David Jobbins

Biographic Data

ID5636816
NAMEDavid Jobbins
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMEJobbins
SIGNATUREJOBBINS D
AFFILIATIONSCabinet Office
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • The toppling of statues

    David JobbinsARTICLEThe Round Table2021

    A ‘culture war’ provoked in part by the toppling of a seventeenth century slave owner into Bristol Dock during a Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstration has been embraced with enthusiasm by United K

  • Ireland

    David JobbinsARTICLEThe Round Table2016

    Ireland: The Easter Rising Commemoration—Time for a Reassessment of Ties with the Commonwealth?." The Round Table, 105(2), pp. 227–228

  • Has the Commonwealth a Role to Play in the Row over Reparations for the Slave Trade

    David JobbinsARTICLEThe Round Table2014Cited by: 1

    Even after 200 years, the transatlantic slave trade remains a scar on humanity. At a conservative estimate, 12 million people were transported to the West Indies, and to the southern states of the

  • A New Commonwealth Tertiary Education Agency—Is it Necessary

    David JobbinsARTICLEThe Round Table2012

    The 18th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (CCEM) in Mauritius (28–31 August 2012) backed a proposal by the Government of Malaysia to establish a new agency for tertiary education. The

  • Commonwealth Scholarships

    Abigail Kabandula, Timothy M Shaw et al.ARTICLEThe Round Table2009References: 1

    This year—2009—marks the 50th anniversary of the first Commonwealth Education Conference at which the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP) was initiated. Since CSFP's inception, some

  • Edinburgh 2003

    David JobbinsARTICLEThe Round Table2004

    It is more than 40 years since Commonwealth education ministers began the series of triennial meetings that has evolved into the Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (CCEM). Launched in a period of international optimism, the ministers who gathered in Oxford in 1959 considered the prospects for the sharing of knowledge and experience across the emerging Commonwealth in a collegiate and non‐contentious manner. In contrast the 15th CCEM, …

  • South Africa's Universities

    David JobbinsARTICLEThe Round Table2002Cited by: 1

    The legacy of apartheid is inseparable from the wellbeing of South Africa's universities, a fate shared with most of the country's institutions. The vitality and diversity they have achieved so soon after the removal of ethnic barriers are measures of the success of the wider transformation process, with significant progress towards unscrambling the untenable racial divisions inherited by the Government of National Unity in 1994. But this progres…

  • Education and the Commonwealth

    David JobbinsARTICLEThe Round Table1998

    Education is at the heart of the modern Commonwealth. The latest in the cycle of meetings of the education ministers of member states provided an opportunity to review the effectiveness of existing programmes, and to consider the options for new directions. The 13th Conference of Education Ministers, held in Gaborone, Botswana, was attended by delegates from 42 out of a possible 52 countries, with the Commonwealth's newest members, Cameroon and M…