Foreign Language Education Policy (FLEP) needs to be understood as part of broader educational policies and as situated within overarching social macro plans. In this paper, based on a conception of policy as distinct from goals and objectives, and with a view of the relevant literature, we will present some theoretical guidelines of setting and/or evaluating foreign language education policies...

The conventional education ecosystem in developing regions is plagued by the lack of good quality textbooks and educational resources, lack of skilled teachers and high variability across student skill and motivational levels [Crossley and Murby 1994; Glewwe et al. 2007]. This paper makes the case for establishing a crowdsourced learning ecosystem that leverages the collective intelligence of e...

patients and methods in this qualitative study, 19 women with breast cancer were interviewed regarding their empowerment needs using the individual open-ended and, in-depth interviews and then the qualitative data were analyzed through content analysis. background due to the increasing number of women suffering from breast cancer worldwide, promoting the empowerment of these patients is an impo...

Last year, in "Choosing Penn's Future," I reported to you my understanding of the key issues and opportunities the Universityfaces in the 1980's. At that time, I stressed that three special challenges would shape or educational planning for 1983 and beyond: undergraduate education, research excellence, and student financial assistance. This is a report on where those plans have taken us thusfar...

The Independence Initiative is a Merseyside wide but Sefton based relapse prevention service that deals with clients who are recovering from drug misuse problems. We focus solely on one-to-one interaction in order to provide specifically tailored action plans for our clients. We provide a wide range of interventions including counselling, pre-vocational training, complementary therapies and inf...

introduction: the information literacy status and the use of information technology among students in the globalization age of course plans are very momentous. this study aimed to evaluate the information literacy status and use of information technology among medical students of shiraz university of medical sciences in 2013. methods: this was a descriptive-analytical study with crosssectional ...

The first official day of the conference, 14 May, opened with parallel sessions held in no less than 7 rooms, on acute stroke, stroke and infections, risk factors and their management, and ditto for diabetes. These sessions were finished in time for general attendance at the highlights of the meeting. First, after an elegant introduction by J. van Gijn, M.G. Bousser, the Johann Jacob Wepfer awa...

Several researchers have argued that the functional behavior assessment (FBA) and behavior intervention plan (BIP) mandates in the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act of 2004 have gone beyond the current research base. For instance, although BIPs have been shown to improve student outcomes when implemented with strict control and oversight by researchers, it is unclear whether these rel...

almost 1.2 million people pass away in the world every year due to traffic accidents. person, road and vehicle play important role in accidents that the most important factor is person. traffic accidents are the third cause of mortality in the world. modification and implementation of traffic laws and improvement of safety culture are being able to decrease traffic accidents. this descriptive s...