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Many of the attitudes and behaviours that impact on heath in later life are acquired during adolescence and early adulthood.

This book examines two topics within the general subject of violence against women – domestic violence and sexual assault.

Commonwealth member governments have been taking part in a unique mapping exercise, identifying the actual changes which have been made in some key areas of public service management.

Within the universities of the Commonwealth there has always been a sense of a common educational and research tradition.A workshop was held in Singapore in April 1992 to outline the strategies and mechanisms for developing, maintaining and expanding student flows into the universities and polytechnics of the Commonwealth South and for the extension of South-South exchange.

The worldwide conservation effort has often been focused on a few key species which have a core function either ecologically or socioeconomically.

These case studies provide much needed information from selected Commonwealth countries which have implemented various types of stabilisation and structural adjustment package with differing degrees of success.

This handbook is designed as a simple source of reference to the bodies which provide Commonwealth co-operation.

How should one organise a ministry of education which has only a small group of professional staff? Officers must become multifunctional; but what tasks should be grouped together, and how? What styles of management are needed for the highly personalised nature of small states, in which individuals have multiple out-of-work relationships as well as formal in-work ones? What arrangements can be made for career paths in a small organisation? And how can small ministries best manage the demands of regional and international linkages?

POLICY DOCUMENT 3 of the Cross Reference: Policy Development series.

‘Having considered the evidence on the impact of the crisis and subsequent adjustment on women, we are convinced that short-term stabilisation measures have too often been in conflict with long-term development goals, and have caused hardships severe enough to invalidate the process.

Planners and policy-makers often find it hard to decide whether to favour small schools or large ones. On the one hand, financial constraints require them to seek systems with the lowest unit costs. But on the other hand, administrators are keenly aware of the role of the school in social development, and thus that under ideal circumstances every community should have a school of its own.