This special issue of Annales emerges from an initial, exploratory screening of the connection between employability and citizenship in the field of education. This introduction briefly sets out the main dilemmas and research questions in the field, locating them within the broader framework of current trends in citizenship education and the development of (higher) education policies. It chiefly focuses on the intersection between two seemingly conflicting concepts of employability and citizenship, which has not been, is not currently, and should not always be the case as a certain contribution to this volume indicates. This introductory part, as well as the special issue as a whole, attempts to put forward conceptual foundations to provide the grounds for the two concepts to speak to each other and signal premises that endanger either the economic, but primarily the civic function of educational institutions, primarily universities. The authors warn that reducing education systems merely to their economic utility may impair their democratic potential significantly.
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
COBISS.SI-ID: 33120861While many European states have over the past decade developed specific policies to actively promote the development of the formal market of home-based care services through the introduction of cash-for-care schemes, vouchers or different socio-fiscal measures in order to reduce grey economy, create formal employments and support work and family balance, Slovenia did not take that route. Instead of investing public money in supporting the demand side and developing private markets of care, Slovenia, though reluctantly and ambivalently, continues to support public and mixed system of home-based care. Based on comparison of evaluation studies of subsidizing schemes for home-based care in selected European countries and in Slovenia the paper discusses pros and cons of policy framing of home-based care services as public good or as a market commodity from the perspective of quality of employments for care workers.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 1081453The authors examine changes in the working conditions, qualifications required, and education in the workplace of employees in the three branches of the printing production chain (paper production, printing and publishing) following the outbreak of the crisis in 2008/2009. The authors examine how the three branches responded to the crisis regarding the employment and work intensity. These issues are presented with three in-depth case studies of enterprises. Authors used three research methods: secondary sources analysis, semistructured interviews, and a survey among workers. Two important conclusions are drawn from the analysis. Firstly, a high rate of workers’ participation in the workplace education does not automatically mean greater orientation of the companies in the development of workers’ skills. Secondly, the reduction of the number of employees (or a slight increase in the number of employees in printing company) is directly proportional to the intensity of the work.
B.06 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 33352029Researcher Maja Breznik was invited by Ruskin College (Oxford) as a research fellow between 12 and 26 June 2016. She participated in Ruskin’s educational programme with two contributions, the lecture Labour relations from the European periphery perspective (15 June) and contribution in panel Organising Precarious Workers (18 June). She also profited of rich library in Oxford; some of her research findings there will be published in book chapter with a title Second hand workers.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
This document, resulting from the initial phase of the project Possibilities for labour market desegmentation, with the help of Eurostat’s Labour Force Survey, provides an overview of the analysis of indicators of the labour market in Slovenia and selected European countries: Italy, Germany, Poland, Sweden and Great Britain, as well as for a total of 27 or 28 countries of the European Union. The analysis focuses on the period from 2005 to 2013, more specifically the selected data is for the second quarters of the each year. The document discusses the following topics: employment rate, unemployment rate and long-term unemployment and the share of fixed-term employment, the proportion of persons working part-time, the proportion of self-employed, the risk of poverty and occupational structure in Slovenia. In the analysis of the aforementioned sets we specifically focused on younger and older workers, ie those aged 15 to 24 years and those aged 50 to 64 years, both focusing also on their gender and on their education.
F.01 Acquisition of new practical knowledge, information and skills
COBISS.SI-ID: 33210205