Archives for September 19th, 2002

CAN NONPROFIT ANSWER PUBLIC MANAGEMENT’S BIG QUESTIONS

Abstracts, PublicNet: 19 September, 2002

By Arthur C. BrooksAre the fields of nonprofit management and public management naturally complementary, or are they substitutes? Briefly surveying the nonprofit literature on board governance, volunteer management, and performance measurement, the author shows that study of the third sector can help inform public management’s “big questions”. As such, nonprofit studies and scholarship should represent an improvement to public administration curricula and a fertile source of ideas for public managers.

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PUTTING POLICE BACK ON THE BEAT USING NEW TECHNOLOGY

Headlines, PublicNet: 19 September, 2002

Some 1,000 police stations have closed across the UK in the last ten years, but police in North Wales are using cutting edge technology to reintroduce many of the benefits of traditional policing. A new 3.5 million pounds mobile wireless system will put officers back into the front line and into the community.The system will provide officers with mobile data links and allow them to file reports remotely, rather than returning to the station. Traveling to the station in North Wales is a crucial factor because of the long distances involved. The force serves a population of 660,000 people, spread over 617,700 hectares of rural as well as fast-growing urban areas.

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STRATEGY TO TACKLE SKILLS SHORTAGE

Headlines, PublicNet: 19 September, 2002

Skill shortage vacancies in professional occupations have continued to grow since 1999 and are most severe in health and social care. Over one in five employers in the public and private sectors reported an internal skills gap affecting some 1.1 million employees. The factors influencing the shortage are the high level of employment and much vocational and adult learning that is not matching the skills actually required by employers.The Department for Education and skills is developing a skills strategy and delivery plan to be published in the spring, which will better meet the needs of employers and also raise the quality of vocational and adult learning. In a move to get an up to date picture of the employment scene Ivan Lewis, Minister for Adult Learning and Skills, will make a   regional tour, pulling together key partners to look at how best to tackle each region’s individual skill shortages. This will give employers in the public and private sectors an opportunity to press their case for better and more appropriate adult learning.

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