There is increasing interest in the role that schools can play in promoting education for sustainable development (ESD), and evidence is emerging that schools can be influential in the emerging agenda around the ecological, ethical and social aspects of food, diet and nutrition. With regard to such food sustainability issues, this paper analyses the role of the Food for Life Partnership nationa...

BACKGROUND To investigate whether the number of permanent playground facilities in schools influences objectively measured physical activity. METHODS Physical activity was measured using Actical accelerometers over 2 to 5 days in 417 children (5-12 years) from 7 schools. The number of permanent play facilities likely to encourage physical activity in individuals or groups of children (eg, adv...

BACKGROUND Both university and non-university stakeholders should be involved in the process of curriculum development in medical schools, because all are concerned with the competencies of the graduates. That may be difficult unless appropriate strategies are used to motivate each stakeholder. From 1999 to 2006, eight medical schools in Vietnam worked together to change the curriculum and teac...

This paper reports on the emerging forms of parallelism in different cultural contexts. In particular, it explores the dynamics of leadership within school (principal and teachers; teachers and students); school and parent community; and school and broader community during a whole school improvement process. The paper explores how the emergence of multiple forms of leadership may be linked with...

dear editor program directors need to evaluate educational programs to ensure their quality (1). the results of a survey conducted in tehran university of medical sciences (tums) in early 2012 showed that program evaluation was not an established process in the majority of schools. it was at best a stand-alone project focusing on a single course or a particular component of it with no structure...

BACKGROUND The Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction recommended the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, which aims to achieve substantial risk reduction and to avoid various disaster-associated losses, including human lives and livelihoods, based on the lessons from the implementation of the Hyogo framework. However, the recommendations ...

In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier's archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: Background: The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 (hereafter called the 2004 Reauthorization Act) was fede...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of the Food and Agriculture Organization's global school-based nutrition education initiative, Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger (FMFH), in improving nutrition-related knowledge levels of schoolchildren. DESIGN Adopting the cluster randomisation technique, five schools each in experimental and control groups were randomly chosen from the member schools of a volun...