The “Quality Industry” in British Higher Education and the AAG's Publications

Johnston, Ron

doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.1994.00491.x

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“…Richardson (2005) forecasts that "geographic management systems" will afford substantial employment for those geographers who have a combined knowledge of geospatial skills and business proficiency. Businesses use such integrated, real-time spatial management methods for their operations and systems to provide con-siderable cost efficiencies (Richardson & Solis, 2004).…”

Section: General Geospatial Workforce Indicatorsmentioning

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Geospatial Workforce Trends in the United States

Estaville

2010

International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research

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Because of definitional problems regarding what is meant by the term “geospatial workforce,” specific reliable data are difficult to obtain about this increasingly important employment sector. This study reviews pertinent literature and U.S. Department of Labor datasets to corroborate the general sense that the geospatial workforce in the U.S. will continue robust expansion well into the next decade. However, because of this strong growth, an imbalance will remain in which demand outstrips supply, particularly in the more sophisticated modeling, design, and research positions, in the geospatial workforce.

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Section: General Geospatial Workforce Indicatorsmentioning

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Geospatial Workforce Trends in the United States

Estaville

2010

International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research

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“…Part of the reason for this is the increased centralisation of control over British higher education, accompanied by reduced funding per student, the growth of the "audit culture" (Johnston, 1994) and the increased stress on research. Teaching must take less time; the fewer resources per student must be intensively deployed on other tasks.…”

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Authors, Editors and Authority in the Postmodern Academy

Johnston

2000

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Textbooks are presented, by their authors and publishers, as authoritative statements regarding the nature of a scientific discipline or sub‐discipline: in Kuhn's words, they are the “vehicles for the perpetuation of normal science.” One of the main contributions of postmodern and poststructuralist thought, however, has been to challenge the nature of power and authority in the academy, a challenge that has been widely taken up in contemporary geographical research. There has been much less impact on textbook production and other teaching resources, however, where the “authority of the disembodied scholar” still holds sway. This is illustrated with respect to readers, collections of both original and reprinted pieces (the latter often in abridged form) where editorial authority (“this is what I think you should read”) is frequently as firm as its predecessor, authorial authority. The reasons for this are sought in contemporary developments in higher education.

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Rohli

Liu

2008

Applied Geography

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The “Quality Industry” in British Higher Education and the AAG's Publications

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

Geospatial Workforce Trends in the United States

Geospatial Workforce Trends in the United States

Authors, Editors and Authority in the Postmodern Academy

Citation of research in journals of interest to applied geographers

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