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At the beginning of the 2013/2014 season in England and Wales, 90 head coaches of the 92 men's national professional football league clubs and 20 of the 22 men's professional rugby union clubs had tenure as a professional elite player in their respective sports. Moreover, Rynne [(2014). ‘Fast track’ and ‘traditional path’ coaches: Affordances, agency and social capital.Sport, Education and Society,19, 299–313] has claimed that many former elite athletes are ‘fast-tracked’ through formal accreditation structures into these high-performance coaching roles. The reasons why former elite athletes dominate head coaching roles in professional sports clubs and why a ‘fast-track’ pathway from elite athlete to high-performance coach is supported remain unclear. Thereby the present study sought to address this issue by investigating the basis for ‘fast-tracked’ head coaching appointments. Eight male directors of men's professional football and rugby union clubs in England were interviewed to examine how particular coaching skills and sources of knowledge were valorised. Drawing upon Bourdieu's conceptual framework, the results suggested that head coaching appointments were often based upon the perceived ability of head coaches gaining player ‘respect’. Experiences gained during earlier athletic careers were assumed to provide head coaches with the ability to develop practical sense and an elite sporting habitus commensurate with the requirements of the field of elite sports coaching. This included leadership and practical coaching skills to develop technical and tactical astuteness, from which, ‘respect’ could be quickly gained and maintained. The development of coaching skills was rarely associated with only formal coaching qualifications. The ‘fast-tracking’ of former athletes for high-performance coaching roles was promoted by directors to ensure the perpetuation of specific playing and coaching philosophies. Consequently, this may exclude groups from coaching roles in elite men's sport. The paper concludes by outlining how these findings might imply a disjuncture between the skills promoted during formal coaching qualifications and the expectations club directors have of elite coaches in these sports. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper reports on a classroom project with third-year undergraduate students on the Accounting degree at the University of Hull, England, designed to provide controlled and integrated exposure to elementary research design and techniques. The primary objective of this project was to introduce undergraduate financial accounting students to the advantages, disadvantages and limitations of different types of research method, to the development and testing of hypotheses, and to the analysis and interpretation of survey data. This was achieved through student participation in the completion of a questionnaire on creative accounting which is available in the public domain. A secondary objective was to investigate the views of UK final-year undergraduate accounting students, before their exposure to 'real' accounting work, on some fundamental ethical issues. The paper suggests that, as a classroom learning aid, the exercise was successful, although extensions and developments to make it more so are also discussed. Our results suggest that further comparative development at other institutions would be beneficial both from the educational perspective and from the ethical research perspective. Students were generally appreciative and enthusiastic regarding both the research methodology aspects of the project and the ethical considerations aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the publication of ward maps of the City of London in England. A study of the ward maps of the City of London was produced by Ralph Hyde and was revised and expanded as "Ward Maps of the City of London." The attempts to provide accurate ward maps following the Great Fire of 1666 were outlined. 17 ward maps were published in John Strype's "Survey of the reissue of 1754-1755." A copy of large and decorative lithograph, which carried 15 charming vignettes of the principal buildings in the ward was distributed free to every household at the expense of Thomas Kelly, alderman for the ward.

The article profiles John Malchair, a famous printmaker and musician who arrive at Oxford in England. According to the author, Malchair was a musician born in Cologne and arrived at Oxford to be the band leader in the Music Room. Among his pupils include Heneage Finch (1751-18412). His sensitive landscapes have long been sought by collectors of English watercolors and one of these include Paul Oppé who wrote to the Tate Gallery about an article on Malchair. Moreover, Ian Fleming Williams also collected Malchair's work and profiles information about his career but unable to finish his biography about him..

The article features the latest journal that was published by the Printing Historical Society (PHS) of London, England, in 1997. The journal, duly edited by Anthony Dyson, is said to have aroused the interests of many readers because it discusses the aspects of intaglio engraving in England. Its articles include "Barlow's Aesop at Oxford," by Anne G. Becher, "Fell's Forgotten Legacy: The Intaglio Collection of the Oxford University Press Museum," by Peter Foden, "Chart Engraving at the Admiralty's Hydrographic Department 1951-1981," "Reproductive Mezzotint Engraving: The Epilogue," and "Reading Mezzotints: Mr. Constable's English Landscape," by Judy Crosby Ivy.

The article reports on the artists who were devoted their life in engraving, topography and binding of the color-plate book in Cambridge, England. Peter Bicknell's passion to acquire illustrated books, guide books and prints is a result of his love of the Lake District. His interest in color plate books indicates one aspect of the gradual discovery of English landscape. In contrast to Bicknell, Graham Watson focused on collecting plate books which are catholic in taste. Paul Mellon became interested in plate books that led 30 years later to his acquisition of the Abbey Collection.

The article focuses on the status of etching in Bristol, England. Bristol had a flourishing school of etchers in the first decades of the nineteenth century. The Bristol Museum and Art Gallery succeeded on drawing attention to the field with the pioneering study "City Impressions: Bristol Etchers 1910-1935," by Sheena Stoddard. Reginald Bush was the key figure in the emergence of Bristol etching. Bush studied and taught at the Royal College of Art in London, England before becoming head of Bristol's Art School in 1895.

The article focuses on the collection of sixty prints left by Gerald Beddington to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England. It states that Beddington's collection was on permanent display for many years, until pressure of space caused its removal from the museum. A number of copies of the 1959 catalogue of the collection, which was shown in the Charrington Print Room of the museum, are available for sale. It notes that the publication may be of interest to readers both for the information about the prints and in the collecting of prints.

Introduction: As a result of current government legislation, junior surgical trainees are increasingly working in shift patterns. Night shifts provide few training opportunities and recent debate has focused on the most effective way of providing appropriate surgical training in the face of these working pattern restrictions., Methods: At York Hospital, we have recently implemented a new hybrid rota in general surgery which uses research fellows to cover the majority of night-time shifts at SHO level., Results & Discussion: Surgical trainees have benefited by spending a much greater proportion of their time working with patients during the day where training is more continuous, better supervised and more uniform. Research fellows have benefited in being able to maintain their clinical skills whilst having sufficient free time to pursue research during the day. Extending the role of the research fellow at night to include registrar duties could also release higher surgical trainees from some night-time service commitments and allow them to benefit from more day-time training.