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The study of the problem of quality management of education and educational activities is one of the most pressing problems of modern theory of education management. Its relevance is due to the needs of practice, primarily the need to ensure the competitiveness of graduates of general secondary education in the labor market. One of the influential factors in the search for competitive advantages is the quality of educational services provided at school. That is why ensuring the quality of education in general secondary education is a priority at the present stage. The National Doctrine of Education Development emphasizes that in the XXI century "the quality of education is a national priority and a prerequisite for national security, compliance with international norms and requirements of Ukrainian legislation on the exercise of citizens' right to education. Material, financial, human and scientific resources of society and the state are directed to ensuring the quality of education." The purpose of the article. To study the real state of readiness of secondary education institutions to ensure the quality of education and their main difficulties. Results. After analyzing the results of a survey of teachers and managers, the level of readiness of general secondary education to ensure the quality of education is considered to be at the middle level; the main difficulties in developing, functioning of the internal system of quality assurance of education and conducting internal audit were revealed. Originality. The necessity and significance of ensuring the quality of education are determined; for the first time the level of readiness of general secondary education institutions to ensure the quality of education was determined;the difficulties of this process are revealed. Conclusion. According to the results of this study, it was found that general secondary education institutions are not fully ready to ensure the quality of education; they are aware of the importance of this process and face difficulties in the ...

The accountability (impeachment in Anglo-Saxon countries) of persons exercising powers in the name of the Nation is a matter of particular importance. For that purpose, in the governmental system of Poland, a special body has been appointed to settle the cases of violating constitutional regulations. This body is the Tribunal of State. This important State authority was already provided by the Constitution of May 3, 1791 (sc the Sejm Court). It existed in the constitutional regulations of March 1921 and April 1935, but was neglected in the Constitution of 1952. The Tribunal of State returned to the constitutional system in 1982 on the wave of political reforms. Keywords: tribunal of state, constitutional accountability, constitutional regulations.

This book analyses the role of the national state, as organiser of its territory and governor of its infrastructure, since it emerged in the 19th Century. It presents a cross-time analysis of eight emerging democratic states during the transport revolution, focussing on railway systems. The book explores how the intervention state regulated society in Europe and Australia since the Industrial Revolution. The authors conclude that these state capacities are still governing the public domain, also at the level of the EU.

It is widely believed that an oil weapon could impose scarcity upon the United States. Impending resource exhaustion is thought to exacerbate this threat. However, threat seems implausible when we consider strategic deficits of prospective weapon users and the improbability of impending resource exhaustion. Here, we explore a hypothesis relating oil to national security under a different assumption, abundance. We suggest that an oil cartel exerts market power to keep abundance at bay, commanding monopoly rents [or wealth transfers (wt)] that underwrite security threats. We then compare security threats attributed to the oil weapon to those that may arise from market power. We first reexamine whether oil is abundant or scarce by reviewing current development data, then we estimate a competitive price for oil. From this, we derive wt2004 collections by Persian Gulf states ≈ $132-178 × 109. We find that wt and the behavior of states collecting it interact to actuate security threats. Threats underwritten by wt are (i) the potential for emergence of a Persian Gulf superpower and (ii) terrorism. It is therefore oil market power, not oil per se, that actuates threats. We also describe a paradox in the relation of market power to the United States' defense doctrine of force projection to preempt a Gulf superpower. Because the superpower threat derives from wt, force alone cannot preempt it. A further paradox is that because foreign policy is premised on oil weapon fear, market power is appeased. Threats thereby grow unimpeded.

Evaluating the Welfare State: Social and Political Perspectives together with its companion Social Policy Evaluation: An Economic Perspective is the outgrowth of an international and interdisciplinary conference on policy evaluation held at Tel Aviv University in December 1980. The conference brought together scholars from the fields of economics, sociology, political science, social work, and administration. The papers presented at this conference approached the welfare state and social policy evaluation from a number of different theoretical and methodological perspectives. A selection of th.

This paper discusses citizenship in Finnish religious education (RE) in relation to human security. It traces the characteristics of human security that connect citizenship, religion, and education in Finnish policy documents. The article focuses on basic education (grades 7–9). Its data were analyzed employing qualitative content analysis (QCA). The findings indicate that citizenship in Finnish RE entails personal security concerns dealing with psychological and human rights issues. These are found to be essentially human security as conceptualized by the United Nations (UN). However, Finnish policy documents sparingly utilize human security in explicit terms. Finland rather emphasizes the practical applications of human security. Incorporation of explicit global citizen and human rights issues into RE in the new Finnish curriculum seems to project critical global citizenship. This is found to promote human security. Following Finland's bid for practical application of human security, we recommend (but cautiously) that human security be explicitly integrated into the Finnish RE curriculum. ; Peer reviewed

1. Sustaining the states : an introduction / Scott Pattison and Katherine G. Willoughby -- 2. Political institutions for sustainable state budgets / Irene S. Rubin and Roy T. Meyers -- 3. Changing state revenue strategies / John L. Mikesell -- 4. State tax structures : past trends, future possibilities / David L. Sjoquist -- 5. State competition for debt resources / Dwight V. Denison and Robert A. Greer -- 6. State debt management challenges / Merl Hackbart and Dwight V. Denison -- 7. State pension plans in crisis / Cynthia S. Searcy and William R. Darnell -- 8. The future of state spending / Carolyn Bourdeaux -- 9. State education expenditures / Sean P. Corcoran, Sarah A. Cordes, and Amy Ellen Schwartz -- 10. State health care expenditures / Shanna Rose -- 11. Future issues in state transportation finance / John R. Bartle and Can Chen -- 12. Financing criminal justice in the states / Michael C. Walker -- 13. State government workforces of the future / Sally Coleman Selden -- 14. A vision of the future sustainability of the states / Robert D. Ebel and Marilyn Marks Rubin.