BACKGROUND Peer sexual harassment is a significant social problem with consequences for both students and schools. Four out of 5 students report experiencing sexual harassment. These experiences have been linked to poor psychological health and academic withdrawal. Recognizing the seriousness of sexual harassment in schools, Supreme Court rulings have established school liability for known inst...

Objective: In this study, we investigated the reason for the continuous cooperate agitations concerning the state of the educational system in Nigeria despite the unflinching efforts of policy makers to establishing better educational policies as they have been time and again formulated, reformulated and implemented; and at other times, replaced with others purported to be better with huge amou...

This policy paper addresses organizational areas for improvement when universities start producing MOOCs. These areas surface in the intersection between educational practice and MOOC policies, and they will be discussed in three parts in the paper. First, we describe the organizational context in which this paper is based. Second, we outline four organizational challenges that can shape the co...

In an effort to reduce costs and increase worker satisfaction, many businesses have implemented a concept known as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) or Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT). Similarly, many school districts are beginning to implement BYOT policies and programs to improve educational learning opportunities for students who have a wide variety of technology devices. BYOT allow districts wi...

In a recent editorial in Biostatistics, Peng (2009) introduced a system for making data and computer code from papers in the journal publicly available so that other researchers can reproduce the statistical analyses in the paper. The editors explain in a short accompanying note (Diggle and Zeger, 2009) that ‘we wish to encourage the practice of making research published in the journal reproduc...

As editor of QJM I am required to make a presentation at each Annual General Meeting of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland. This I was pleased to do recently when I was able to document that the journal was doing relatively well in terms of impact factor, rate of electronic downloads and income. During the subsequent question time I was challenged by a member of the audi...

The present paper aimed at conducting a critical and comparative policy analysis of Finland Estonia. based on the Education Policy Outlook profiles published by OECD (2021). latter is specialized in evaluating nations with aim inspiring national policies for better lives. Specifically, analyzed are year 2020 OECD’s six levers (equity quality, preparation to future, school improvement, governanc...