This study focuses on student and tutor perceptions of effective e-moderation on an online undergraduate Enterprise degree, designed by E-College Wales (ECW) the e-learning arm of the University of Glamorgan. E-moderation describes the role and duties of the online tutor. Existing research...

Enterprise College Wales (ECW), designed by the University of Glamorgan, is an on-line, webbaseddegree in Enterprise, aimed at creating and improving entrepreneurial and managerialcapacity in the EU Objective One Areas of Wales, where such activity has been deficient. Thisdistance learning (with...

This paper presents a case study profiling an induction programme for an E-learning Enterprise course. E-learning students require additional support to that of the traditional student and online learning offers the mechanism to provide educational training and skills development to...

[...]We recommend that a study incorporating our suggested refinements should now take place into a furthergroup of sectors of interest to policy makers to test further the framework and any improvements builtinto it.[...]

Entrepreneurship is a hot topic both in academic and policy circles.1 There is a growingrecognition that entrepreneurship is a driving force in economic growth and development in bothestablished and emerging economies. There is also an increasing body of evidence suggestingentrepreneurship that...

The paper draws upon the work of T.W. Schultz to show that human capital theory andlabor market adjustments have important implications for investing in people for the 21st Century.[...]

There is a large body of evidence supporting the notion that a) those who grow up to be patient(forward-looking) do better in life compared to those who do not, and b) parents can inculcatethe virtue of delayed gratification in their children by taking the right sort of actions. We studya...

This study uses an agent-based test bed (“AMES”)to investigate separation and volatility of locational marginalprices (LMPs) in an ISO-managed restructured wholesale powermarket operating over an AC transmission grid. Particular attentionis focused on the dynamic and cross-sectional response...

This paper gives an axiomatic characterization of the Atkinson indices of segregationfor the multigroup case using a small number of purely ordinal axioms. We showthat the symmetric Atkinson index represents the unique ordering that treats ethnicgroups symmetrically, that is invariant to...

We propose a set of axioms for the measurement of school-based segregation withany number of ethnic groups. These axioms are motivated by two criteria. The first isevenness: how much do ethnic groups’ distributions across schools differ? The secondis representativeness: how different are...