25Nov Executive MBA : What, Why and How of Executive Education in India
Take for example NIIT Imperia, which was set up in September 2006 by NIIT to address the demand for executive training. In merely 18 months, it has grown rapidly and now has a presence in 8 cities and, it has aggressive plans to be present in 75 cities by 2010! Numerous other organizations like Reliance Webworld, HughesNet Global Education, NIS Sparta, 24 x 7 Learning and U21 Global are growing rapidly too.
Top tier management institutes like the IIMs, XLRI, MDI too have recognized this require-gap and have launched many long-term executive education courses. For instance, IIM A delivers Post Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX), IIM C provides Post Graduate Programme for Executives (PGPEX), IIM I provides Executive Post-Graduate Programme in Management. IIM L has launched its International Programme in Management for Executives (IPMX) this year.
Prior to we go any further, lets define Executive Education. According to Wikipedia, “Executive Education is the term employed for programmes at graduate-level enterprise schools that aim to give classes for Chief Executives and other top managers or entrepreneurs. Executive education developed in the 1980s and 1990s, as the growing pace and scope of global enterprise demanded higher levels of education among employees. As longstanding company concepts became obsolete, continual training was necessary–but earning a degree was not.”
24Nov Drug Abuse Rehabilitation in the United Kingdom : DTTO and DRR
1 Introduction
The link between crime and drug use is an established fact, fortified by a wealth of empirical evidence and, certainly, not a claim premised upon weak assumptions. It is this link and the strong foundations upon which it is established which has motivated the design and implementation of drug rehabilitation programmes for prison inmates in the UK, just as it has in the United States, Australia and most Western European nations. As Johnson, Lipton, and Wish (2001) explains, given the link between drugs and crime, the implementation of drug rehabilitation programmes in prisons may be defined as a strategy for the reduction of recidivism rates and for the assurance of the successful re-integration of offenders into their societies. It is, in other words, an integral part of prisoner rehabilitation programmes which target the possibilities of recidivism by addressing their root causes, in this case, drugs.
While not claiming that drugs are responsible for the entirety of the recidivism rate which the UK currently suffers, it is one of its more important causes (Burnett, 2004). Drug rehabilitation programmes for offenders has the potential to significantly reduce recidivism rates and, thus, to reduce the nation’s overall crime rate (Burnett, 2004). Indeed, Burnett (2004), a criminologist and offender management expert and researcher, argues that the Drug Treatment and Testing Order (DTTO) and the Drug Rehabilitation Requirement (DRR) which evolved from it, derive from the empirically-proven link between drugs and crime and are motivated by the imperatives of reducing the nation’s crime rates by confronting one of the primary causes of recidivism. This research, however, will not proceed from a premise of unquestioning acceptance of the correlation between addiction and crime, hence treatment and reduction in recidivism rates. Instead, the research will critically analyse attempts to divert drug users out of the prison system and reduce recidivism rates through their inclusion in drug treatment programmes, with particular reference to DTTO and DRR. The study will first begin with the identification and definition of its key terms, following from which it will discuss the relationship between drugs and crime, review causal models of the drug-crime relationship and then examine the extent to which DTTO and DRR have emerged as solutions, at least partial, to the problem under investigation.
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