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‘The Other Parent’: A Critical Policy Analysis of Fatherhood Discourses in the Australian Government's Paid Parental Leave Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Australian paid parental leave (PPL) government scheme aims to support working parents through financial assistance and the promotion of gender equality in caregiving responsibilities. However, the scheme's implementation has been critiqued for its gendered design, which marginalises fathers and reinforces traditional gender roles.
Lily Lewington, Bernadette Sebar, Jessica Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching, organization, and personal problems: Evidence from reforming tertiary education in Germany [PDF]

Germany has recently made extensive reforms in its tertiary education system. Traditional degrees are being replaced by Bachelor and Master programs. This study examines the question of how the choice of a new Bachelor program as opposed to a traditional
Mühlenweg, Andrea M.
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Co-principals: Characteristics of Dual Leadership Teams [PDF]

, 2006
A co-principal leadership model has been suggested as one way to address the shortage of qualified educational leaders for our schools and the increased demands on those leaders.
Eckman, Ellen
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Understanding the Housing and Support Experience of People With Complex Disability in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis of Submissions to the Disability Royal Commission

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Australian government established the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (‘Disability Royal Commission’, DRC) to investigate widespread mistreatment of people with disability. Nearly 10,000 people with disability, their families and supporters engaged with the DRC.
Kate D'Cruz, Fiona Carey, Libby Witts, Jessie Spence, Peter Mulherin, Megan Topping, Di Winkler, Jacinta Douglas   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The relationship between absence from work and job satisfaction: Greece and UK comparisons [PDF]

The paper starts with a literature survey concerning absenteeism and job satisfaction. Most of the literature on absenteeism suggests that absence from work is a complex issue influenced by multiple causes, both of personal and of organizational nature ...
Drakopoulos, Stavros A., Grimani, Aikaterini   +1 more
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National Disability Insurance Scheme and Quality of Life Among Carers of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Australia: A Thematic Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder in Australia have increased considerably in recent years. The current study investigated how the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) impacts quality of life (QoL) among carers of children with autism spectrum disorder.
Jesse Gerhard, Sharon L. Grant
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring online learning: Virtual teaching quality, student satisfaction, and academic performance among nursing students in Peru – a cross-sectional study

Belitung Nursing Journal
Background: Virtual teaching has become an essential component of nursing education today, but its impact on practical courses remains unexplored. There is a need to understand how the quality of virtual teaching influences both academic performance and ...
Loujain S. Sharif, Jhan CM. Fernandez-Delgado, Erick E. Aguilar-Altamirano , Wildoro Ramírez-Ramírez, Alaa Mahsoon, Maram Banakhar, Higinio Fernández-Sanchez   +6 more
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Underemployment and Job Quality Among Young Australians: A Gendered Analysis Using the HILDA Survey (2009–2022)

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over almost two decades, young people's employment opportunities have been significantly impacted by events like the Global Financial Crisis (2008–2009) and the COVID‐19 pandemic (2020‐). Thus, underemployment has become a more pervasive and persistent feature of young people's labour market experiences. This research focuses on three forms of
Brendan Churchill
wiley   +1 more source

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Decoding Carbon Dot Purity by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
NMR spectroscopy tracks the removal of molecular and oligomeric impurities in carbon dots, enabling a (semi)quantitative evaluation of their purity through integrated peak analysis. ABSTRACT Carbon dots (CDs) have attracted increasing attention in recent years and have been widely explored in many fields.
Yalei Hu, Alberto Bianco
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