awareness, usage and attitudes towards file-sharing websites used...

Movements towards a European dimension in Quality Assurance and Accreditation

The WTO Agenda * GATS: General Agreement on Trades and Services * Is education a service? Yes, but… o Education has a public good character at least up to secondary education o Private benefits outweigh public benefits for postgraduate ‘job training‘ *...