A political collapse : of a party and a union -- Stumbling into war -- The opposition's war : policy and politics -- Politics is personal/politics is local -- Politics in the streets -- An organized war, a disorganized party? -- Bracing for an electoral clash -- 1864 : electing a president -- Peace and an uncertain future -- Conclusion: Were Democrats traitors and racists?
Defence date: 23 September 2014 ; Examining Board: Professor Stephen Anthony Smith, European University Institute (Supervisor); Professor Boris Kolonitskii, European University in St. Petersburg; Professor Simon Dixon, University College, London; Professor Irina Paert, University of Tartu. ; Between 1800 and 1918, the Russian Orthodox Church attempted to re-unite the Old Believer schism with Russian Orthodoxy by means of Edinoverie. This was a uniate movement that would allow schismatic converts to retain their old rituals whilst being subordinated to the authority of the Church hierarchy. From the very moment of its foundation, Edinoverie was subject to high levels of suspicion from most members of the Church. The rules of Metropolitan Platon, the settlement that created Edinoverie in 1800, embodied this distrust: the provisions sought to keep the converts at the boundaries of the Orthodox confession so as to prevent them from tempting Orthodox parishioners towards the schism. Over the next 118 years, edinovertsy, churchmen and government authorities struggled with the legacy of Platon's rules as they tried to define Edinoverie's place between Orthodoxy and Old Belief. In doing so, they devised new ways about thinking of the Orthodox confession. However, the Church enacted reform of Edinoverie reluctantly. It was permanently held back by fear of apostasy. Pressure for change always came from without, primarily from the side of the state. The shifts in its policies towards Old Belief ultimately forced the Holy Synod to renovate Edinoverie so as to maintain its missionary appeal. By 1918, Edinoverie had not come any closer to bringing the Old Believers back into the Church. Its attractiveness was undermined by earlier state coercion, by the hostility of many churchmen and by the contradictions inherent within its foundation. Edinoverie also represented a fundamental misunderstanding on the side of the Church as to why the schism had begun in the first place.
The schoolhouse.--Thrums.--The auld licht kirk.--Lads and lasses.--The auld lichts in arms.--The old dominie--Cree Queery and Mysy Drolly.--The courting of Tnow-Lead's Bell.--Davit Lunans political reminiscences.--A very old family.--Little Rathie's burae.--A literary club. ; Mode of access: Internet.
I. The schoolhouse.--II. Thrums.--III. The auld licht kirk.--IV. Lads and lasses.--V. The auld lichts in arms.--VI. The old dominie.--VII. Cree Querry and Mysy Drolly.--VIII. The courting of T'nowhead's Bell.--IX. Davit Lunan's political reminiscences.--X. A very old family.--XI. Little Rathie's "bural".--XII. A literary club. ; Mode of access: Internet.
AbstractEnergy and humanitarian action have long been uneasy bedfellows. In the field, many humanitarian practitioners lack the time or remit to engage with a complex issue such as energy, and the topic to date has received relatively little attention from the private, development and academic sectors. This paper hopes to provide more clarity on energy in forced displacement settings by analysing how energy is interwoven with the humanitarian cluster system. This paper has two aims: (1) to assess existing evidence in the sector and explain the links between energy and each of the humanitarian clusters and (2) to provide recommendations on how humanitarian response efforts can transition from informal action to a comprehensive response on sustainable energy provision. This paper is the first to investigate the role of energy using the cluster system as a framework and contributes to a rapidly evolving field of research and practice on energy in humanitarian contexts. Our analysis demonstrates that energy is not fully integrated within humanitarian programme planning. Further, it highlights pathways for improving humanitarian outcomes enabled by improved energy practices. We identify ten ways clusters can integrate action on energy to support crisis-affected communities.
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to determine what factors contributed to three universities achieving environmental sustainability.Design/methodology/approachA case study methodology was used to determine how each factor contributed to the institutions' sustainability. Site visits, fieldwork, document reviews, and interviews with administration, faculty, staff, and students from the participating institutions were employed as primary data collection strategies.FindingsThe six factors identified in the literature as contributing to environmental sustainability were present at all three institutions: green campus operation measures; campus administration, organization, and leadership; teaching, research, and service; campus‐wide actions and activities; institutional assessment of campus sustainability measures; and established methods for overcoming barriers.Research limitations/implicationsThis study was delimited to the six factors that were identified in the literature and the three institutions that participated in this study. The research will add to the literature on creating sustainable campuses and will also provide a foundation for further study on the progress and impact of campus sustainability efforts.Originality/valueA number of individual case studies have described what certain institutions have done. A smaller number of case studies have identified what factors have contributed to certain institutions' achieved environmental sustainability.
A graduate tracer survey (GTS) collects data on the graduate's college experience—skills learned and quality of instruction—and how it relates to employability. A GTS can illuminate the relationship between college experience and labor market outcomes, which can aid in formulating actions for the higher education sector. It can also be used to investigate the influence of college experience on sociopolitical participation and life satisfaction. This study reports on the 4th Philippine Graduate Tracer Survey results, covering graduates from academic years 2008–2009, 2009–2010, and 2010–2011. A total of 11,547 graduates were surveyed, representing 32.7 percent of the total sample. This GTS round piloted several study design improvements and administrative arrangements aimed at capacitating the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). Despite several challenges related to the response rate, it is a successful demonstration of the desired GTS implementation setup for the next GTS rounds. The results show that graduates are motivated by earnings and career advancement in their choice of baccalaureate programs, and their choices are concentrated in a few courses. Except for nursing and information technology-related courses, their courses are not the high-paying ones. For graduates of courses without a professional license requirement, the median length of time it takes to get a job after graduation is five months, while it takes at least 11 months for those who took courses that require a license. At the time of the survey, only 86 in 100 graduates are in the labor force, of which 76 are employed. There are several telltale signs of job-education mismatch: (a) graduates feel that they did not sufficiently develop communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills; (b) only 70 percent of graduates think that their college degree is relevant to their first job; (c) less than half of them consider occupational skills learned in college as the main reason for landing their first or current jobs; and (d) around a fourth think that outdated skills are keeping them from getting a good job. Overall, only 49 percent of graduates who took courses that require a professional license are employed in jobs that match their degree. The predominant "not matched" occupations are contact center representatives, various clerks in retail and sales, and other service workers and laborers. Only a third of graduates believe that social and political aspects of life are "very important". Their contribution to the public good is confined to voting, obeying laws, and paying taxes. They barely participate in political and social actions, and participation in associations is also low. Meanwhile, despite being concerned about their earnings and rating themselves low in financial condition, overall life satisfaction is high. In relating college experience to post college life, this study finds that positive college experience (in its multiple dimensions) is generally associated with better employability, a stronger sense of citizenship, less predisposition to political action, and better life satisfaction.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has been providing support to the Australian Government Department of Health to report on mental health-related data to Australian governments on a frequent basis since April 2020 in the form of COVID-19 mental health services data dashboards. These dashboards feature extensive use of data visualizations which illustrate the change in mental health service use over time as well as comparisons with pre-pandemic levels of service use. Data are included from the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS), Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS/RPBS), Australian Government-funded crisis and support organizations, and key findings from emerging research. Demand for telehealth, crisis and support organizations and online mental health information services, in particular, have increased during the pandemic. The dashboards incorporate both new and existing data sources and represent an innovative way of reporting mental health services data to Australian governments. The reporting has enabled timely, targeted adjustments to mental health service delivery during the pandemic with improved cooperative data sharing arrangements having the potential to yield ongoing benefits.
