Time to add more value?

How to Add - VALUE

Over the last few years there has been a very rapid advancement in the development of communication and information technologies. These developments have been both in hardware and supporting infrastructure as well as in software. The Scottish Universities are fortunate in having broad bandwidth ATM connecting networks which can be used for video conferencing and transferring large amounts of da...

Item Descriptions Add Value to Plans

Item descriptions add value to plans. Item descriptions are descriptions about individual objects (or sets of objects) in the world that can be used within plans for reasoning about actions on the objects. Typical reasoning tasks include dereferencing the description to real objects, disambiguating multiple real objects based on the description, and tracking the status of desired goals. We desc...

Can Confucianism Add Value to Democracy Education?

Democracy essentially means ‘people ruling themselves’ or ‘self-rule’. In the light of this, democracy education should aim at nurturing citizens well-suited to live in a democracy, that is, capable of ‘ruling themselves’ or ‘selfrule’. Ideal citizens in a democracy should seek to be well-informed, have independent decision-making abilities with regard to community affairs, possess high degree ...

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Do Specialist Schools Add Value

The impact of different school types on the progress made by their pupils is an important topic, with especial relevance to the ongoing debate about the value of the specialist schools programme (see Chitty, 2001; Croxford, 2001). With the advent of detailed and exhaustive national value-added datasets it would seem that it should be a plain and simple matter to tackle these questions using obj...