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Download full textDimitra Perifanou; Eleni Konstantinou; Anne Nikula; Kristina Grendova; Aija Ahokas; Joan-Carles Casas-Baroy; Daniela Cavani; Paola Ferri; Paola Galbany-Estragués; Cinzia Gradellini; Michaela Machajova; Daniela Mecugni; Sari Nyman; Xavier Palomar-Aumatell; Janka Prnova; Montse Romero Mas; Carme Roure Pujol; Heli Thomander; Evanthia Sakellari – Higher Education Studies, 2024
Immunization is a highly cost-effective investment in health, proven to be an effective tool in controlling and eliminating dangerous infectious diseases. Health science students require evidence-based knowledge to tackle challenges in healthcare, particularly in the field of vaccination. The aim of the current study is to asses students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immunization Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Communicable Diseases
Direct linkShambaugh, Jay; Bauer, Lauren; Breitwieser, Audrey – Hamilton Project, 2018
Human capital investment is central to raising wages. This chapter describes trends in human capital investment and educational attainment. It reviews the evidence of the wage returns to educational attainment and to early childhood education, K-12 education, postsecondary education, and workforce development policies and programs. Finally, this…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Wages, Educational Attainment, Investment
Haeffele, Lynne; Hood, Lisa; Feldman, Bridget – Planning and Changing, 2011
After several years in which only superficial outcomes measures were used to evaluate grants funded by the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE), the Illinois State University Center for the Study of Education Policy piloted a new approach by which real project assessment could be embedded in Improving Teacher Quality (ITQ) project designs…
Descriptors: Grants, Investment, Development, Teacher Effectiveness
Orphan, Cecilia M.; McClure, Kevin R. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2022
Governments and philanthropic organizations devote billions of dollars annually to higher education via appropriations and donations to support campus operations, research, financial aid, and capital projects. Likewise, students and their families invest time and money when pursuing a college degree. Due to these significant investments,…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Postsecondary Education, Public Colleges, Universities
Clausen, A. W. – 1984
Recent efforts of the World Bank to improve global economic problems are described, issues which will influence the role of the World Bank in the decade to come are discussed, and the Bank's future role is examined. Recent World Bank efforts to help developing nations include a lending program, project investments, analytical and advisory work,…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Financial Policy
Peer reviewedSmith, C. Selby – Journal of Educational Administration, 1971
Discusses methods of allocating an educational budget. Alternative avenues of expenditure on post secondary education are treated as investment projects and their benefit-cost ratios are compared. (Author)
Descriptors: Budgets, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Finance, Educational Planning
De Henau, Jerome – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2022
This paper simulates the likely fiscal and employment effects of a vast public annual investment programme of free universal high-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) services in the UK. It examines the extent to which it would pay for itself fiscally for different scenarios of pay increases. Investing in high-quality universal ECEC…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Employment
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2021
Leaders across North Carolina believe strongly in the potential for all students to read proficiently by 3rd grade. Yet despite significant effort and investment, only 36% of 4th graders are at or above proficient in reading. The Belk Foundation, in partnership with The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI), The Foundation for…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Partnerships in Education, Excellence in Education, Reading Research
Collett, Stacy – Community College Journal, 2014
A few years ago you could not attend a higher education conference without a session on green technology, and the sustainability movement. Emerging job training programs in wind and solar were equipping a new generation of energy workers with skills needed to secure high income jobs in clean energy markets. Campuses were doing their part to become…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Sustainable Development, Conservation (Environment), Program Effectiveness
Woolford, Sam – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2022
Student investment in learning is often stronger when learning incorporates student choice, "real-world" authenticity, and creativity. This action research study investigated the impact of a particular tool for emphasizing these elements in learning: a free-choice, or "Genius Time," project in which middle school students in an…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Skill Development, Student Motivation, Personal Autonomy
Naumescu, Adrienne Kozan; Pasca, Roxana-Diana – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2008
Some up-to-date problems in science education in European context are treated in this paper. The characteristics of science education across Europe are presented. Science teachers' general competencies are underlined. An example of problem-solving as teaching method in chemistry is studied in knowledge based society. Transforming teacher practice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Science Teachers, Teacher Competencies
Jager, Beth – Journal of Research Administration, 2023
What barriers to compliance do research administrators face at liberal arts colleges and predominantly undergraduate institutions? What solutions can be offered to overcome these challenges? All academic institutions that receive government funding must abide by the same federally imposed rules and regulations for financial assistance, whether for…
Descriptors: School Culture, Compliance (Legal), Liberal Arts, Undergraduate Study
Amorati, Riccardo; Hajek, John – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
This article presents the results of a mixed-method study that investigated the impact of an innovative project-based learning module, entitled "I am an author," on students' motivation and creativity, and also examined its positive and negative aspects emerging from students' evaluations. As part of this module, advanced learners of…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Creativity, Active Learning, Student Projects
Potts, Diane; Schmid, Euline Cutrim – AILA Review, 2022
Despite decades of research supporting the pedagogic value of learners' plurilingual resources to their linguistic and academic development, pre-service teachers frequently arrive at university inculcated in 'target language only' practices underpinned by monoglossic ideologies. The challenge for teacher education is to productively disrupt…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Bilingual Education, Language Teachers
Jiang, Lianjiang; Yang, Miaoyan; Yu, Shulin – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2020
Although it has been well noted in TESOL that ethnic minority students often experience difficulties in mainstream English classrooms, whether and how such students can be empowered in their English learning remains underexplored. This article reports on a longitudinal case study of a Chinese ethnic minority student's participation in a digital…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
