received: november 2005 accepted: feburary 2006 corresponding author: dr aeen mohammadi, is a researcher in , the secretariat for education and student affairs of ministry of health and medical education,tehran, iran . 13 th floor, secretariat for education and student affairs, ministry of health and medical education, simaye iran st., falamak jonoobi ave, shahrake ghods, tehran email: aeenmoha...

The on-going growth in the digital game and gamification movements in higher education is evident in the expansion of specialized game events (workshops, conferences), publications (journals, books, blogs), programs, and centers, in addition to the broader adoption of games in computer science, software engineering, and computer engineering research and education. This lively panel provides an ...

The extremely rapid expansion of open educational resource (OER) initiatives and the millions of learners they attract can be understood as an indicator of an emerging revolution in education and learning. This paper describes recent developments in this area and develops conceptual foundations for studies and policies on OER. We describe four different types of OER, locate these in a field of ...

Ethnic and racial disparities in mental health are driven by social factors such as housing, education, and income. Many of these social factors are different for minorities than they are for whites. Policies that address gaps in these social factors therefore can address mental health status disparities. We analyze three policies and their impact on minorities: the Individuals with Disability ...

Increasing access to education and consequent rapid expansion of open and distance learning as a viable alternative pause a challenge to ensuring quality to develop stakeholders’ confidence. Prescriptive off-the-self quality assurance policy is not an ideal option for the distance education institutions that are at embryonic stage of development. Given the challenges for capacity building inclu...

— I study the effect of a recent expansion in India’s National Old Age Pension Scheme on elderly well-being. Estimates suggest that public pension has a modestly negative effect on the employment of elderly/near elderly men with a primary or lower education but no effect on the employment of similar women. Pension raised family expenditures, lowering poverty, and the effect was smaller on famil...

OIR GEORGE NEWMAN, Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education, has issued his Report on " The Health of the School Child in 1922 " (His Majesty's Stationery Office. Is. 6d.). In spite of financial restrictions which have arrested many developments proposed in recent legislation and the unparalleled conditions of unemployment there was no reil reaction in 1922, "and the machinery which Loca...

Pediatric medical and nursing education currently lacks the environmental health content necessary to appropriately prepare pediatric health care professionals to prevent, recognize, manage, and treat environmental-exposure-related disease. Leading health institutions have recognized the need for improvements in health professionals' environmental health education. Parents are seeking answers a...

Student-centered problem-based learning (PBL) has been implemented as an alternative curriculum by several medical schools in the United States and elsewhere. Recently, attempts to integrate PBL with lecture-based curricula have created "hybrid" curricula with varying amounts of the philosophical underpinnings of student-centered PBL. Greater clinical and research demands on faculty time threat...

The paper examines the time-series evidence relating to participation rates in further education in England and Wales, and uses cointegration analysis to identify a long-run statistical relationship in the data consistent with an augmented human-capital model. The recent rapid growth of participation is attributable largely to the improvements in GCSE attainment of the last decade, coupled with...