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What are universities pursuing? A review of the Quacquarelli Symonds world university rankings of Taiwanese universities (2021–2023)

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2023
This study evaluated world university rankings in Taiwan. Media reports and the literature on world university rankings have focused on rankings, particularly in Taiwan.
Ru-Jer Wang, Yi-Haung Shih
doaj   +1 more source

Conceptualising early childhood care and development in fragile states: Understanding children and childhood in Myanmar [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Accelerating political and economic reforms in Myanmar are shaping the country considerably. In a fast-changing national landscape, Myanmar is a developing country in East Asia with a rapidly evolving early childhood sector.
Ang, L, Wong, L
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Workplace social capital and self-rated health among nursery school teachers in Japan: a nationwide cross-sectional study

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
IntroductionEarly Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) professionals, such as nursery school teachers in Japan, are essential for children's development but face substantial physical and emotional demands that may affect their health.
Tomosa Mine   +5 more
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Early Childhood Education and Care: Working Conditions and Training Opportunities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
[Excerpt] The aim of this working paper is to provide information about the working conditions and in-service training opportunities of early childhood education and care (ECEC) workers and to describe how these factors are linked to outcomes for ...
Eurofound
core   +1 more source

Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Working Families’ Access to Early Childhood Education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In this brief, using data from the Census Bureau, state administrative systems, and a Carsey survey of working parents, author Jessica Carson examines the child care landscape of the Upper Valley of New Hampshire and Vermont and links these findings to a
Carson, Jessica
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Indicators for early childhood education and care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The main purpose of this technical brief is to investigate the comparability between two early childhood education and care indicators currently used by the European Commission – namely the Barcelona target and the ET 2020 ECEC benchmark – and to ...
FLISI SARA   +2 more
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emissions of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-Dioxins/Dibenzofurans during Coffee Roasting: Exploring the Influence of Roasting Methods and Formulations

open access: yesAtmosphere
Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin/dibenzofuran (PCDD/F) emissions during the roasting of green Arabica coffee and coffee formulations containing alcohol, sugar, and honey were investigated in this study. Fast and slow roasting methods, which took 5.62 and
Li-Man Lin   +4 more
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Mothers, Teachers, Maternalism and Early Childhood Education and Care: Some Historical Connections [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Many current debates in Australia regarding the policy, politics and practicalities of child care provision are embedded in dominant discourses of maternalism.
Ailwood, Joanne
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