What Drives Enrolment Gaps in Further Education? The Role of Beliefs in Sequential Schooling Decisions

<div class="page" title="Page 3"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Veronika is a recent graduate from the Honours Legal Studies program at the University of Waterloo. Her passions are socio-legal research, policy development, feminist legal theory, and crime control development. Veronika is currently working a full-time job at Oracle Canada, planning on pursuing further education in a Masters program. </span></p></div></div></div>

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Epilogue

10.1093/oso/9780199583478.003.0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Sheila Murnaghan ◽

Deborah H. Roberts

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Further Education ◽

Modern World ◽

Fan Fiction ◽

Fantasy Literature ◽

Childhood Experiences ◽

Pleasure Reading ◽

Classical Mythology ◽

Children And Young Adults

The preceding work is summed up as a study of adults’ attempts over a century-long period to make sense of their own childhood experiences of antiquity and to recreate those experiences for new generations through the medium of absorbing pleasure reading. Such experiences are valued for their capacity to stimulate the imagination, to expand moral understanding, to pave the way for further education, and to bring renewal or redemption to the disturbed modern world. The chapter ends with a brief survey of developments in classical mythology and historical fiction for children and young adults from the mid-1960s until the present, including the emergence of new forms of fantasy literature and the role of new media such as video games and fan fiction.

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Overconfidence of vocational education students when entering higher education

Education + Training ◽

10.1108/et-02-2014-0012 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 57 (4) ◽

pp. 429-447 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mark P. Bowden ◽

Subhash Abhayawansa ◽

John Bahtsevanoglou

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Further Education ◽

Small Sample ◽

First Year ◽

Education Students ◽

Content Type ◽

The Relationship ◽

Practical Implications

Purpose – There is evidence that students who attend Technical and Further Education (TAFE) prior to entering higher education underperform in their first year of study. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of self-efficacy in understanding the performance of students who completed TAFE in the previous year in a first year subject of microeconomics in a dual sector university in Melbourne, Australia. Design/methodology/approach – The study utilises data collected by surveys of 151 students. Findings – A student’s self-efficacy is positively associated with their marks in a first year subject of microeconomics. However, the relationship between final marks and self-efficacy is negative for those students who attended TAFE in the previous year suggesting that they suffer from the problem of overconfidence. When holding self-efficacy constant, using econometric techniques, TAFE attendance is found to be positively related to final marks. Research limitations/implications – The findings are exploratory (based on a small sample) and lead to a need to conduct cross institutional studies. Practical implications – The research points to the need for early interventions so that TAFE students perform well in their first year of higher education. It also points to potential issues in the development of Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) programs. Originality/value – To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first paper to examine the inter-related impact of attendance at TAFE in the previous year and self-efficacy on the subsequent academic performance of TAFE students.

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Australian Community Pharmacy Harm-Minimisation Services: Scope for Service Expansion to Improve Healthcare Access

Pharmacy ◽

10.3390/pharmacy9020095 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 95

Author(s):

Sara S. McMillan ◽

Hidy Chan ◽

Laetitia H. Hattingh

Keyword(s):

Community Pharmacy ◽

Healthcare Access ◽

Further Education ◽

Community Pharmacies ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Pharmacy Staff ◽

Harm Minimisation ◽

Staff Members ◽

Education Support

Community pharmacies are well positioned to participate in harm-minimisation services to reduce harms caused by both licit and illicit substances. Considering developments in pharmacist practices and the introduction of new professional pharmacy services, we identified a need to explore the contemporary role of community pharmacy in harm minimisation. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken to explore the opinions of stakeholders, pharmacy staff, and clients about the role of community pharmacy in harm minimisation, including provision of current services, experiences, and expectations. Participants (n = 28) included 5 stakeholders, 9 consumers, and 14 staff members from seven community pharmacies. Three over-arching themes were identified across the three participants groups: (i) scope and provision, (ii) complexity, and (iii) importance of person-centred advice and support in relation to community pharmacy harm minimisation services. Community pharmacies are valuable healthcare destinations for delivery of harm minimisation services, with scope for service expansion. Further education, support, and remuneration are needed, as well as linkage to other sector providers, in order to ensure that pharmacists and pharmacy staff are well equipped to provide a range of harm minimisation services.

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The Roles of Parent and Teacher on Children Attitude Development to Avoid Bullying Behavior in Early Childhood

Yavana Bhasha : Journal of English Language Education ◽

10.25078/yb.v1i1.1374 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 21

Author(s):

Putu Eka Sastrika Ayu

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Personality Development ◽

Further Education ◽

Family Education ◽

School Rules ◽

Bullying Behavior ◽

Role Of Parents ◽

Early Family

<p>Family takes important influences on the education of children's moral and personality development. Families especially parents are the main agencies to teach children new things as well as goodness or badness. Early family education should include three aspects namely cognitive, affective and psychomotor aspects. In early family education, parents should impart honest behaving, polite speaking, and responsibility-taking. In this early family education, educational interaction occurs firstly and foremost to the children who would become the foundation of their further education. Cultivating children's attitudes should be carried out by school teachers. There are several roles that can be implemented by the teacher namely; as a model, mentor, coach, motivational speaker, and evaluator. The role of teachers as educators (nurturer) are the roles that are associated with the duties of assistance and encouragement (supporter), the tasks of supervision and coaching (supervisor) as well as tasks related to disciplining children the child was being well behaved against the school rules and norms of life in the family and society. By optimizing the role of parents and teachers in the cultivation of the attitude, then it will be able to reduce bullying behavior in early childhood. The children's experiences with bullying will give long term impacts. For the children having bullying victims, the experience will be a nightmare that never disappears from their memories. </p>

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Careers Guidance and Transitions to Further Education in Wales

International Journal for Population Data Science ◽

10.23889/ijpds.v4i3.1211 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Katy Huxley ◽

Rhys Davies ◽

Suhaer Yunus

Keyword(s):

Multivariate Analysis ◽

Young People ◽

Lifelong Learning ◽

Career Guidance ◽

Compulsory Education ◽

Further Education ◽

Low Levels ◽

Academic Year ◽

Combining Information

There is a general agreement that receiving appropriate and timely careers guidance enhances the likelihood of an individual’s participation in post-compulsory education. However, little is understood about how careers guidance influences the choices of learners. This paper explores the educational journey of learners’ who enrol within the Further Education sector in Wales, analysing whether the receipt of careers guidance is in anyway associated with these outcomes. This study utilises the linked database of school and pupil records, combining information from the Welsh National Pupil Database (NPD) with individual learner records from the Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR) for young people who are registered at post-compulsory education providers, combined with anonymised client information held by Careers Wales. Data for two cohorts of Year 11 pupils (2012/13 and 2013/14) who subsequently enrolled in courses within the FE sector during the following academic year is analysed. Multivariate analysis reveals that, as expected, there is a strong link between GCSE attainment and learning aims at FE. However, the analysis also suggests that receipt of careers guidance may encourage learners to make choices at FE that are more commensurate with their abilities. Those with higher levels of attainment are also more likely to enrol on higher level learning programmes if they have also been in receipt of careers guidance. Likewise, those with low levels of attainment at GCSE are more likely to enrol on learning programmes with lower qualification aims if they have been in receipt of careers guidance. Receiving careers guidance through interviews increased the likelihood of registering on WBL programmes. Furthermore, learners on WBL programmes who have received careers guidance are less likely to withdraw from their courses early. The study offers important insights as to the role of career guidance in supporting young people in their transitions to post-compulsory education.

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