Collective bargaining in education: an historical perspective

Collective Bargaining in Higher Education

Collective Bargaining in Higher Education

An approach to collective bargaining, in which structure and governance are carefully introduced into a contract, can act as a kind of restraint on both parties and minimize the scope of adversarial relationships to those matters for which there appears to be no alternative. By enlarging the role and responsibilities of faculty governance within the collective bargaining agreement, such alterna...

Macroeconomic Performance and Collective Bargaining: an International Perspective

Macroeconomic Performance and Collective Bargaining: An International Perspective This paper critically reviews the research on how collective bargaining systems influence macroeconomic performance in industrialized countries. The review considers effects of bargaining level, coordination, and corporatist institutional arrangements. Key empirical results turn out to be quite fragile, and much o...

Medical education: historical perspective.

W ith the evolution of the human race and its existence on earth, it is but natural that early man should have been plagued with disease. Our Vedic scriptures tell us that Brahma wrote the slokas in the Vedas. The Rig and Ather Vedas documented knowledge about medical and surgical diseases and their treatment. Subsequent followers such as Sage Agastya practised the healing arts then. The oral t...

Oath A Historical Perspective in Bioethical Education

This article specifies the place of the Hippocratic Oath in the programme of bioethical education on graduate schools where future medical and healthcare workers are being educated. The presented conceptualization of contents and described methodology of work show how the curriculum contents, dominated by historical facts, are being actualized by the use of knowledge students have acquired earl...