Tom Bourner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1126269 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Bourner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Bourner |
| SIGNATURE | BOURNER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Brighton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Being a university
First-year Undergraduate Experiences of Group Project Work
This paper is about the evaluation of group project work for students who are new to higher education. It reports on the experiences of first-year undergraduates undertaking work assessed on the basis of a group project. After completing the group project students were surveyed using a questionnaire developed from earlier work undertaken by Garvin et al. Conclusions are drawn in terms of the positive and negative experiences of the students, comp…
Professional Doctorates in England
This article reports the results of a survey and analysis of the professional doctorates that have been developed in England over the last decade. Its aim is to identify the extent to which professional doctorates have been adopted by English universities, the rate of growth of professional doctorates programmes, and to clarify their distinctive features. By the end of the decade, professional doctorates could be found in the majority of the coun…
Degrees of success in accounting
Professional examinations in Accounting have acquired a reputation for notoriously low pass rates. This paper focuses on academic Accountacy courses in higher education and investigates the relative success of Accountancy students. Analysis of data for University and CNAA first degree awards since 1971 shows systematic variation in the distribution of Honours degree classifications across subjects with persistently poor results in Accountancy. Ac…
Initial Employment Experience of Sociology Graduates in the U.K. 1976–78
Professional Doctorates in England
This article reports the results of a survey and analysis of the professional doctorates that have been developed in England over the last decade. Its aim is to identify the extent to which professional doctorates have been adopted by English universities, the rate of growth of professional doctorates programmes, and to clarify their distinctive features. By the end of the decade, professional doctorates could be found in the majority of the coun…
Initial Employment Experience of Sociology Graduates in the U.K. 1976–78
Degrees of success in accounting
Professional examinations in Accounting have acquired a reputation for notoriously low pass rates. This paper focuses on academic Accountacy courses in higher education and investigates the relative success of Accountancy students. Analysis of data for University and CNAA first degree awards since 1971 shows systematic variation in the distribution of Honours degree classifications across subjects with persistently poor results in Accountancy. Ac…
Initial Employment Experience of Sociology Graduates in the U.K. 1976–78
Degrees of success in accounting
Professional examinations in Accounting have acquired a reputation for notoriously low pass rates. This paper focuses on academic Accountacy courses in higher education and investigates the relative success of Accountancy students. Analysis of data for University and CNAA first degree awards since 1971 shows systematic variation in the distribution of Honours degree classifications across subjects with persistently poor results in Accountancy. Ac…
First-year Undergraduate Experiences of Group Project Work
This paper is about the evaluation of group project work for students who are new to higher education. It reports on the experiences of first-year undergraduates undertaking work assessed on the basis of a group project. After completing the group project students were surveyed using a questionnaire developed from earlier work undertaken by Garvin et al. Conclusions are drawn in terms of the positive and negative experiences of the students, comp…
Professional Doctorates in England
This article reports the results of a survey and analysis of the professional doctorates that have been developed in England over the last decade. Its aim is to identify the extent to which professional doctorates have been adopted by English universities, the rate of growth of professional doctorates programmes, and to clarify their distinctive features. By the end of the decade, professional doctorates could be found in the majority of the coun…
Being a university
Higher education (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Academic Freedom and Politics (1 work) · Accounting (1 work) · Accounting Education and Careers (1 work) · Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (1 work)