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Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reimagining career guidance: towards a pluralistic perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Difficulties concerning the identified mis-match between supply and demand sides of the labour market are discussed. The variability of career guidance services for young people across Europe is illustrated together with policy initiatives in some cases ...
Beven, Peter
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Preferential trading in agriculture: New insights from a structural gravity analysis and machine learning

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) contain various non‐tariff provisions, yet identifying their trade effects remains challenging because these commitments are high‐dimensional and strongly correlated within agreements. We estimated a theory‐consistent structural gravity model with domestic flows for 26 agricultural subsectors over 1988–2017
Dongin Kim, Sandro Steinbach
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the challenges of international student integration: A qualitative study of faculty and administrator perspectives in Turkish higher education

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Humanities Open
Türkiye's strategic geopolitical position has made it a growing destination for international students, yet higher education institutions face persistent challenges in supporting their integration. This qualitative case study examined the perspectives of
Bünyamin Çetinkaya   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

To the Question of Organizing the Career Guidence in Artisan Occupations

open access: yesОбразование и наука, 2015
The paper looks at the institutional and functional features of the artisan activities, and vocational training of future artisans- entrepreneurs; the specificity of career guidance in related training profiles is discussed.
A. V. Yefanov, Y. A. Nemtchinova
doaj   +1 more source

A study to determine the amount of communication between guidance counselors and students with disabilities related to a transition to the world of work [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Plan BThe purpose of this study was to determine the amount of communication between guidance counselors and students with disabilities towards a post high school transition plan.
Walker, Michelle A.
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Immigrant mental health, safe work, discrimination, and state policies: From racism and xenophobia to health equity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract An ecological model was developed to examine the pathways linking immigration state policies to physically safe work conditions and work volition, interpersonal discrimination, and mental health distress. The ecological framework was tested among two subsamples totaling 529 Latinx immigrant participants: (1) immigrants who resided in states ...
Germán A. Cadenas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transitioning to nonpunitive school policies for addressing student substance use: Qualitative interviews with key school administrators

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent policy change in Massachusetts encourages schools to limit their use of exclusionary discipline to “extraordinary circumstances,” but little work has explored the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to nonpunitive practices after student substance use infractions in schools.
Kristina Conroy   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The school guidance services in Malaysia [PDF]

open access: yes, 1985
This study is concerned with the aims, the achievements and the development of guidance and counselling services in Malaysian secondary schools. It also traces the historical development of guidance and counselling in America and Britain (for its ...
Hashim, Rabaee BT. MD.
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The role of brokerage within career guidance: a literature review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper reports on the findings from a review of the literature relating to the brokerage role of career guidance services. The review initially identified over 15,000 papers for possible inclusion and a systematic process was applied which sifted ...
Neary, S.   +8 more
core   +1 more source

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