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The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall, Yusraa Maryam, Sumeya Loonat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unge lovbrytere og overgangen til voksenlivet

Søkelys på Arbeidslivet
Vi analyserer kjennetegn og livsløpsutfall for unge som blir straffet for lovbrudd begått i alderen 15–24 år, ved hjelp av registerdata som dekker hele befolkningen født i tidsperioden 1985–1988 inntil 30-årsalder. Vi finner at unge straffede i snitt har
Christopher Markhus Poots, Susanna Sten-Gahmberg   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Carrion ecology: concepts, interdisciplinary synthesis, and perspectives

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Carrion is a ubiquitous resource in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, yet it has long been overlooked in ecological research. Over the past two decades, studies on carrion and the many organisms that exploit it have flourished, revealing not only wide‐ranging ecological functions but also significance far beyond ecology.
Marcos Moleón, José A. Sánchez‐Zapata, Travis L. DeVault, Wayne M. Getz, Zebensui Morales‐Reyes, Daniel Redondo‐Gómez, Lara Naves‐Alegre, Solange A. Batista‐Nunes, Esther Sebastián‐González, Juan M. Pérez‐García, Kelly A. Waters, Thijs van Overveld, Craig Smith, Nuria Selva, Thomas A. Schlacher, Graeme Ruxton, Jesús Rodríguez, Martina‐M. Quaggiotto, Paula L. Perrig, Norman Owen‐Smith, Thomas M. Newsome, Isabel Navas, Yoshihiro Nakashima, Ana Mateos, Carlos Martínez‐Carrasco, Daniel Martín‐Vega, Berta Martín‐López, Antoni Margalida, Sergio A. Lambertucci, Adam Kane, Kevin Healy, Akane Hashizume, Antonio J. García‐Fernández, José A. Donázar, M. Eric Benbow, James C. Beasley, Philip S. Barton, Kathleen A. Alexander, Eneko Arrondo   +38 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of Nature‐Related Investment Strategies Among Institutional Investors

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Institutional investors are increasingly responding to biodiversity loss through nature‐related investment strategies. Using survey data from 557 institutional investors, this study examines the drivers of strategy selection and how biodiversity risk is integrated across investor types, sizes, and regions.
Emma Olofsson
wiley   +1 more source

International perspectives on measuring national digital public health system maturity through a multidisciplinary Delphi study

npj Digital Medicine
Unlocking the full potential of digital public health (DiPH) systems requires a comprehensive tool to assess their maturity. While the World Health Organization and the International Telecommunication Union released a toolkit in 2012 covering various ...
Laura Maaß, Hajo Zeeb, Heinz Rothgang
doaj   +1 more source

Conceptualising Supply Chain Resilience Within Social Enterprises

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research seeks to conceptualise supply chain resilience (SCRes) in a social enterprise (SE) context, focusing on SEs with a social mission to tackle food insecurity and food poverty. Despite the increasingly mature field of SCRes and awareness of the critical role SEs play in tackling social challenges such as food poverty, no studies ...
Alexander James Jones, Helen Walker, Yingli Wang, Ken Peattie   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heterogeneity in the association between social support and mental distress in old-age retirees – a computational approach using longitudinal cohort data

BMC Geriatrics
Background Mental distress among retirees and older people is a severe public health challenge, and information on new risk groups is needed. This study aims to identify subgroups of old-age retirees with varying associations between low social support ...
Jere Lahelma, Eero Lahelma, Mikko Laaksonen, Susan Kuivalainen, Mikko Koivisto, Tea Lallukka   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Why the share of small amount pensions is so substantial in Latvia?

SHS Web of Conferences, 2018
More than 70% of all old-age pensions in Latvia are smaller than 300 euro, which is close to the monetary value of the at-risk-of-poverty threshold. There is a number of reasons for it: the lack of non-contributory component and inadequately low minimum ...
Rajevska O., Rajevska F.
doaj   +1 more source

Insolvency insurance of company pension schemes in Germany - functionality and current political changes

Business: Theory and Practice, 2007
The author introduces the current extension of company pension schemes in Germany and explains the legal necessity for covering non-lapsable future pensions und payable pensions against insolvency of the employer, who is over- riding bound to pay the ...
Gerhard Mudrack
doaj   +1 more source

Stock Exchange ESG Disclosure Guidance and Corporate Carbon Mitigation: International Evidence

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the tangible impact of the adoption of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure guidance by stock exchanges on corporate carbon mitigation, focusing on six major frameworks: the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), the Task Force on Climate Related ...
Jiamian Yan, Le Luo, Nuraddeen Nuhu
wiley   +1 more source