Diane Reay, Jacqueline Davies, Miriam David, Stephen J. Ball
This paper draws on data from an on-going ESRC project on choice of higher education. It focuses primarily on the experiences of non-traditional applicants to higher education. Although these students are not typical of the entire university entry cohort, their narratives raise important issues in r...
Gill Crozier, Jane Davies
In the authors' research with Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage parents, some teachers, head teachers and other educational professionals referred to the South Asian parents as ‘hard to reach’. Whilst it was clear from the parents that they were not very, and in some cases not at all, involved in t...
Md. Shahadat Hossain Khan, Mahbub Hasan, Che Kum Clement
Within a very few years, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has turned out to be an effective educational technology which promotes some dramatic changes in teaching and learning processes. Technologies allow students to work more productively than in the past, but the teacher's role in ...
Takahiro A. Kato, Masaru Tateno, Naotaka Shinfuku, Daisuke Fujisawa et al.
PurposeTo explore whether the ‘hikikomori’ syndrome (social withdrawal) described in Japan exists in other countries, and if so, how patients with the syndrome are diagnosed and treated.MethodsTwo hikikomori case vignettes were sent to psychiatrists in Australia, Bangladesh, India, Iran, Japan, Kore...
Husain Salilul Akareem, Syed Shahadat Hossain
In recent decades, the commercialization of education has become more apparent and the need for using marketing tools is greater than before. This study aims to identify the demographic and background information of students that differentiate their perception about quality of higher education. A sa...
Abderrahman M Khalaf, Abdullah A Alubied, Ahmed Khalaf, Abdallah A Rifaey
Adolescents increasingly find it difficult to picture their lives without social media. Practitioners need to be able to assess risk, and social media may be a new component to consider. Although there is limited empirical evidence to support the claim, the perception of the link between social medi...
Joshua D. Angrist, Eric Bettinger, Erik Bloom, Elizabeth M. King et al.
1 US studies in this mold include Green, Peterson, and Du (1996) and Rouse (1998), who evaluated a voucher lottery in Milwaukee. Rouse's estimates, which control for attrition, show modest increases in math scores among voucher recipients. Other US studies include Howell et al (2000), Myers et al (2...
Eve Gregory
Over the past three decades numerous studies from the English-speaking world have pointed to the advantages for young children of family involvement in their literacy development. However, their emphasis has always been firmly and almost exclusively upon parentsworking with children in specific ways...
Mona Alkhattabi
Today, primary school teachers face challenges when dealing with digital natives. As a result of the explosion and rapid growth in information technologies that can be used in education, there are increasing demands to adopt technology in education, in order to influence students to learn actively a...
Jo‐Anne Reid, Bill Green, Maxine Cooper, Wendy Hastings et al.
The complex interconnection among issues affecting rural—regional sustainability requires an equally complex program of research to ensure the attraction and retention of high-quality teachers for rural children. The educational effects of the construction of the rural within a deficit discourse are...
Frances E. Aboud
Ismail Ismail
Character education in Indonesia has become a necessity that can not be negotiable. Various cases of crime and moral deviations become evident that the character of most citizens already at alarming stage. Therefore, since the beginning, national education is not only aimed at generating human intel...
Steve Strand
This paper reports an analysis of the educational attainment and progress between age 11 and age 14 of over 14,500 students from the nationally representative Longitudinal Study of Young People in England. The mean attainment gap in national tests at age 14 between White British and several ethnic m...
Gazi Mahabubul Alam
This article examines and discusses the existing role, status and quality of Higher Education (HE) imparted in the Private Universities in Bangladesh. The major findings assert that private HE sector considers education as business goods rather public goods. Knowledge is a public property. But, entr...
Janis H. Jenkins, Arthur Kleinman, Kim Hopper, Robert J. Barrett et al.
This volume brings together a number of the foremost scholars - anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and historians - studying schizophrenia, its subjective dimensions, and the cultural processes through which these are experienced. Based on research undertaken in Australia, Bangladesh, Bo...