This study explores the effects of foreign education on earnings. Previously, most research used indirect estimated information about foreign education, and documented the lower earnings of immigrants who had foreign education in comparison to those who had domestic education. Using direct information obtained from respondents of a recent survey, this research goes beyond the existing studies b...

Canadian society values university education as evidenced by being ranked highest among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations for the largest percentage of population (41%) aged 25-64 with college or university education (Statistics Canada, 2001b). Canadian woman have increasingly pursued university education, representing 56% of full time undergraduate and 48% o...

Distance education is becoming ever more important in providing continuing post basic, and especially postgraduate, education to practising professional persons, including nurses. As more and more institutions in the Republic of South Africa offer distance education courses to nurses, it is essential to take note of the positive and negative experiences of successful graduates of these programm...

background : occupational stress is a psychosocial dimension of occupational health concept on social determinants of health, especially, job & environmental condition. recently, staff network of different government universities of thailand have called higher education commission, and ministry of education, thailand to resolve the issue of gov-ernment education policy (e.g. wage inequity, poor...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between university education and agricultural students' entrepreneurial spirit. to do this study, 150 samples were selected by using stratified random sampling methods among senior students both on graduated and undergraduates levels in bu-ali sina university. data collection tool was a researcher made questionnaire  which  its ...

background: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of peer education among university students for reproductive health promotion based on researchers' experiences. methods: this interventional study was conducted in qazvin university of medical science during 2002 to 2004 through stakeholders' partnership and selection of 24 volunteer students according to their knowledge, ...

this research has used a mixed methodology with both quantitative and qualitative approaches. the study population included three groups; the post-graduate students, professors and academic staff at two universities, khouzestan ramin agriculture and natural resources university and bu-ali sina university. for collecting quantitative data among 320 students, 175 were selected using random sampli...