The DETR has put some fences around the flagrant use of the word partnership’ by local councils.The word featured in proposals for the ‘third way’ and as a result many activities are now attracting the label of being ‘partnerships’. Consultants Newchurch and Co., who have produced a definition of the word on request from the DETR, say some of these projects are a simple re-badging of something that was previously described in other ways. 

From April next year, 527 Further Education Colleges, 4,300 public libraries and 785 Citizens Advice Bureaux will be able to save more than 50% on standard charges for Internet access.Under BT’s proposed Public Institution Internet Caller package these bodies will enjoy unlimited daytime Internet access for six hundred pounds a year, or twelve hundred pounds for a higher-speed ISDN line. 

Oakes L S, Townley B, Cooper D JAdministrative Science Quarterly, (USA), Vol 43 No 2
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Considers the activity of business planning, arguing its effectiveness in introducing change, and examining the process through which this occurs.