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‘Think B4 U Click’: An Educational Online Safety Resource For The Irish Cspe Curriculum, Simon Grehan, Sharon Mclaughlin, Brian O'Neill
‘Think B4 U Click’: An Educational Online Safety Resource For The Irish Cspe Curriculum, Simon Grehan, Sharon Mclaughlin, Brian O'Neill
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Young people in Ireland, like their counterparts across Europe, are enthusiastic social networkers. EU Kids Online found that in 2010 82% of children in Ireland, aged 13-16, had a social networking (SNS) profile (O’Neill, Grehan, & Ólafsson, 2011). Social networking gives young people extraordinary opportunities to communicate with peers, share information and explore new friendships, in the relative security of an online community created through a social networking platform. Much concern has been expressed about young people's apparent lack of concern about privacy issues (boyd & Marwick, 2011) and about the dangers they may be exposed to by failing to …
Policy Implications And Rrecommendations: Now What?, Brian O'Neill, Elisabeth Staksrud
Policy Implications And Rrecommendations: Now What?, Brian O'Neill, Elisabeth Staksrud
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The EU Kids Online survey represents the most substantial knowledge base to date about young people’s online experiences in Europe. Chapters in this volume highlight findings that provide new kinds of evidence of significant interest for policy makers. They address questions which range from how to respond to the fact that the internet is now firmly in children’s lives; how to develop appropriate strategies for internet safety while responding to shifting patterns of access and use; how to manage those enduring risks to children’s welfare that appear to be amplified in the online world, and deal with risks that are …
Striving For World Class Excellence: Rankings And Emerging Societies, Ellen Hazelkorn
Striving For World Class Excellence: Rankings And Emerging Societies, Ellen Hazelkorn
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Engaging With The Community, Ellen Hazelkorn, Elaine Ward
Engaging With The Community, Ellen Hazelkorn, Elaine Ward
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This article focuses on how higher education institutions (HEIs) engage with their external community, contribute to social and economic development, and underpin civil society and democracy. The external community consists of a wide-range of stakeholders from business and industry, the public, private and non-governmental sector, and civil society. While many HEIs have historically had a strong association to their city or nation, today the health of society and the economy is inextricably tied to greater collaboration between “town” and “gown”. The article has five main sections: i) Introduces the social and public responsibility of higher education, ii) Describes the policy …
The Effects Of Rankings On Student Choices And Institutional Selection, Ellen Hazelkorn
The Effects Of Rankings On Student Choices And Institutional Selection, Ellen Hazelkorn
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European "Transparency Instruments": Driving The Modernisation Of European Higher Education, Ellen Hazelkorn
European "Transparency Instruments": Driving The Modernisation Of European Higher Education, Ellen Hazelkorn
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This paper reviews the background to and assesses the usefulness of the various transparency instruments (e.g. college guides, accreditation, classification systems, benchmarking models, global rankings). While there are differences between these various “instruments”, they can all be considered as part of the growing trend for greater transparency, accountability and comparability which began with college guides or handbooks around 1970. It will then place the most recent European developments (e.g. U-Map and U-Multirank) and other EU-funded initiatives (Expert Group on the Assessment of University-based Research and the 3-M Project on Third Mission) within this context. In doing so, the paper will …