BACKGROUND: This paper argues for giving explicit attention to the quality of implementation of school-wide mental health promotions and examines the impact of implementation quality on academic performance in a major Australian mental health initiative. METHOD: Hierarchical linear modelling was used to investigate change in standardised academic performance across the 2-year implementation of...

domestic product (GDP) growth, material resource use and carbon emissions it is remarkable that most economic policy approaches do not question the priority placed on GDP growth (Jackson 2009). Assuming that the basic function of economic development is the provision of conditions for human beings to prosper in their personal and social lives, our research attempts to identify potentials for a ...

— We present the first results from the ALHAMBRA survey. ALHAMBRA will cover a relatively wide area (4 square degrees) using a purposely-designed set of 20 medium-band filters, down to an homogeneous magnitude limit AB ≈ 25 in most of them, adding also deep near-infrared imaging in JHKs. To this aim we are using the Calar Alto 3.5m telescope. A small area of the ALHAMBRA survey has already been...

INTRODUCTION Concerns about reproducibility and impact of research urge improvement initiatives. Current university ranking systems evaluate and compare universities on measures of academic and research performance. Although often useful for marketing purposes, the value of ranking systems when examining quality and outcomes is unclear. The purpose of this study was to evaluate usefulness of ra...

Background & Objective: To recognize the challenges and obstacles of academic culture in institutionalizing the quality culture in higher education, the Grounded Theory research method helped us to provide a conceptual model in higher education. This model would provide a correct understanding of the challenges and obstacles of academic culture for the beneficiaries. Materials & Methods: The p...

This study explores and compares academic perspectives of quality assurance and its procedures to evaluate undergraduate hospitality, tourism and leisure programmes (HTLPs) in both the UK and Taiwanese higher education systems. Focus groups and individual interviews were conducted to identify academic key concerns and issues about HTLP quality. Additionally, a questionnaire survey was used to a...

Purpose – To provide a view of quality in accounting education from the perspective of a critical stakeholder group – academic accountants. The identification of this view adds to the growing discussions around quality, and how it is assured in higher education. Design/methodology/approach – Applying a framework for defining quality in higher education to an accounting context, a postal survey ...

the purposes of this study were to examine the relations between emotional intelligence, achievement motivation. contextual variables and academic activity on student's academic achievement. participants were 415 (261 females, and 154 males) eleventh grade students. in multiple regression analysis, student's gender and age, mother's education, parental involvement. achievement mo...