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Storytelling and Sensemaking Physics from Newspapers
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Bahng, E. J.; Hauptman, John Michael – Physics Teacher, 2022
Surprisingly, newspapers contain wide-ranging physics topics available for narrative-style teaching in the classroom. Topics of newspaper articles we have covered over the years include physicists (obituaries of Hans Bethe, etc.), art or music that involve physics (color and standing waves), forensics (auto accidents and art forgeries), archeology…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Newspapers, Story Telling
Interrogating the Public Good versus Private Good Dichotomy: 'Black Tax' as a Higher Education Public Good
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Fongwa, Samuel N. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
The perceived dichotomy between public or private benefits to higher education remains of growing interest in higher education research and policy. In this paper, I borrow from the African philosophy of "Ubuntu" as a conceptual lens to interrogate this binary within the South African context using the 'black tax' phenomenon. Gleaning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Benefits, African Culture
National Colleges Process Evaluation. Research Report
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Buzzeo, Jonathan; Patel, Rakhee; Byford, Morwenna; Takala, Helena; Gay, Robert – UK Department for Education, 2020
In May 2016, Government funding of £80 million was awarded to establish five employer-led National Colleges in key growth sectors -- Creative and Cultural (NCCI), Digital Skills (Ada), Nuclear (NCfN), High Speed Rail (NCHSR) and Oil and Gas. This was alongside substantial investment from Local Authorities (LAs), Local Enterprise Partnerships…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Federal Aid
A Collaborative Exchange to Improve Early Childhood Education Outcomes
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Takagi, Yumiko; Batten, Paul; Rattenborg, Karen – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2020
International collaborative research has great value in helping each of the participant's view their respective situations from novel and various perspectives. When people involved in the same work tackle problems from different perspectives, new awareness arises, and innovative solutions are created. Kagawa University and Colorado State…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Intercollegiate Cooperation, International Cooperation
The Content of Professional Training of Masters in National Security at the UK Universities
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Braiko, Bohdan – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2019
The article deals with the content of training Masters in National Security at the UK universities. The problem of the state's national security in the context of the state's general development and the realization of its national interests has been actualized. It is noted that maintaining the national interests of any state world provides an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Training, Masters Programs, Masters Degrees
Status of Women Leadership in the Indian Higher Education Sector
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Banker, Darshna Vaghela – International Journal of Educational Management, 2023
Purpose: In the two consecutive surveys conducted by the authors in 2015 and 2018, it was found that out of a total of 810 and 1008 Indian higher educational institutions, only 54 and 63 institutions (6.67 and 6.25%) were led by women, 725 and 934 institutions (89.51 and 92.7%) were led by men and 31 and 11 (3.83 and 1.1%) were reported to either…
Descriptors: Females, Leadership, Higher Education, Foreign Countries