What Education Studies is and what it might be

Education Studies at the University of Greenwich is presented as an example of what Education Studies is ��� at least at one Higher Education Institution. As a field of practice to which a body of knowledge can be applied, Education Studies shares common features with other disciplinary fields of study. It is also unique in that its field ��� learning, is also what its students do ��� learn. What Education Studies isn���t is then discussed in relation to studies of schooling, the psychology of learning, sociology of education, traditional education degrees and teacher training. Lastly, what Education Studies could become is presented with reference to Ranson���s (1993) argument for the centrality of education as the common focus of all HE study. It is suggested that the subject could then contribute to expanding critical space in (higher) education through making research/ scholarship and creation an integral part of the Independent Study of all students at all levels of learning. This would be a necessary complement to the wider democratic transformation now demanded for human survival. It would also accord with what Marx called humanity���s ���species being��� as a ���learning animal��� (Morris). Such a social theory of learning can discriminate between information and competence at one level of learning and (corresponding terms) knowledge and skill at another more generalised level in relation to new divisions of knowledge and labour. Potentially these levels can be combined to create a new form of polytechnic learning, relating theory to practice, education to training and further to higher education.

Education and the labour market in Latin America: why measurement is important and what it tells us about policies, reforms and performance

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Seasonality of tuberculosis in India: is it real and what does it tell us?

India has a third of the world���s tuberculosis cases. Large-scale expansion of a national program in 1998 has allowed for population-based analyses of data from tuberculosis registries. We assessed seasonal trends using quarterly reports from districts with stable tuberculosis control programs (population 115 million). In northern India, tuberculosis diagnoses peaked between April and June, and reached a nadir between October and December, whereas no seasonality was reported in the south. Overall, rates of new smear-positive tuberculosis cases were 57 per 100 000 population in peak seasons versus 46 per 100 000 in trough seasons. General health-seeking behavior artifact was ruled out. Seasonality was highest in paediatric cases, suggesting variation in recent transmission.

When Policy Opportunity is not Enough: College Access and Enrollment Patterns among Texas Percent Plan Eligible Students

In 1998, Texas initiated a bold new statewide university admission policy aimed at increasing college access for traditionally underserved students in the state. House Bill 588 (known as the Texas Top 10 Percent Plan (TTPP)) guaranteed automatic admission to the college or university of their choice for all top performing students in Texas public high schools. Fourteen years after the plan���s implementation, we see great strides and complexities in understanding student outcomes as a result of the percent plan. However, the legal controversy over the percent plan both in Texas and other states incorporating similar yet distinctly motivated alternative admissions plans continues to play out from institutional decision boards to the highest court in the nation. This study seeks to add to that discussion by exploring two questions. Descriptively, what are the admission and enrollment patterns within racial/ethnic groups of percent plan eligible students, over time, for Texas elite, emergent elite, and remaining public institutions? Given that all eligible percent plan students may enter the institution of choice in Texas, does which type of institution a TTPP student chooses relate to their race/ethnicity? The descriptive story told by the admission and enrollment distributions of equally eligible TTPP students is a complex but compelling one. Fundamentally, it identifies that statistically different application and enrollment patterns exist for Hispanic and especially African American TTPP beneficiaries relative to their White and Asian American counterparts.

The RIF system in the Federal government : is it working and what can be done to improve it ? /

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Profit in beekeeping : an explanation of what beekeeping is, what profits it holds for you and how to go about getting these returns from the honey bee.

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Profit in beekeeping : an explanation of what beekeeping is, what profits it holds for you and how to go about getting these returns from the honey bee.

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St. Dunstan: a paper written to read at Goldsmiths' Hall, but time not permittng, it is most respectfully offered to the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, etc.

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Russia as it is, and not as it has been represented; together with observations and reflections on the pernicious and deceitful policy of the new school.

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State of Connecticut by His Excellency John H. Trumbull governor a proclamation : It is no small part of the honorable record of the United States that every war in which we have been engaged has been a struggle, not of greed and aggression, but of defence or deliverance ... pursuant to the statute which properly directs a day to be set aside in memory of the tragic event which precipitated the Spanish War, I designate Monday, February fifteenth next, as Maine Memorial Day ... given under my hand and seal of the state at the Capitol, in Hartford, this twenty-sixth day of January ... one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six ...

Arms of the state of Connecticut printed at head and state seal printed at lower left.