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The Remote School Attendance Strategy (RSAS): Why invest in a strategy that reduces attendance?
The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2022 In late 2013, under the leadership of Prime Minister Abbott, the Australian Government announced a new policy designed to increase attendance rates in remote community schools—the Remote School Attendance Strategy (RSAS). The model assumed that employing
John Guenther +4 more
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Monetary access and survival of small and medium-sized enterprises in South Africa post-COVID-19 era [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic has posed significant challenges to the survival of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa, particularly in accessing necessary funding for their daily operations.
Thabiso Sthembiso Msomi +1 more
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Frontiers in Water, 2022 Water shortage in terms of both physical and economic water scarcity is still a major issue globally. The looming climate change threat has increased the adverse threats to water security in different regions.
Amy Quandt +5 more
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Developing policy instruments: The transformation of an educational policy intervention [PDF]
Journal of Educational Change, 2018 This paper discusses the change of educational governance by developing and using a theory of policy instrumentality. It is based on the policy instruments approach in political studies and on the cultural-historical activity theory. It is used to study the relationships and changes of policy instruments and objectives of a major school development ...
Hongda Lin, Reijo Miettinen
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2020 In the journal article Did DI do it? The impact of a programme designed to improve literacy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in remote schools, Guenther and Osborne (2020) compare schoolwide NAPLAN reading scale scores for 25 Very ...
Noel Pearson
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Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached.
Balafoutas, Loukas, Sutter, Matthias
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The Cost of Political Intervention in Monetary Policy* [PDF]
International Finance, 2004 AbstractBetween 1994 and 1997, UK monetary policy decisions were taken by the Minister of Finance, but the advice of the central bank was published with a short delay. Thus, the financial markets could observe when the political authority took the same view as the monetary authority and when it did not, and could use evidence of disagreements as prima ...
David Cobham +2 more
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Introduction: Mobilisations, Interventions, and Cultural Policy
Lateral, 2012 There are four themes that weave their way through the research thread on Mobilisations, Interventions, and Cultural Policy in this issue. First, there is concern with intervention—intervention into the politics and practices of social movements and ...
Emma Dowling
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COVID-19, policy interventions and credit: The Brazilian experience [PDF]
Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2021 Lars Norden
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Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2019 Background The National Institute on Drug Abuse has identified a persistent research-to-practice gap in the implementation of evidence-based prevention and treatment programs for substance use disorder. To identify mechanisms to close this gap, we sought
Zachary F. Meisel +9 more
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