Erfahrungen aus England: Das Beispiel Cambridge

Anhand des Beispiels Cambridge werden die Erfahrungen mit dem BA-Studiengang in England vorgestellt. Hohe Leistungsanforderungen sowohl für die Studierenden als auch die Lehrenden sind kennzeichnend – um so wichtiger erscheinen entsprechende Studienbetreuung/-begleitung sowie eine gründliche Vorbereitung der Lehre. Das College hat an diesem Punkt Züge eines Dienstleistungsbetriebs für die Studierenden, auch wenn der Forschung nach wie vor eine große Bedeutung zukommt. Das MA-Studium hebt sich durch seine stärkere wissenschaftliche Ausrichtung deutlich vom BA-Studiengang ab. Zwar ist im Studium die global angelegte Wissensordnung erkennbar, doch kann es gerade durch den Zeitdruck durchaus zu einer thematischen Engführung kommen. Mit Blick auf die deutsche Situation erscheinen folgende Aspekte als besonders wichtig: verbesserte Betreuung der Studenten sowohl durch eine vergrößerte Anzahl der Lehrenden als auch durch ein neues Ethos der Lehre; materielle Verbesserung der Studienbedingungen; thematische Ausweitung des Studienangebots auf europäische und außereuropäische Bereiche.

Decentralisation and Social Services in England

Although Great Britain is not normally credited with the achievement of having been the first nation state to implement measures characteristic of a welfare state (this honour goes to Germany and Bismarck's strategy of promoting social insurance in the 1880s) it nevertheless pioneered many models of welfare services in view of the early onset of industrialisation in that country and the subsequent social problems it created. Organisations like the Mutual Insurance and Friendly Societies, the Charity Organisation Society or the Settlement Movement characterised an early approach to welfare that is based on initiatives at the civil society level and express a sense of self-help or of self-organisation in such a way that it did not involve the state directly. The state, traditionally, dealt with matters of discipline and public order, and for this reason institutions like prisons and workhouses represented the other end of the scale of 'welfare' provisions.

Welcome to the Jungle: The Liability of Internet Intermediaries for Privacy Violations in Europe

In Europe, roughly three regimes apply to the liability of Internet intermediaries for privacy violations conducted by users through their network. These are: the e-Commerce Directive, which, under certain conditions, excludes them from liability; the Data Protection Directive, which imposes a number of duties and responsibilities on providers processing personal data; and the freedom of expression, contained inter alia in the ECHR, which, under certain conditions, grants Internet providers several privileges and freedoms. Each doctrine has its own field of application, but they also have partial overlap. In practice, this creates legal inequality and uncertainty, especially with regard to providers that host online platforms and process User Generated Content.

English in England

The intention of the present volume is to unite the research of a range of scholars who have been working on features of non-standard, vernacular English which show an areal distribution, i.e. which cluster geographically across the world. Features common to an area can be due to (i) shared dialect input, (ii) common but separate innovations after settlement, or (iii) area-internal diffusion from one variety to another and/or others. The relative weighting of these factors is an important topic in the book and is a key focus in the 17 chapters. The book is divided into two large blocks, the first one consisting of case studies (8 chapters) and the second with features complexes (9 chapters). The former look at major anglophone locations from an areal perspective while the latter examine linguistic categories and features with a view to determine whether these could be areally based or not.

Menasseh Ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell : being a reprint of the pamphlets published by Menasseh Ben Israel to promote the re-admission of the Jews to England 1649-1656

ed. with an introd. and notes by Lucien Wolf

History of the ancient synagogue of the Spanish and Portuguese jews : the Cathedral Synagogue of the jews in England situate in Bevis Marks ; a memorial vol. wirtten spec. to celebrate the 200. anniversary of its inaug., 1701 - 1901

by Moses Gaster

A history of the Jews in England : with portraits and maps

by Albert M. Hyamson