Journal articles: 'Enrolment policy'

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Alduais, Ahmed, and Meng Deng. "The Effect of the National Plan (2010–2020) on the Development of Special Education in China: Evidence from Before–After Design at a 7-Year Interval." Education Sciences 9, no. 2 (April 30, 2019): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci9020095.

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The possible effect of the National Plan on the development of special education has not been examined, and there is no published evidence concerning both national and international readership about the realisation of this policy document in China. Given this, we conducted a before–after design study at a 7-year interval including six variables of special education: number of schools, total enrolment, new enrolment, graduates, educational personnel, and full-time teachers. The data were retrieved from the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBSC). The results indicated two patterns of special education development in China. First, the National Plan has quantitatively affected some special education services (schools, new enrolments, educational personnel, and full-time teachers). Second, the National Plan has possibly resulted into better control of the quality of special education—evidenced by an insignificant increase in total enrolment and graduates at the two compared intervals.

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Salari, Paola, Patricia Akweongo, Moses Aikins, and Fabrizio Tediosi. "Determinants of health insurance enrolment in Ghana: evidence from three national household surveys." Health Policy and Planning 34, no. 8 (August 21, 2019): 582–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czz079.

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Abstract In 2003, Ghana implemented a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to move towards Universal Health Coverage. NHIS enrolment is mandatory for all Ghanaians, but the most recent estimates show that coverage stands under 40%. The evidence on the relationship between socio-economic characteristics and NHIS enrolment is mixed, and comes mainly from studies conducted in a few areas. Therefore, in this study we investigate the socio-economic determinants of NHIS enrolment using three recent national household surveys. We used data from the Ghanaian Demographic and Health Survey conducted in 2014, the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey conducted in 2011 and the sixth wave of the Ghana Living Standard Survey conducted in 2012–13. Given the multilevel nature of the three databases, we use multilevel logistic regression models to estimate the probability of enrolment for women and men separately. We used three levels of analysis: geographical clusters, household and individual units. We found that education, wealth, marital status—and to some extent—age were positively associated with enrolment. Furthermore, we found that enrolment was correlated with the type of occupation. The analyses of three national household surveys highlight the challenges of understanding the complex dynamics of factors contributing to low NHIS enrolment rates. The results indicate that current policies aimed at identifying and subsidizing underprivileged population groups might insufficiently encourage health insurance enrolment.

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Cobbinah, Joseph Ezale. "Assessing the Ideological Foundations and Relevance of the School Feeding Policy in Ghana." International Journal of Political Activism and Engagement 6, no. 4 (October 2019): 42–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijpae.2019100104.

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This article critically examines the school feeding policy in Ghana. The policy became operational in the year 2005. It was part of the nation's effort to curb a drop in school enrolment that became a global concern which became part of the United Nations (UN) global efforts to reduce poverty in many parts of the world. The drop in school enrolment was attributed to poverty, hunger, and inequality in many deprived communities. So, to address those problems, the UN initiated various forms of interventions in member nations as part of efforts to improve school enrolment, reduce inequality and poverty. Ghana initiated a school feeding that was aimed at providing at least one hot meal a day for every child at the basic school level. Implementation of the policy has faced a lot of challenges and lack of political will. Some critics therefore argue that alternative policy initiatives should be considered to improve or replace the existing school feeding policy because although enrolment seem to go up, there is little evidence the policy is improving academic performance

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Eadson, Will. "State enrolment and energy-carbon transitions: Syndromic experimentation and atomisation in England." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 34, no. 8 (July 26, 2016): 1612–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263774x16629445.

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This article analyses how national governments seek to enrol different subjects and objects in energy-carbon restructuring. It takes analysis beyond consideration of particular subjectivities and governmentalities to consider an expanded range of objects and subjects of governing at a distance. Developing an analytical model of ‘modes of enrolment’ focusing on power modalities, forms of policy integration and policy targets, the article explores five broad modes of enrolment employed in England. The article shows how policy across all modes of enrolment in England has increasingly tended towards disordered, syndromic experimentation and government by-project rather than any systematic programme of government.

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Dempsey, Ian. "Trends in the Placement of Students in Segregated Settings in NSW Government Schools." Australasian Journal of Special Education 31, no. 1 (April 2007): 73–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1030011200025616.

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This brief report describes recent data on the enrolment of students in New South Wales (NSW) government special schools and special classes. There has been an increase in both special school and special class enrolments since 1998 with large increases among students with emotional disturbance. This pattern is briefly discussed in relation to government policy and legislation, social and political factors as well as the notion that there may be a threshold for the extent of inclusion of students with special needs in NSW government schools.

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Pimentel, Samuel D., Lauren Vollmer Forrow, Jonathan Gellar, and Jiaqi Li. "Optimal matching approaches in health policy evaluations under rolling enrolment." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) 183, no. 4 (October 7, 2019): 1411–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12521.

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Cheema, Ahmed Raza, and Mazhar Iqbal. "Determinants of Girl’s School Enrollment In Pakistan." Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies 14, no. 1 (March 8, 2017): 17–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjgs.v14i1.138.

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The developing countries like Pakistan are facing the problem of low girls’ school enrolment rate. The study estimates the determinants of girls’ school enrolment by employing Binary Probit modal using the PSLM data 2010/11.The results show that though the education of both mother and father affect positively the girls’ school enrolment, yet the former affects it more as compared to the latter. The relationship between age of children and school enrolment is of inverted ‘U’ shaped. Foreign remittances and land ownership have more chances to affect the female school enrolment. School distance and poverty are major problems for female school enrolment. Further, females have more chances of school enrolment in urban areas as compared to rural ones. The results at provincial level reveal that mother’s education has more chances to affect the probability of girls’ enrolment in Sindh followed by Punjab as compared to KPK and Baluchistan. At a policy level government should pay more attention on girls’ school enrolment who are to become mothers tomorrow. The government should provide schools as near as possible to their homes. Free education should be provided especially for the poor. The ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development should be made more effective in searching out jobs abroad.

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Kaur, Sarabjit. "Innovative Programmes for Gender Equality in Indian School Education." Issues and Ideas in Education 8, no. 2 (October 22, 2020): 57–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.15415/iie.2020.82006.

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Background: National Education Policy 2020 aims to eliminate existing disparities in access to education for children from any gender or any under-represented group. After independence, India makes considerable strides in reducing gender gaps in education, but even today the goal of gender parity in school enrolments remains elusive. India provides Universal Elementary Education to all and this commitment has been articulated through Constitution, National Education Policies and other Innovative Programmes. All these initiatives put a strong emphasis on the education of girls and some of the programmes have been started particularly to eliminate gender gaps in school education. Purpose: This paper is an attempt to review the Innovative Programmes started by the Government of India to redress the gender gaps in school education and also to analyze the impact of these programmes on female literacy rates and enrolment rates of girls in elementary education. Before analyzing the innovative programmes and their impact on educational statistics, the paper briefly assesses the status of education in the Constitution of India and also studies the national policy perspective regarding universal elementary education of girls in the country in order to provide a sound background to this study. Methods: The method of document analysis for the review of policy documents and innovative programmes has been utilized and trend analysis method has been applied to study the educational statistics from the year 1950 to 2015. Results: The female literacy rates and enrolment of girls in total enrolments for the classes VI-VIII have registered an increase after the implementation of these programmes. Conclusions: It has been observed that these community-based programmes of the country have received a lot of international recognition for their contribution towards reducing gender gaps in elementary education. So, the experiences of these Innovative Programmes can prove quite beneficial for other countries struggling with gender gaps in school education.

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Pogodzinski, Ben, Sarah Winchell Lenhoff, and Michael F. Addonizio. "The push and pull of open enrolment policy in metro Detroit." Educational Review 70, no. 5 (August 10, 2017): 622–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2017.1359148.

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Wilfred, Akinola Gbenga, and Josue Mbonigaba. "Higher education enrolment in Sub-Saharan Africa: determinants and policy implications." International Journal of Education Economics and Development 11, no. 2 (2020): 165. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijeed.2020.10027916.

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Wilfred, Akinola Gbenga, and Josue Mbonigaba. "Higher education enrolment in Sub-Saharan Africa: determinants and policy implications." International Journal of Education Economics and Development 11, no. 2 (2020): 165. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijeed.2020.106585.

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Nsiah-Boateng, Eric, Jennifer Prah Ruger, and Justice Nonvignon. "Is enrolment in the national health insurance scheme in Ghana pro-poor? Evidence from the Ghana Living Standards Survey." BMJ Open 9, no. 7 (July 2019): e029419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029419.

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ObjectivesThis article examines equity in enrolment in the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to inform policy decisions on progress towards realisation of universal health coverage (UHC).DesignSecondary analysis of data from the sixth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS 6).SettingHousehold based.ParticipantsA total of 16 774 household heads participated in the GLSS 6 which was conducted between 18 October 2012 and 17 October 2013.AnalysisEquity in enrolment was assessed using concentration curves and bivariate and multivariate analyses to determine associated factors.Main outcome measureEquity in NHIS enrolment.ResultsSurvey participants had a mean age of 46 years and mean household size of four persons. About 71% of households interviewed had at least one person enrolled in the NHIS. Households in the poorest wealth quintile (73%) had enrolled significantly (p<0.001) more than those in the richest quintile (67%). The concentration curves further showed that enrolment was slightly disproportionally concentrated among poor households, particularly those headed by males. However, multivariate logistic analyses showed that the likelihood of NHIS enrolment increased from poorer to richest quintile, low to high level of education and young adults to older adults. Other factors including sex, household size, household setting and geographic region were significantly associated with enrolment.ConclusionsFrom 2012 to 2013, enrolment in the NHIS was higher among poor households, particularly male-headed households, although multivariate analyses demonstrated that the likelihood of NHIS enrolment increased from poorer to richest quintile and from low to high level of education. Policy-makers need to ensure equity within and across gender as they strive to achieve UHC.

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Paolucci, Francesco, Andre Den Exter, and Wynand Van De Ven. "Solidarity in competitive health insurance markets: analysing the relevant EC legal framework." Health Economics, Policy and Law 1, no. 2 (March 23, 2006): 107–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744133105000137.

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In this article we perform an economic analysis of different regulatory frameworks that aim at guaranteeing solidarity in competitive health insurance markets. Thereafter, we analyse the legal conformity of these intervention strategies with EC law. We find that risk compensation schemes are the first-best intervention strategy because they guarantee an ‘acceptable level of solidarity’ without hindering free trade and competition and without reducing efficiency. Second-best options are premium and excess-loss compensation schemes, which guarantee solidarity at the expense of some efficiency. Premium rate restrictions and open enrolment should be avoided because they reduce efficiency and are unnecessary, not proportional, and undesirable to the pursuit of the general good. These conclusions are relevant for EU countries that adopt premium rate restrictions and open enrolment in combination with a risk compensation scheme, such as Ireland and the Netherlands. In these countries policy makers should design the health insurance schemes in conformity with EC law, for example by replacing premium rate restrictions and open enrolment with premium and/or excess-loss compensation schemes.

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Putri, Arima Renny Dayu, and Markus Budiraharjo. "A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis on News Reports Addressing High School Student Enrolment Zoning Policy." JETL (Journal of Education, Teaching and Learning) 5, no. 2 (September 30, 2020): 218. http://dx.doi.org/10.26737/jetl.v5i2.1532.

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Empirical studies drawn from a Foucauldian discourse analysis suggest the complexity of policy implementations. Policy construction and implementation involve a set of different stakeholders, causing many competing agendas from different bodies to interfere with the processes and making policy outcomes highly unpredictable. This study was set to investigate how high school student enrolment zoning policy in Indonesia was represented in major online daily journals, specifically during the two months of June and July 2019. The latest enrolment zoning policy has been considered to be too disruptive among both parents and schools. Utilizing a discourse analysis, this paper attempted to reveal what issues were addressed and what agendas or powers were contested. In this discourse analysis, it is found that the three online journals as the resources of the study were not strong enough in presenting the news. All of them have not discussed the student’s aspect as the implementer of the zoning policy.

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Prabhakar, Rajiv. "Why do people opt-out or not opt-out of automatic enrolment? A focus group study of automatic enrolment into a workplace pension in the United Kingdom." Journal of European Social Policy 27, no. 5 (August 22, 2017): 447–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0958928717717656.

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Automatic enrolment (AE) into a workplace pension is an important recent development in pension policy. An important question for this policy is why do people opt-out or not opt-out of AE? This question is important for understanding the power of suggestion associated with AE as well as responding to concerns that women might face undue pressure to opt-out. This article addresses this question through a focus group study into the United Kingdom’s new AE policy. Women were more likely than men to cite lack of affordability as a reason for opting out. Lack of information also seemed important for the power of suggestion associated with AE. Further research should explore how to make AE less gender blind as well as the types of information or advice that should be provided alongside AE.

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Ashraf Toor, Imran, and Rizwana Parveen. "Factors Influencing Girls’ Primary Enrolment in Pakistan." LAHORE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS 9, no. 2 (July 1, 2004): 141–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.35536/lje.2004.v9.i2.a9.

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The target set in the National Policy on Education (1998-2010) for primary level enrolment is 90% of the children of age group of 5-9. This again was an achievable target, provided the available resources were efficiently used and programme interventions were made in a timely fashion. But during the last five years, it has not been implemented effectively and efficiently due to rapid population growth, insufficient political will, a period of undemocratic governance, and poor management of scarce resources. Women and girls have been most affected by these negative factors. The national literacy rate for females is only 35%, compared to 59% for males, and in certain status the female literacy, enrolment and achievement rates are much lower. There are many issues related to low enrolment of females such as poverty and economic issues, inadequate school infrastructure, gender bias in content and teaching and learning processes and poorly qualified teachers. The analysis of the study indicates that the age of the child, parents’ schooling particularly the mother, income per capita of the household head and distance to school are relevant variables in explaining the probability of female enrolment at the primary school level.

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Hoque, Nurzamal, and Ratul Mahanta. "Gender Gaps in Elementary Education in India in the post Right to Education Act Period: Implications for Policy." Space and Culture, India 8, no. 2 (September 29, 2020): 117–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.20896/saci.v8i2.841.

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While the gender gaps in elementary education in India have almost been eliminated, we obtain somewhat different picture when adjusting the gaps to the appropriate school-age children (6-14 years) and the number of the child population. We calculate gender gaps in enrolment, transition rate (from primary to upper primary level), achievement in the examination, and test scores in different subjects in the post Right to Education Act period and obtain that girls are ahead of the boys in almost all aspects. The age-adjusted gender gap in enrolment has improved, implying that over time girls are more likely to enrol in schools within the appropriate school-age. Also, fewer girls are expected to remain out of schools compared to boys within the appropriate school-age. Perhaps, this progress in enrolment has resulted in better performances of girls in transition rate, achievement in examinations and test scores in individual subjects. The rising girls’ performance on different indicators of elementary education indicates the potential impacts of female share on future labour market.

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Sinclair, David. "The coalition government and ageing policy: a critique." Quality in Ageing and Older Adults 16, no. 1 (March 9, 2015): 3–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qaoa-11-2014-0033.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the coalition's policy on ageing. Design/methodology/approach – A detailed review of recent government policy towards ageing. Findings – Localism has become increasing important, with reforms to health, planning and care emphasising the importance of localised action. The “nudge” of auto-enrolment will increase the number of people saving for old age. Originality/value – This policy analysis incorporates a detailed review of recent government policy on ageing.

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Foster, Liam. "Young People and Attitudes towards Pension Planning." Social Policy and Society 16, no. 1 (November 6, 2015): 65–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746415000627.

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There has been much concern about people not saving enough for retirement in the UK and how to encourage further saving. This has led to pension policy developments, including the introduction of auto-enrolment, a form of ‘soft’ compulsion, to ‘nudge’ people to save. Given that young working age cohorts have longest to contribute to pensions and have traditionally been least likely to save for retirement, it is important to investigate their attitudes and expectations in relation to pensions and the potential effects of auto-enrolment on their future retirement income. This study utilises the findings of thirty interviews with young people aged eighteen to thirty about their opportunities and attitudes towards pensions, and identifies a variety of factors which affect pension contributions, including knowledge and advice, trust and myopia. It then focuses explicitly on auto-enrolment before concluding that if auto-enrolment is to succeed, people need to be reassured beyond doubt that it ‘pays to save’.

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Byberg, Stine, Peter Aaby, Amabelia Rodrigues, Christine Stabell Benn, and Ane Baerent Fisker. "The mortality effects of disregarding the strategy to save doses of measles vaccine: a cluster-randomised trial in Guinea-Bissau." BMJ Global Health 6, no. 5 (May 2021): e004328. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004328.

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IntroductionMeasles vaccine (MV) may improve health beyond measles protection. To avoid wastage from multi-dose vials, children in Guinea-Bissau are only measles vaccinated when aged 9–11 months and when six or more children are present. We assessed health impacts of providing MV to all measles-unvaccinated children 9–35 months.MethodsWe cluster-randomised 182 village clusters under demographic surveillance in rural Guinea-Bissau to an ‘MV-for-all-policy’ arm where we offered MV regardless of age and number of children present at our bi-annual village visits, or a ‘Restrictive-MV-policy’ arm where we followed national policy. Measles-unvaccinated children aged 9–35 months were eligible for enrolment and followed to 5 years of age. In intention-to-treat analyses, we compared mortality using Cox regression analyses with age as underlying timescale. The primary analysis was for children aged 12–35 months at eligibility assessment. Interactions with several background factors were explored.ResultsBetween 2011 and 2016, we followed 2778 children in the primary analysis. MV coverage by 3 years was 97% among children eligible for enrolment under the MV-for-all-policy, and 48% under the Restrictive-MV-policy. Mortality was 59% lower than anticipated and did not differ by trial arm (MV-for-all-policy: 45/1405: Restrictive-MV-policy: 44/1373; HR: 0.95 (95% CI 0.64 to 1.43)). The effect of MV-for-all changed over time: The HR was 0.53 (95% CI 0.27 to 1.07) during the first 1½ years of enrolment but 1.47 (95% CI 0.87 to 2.50) later (p=0.02, test of interaction). Explorative analyses indicated that the temporal change may be related to interactions with other childhood interventions.ConclusionThe MV-for-all-policy increased MV coverage but had no overall effect on overall mortality.Trial registration numberNCT01306006.

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Qureshi, Madeeha Gohar. "The Gender Differences in School Enrolment and Returns to Education in Pakistan." Pakistan Development Review 51, no. 3 (September 1, 2012): 219–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v51i3pp.219-256.

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Using estimates of schooling demand function and private rate of return to education by gender derived from Household Integrated Economic Survey 2010-11, this paper attempts to examine if there is any dynamics to define a differential behaviour across gender in enrolment in Pakistan and if there is then what can be the possible cause of such discrepancies and how can they be reduced. The first set of analysis focuses on the estimates of probability of enrolment at primary, secondary and tertiary level of education by gender. Strong evidence for higher likelihood of enrolment emerges only at the secondary level of education when the gender is male. The behaviour of the determinants for these schooling demand functions at different levels of education differs by gender. One such key variable is parental education, which is more pronounced in case of mother’s education towards increasing the likelihood of enrolment of girls at the primary and secondary level and of father’s education for boys at all levels and girls at the tertiary level. Hence investing in female education today will not only empower females today but as a positive externality will also lead to gender equity in educational outcomes in the future. Besides this intergenerational externality of investment in female education, the finding establishes that when conditional cash programmes are targeted at mothers as a policy tool they become an effective measure in increasing current female enrolment. Moreover the case for reducing gender disparities in educational outcomes is further supported when we see how gender imbalance in educational attainment and female labour force participation lead to discrepancies in the private rate of return to education by gender. The varied estimates of private rate of returns to education for males and females show that such deviations arise because the females labour force on average is much less educated than males and hence if the object is to raise the rates of returns, a targeted policy for reducing gender differences in enrolment at all levels of education primary, secondary and tertiary will have to be implemented.

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Moshoeshoe, Ramaele, Cally Ardington, and Patrizio Piraino. "The Effect of the Free Primary Education Policy on School Enrolment and Relative Grade Attainment in Lesotho†." Journal of African Economies 28, no. 5 (April 6, 2019): 511–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejz007.

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Abstract We examine the impact of Lesotho’s Free Primary Education (FPE) programme on enrolment and relative grade attainment. The programme was sequentially implemented by first abolishing school fees in grade one in the year 2000. The timing of the implementation created changes in programme coverage across age groups over time. We employ a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits these variations to identify the effects of the FPE policy. Using data from the 2000 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey and the 2002 Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire survey, we find that the FPE policy increased enrolment of primary school-age children by 19.1 percentage points between 1999 and 2002. We also find that the policy had a negative effect on relative grade attainment: post-FPE, children had 0.15 fewer grades per year of age compared to pre-FPE. We do not find evidence of sibling effects.

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Khayyam, Umer, and Herbert Edling. "Public-Private Nexus for the Educational Development of Central-Tribal Region of Pakistan." Journal of Public Administration and Governance 6, no. 1 (February 20, 2016): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jpag.v6i1.8951.

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Public-private blend remains the more pragmatic approach for efficiency through assistance and mutual cooperation for the contemporary educational policies in any area. This article summarizes PPP for advancement of the secondary education through quantifiable and qualitative support from both the poles in the most backward central tribal region of Pakistan. It is focused on policy strategies, over the years, from the national educational institutions facilitated by not-for-profit sector to increase net enrolment rate, gross enrolment ratio and reduction in gender parity through the package of developed infrastructure, teaching material provision and studentships. Furthermore, training of the teaching-staff to boost quality aspect to provide enough qualified human resource to tertiary level alternatively to improve the local economy. However, the article concludes wide-range objectives’ setting through sequential educational policies, and strategies, investment of significant financial resources, and outlaying of comprehensive mechanism of implementation, yet, triggered retrogression across net enrolment rate, gross enrolment ratio, wide geographical and gender disparity besides discrepancies across selection of teachers for training, training modules and trainers’ competencies.

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Prasetyia, Ferry. "The role of local government policy on secondary school enrolment decision in Indonesia." Eurasian Economic Review 9, no. 2 (July 5, 2018): 139–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40822-018-0101-9.

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Fairhurst, Joan, and Madzinge Nembudani. "Government policy, demography and primary school enrolment in Vhembe District, Limpopo, South Africa." Education as Change 18, no. 1 (October 15, 2013): 151–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16823206.2013.847016.

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Heymann, Jody, Amy Raub, and Adèle Cassola. "Constitutional rights to education and their relationship to national policy and school enrolment." International Journal of Educational Development 39 (November 2014): 121–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2014.08.005.

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Khiem, Phuong Huu, Dinh Hong Linh, Do Anh Tai, and Nguyen Dac Dung. "Does tuition fee policy reform encourage poor children’s school enrolment? Evidence from Vietnam." Economic Analysis and Policy 66 (June 2020): 109–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2020.03.001.

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Kansra, Pooja, and Harinder Singh Gill. "Role of Perceptions in Health Insurance Buying Behaviour of Workers Employed in Informal Sector of India." Global Business Review 18, no. 1 (February 2017): 250–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972150916666992.

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Health insurance can be an effective tool of personal protection. But India’s health insurance market still lags behind the other countries in terms of penetration. The present article identified the role of perceptions in the enrolment of health insurance among the urban informal sector of Punjab, India. First, data were obtained from the urban informal sector of Punjab. Then factor analysis was applied to identify the perceptions associated with enrolment of health insurance. After this, logistic regression was performed to determine the associations of identified perceptions with enrolment of health insurance. The present study identified 12 perceptions factors associated with health insurance enrolment of the informal sector in India. Out of the 12 factors, the logistic regression results proved that 8 were statistically significant influencers of health insurance enrolment decisions. The significant perceptions factors were lack of awareness about the need to buy health insurance; comprehensive coverage; income constraint; future contingencies and social obligations; lack of information; availability of subsidized government health care; linkage with government hospitals; and preference for government schemes. It was found that perceptions play a vital role in the household decisions to enrol for health insurance. Policy makers or marketers of health insurance policies should recognize the household perceptions as a potential barrier and try to develop a health insurance package as per the actual needs of the informal sector (low income) in India.

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Matsolo, Mpho Joyce, Wilson C. Ningpuanyeh, and A. Sathiya Susuman. "Factors Affecting the Enrolment Rate of Students in Higher Education Institutions in the Gauteng province, South Africa." Journal of Asian and African Studies 53, no. 1 (July 25, 2016): 64–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909616657369.

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The purpose of this research is to investigate and analyse higher education institutions’ enrolment and drop-out rates within the Gauteng province, South Africa. Large-scale secondary data from the General Household Survey, obtained from Statistics South Africa (2012) were used. This study’s findings show that finance, orphan-hood, transport to the higher education institutions and, to a lesser extent, unplanned pregnancies, are some of the main factors that affect the enrolment rate of students. This study hopes to be useful to policy-makers, research managers and other decision-makers within the higher education (HE) landscape.

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Ursin, Lars, and Maria Stuifbergen. "Ethics of dead participants: policy recommendations for biobank research." Journal of Medical Ethics 44, no. 10 (June 19, 2018): 695–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2017-104241.

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Respecting people’s consent choices for use of their material and data is a cornerstone of biobank ethics. Participation in biobanks is characteristically based on broad consent that presupposes an ongoing possibility of informing and interacting with participants over time. The death of a participant means the end of any interaction, but usually not the end of participation. Research on causes of death makes biobank material from deceased participants extremely valuable. But as new research questions and methods develop over time, the question arises whether stored biobank material from deceased persons still can be used on the basis of their broad consent. In this paper, we discuss policies for postmortem use of biobank material, including consent options, proxy consent and criteria for limitation of types of use and duration of storage. We conclude that the interests of participants in biobank research are best served by asking at enrolment if and how the biobank material may be used after death. We state that the use of biobank material from deceased participants should be delimited both by their consent and by the prevailing broad consent choices of living participants.Biobanks also need to inform participants at enrolment about the duration of storage of biobank material or at minimum have procedures for deciding how long material will be stored for and for which purpose. For older collections, in the absence of such information or consent options, relevant authorities should decide.

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Tarsilla, Kibaara. "CHALLENGES EXPERIENCED IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION POLICY IN KENYA AND THE CURRENT STATUS IN THE COMPETENCE BASED CURRICULUM ." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 8, no. 3 (April 8, 2021): 706–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.83.9953.

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The Kenya Special Needs Education Policy Framework 2009 provided a legal framework that was relevant and guided the provision of Special Needs Education in Kenya. The implementation of the policy has seen Kenya achieve many milestones including increased enrolment, which rose from 22,000 learners in 1999 to 108,221 in 290 special primary institutions and 2057 Special units/integrated programmes (MOE 2018).

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Moses, Dauda, Aniekan Elijah Asukwo, Muhammed Adamu Yusuf, and Isaac John Ibanga. "Achieving Sustainable Development Goals 2016-2030 in Nigeria through Female Enrolment into Electrical/Electronics Engineering Trade in Technical Colleges of Adamawa State." Journal of Advanced Research in Economics and Administrative Sciences 2, no. 1 (February 18, 2021): 28–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.47631/jareas.v2i1.214.

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Purpose: This study investigated female enrolment into electrical/electronics engineering trade in technical colleges of Adamawa State in order to suggest ways of augmenting it for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2016-2030. Approach/ Methodology/ Design: Two research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The sample of the study comprised of 38 teachers and 140 parents. A 50-item Female Enrolment in Electrical/Electronics Engineering Trade (FEEET) Questionnaire was developed by the researchers and used for data collection. The questionnaire was validated by three experts from the Department of Electrical Technology Education, Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, Adamawa State. Reliability co-efficient of 0.81 was obtained for the instrument using Cronbach’s Alpha reliability method. Mean statistic was used to answer the two research questions while z-test statistics was used to test the two hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings: The findings of the study revealed that inadequate knowledge on female participation in electrical/electronics engineering trade, hazards involved in working with electricity, and poor gender policy implementation among others were factors affecting female enrolment into the programme. Establishment of electrical/electronics engineering trade skill acquisition centres for females and provision of starter packs for female graduates of electrical/electronics engineering trade among others were strategies identified for improving female enrolment into the programme. Practical Implication: The study has practical implications for achieving sustainable development goals in Nigeria. A sustainable financing scheme for the female trainees of electrical/electronics engineering trade should be established in order to boost their interests in the programme. Originality/Value: The study identified that inadequate knowledge on female participation in electrical/electronics engineering trade, hazards involved in working with electricity, societal perception about electricity, cultural sanctions on women, early marriages, and poor gender policy implementation are the main factors that affect female enrolment in technical colleges in Nigeria.

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Maloney, Maureen, and Alma McCarthy. "Automatic enrolment to pension plans in small organisations: a research agenda." Employee Relations 41, no. 1 (January 7, 2019): 142–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/er-06-2017-0138.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyse how firm size impacts pension workforce coverage with a particular focus on automatic enrolment (AE) to pension plans in small organisations.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examines the alignment of government AE interests with those of small employers, their employees and pension providers to better understand how firm size impacts pension workforce coverage.FindingsThe alignment of interests between stakeholders (government, pension providers, employers and employees) differs between large and small organisations, and empirical findings from large organisations cannot be assumed to apply in small organisations.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper calls attention to the need for future empirical research and identifies a number of research questions for further analysis to examine how AE impacts pension participation in small organisations and advance the field.Originality/valueThe policy of automatically enroling employees into occupational pension plans, recently legislated for all eligible workers in the UK and under consideration in the USA and Ireland, was developed from research conducted in a small number of large organisations. Pension coverage is particularly inadequate for the large number of employees working in small organisations (1–49 employees). However, little research attention has been focussed on pensions in small organisations with pension policy makers assuming that legislated AE will work as effectively in small organisations as it did in large organisations. This paper addresses this gap in the field.

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Fiestas Navarrete, Lucia, Simone Ghislandi, David Stuckler, and Fabrizio Tediosi. "Inequalities in the benefits of national health insurance on financial protection from out-of-pocket payments and access to health services: cross-sectional evidence from Ghana." Health Policy and Planning 34, no. 9 (September 20, 2019): 694–705. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czz093.

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Abstract A central pillar of universal health coverage (UHC) is to achieve financial protection from catastrophic health expenditure. There are concerns, however, that national health insurance programmes with premiums may not benefit impoverished groups. In 2003, Ghana became the first sub-Saharan African country to introduce a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) with progressively structured premium charges. In this study, we test the impact of being insured on utilization and financial risk protection compared with no enrolment, using the 2012–13 Ghana Living Standards Survey (n = 72 372). Consistent with previous studies, we observed that participating in health insurance significantly decreased the probability of unmet medical needs by 15 percentage points (p.p.) and that of incurring catastrophic out-of-pocket (OOP) health payments by 7 p.p. relative to no enrolment in the NHIS. Households living outside a 1-h radius to the nearest hospital had lower reductions in financial risk from excess OOP medical spending relative to households living closer (−5 p.p. vs −9 p.p.). We also find evidence that in Ghana, the scheme was highly pro-poor. Once insured, the poorest 40% of households experienced significantly larger improvements in medical utilization (18 p.p. vs. 8 p.p.) and substantively larger reductions in catastrophic OOP health expenditure (−10 p.p. vs. −6 p.p.) compared with that of the richest households. However, health insurance did not benefit vulnerable persons equally from financial risk. Once insured, poor, low-educated and self-employed households living far from hospitals had significantly lower reductions in catastrophic OOP medical spending compared with their counterparts living closer. Taken together, we show that enrolment in the NHIS is associated with improved financial protection but less so among geographically remote vulnerable groups. Efforts to boost not just insurance uptake but also health service delivery may be needed as a supplement for insurance schemes to accelerate progress towards UHC.

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Ghani, Zubairu Abubakar, Noralfishah Sulaiman, and Mohammed Ishaq Mohammed. "Challenges of Students Housing Provision in Malaysia." Path of Science 6, no. 11 (November 30, 2020): 2001–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.22178/pos.64-3.

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The world population has been growing tremendously, which surged up the demand and enrolment in educational institutions to unimaginable level globally. Similarly, Malaysia has witnessed tremendous growth in higher education both in the order and establishment of new higher education institutions (HEIs) to match up with the demand. However, there is no commensurate increase in the student housing facilities to match up with the growing enrolment and demand; hence, accommodate a certain proportion of the total students. The paper explored qualitative methodology data from in-depth expert interviews of selected public and private universities in Malaysia; discussed the problems of HEIs student housing provision to four identified themes: student enrolment, government policy, funding and land issues as what exacerbated the issues. Therefore, challenges for student housing provision are enormous; hence HEIs and Government cannot adequately respond and satisfy the demand unless private housing developers actively involved otherwise problems of student housing provision will continue to persist.

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Gunn, Alexandra C. "Inclusionary early childhood centre policy and procedures: An examination of policies and enrolment protocols." Early Childhood Folio 6 (June 1, 2002): 27–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.18296/ecf.0245.

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Panda, Pradeep, Arpita Chakraborty, David M. Dror, and Arjun S. Bedi. "Enrolment in community-based health insurance schemes in rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India." Health Policy and Planning 29, no. 8 (October 26, 2013): 960–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czt077.

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Kansanga, Moses Mosonsieyiri, Joseph Asumah Braimah, Roger Antabe, Yuji Sano, Emmanuel Kyeremeh, and Isaac Luginaah. "Examining the association between exposure to mass media and health insurance enrolment in Ghana." International Journal of Health Planning and Management 33, no. 2 (February 12, 2018): e531-e540. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hpm.2505.

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Kelaher, Margaret, Judith Gray, and David Dunt. "Understanding the effectiveness of partnership-based early childhood interventions." Australian Journal of Primary Health 15, no. 3 (2009): 218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py08070.

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In this paper, we seek to understand the relationship between partnership effectiveness and preschool enrolment in Best Start, an early childhood intervention for children living in disadvantaged areas in Victoria, an Australian State. We will examine the application of theories of partnership effectiveness at a whole of intervention level and in the context of local evaluation initiatives at the Broadmeadows Early Years Partnership. For the statewide intervention, partnership effectiveness was measured using the VicHealth Partnership Analysis Tool at 11 Best Start Sites. The dependent variable was preschool enrolment in Best Start local government area. For the Broadmeadows Early Years Partnership case study, partnership is conceptualised in terms of the Lasker and Weiss (2003) model of collaborative decision making. Scores rose significantly between the two applications of the VicHealth Partnership Analysis Tool at the beginning and end of the Best Start funding period on almost all of the dimensions of the VicHealth Tool. Support for ‘making partnerships work’, ‘minimising barriers to partnerships’ and the ‘total’ partnership scores were associated with increased preschool enrolments. The results of the case study supported the model for collaborative decision making with particular emphasis on the role of shared leadership, synergy and bridging social ties as crucial processes in improving service integration. The results of the statewide intervention and the case study both provide evidence of the value of partnership approaches in improving service uptake and integration for children living in disadvantaged areas. The study also supports current conceptualisations of partnership value and effectiveness.

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Nunes, Bruno Teles. "Teacher education: is it beating its head on a brick wall?" Ensaio: Avaliação e Políticas Públicas em Educação 26, no. 98 (December 18, 2017): 32–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0104-40362018002601337.

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Abstract Brazilian basic education still lacks qualified teachers. The Brazilian Open University System (UAB) is a branch of a public educational policy designed to address that problem. This quantitative/descriptive paper analyses UAB System statistics (2006 to June 2015), specifically regarding vacancies, enrolment and the number of students that graduate. It was revealed that 68.3% of all vacancies were allocated to teacher education courses, and within that sphere 67.5% were degree courses for basic education teachers and 32.4%, complementary courses. The enrolment percentage was around 86%, while the proportion of students graduating was around 61%. Analysis of the figures suggests that the UAB sought to achieve its main goal, as a public policy that induces teacher education for Brazilian basic education teaching staff. However, it is conjectured that problems related to the teaching profession itself discourage students from joining and from finalizing their courses, thereby weakening the potential performance of the UAB System.

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Ali, Syed Ammad, Hasan Raza, and Muhammad Umair Yousuf. "The Role of Fiscal Policy in Human Development: The Pakistan’s Perspective." Pakistan Development Review 51, no. 4II (December 1, 2012): 381–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v51i4iipp.381-396.

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Human development considered as the engine of the economic growth as it improves the economy’s strength and increases the standard of living of the people, increases the choices and maximises the welfare of the society that is the prime objective of any government. The development of the human capabilities is also necessary for the sustainable growth, as there are many channels through which human development foster the economic growth. It increases the labour productivity, labour demand, employment and output. On the other hand, human capital also attracts physical capital.1 Empirically, it is very difficult to have an exact measure of human development and social welfare. Several proxies used to measure human development, e.g. GNI per capita as a measure of standard of living, Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) criterion to measure the cost of living and to measure the welfare, average year of schooling, school enrolment rate and health expenditures as a percentage of GDP to capture this composite welfare and development indicator. A fair index of Human Development Index (HDI) was developed by United Nations Development Programme in 1990. This index based on the standard of living (natural logarithm of GDP PPP per capita), access to knowledge (adult literacy rate with two-third weighting and the remaining is the gross enrolment ratio) and a healthy life (life expectancy at birth). The value of index varies from 0 to 1, lower the HDI, lesser would be the human development and welfare in the country or vice versa.

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Adhikari, Shiva Hari. "Remittances and Development in Nepal: A Disaggregated Analysis." Journal of Management and Development Studies 30, no. 1 (April 8, 2021): 37–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jmds.v30i1.36350.

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Remittance flows into low/middle-income counties are on a continuous rise and this trend is seen in Nepal as well. There is a constant increase in the number of the Nepalese workers migrating for foreign employment and that has been instrumental to boost the remittance inflow into the country. Remittance is contributing significantly to Gross Domestic Product and is emerging as a backbone of the country’s economy. However, the ways remittances contribute to social development necessitates that many facets of development be explored because they affect the country’s development in multiple ways. This study attempts to analyse the possibility that remittance positively contributes to social development, considering health and educational development as its proxies. Based on the latest available disaggregated educational enrolment and nutrition data of 2009 A.D. by districts, this study analyses the impact of the remittances on school enrolment and improvement in health status of families who remain at home. The results show a significant relationship between remittance and school enrolment but it also shows an insignificant relationship between remittance and health. The findings may be of interest to the countries and the policy makers with remittance being the dominant source of foreign currency. As the results of this study have indicated that remittances may serve as a contributing factor to the educational enrolment for social development.

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Erukudi, Locha, and Paul Edabu. "INFLUENCE OF FOOD ADEQUACY ON ENROLMENT IN ECE CENTRES IN TURKANA CENTRAL SUB COUNTY, TURKANA COUNTY, KENYA." African Journal of Education and Practice 6, no. 6 (September 29, 2020): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.47604/ajep.1143.

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Purpose: This study sought to establish the influence of SFP on children enrolment in early childhood education centers in Turkana Central Sub-County, Kenya. Specific objective was to establish the influence of food adequacy on enrolment in ECE centres in Turkana Central Sub County, Turkana County, Kenya. Methodology: The study was based on Maslow hierarchy of needs, the program theory and liberal egalitarian theory. The study used a mixed research method. The study adopted the cross-sectional research design. The target population was 250 schools, 78 teachers and head teachers and 5,000 parents in pre-schools in Turkana Central Sub County. The study used purposive sampling to select respondents. The sample size of the study was 150 schools, 60 teachers and head teachers and 357 parents. Primary data was gathered by use of questionnaires and interviews guides. Secondary data consisted of report forms of pre-schoolers. Quantitative information was analyzed using descriptive statistics which was computed using SPSS version 21. Qualitative data was analyzed using content analysis. Multiple regressions were done to analyze the influence of SFPs on children enrolment in ECDE centres in Turkana Central Sub County. Findings: The study found that food adequacy significantly and positively relate with children enrolment in ECE centres in Turkana Central Sub County, Turkana County, Kenya. Food adequacy had statistically significant effect of school enrolment in ECD (β = 0.415, P = 0.005). It implies that food adequacy significantly and positively relate with children enrolment in ECE centres in Turkana Central Sub County, Turkana County, Kenya. This implies that increasing food adequacy will lead to increase in children enrolment in ECE centres in Turkana Central Sub County, Turkana County, Kenya. Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study therefore recommends the government to increase food supply to ensure adequacy. There is need to continue supply of balanced diet to children because it improves their growth and learning. Some of the children are from very poor families and during school holidays they suffer because of lack of food; the study therefore recommends orphans, poor and disabled to be fed even during holidays.

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Jehu-Appiah, C., G. Aryeetey, I. Agyepong, E. Spaan, and R. Baltussen. "Household perceptions and their implications for enrolment in the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana." Health Policy and Planning 27, no. 3 (April 18, 2011): 222–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czr032.

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Yang, Rui. "Incorporation and University Governance: The Chinese Experience, Using University Enrolment Expansion Policy as an Example." Asia Pacific Journal of Education 27, no. 3 (November 2007): 255–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02188790701604759.

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Saqib, Najam. "Willingness to Pay for Primary Education in Rural Pakistan." Pakistan Development Review 43, no. 1 (March 1, 2004): 27–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v43i1pp.27-51.

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Highly subsidised public schools are the principal provider of education in the rural areas of Pakistan. Steady growth of school age population over time coupled with stagnant public funding has put enormous pressure on this system. The alternative of cost recovery through user charges has its own critics. They argue that introduction of tuition fees would substantially reduce the already small representation of low-income households in primary schools due to high price elasticity of their demand for schooling. Moreover, the revenuegenerating potential of this policy may also be limited due to same reason. The present study uses a discrete choice random utility model of household utility maximising behaviour to evaluate feasibility and consequences of introducing user fees in primary schools in rural Pakistan, particularly with reference to above criticisms. The demand function for school enrolment derived from this model allows us to test the hypothesis that price elasticity of demand for schooling varies with income. It also provides estimates of the parameters of the utility function needed for measuring parents’ willingness to pay for their childrens’ education if money generated from tuition fees is reinvested in education. The estimated demand function takes into account total price of education, including opportunity cost. Estimation results show that price elasticity of demand for school enrolment is higher for lower-income groups. Hence school enrolment of the poorest children would bear the main brunt of user fees policy. Children’s gender and age, father’s education, presence of T.V. in the household, and community variables like the presence of an elected district council member, electricity, and public transport in the village turn out to be significant influences on the probability of primary school enrolment. Willingness to pay for education is lower for poorer households and can generate revenues to cover only a fraction of the cost of running a school. Hence the need to search for other sources of financing primary education in rural Pakistan.

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Maku, Olukayode E., Emmanuel O. Ajike, and Solomon Chinedu. "Human Capital Development and Macroeconomic Performance in Nigeria: An Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Approach." Valahian Journal of Economic Studies 10, no. 1 (July 1, 2019): 51–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/vjes-2019-0005.

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Abstract While developed and most developing nations have seen the need and continue to invest heavily in the development and training of her manpower as shown by huge budgetary allocations to education and health, Nigeria continues to play politics with her human capital development policy which has been poor and only been effective on paper despite the huge outlay of human capital available at our disposal. This study therefore examined the impact of human capital development on the macroeconomic performance of Nigeria. Using autoregressive distributed lagged model, the study proxied human capital development using government expenditure on education, government expenditure on health, secondary school enrolment rate, and school enrolment rate at tertiary level, while per capita GDP was used as proxy variable for measuring macroeconomic performance. The results of the estimated short and long run ARDL models indicated, an insignificant and negative relationship between human capital development and gross domestic product per capita (GDPPC) in the short run. Another result of this study is that, only tertiary enrolment rate (TER) has a significant and positive impact on gross domestic product per capita (GDPPC). This finding was an indication of relatively good but insufficient efforts by government to boost human capital. The study concluded that while human capital development is crucial for accelerated macroeconomic performance, government efforts aimed at boosting human capital has had a depressing effect on macroeconomic performance. On the strength of this, the study recommended that government and economic policy makers in Nigeria should place greater emphasis on human capital development.

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Azomahou, Théophile T., Abdoulaye Diagne, and Fatoumata L. Diallo. "Non-compliance and Non-response in Randomised School Meals Experiment: Evidence from Rural Senegal†." Journal of African Economies 28, no. 5 (March 29, 2019): 533–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejz008.

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Abstract School meals have been introduced as an important policy tool to improve education outcomes and pupil’s nutritional status. This study uses a unique and large-scale randomised field experiment to assess the effectiveness of such programmes on pupils’s performance (test scores in French, mathematics and the aggregate) and on the internal efficiency of schools (enrolment, promotion, repetition and dropout) in rural Senegal. We show that attrition and non-compliance occurred not at random in the experiment. Relying on the average treatment effect and the complier effects, we find that the programme has a positive and significant impact on pupils’ scores and on the enrolment rate. However, the repetition rate increased. The intervention has a marked gender effect. Cost-effectiveness analysis shows that deworming intervention is more cost-effective than school meals.

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Ryan, Paul, Caitriona McGrath, Iain Lawrie, Caoimhe Fitzsimons, Jack O’Shea, and Aoife De BrÚn. "Enhancing efficiency in a cardiac investigations department by increasing remote patient monitoring." International Journal for Quality in Health Care 31, Supplement_1 (December 2019): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzz065.

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Abstract Objective Remote monitoring (RM) of patients with cardiac rhythm management devices enables healthcare teams to effectively and efficiently monitor patients with heart problems without the requirement in-person patient visits. RM has been associated with safer and higher quality care but was not being used to its full potential in this setting. Cardiac rhythm management had observed an average implant rate of 295 devices per year over the past 13 years, resulting in a five-fold growth in patient follow-up in clinics. This increased demand was becoming unmanageable, with impacts on care quality. This study aimed to enhance the enrolment of eligible patients to RM. Design A pre-post design. Setting A 600-bed city centre teaching hospital in Dublin, Ireland. Participants Hospital staff and patients eligible for RM. Interventions Lean Six Sigma methods were used to develop patient education materials on RM and the clinic area was redesigned to enable RM enrolment and monitoring. Main outcomes measures Number of unscheduled attendances to clinic and RM enrolment. Results At baseline, the clinic was processing 102 RM follow-up checks with 140 unscheduled attendances on average per month. Following implementation, RM enrolment increased to 335 RM follow-up checks (194% increase), with 41 unscheduled attendances on average per month (70% decrease). These results were sustained one-year post-implementation. Conclusions These process changes have streamlined workflow by reducing the number of unscheduled attendances to clinic and increased the use of RM among the eligible patient population. This has meant safer, more timely responses to cardiac events and enhanced care quality.

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Gupta, Priyanka. "EFFORTS TO REINTEGRATE DROPOUTS IN LIGHT OF DRAFT OF NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY 2019." Researchers' Guild 2, no. 1 (October 9, 2020): 95–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/rg2019.10.

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Dropouts are the children who are not in the educational field because of various reasons. All those children who could not either get enrolled in the school or dropout from the school before completing the education. There have many efforts to bring all children in school. Right to Education was one such effort to achieve 100% enrolment for children upto 14 years. Draft of National Education Policy has also suggested various measures to ensure that all the students could be streamlined in the educational field. This paper critically analyzes the suggestions made in the Draft of National Education Policy to reintegrate the dropouts.

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