Educational brokers in global education markets

This article undertakes a text analysis of the promotional materials generated by two educational brokers, the British Council’s Education Counselling Service (ECS) and Australia’s International Development Programme (IDP-Education Australia).By focusing on the micropractices of branding, the constructions of the "international student" and "international education" are examined to uncover the relations between international education and globalisation.The conclusion reached here is that the dominant marketing messages used to brand and sell education are unevenly weighted in favour of the economic imperative.International education remains fixed in modernist spatiotemporal contexts that ignore the challenges presented by globalisation.Developing new notions of international education will require a more critical engagement with the geopolitics of knowledge and with issues of subjectivity, difference, and power.Ultimately, a more sustained and comprehensive engagement with the noneconomic dimensions of globalisation will be necessary to achieve new visions of international education.

Postcard from Jarvis, Conklin and Co. Brokers to S.D. Woodruff

Postcard from Jarvis, Conklin and Co. Brokers to S.D. Woodruff requesting the coupon for the Dennis and Griffin accounts, Aug. 27, 1883.

Estratégias de marketing adotadas por on-line brokers no Brasil : um estudo exploratório

A proposta deste trabalho é contribuir com a literatura existente sobre estratégias de marketing utilizadas por instituições financeiras, particularmente as corretoras de valores, de forma que estudos futuros possam aprofundá-la.

Exceptional or just well connected? Political entrepreneurs and brokers in policy making

Policy brokers and policy entrepreneurs are assumed to have a decisive impact on policy outcomes. Their access to social and political resources is contingent on their influence on other agents. In social network analysis (SNA), entrepreneurs are often closely associated with brokers, because both are agents presumed to benefit from bridging structural holes; for example, gaining advantage through occupying a strategic position in relational space. Our aim here is twofold. First, to conceptually and operationally differentiate policy brokers from policy entrepreneurs premised on assumptions in the policy-process literature; and second, via SNA, to use the output of core algorithms in a cross-sectional analysis of political brokerage and political entrepreneurship. We attempt to simplify the use of graph algebra in answering questions relevant to policy analysis by placing each algorithm within its theoretical context. In the methodology employed, we first identify actors and graph their relations of influence within a specific policy event; then we select the most central actors; and compare their rank in a series of statistics that capture different aspects of their network advantage. We examine betweenness centrality, positive and negative Bonacich power, Burt’s effective size and constraint and honest brokerage as paradigmatic. We employ two case studies to demonstrate the advantages and limitations of each algorithm for differentiating between brokers and entrepreneurs: one on Swiss climate policy and one on EU competition and transport policy.

Trade reference roster; containing names of shippers, brokers and jobbers who have signed agreements making their transactions subject to the standard trading rules or who are members of an association that has adopted the said "rules."

Mode of access: Internet.

The manual of colours and dye wares : their properties, applications, valuation, impurities and sophistications : for the use of dyers, printers, drysalters, brokers, etc. /

Includes index.

The agents key to fire insurance (in two parts) Information for agents, brokers and field men regarding essentials of the business in concise and helpful form,

Mode of access: Internet.

List of licensed real estate brokers and salesmen /

Title from cover.

Illinois Business Brokers Act of 1995.

"Nov. 1997 540 GA-197"--P. [ii].