Daily List 101

Teachers for the 21st century: using evaluation to improve teaching.

Corporate Author:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

In some countries the concept - not to mention the use - of teacher appraisal sparks discussion whenever it is mentioned. According to what criteria? Who decides? And what should the results of teacher appraisals be used for? But education stakeholders are beginning to find some agreement in the idea that teacher appraisal can be a key lever for focusing more on teaching quality and continuous professional development for teachers, in keeping with the growing recognition that the quality of teaching affects student learning outcomes. Teacher appraisal also provides opportunities to incentivise, recognise and reward teaching competence and high performance, which, in turn, may help to address concerns about the attractiveness of teaching as a career choice and about the image and status of teachers, including teachers' feelings that their work is not sufficiently valued. The third International Summit on the Teaching Profession, hosted by the Netherlands, the OECD and Education International, brings together education ministers, union leaders and other teacher leaders from high-performing and rapidly improving education systems, as measured by the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), to discuss how teacher quality is defined and what standards are set and by whom; what systems are in place for teacher evaluation and how evaluations are conducted; and how teacher evaluation contributes to school improvement and teacher self-efficacy.

• ISBN: 9789264193857
• £28.00

Young people on the edge (summary): labour market inclusion of vulnerable youths.

TemaNord 2013:536.

Corporate Author:

Nordic Council of Ministers

Author:

Bjørn Halvorsen, Ole-Johnny Hansen, Jenny Tägtström

The unemployment among young people is considerably higher than the overall unemployment in the Nordic region. A growing group of young people in the Nordic countries are at a great risk of permanent exclusion with regard to working life and society, perhaps for much of their adult lives. Unemployment among young people is a permanent structural problem, but it has increased as a result of the global economic crisis. The Nordic Council of Ministers has asked the Nordic Centre for Welfare and Social Issues to analyse, how one in the Nordic region most effectively can contribute to increased inclusion of vulnerable people in the labour market. The report Young people on the edge (summary) - Labour market inclusion of vulnerable youth is a result of this work.

• ISBN: 9789289325516
• £25.00

Dale and Appelbe's pharmacy and medicines law. 10th ed., 2013.

Corporate Author:

Pharmaceutical Press

Author:

Gordon E. Appelbe (editor), Joy Wingfield (editor)

This tenth edition of Dale and Appelbe's Pharmacy and Medicines Law (previously Dale and Appelbe's Pharmacy Law and Ethics) is your definitive guide to law relating to pharmacy and medicine practice in Great Britain. It covers law and professional regulation that all pharmacy and medicine professionals need to know. There are important updates regarding the activities of the General Pharmaceutical Council, the recent consolidation of medicines regulations and what these changes mean to your practice. New content covers: (i) Human Medicines Regulations (HMRs) 2012; (ii) The role of the GPhC and its approach to Fitness to Practise; (iii) Recent radical changes to the structure of the NHS. All chapters have been updated by well-known experts from academia, professional and legal practice. As such, this book is an indispensable resource for anyone studying or practising in pharmacy and medicine and a reliable reference for lawyers and legal professionals interested in these areas.

• ISBN: 9780853699897
• £44.99

World health statistics 2013.

Corporate Author:

World Health Organization

World Health Statistics 2013 contains WHO's annual compilation of health-related data for its 194 Member States, and includes a summary of the progress made towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and associated targets. This year, it also includes highlight summaries on the topics of reducing the gaps between the world's most-advantaged and least-advantaged countries, and on current trends in official development assistance (ODA) for health. All the indicators shown have been included on the basis of their relevance to global public health, the availability and quality of the data, and the reliability and comparability of the resulting estimates. Taken together, these indicators provide a comprehensive summary of the current status of national health and health systems in key areas. WHO presents World Health Statistics 2013 as an integral part of its ongoing efforts to provide enhanced access to comparable high-quality statistics on core measures of population health and national health systems. Unless otherwise stated, all estimates have been cleared following consultation with Member States and are published here as official WHO figures.

• ISBN: 9789241564588
• £36.00

Development of a technical standard for emergency breathing systems.

CAP 1034.

Corporate Author:

Civil Aviation Authority

This document reports on the experimental work performed in support of the development of a technical standard for helicopter emergency breathing systems (EBS), and also contains the resulting technical standard. The work follows on from the review of EBS implementation and use reported in CAA Paper 2003/13 (ISBN 9780860399483). The technical specification is offered for use by the industry where EBS is deployed on a voluntary basis, and will be promoted to EASA for use as the basis of a formal specification, i.e. a European Technical Standard Order (ETSO).

• ISBN: 9780117928312
• £32.75