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The first para got partially deleted, and should finish ββ¦to a para-professional professoriate was well underway.β
Employment Trends And Academic Labor » Sociological Images 2009
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Bethany Marshall, it ` s my understanding that he was a para-professional at the school, like a teacher ` s aide.
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All of my other experience prior to that was para-professional and student-level employment.
Interview with an LIS class at SU « Attempting Elegance 2008
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Isn ` t that kind of a red bell of alarm to parents, when a para-professional of this nature then wants to take your kid to movies and Burger King?
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The Quality Assurance Agency doesn't help much with its woolly language, but an honours degree, by their definition, is "distinctively academic, and may lead to professional careers in some fields" while Foundation Degrees/HNDs are "intended to be distinctively vocational, and to lead, typically, to technician and para-professional employment".
Archive 2004-05-01 Jonathan 2004
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The Quality Assurance Agency doesn't help much with its woolly language, but an honours degree, by their definition, is "distinctively academic, and may lead to professional careers in some fields" while Foundation Degrees/HNDs are "intended to be distinctively vocational, and to lead, typically, to technician and para-professional employment".
Graphic design education is failing students Jonathan 2004
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The word that Coleridge used for that pre-professional (later para-professional) species was the man of letters.
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In recent years, the government of Indonesia has trained 54,000 young women as para-professional health workers (bidans), and placed each one in a village, where they were expected to replace traditional birth attendants (dukuns).
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003
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This is one reason why many diffusion programs employ para-professional change agent aides.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003
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But the main advantage of para-professional aides over professional change agents is that the aides are more homophilous with the lower-status members of the user system that they serve.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003
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