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The causes of shadow education in English language for secondary school students [PDF]

, 2016
Private supplementary tutoring, which is also called shadow education, has become an indispensable component of the education system in Hong Kong owing to its popularity and incessant development in recent decades.
Man, Chi-kiu, 萬智喬
core  

Identifying knowledge barriers to agroforestry adoption and co‐designing solutions to them

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Compared to monocultures, agroforestry can promote biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and climate resilience, whilst maintaining or enhancing production and profits. Despite this, uptake in temperate regions remains low. Knowledge gaps amongst land managers are a primary barrier to uptake, but little is known about which aspects of ...
Amelia S. C. Hood, Verena Scherfranz, Rosy E. Scholes, Erika Degani, Tom Staton, Alexa Varah, Lena Schaller, Alice L. Mauchline   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Journey Along the Frontier: My Attempts to Bring Accountability to Shadow Education in Australia and Beyond

ECNU Review of Education
Highlights This article provides insights into stakeholders’ challenges while bringing educational accountability to private tutoring providers through a self-regulation model.
Mohan Dhall
doaj   +1 more source

Advancing pharmacometrics in Africa—Transition from capacity development toward job creation

CPT: Pharmacometrics &Systems Pharmacology, Volume 14, Issue 3, Page 407-419, March 2025.
Abstract Trained pharmacometricians remain scarce in Africa due to limited training opportunities, lack of a pharmaceutical product development ecosystem, and emigration to high‐income countries. The Applied Pharmacometrics Training (APT) fellowship program was established to address these gaps and specifically foster job creation for talent retention.
Goonaseelan (Colin) Pillai, Samer Mouksassi, Innocent G. Asiimwe, Craig R. Rayner, Steven Kern, Phumla Sinxadi, Paolo Denti, Eric Decloedt, Catriona Waitt, Bernhards R. Ogutu, Rik de Greef   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Autonomous Vehicles Are Not Ready Yet: A Multi‐Disciplinary Review of Problems, Attempted Solutions, and Future Directions

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Personal autonomous vehicles can sense their surrounding environment, plan their route, and drive with little or no involvement of human drivers. Despite the latest technological advancements and the hopeful announcements made by leading entrepreneurs, to date no personal vehicle is approved for road circulation in a “fully” or “semi ...
Xingshuai Dong, Massimiliano Cappuccio, Fady Alnajjar, Luqman Ali, Hamad Al Jassmi, Essam Debie, Milad Ghasrikhouzani, Alessandro Lanteri, Tate McGregor, Oleksandra Molloy, Alice Plebe, Michael Regan, Eduardo Sandoval, Dongmo Zhang   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Review of Global Strategies for Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 in Higher Education (2020–2024): Key Actions in the Education for Sustainable Development Framework

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Higher education is currently facing a significant challenge in preparing future generations to deal with complex global challenges. To ensure sustainable development, UNESCO has set 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on its 2030 agenda. The fourth of these goals, SDG4, aims to provide inclusive and equitable quality education and promote
Judit García‐Martín, Lucila María Pérez Fernández   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regulating Private Tutoring in China: Uniform Policies, Diverse Responses

ECNU Review of Education, 2019
Purpose: This article examines responses from the tutoring sector to Chinese national and local government regulations on private supplementary tutoring.
Wei Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

Who Does Bogotá “Care” for? Care Blocks, Care Workers and the Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper critically examines Bogotá's District Care System within the framework of urban social sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focusing on the Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado), it employs a mixed‐methods approach—legal analysis, interviews, testimonies, surveys, and InfoCuidado data—to explore the paradox of a
Valentina Montoya‐Robledo, Berta Fernández‐Gallego   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Basson’s private ECG tutoring sets pulses racing

South African Medical Journal, 2015
Professionally disgraced apartheid-era architect of chemical and biological ‘dirty tricks’ weaponry Dr Wouter Basson continued to tutor  Stellenbosch University medical students at a private medical hospital for 11 months after being convicted of unethical conduct.
openaire   +3 more sources

Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Affirmative Action in Local Elite Colleges and Subject Choice

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women are largely underrepresented in STEM careers associated with higher labor market returns. This gender gap is even more stark in a context where societal biases are prevalent and female role models are lacking. This paper investigates the impact of an affirmative action (AA) policy implemented in an elite educational institution in India ...
Ritika Gupta
wiley   +1 more source