Triple X superwomen: their post-compulsory education and employability

The e-Revolution and Post-Compulsory Education: Using e-business models to deliver quality education

The best practices of e-business are revolutionising not just technology itself but the whole process through which services are provided; and from which important lessons can be learnt by post-compulsory educational institutions. This book aims to move debates about ICT and higher educa tion beyond a simple focus on e-learning by considering the provision of post-compulsory education as a whol...

Compulsory continuing medical education

In 2002 the government decided that Continuing Medical Education (CME) will be compulsory for all physicians. The reform has been implemented progressively since then. Compulsory Continuing Medical Education (CCME) includes different types of programs which aim to maintain and improve doctors? medical knowledge. Doctors are asked to participate in a number of educational programs/activities to ...

Does compulsory education lower mortality?

Recent studies have claimed to show a significant causal impact of education on health status. Their empirical strategy usually relied on changes in compulsory schooling laws. Using a French longitudinal dataset, we focus on the effect of school leaving age on mortality at later ages. The two identifying shocks are the Zay and Berthoin reforms, which respectively raised the minimum school leavi...

Mediterranean Welfare and ‘Superwomen’

In the last two decades, family members in South European countries have been able to preserve high levels of well-being due to the hyperactivity developed by cohorts of ‘superwomen’. These have combined their non-paid household activities with their increasing paid professional activities, a phenomenon that manifests itself in all social groups and classes. The role played by ‘superwomen’ with...

Employability and higher education: Contextualising female students’ workplace experiences to enhance understanding of employability development