Studying and Working in Spain

Studying and Working in Spain

Author: Michael T. Newton

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780719054730

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This book is a comprehensive one-stop guide for students intending to embark on study or work in Spain for the first time. It provides background information on contemporary Spain, practical advice on the student experience covering accommodation, registration, and adapting to Spanish patterns of study, as well as information on joining the Spanish workforce. It also includes an extensive directory of Spain's 67 Universities and their locations.


Transitions from Education to Work in Europe

Transitions from Education to Work in Europe

Author: Walter Müller

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003-11-27

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0199252475

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This text provides a comparative analysis of school-to-work transitions in EU member states. It shows how differences in both European education and training systems, as well as labour market institutions, generated significant variation in the experiences of young people in the 1990s.


Living and Working in Spain

Living and Working in Spain

Author: David Hampshire

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9781901130416

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This is a comprehensive guide for those going to Spain to live, work, study or just to spend time in the country. Chapters describe working conditions, finance and insurance, public transport, accommodation and how to find a job.


OECD Skills Studies OECD Skills Strategy Diagnostic Report: Spain 2015

OECD Skills Studies OECD Skills Strategy Diagnostic Report: Spain 2015

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2015-09-22

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9264300260

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Spain’s economy is showing clear signs of recovery, after a protracted recession. Despite these positive developments significant challenges remain. Spain has amongst the highest unemployment rates in the OECD and the Spanish economy was still smaller in 2014 than it was in 2007. While the ...


Interculturality, Interaction and Language Learning

Interculturality, Interaction and Language Learning

Author: Jane Woodin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-23

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1317277260

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This book opens up new lines of debate in language learning and intercultural communication through an investigation of tandem language learning (a method of language learning based on mutual language exchange between native speakers and learners of each other’s language) in connection with intercultural learning and identity construction. Through an empirical study of face-to-face tandem conversations, Jane Woodin provides compelling evidence for the re-definition of the tandem partnership beyond the traditional native speaker–non-native speaker (NS-NNS) paradigm. By analyzing conversation shapes, learner identification of self and other and interactants’ own focus on culture, this book reveals how interactants themselves address the complexities of language, learning, ownership and meaning. The book also questions the prevalence of models of intercultural competence which describe the competence of the individual, with little recognition of the role of the relationship or interaction. Woodin considers the broader applicability of the tandem framework of autonomy and reciprocity, and suggests new directions for further research on tandem learning.


Radical Challenges for Social Work Education

Radical Challenges for Social Work Education

Author: Jane Fenton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-04-19

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1000573559

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This book is full of ideas about how social work education can confront the individualising and often blaming form of social work that neoliberalism ushered in four decades ago. Radical social work is an approach to social work that has, at its heart, the departure from solely behavioural, moral or psychological understanding of service users’ problems. Social work had originally been concerned with the moral character of people in trouble (usually poor people), making a clear division between those who were ‘deserving’ of help and those who were ‘undeserving’. The rise of science and the ‘psy’ disciplines then led to psychological explanations for the difficulties people found themselves in. Both explanations for social problems – moral and psychological – with their narrow focus on the individual have been enjoying a renaissance in recent times with the neoliberal self-sufficiency narrative (moral) and the more recent focus on trauma (psychological). Radical social work challenges those explanations, concerned as it is with the circumstances a person might find themselves in – poverty, poor housing, poor education, high crime rates, and lack of opportunities of all kinds. This book is a step towards resurrecting radical social work principles, and it urges us to think about how social work education can be reshaped to that end. Radical Challenges for Social Work Education is a significant new contribution to social work practice and theory, and will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Politics, Education, Social Work, Sociology, Public Policy, Development Studies, Anthropology, and Human Geography. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Social Work Education.


OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education: Spain 2009

OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education: Spain 2009

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2009-03-10

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 9264039368

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This review, designed to help Spain understand how improving tertiary education can help it achieve its economic and social goals, presents an overview and assessment of Spain's tertiary education system as well as recommendation for future development.


Distributional Implications of Labor Market Reforms: Learning from Spain's Experience

Distributional Implications of Labor Market Reforms: Learning from Spain's Experience

Author: Ara Stepanyan

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2020-02-13

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 1513526871

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Spain’s structural reforms, implemented around 2012, have arguably contributed to a faster and stronger economic recovery. In particular, there is strong evidence that the 2012 labor market reforms increased wage flexibility, which helped the Spanish economy to regain competitiveness and create jobs. But the impact of these labor reforms on income inequality and social inclusion has not been analyzed much. This paper aims to shed light on this issue by employing an econometric decomposition procedure combined with the synthetic control method. The results indicate that the 2012 labor reforms have helped improve employment and income equality outcomes with no substantial impact on the overall risk of poverty. Nevertheless, the reforms appear to have induced a deterioration of average hours worked, in-work poverty, and possibly also of involuntary part-time employment.


Education Policy Outlook 2019 Working Together to Help Students Achieve their Potential

Education Policy Outlook 2019 Working Together to Help Students Achieve their Potential

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2019-09-16

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 9264763589

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Taking the perspective of institutions and the system, Education Policy Outlook 2019: Working Together to Help Students Achieve their Potential, analyses the evolution of key education priorities and key education policies in 43 education systems. It compares more recent developments in education policy ecosystems (mainly between 2015 and 2019) with various education policies adopted between 2008 and 2014.