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Contrasting roles of school and public libraries in lower primary pupils' reading
Abstract Libraries represent an important institutional component of children's reading socialisation, yet their role is often treated as uniform despite substantial differences between school and public libraries. This study examines how visits to school and public libraries relate to pupils' reading attitudes, practices and self‐assessed reading ...
Kateřina Balcarová, Jiří Balcar
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Gender Analysis of Budget Fraud Through E-Budgeting: An Experimental Study [PDF]
Budget submission is an essential part of an organization. Fraud that occurs in the budget submission process is one of the critical causes of worsening organizational performance.
Samuel Simanjuntak Oliver +2 more
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Abstract Pupils in England who, for some reason, are not able to attend school often find themselves in Alternative Provision (AP). These are special arrangements designed to address their specific needs and help them return to mainstream schooling.
Nick Pratt +2 more
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Abstract Curriculum decolonisation has become a prominent feature of equity agendas in UK higher education, yet there remains limited empirical and theoretical work on how such initiatives are evaluated, particularly within business schools. This paper presents one of the first multi‐institutional empirical studies examining how UK business schools ...
Sally Everett +2 more
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Abstract Mental health is a critical issue globally, with young people being one of the most affected groups. Young people have campaigned vehemently for a ‘curriculum for life,’ arguing that their education is failing to meet their needs (British Council, 2022).
Lisa Stephenson, Helen Young
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Lessons and Challenges in Implementing Gender-ResponsiveBudgeting at the Local Level in Mongolia
Gender-Responsive Budgeting (GRB) has emerged as a crucial policy instrument for promoting gender equity in public financial management. In Mongolia, despite relatively strong gender equality indicators, women remain underrepresented in ...
Altangerel Radnaabazar +3 more
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Abstract Effective early career support is associated with a variety of professional and personal benefits for teachers and their schools. However, research indicates that the contextual features of schools, such as their size and geographic location, influence the support that new teachers receive.
Ellen Turner +8 more
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A Century of Learning: The Story of ESA's Education Committee, 1918–2025
Abstract The Education Committee and its precursors have been highly influential within the Ecological Society of America. Here we document the Education Committee's history, from its origins in reviewing curricular materials through major contributions to ecological literacy, teaching innovation, diversity initiatives, and professional development ...
Kenneth M. Klemow +6 more
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Trade‐offs in avian parental care: a review of theory and meta‐analysis of brood size manipulations
ABSTRACT The selective forces shaping parental care have been studied for over 50 years. While theoretical and experimental work has yielded qualitative progress, the large body of empirical work testing predictions about parental investment based on life‐history trade‐offs has yet to be synthesized.
Rebekah A. McKinnon +4 more
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Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals
ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher +1 more
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