In policy, the Ghanaian education system is evolving significantly. Recent educational reforms have stressed the need for a form of education that places significant emphasis on students’ critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Having realised the challenges of the traditional behaviourist approach ...
In the case of Kenya, the Ministry of Education reported that some staff lacked the IT skills to enter data correctly. The Ministry also reported that head teachers sometimes exaggerated the number of children with disabilities in their schools to collect enhanced capitation allowances. Even if ...
and parameters were specified to identify non-wear time as any 1-minute interval with consecutive zero counts greater than or equal to 60 min with allowance of 2-minute intervals of non-zero counts for 30 min upstream and downstream. Following the application of this algorithm, the data ...
Thus, limited financial resources prevent schools from covering expenses such as learning materials, wheelchair-accessible buildings, and additional allowances for teachers working with CWD. This gap between educational policy and implementation hinders equal education for CWD in Mongolia. According to the...
The UK government provides support to those looking after a child who has “difficulties walking or needs much more looking after than a child of the same age who does not have a disability” (GOV.UK, 2022) through the Disability Living Allowance benefit scheme. However, these benefits do ...
education Mother's education Home location Having a doctor relative Self-rated household income –– Yes Yes Male – Good General No Other Farmers Workers Business or service workers Other Farmers Workers Business or service workers Primary school and below Junior high school High school Primary ...
In the UK, the Educational Maintenance Allowances (EMA’s) provided a sizeable means tested cash benefit conditional on participation in education (Dearden et al.2009). Evaluations of the EMA policy trials showed enrollments increased by up to 6% in families eligible for full subsidies. However,...
different learning environments and how they acquire these skills with existing block-based programming technologies (e.g., Scratch) through a compulsory schooling system remain important to the current research agenda in CT education and broader computer science education. In addition, gender differences...
Mothers of children with ASD traits were younger, had a lower education status, were more frequently nulliparous, and children with ASD were more likely to be boys. Mothers of children with ADHD traits were younger, more likely to have a BMI below 18.5 kg/m2 or above 25 kg/m2, and had...
Thus, nutritional adequacy of meals offered at school is essential to ensure appropriate nutritional intake; however, the duplicate-portion method analysis showed that the energetic content of meals was below recommended dietary allowance, which might contribute to the high proportion of stunting in ...