Paid educational leaves in Belgium
Case study - 3 pages - Human resources
Paid educational leave: Is it more used to meet business needs than allow continuous training of employees? Why are modern teaching techniques, such as distance learning, not recognized in this system? All these questions will help us learn more about business practices. The Federal Public...
The Spanish Higher Education System
Essay - 13 pages - Educational studies
Although Spain is our closest neighbor, we notice that in the education sector, we have many differences. Even if this country is knows for parties or corridas, we may find several very famous universities such as the universities of Madrid, Bilbao, Alicante, and Barcelona. In fact, in the...
Does Marketing threaten children's education at primary school?
Dissertation - 60 pages - Services marketing
This project aims to identify the ethical problem of marketing by aiming at children, and will focus on children in primary school. This area has interested people since the last decade and the likes of psychologists, doctors, marketers have always tried to understand the power of brands on...
Dewey is still in the room: A closer look at Lawrence Cremin's "Public education and the education of the public"
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In his speech “Public Education and the Education of the Public” first published in 1975, Lawrence Cremin questions the polarity between education and society in the John Dewey's progressive theory, saying that it “does not sufficiently particularize the...
Study on the effectiveness of corporate education service with comparison between offline and online education service using SERVQUAL model
Tutorials/exercises - 17 pages - Educational studies
In this research, we empirically evaluate the difference between off-line and on-line corporate education services in terms of their service quality levels. Especially, in order to judge the efficiency and effectiveness of the increasingly popular on-line educational service and to provide...
Six case studies on usage of technology in relation to the philosophical, social and ethical factors in modern education system
Dissertation - 71 pages - Educational studies
The following are the case studies discussed in this paper. 1. The misuse of e-Mail technology has created ethical problems. Some critics think that technology tends to remove students from the moral implications of technology. Issues at stake include respect for privacy, the proper use in...
Special education
Thesis - 4 pages - Educational studies
Today, school teachers are increasingly dealing with disabled children. In fact, we notice more and more hyperactive children or those with behavior problems. This could be explained by the fact that working parents don't get enough time for their kids. With parents' wish of perfect equal...
Higher educational systems: A Comparative Study between China and UK
Tutorials/exercises - 32 pages - Educational studies
Through analyzing and comparing others' research, history of Chinese and British higher educational systems, and the current situation of the two systems, we can find that there are four major parts we can learn from British higher education, including improve transparency, enhance...
Compare and contrast the working conditions, aspirations and prospects of French students entering higher education in the 1960s and those entering higher education since the 1990s
Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies
Students entering the French higher education system in 1960 and since the 1990s will have undergone quite different experiences. However, so will the students entering higher education in France at the beginning of the 1960s compared to those entering towards the end of that very...
The sex talk for children: A look at modern sex education
Thesis - 6 pages - Educational studies
Every year, hundreds of thousands of American teenage girls become pregnant. According to the Guttmacher Institute (2006), a private research company in the field of teenage pregnancy studies, 821,810 teen girls, ages 15-19, became pregnant in the year 2000, and many more may occur, only not...
Multiculturalism in education
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Canadians that live in the country's larger cities are aware of the growing cultural and ethnic diversity that is characterizing our cities. Canada has an aggressive goal of growing its population through immigrants, so this diversity is only going to increase throughout the years. This growing...
Critical thinking in education
Thesis - 5 pages - Educational studies
The issue is how teachers can teach critical thinking skills and still learn substantive material. The issue of critical thinking will be reviewed at all levels of education to include secondary and higher education. Specific focus will go to researching the efforts that most...
Critical race theory and the hidden curriculum: Social works implications for education
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Throughout the Philadelphia transit system stations there is a notable repetition of an advertisement for McDonald's 365Black campaign. A photo of various African American franchise owners is captioned by a phrase to the effect, “This Neighborhood is Our Business”. Within this image,...
A comprehensive examination of psycho educational multifamily group therapy
Tutorials/exercises - 18 pages - Psychology
While the field of psychology has come a long way from locking the door and throwing away the key on people who carry a mental illness diagnosis, there is still a long way to go. Regardless of the research that has been done attempting to normalize these problems as medical diseases many people...
Management education in the LPG era
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
Management Education in began with the objective of developing certain abilities into people to manage the business affairs well. It started with the goal of providing the much needed professional managers in the wake of planned industrial development. Management Education has...
Education and alternate assessment for students with important cognitive disabilities: Implications for educators
Thesis - 11 pages - Educational studies
Reform in education has turned to be one of the paramount public policy matters in the nation. As policymakers and educators race to rectify the several perceived shortcomings of an educational system through asking for more accountability, it is increasingly apparent that several reforms...
Parental discourses in sexual education
Thesis - 19 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Teen pregnancy is a pressing crisis throughout the world, the United States, and Knox County. A gap in expectations between which topics parents should address and which schools should address may be partially to blame; while most parents believe that they should be the loudest voice in their...
France and Ireland: Implications of increased immigration on educational systems
Thesis - 15 pages - Social, moral & civic education
France and Ireland are two very different European countries. Their citizens speak different languages, eat different foods, yet every four years they both think they have the best soccer team in the World Cup. Aside from these two country's differences, they have one important feature in...
Factors influencing academic performance of pupils/students in an educational institution
Thesis - 3 pages - Educational studies
Assessment of pupils / students is one of the duties of a teacher, which can be in form of test or examination and aimed at measuring the level of attainment of educational objectives. However, there are three domains of educational objectives: the cognitive, affective and psycho motor. While the...
Exploring the principles of constructivism and applying them to Technological Education
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Psychology
The National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium states: “career studies should be taught in manners that are consistent with a constructivist view of learning” (NASDCTEC, 1999, p. 7). While this may sound good in theory, one underlying...
Education in the UK
Thesis - 26 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The complicated nature of the current education system has its rules in school history. Until the end of the XIXth century, most children went to school intended church schools or private school established by rich benefactors. But such schools were largely confined to the sons of rich...
UK Education: An analysis of the significance of gender at key stage 5 and beyond
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
Recently it has been argued that the underachievement of boys has been happening for many years (Epston, Elwood ET. Al. 1999), it was simply the fact that female students were prevented from entering schools that enable this to go unnoticed for so long. During the days of the 11 plus it was well...
Leadership and educational practice
Thesis - 4 pages - Educational studies
) In his article “What is Leadership” author James Ryan (2005) makes four key points. He is concerned with problems of leadership form as they relate to education. Firstly he notes there is no definite answer to the question - what is leadership. (Ryan: 22) As he writes it is a...
Edurite Technologies: Empowering education, enabling careers
Presentation - 38 pages - Business strategy
Edurite, founded by Prof. Jawahar and Mr.G.S.Ravi in 2000, is now a part of TutorVista, a Global Education Services company. The company has set up a subsidiary - TutorVista Education India - which will include Edurite and cater to the domestic market. The subsidiary is now planning...
Automotive bailout: Ontario ministry of education
Thesis - 5 pages - Finance
General Motors (GM) is requesting a significant financial bailout from the federal government of Canada in order to protect its operations from insolvency. The company claims that it requires an immediate influx of $6-7 billion from Canada to counter the economic downturn and fiscal loses...
Advancements of liberal art's education
Thesis - 3 pages - Educational studies
Education in today's society is the main basis for starting a career. Here at Augustana, students are geared towards a liberal arts education. Students are encouraged to study a broad range of subjects in order to become a well rounded student. In order for students to receive a...
Place of Buddhist education in present day Vietnam
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
In the beginning the Christi?n Er?, the people in v?rious p?rts of Southe?st ?si? found out of Buddhism ?s ? result of increased contact with the Indian merchants who had come to the region to trade. These merchants not only set up trading places in Southe?st ?si? including Vietnam, but also...
Muslims and the State: A comparative study of Muslim religious needs in the educational domain in France and Great Britain
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in Europe today; it is already the second religion in Europe. There are at least thirteen million Muslims living in this area ranging from Portugal to Finland and from Ireland to Bulgaria. The sociological entity of these Muslims is very...
Critical evaluation of research methods in education
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
On initial consideration, the question posed here seemed to bracket nicely few main points of the subject, but that impression appeared to be inequitable, especially when it came to making judgments concerning different methods and approaches to research projects. The word "method" is derived...
Child Labor in India: The government's plans & the function of education
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the densely-populated poor and developing countries, the problem of child labor is acute. India is no exception. A World Bank Report published in January 2000 has revealed that there are six crore working children in India-the largest in terms of any country in the world. Elimination of...
