An accompanying shift in accountability from external standardised assessment ranking to accountability for equity outcomes across all school providers (public and private), i.e. value for the use of public funds. iii. A shift from external (monitoring and surveillance) to internal forms of account...
When I retired from the University of Sydney in 2015, my head of school invited me to select a global figure who could be the main speaker at my festschrift. I didn’t hesitate to name Ken, who gave this lecture after which we spent a few great days on the NSW north coast. Ken ...
NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, Sydney Medical School, Charles Perkins Centre, Johns Hopkins Drive, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia Michelle Cunich Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health University of Sydney, Edward Ford Building (A27), Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Glenn Salkeld Faculty of Publi...
Each focus group will have three phases; 1) preliminary questions about the participants' general thoughts and attitudes to organ donation, 2) a group discussion around factors that would influence participant's decisions to be an organ donor and 3) an individual ranking exercise of the factors...
4) showed divergent results in terms of the relative ranking of the estimated burden. As such, we observed a relative reduction in hospitalisations in 2021, when the Delta VOC was circulating, but a relative increase in January-March 2022 following the emergence of Omicron. However, in terms ...
Average pre- and post-exposure frequencies for correctly ranking the products by nutritional quality (yes/no) and choosing the healthiest option within the choice set (yes/no) were calculated. This dichotomous approach was taken to accommodate the ‘I don’t know’ responses that were significantly...
The nominal group technique enables effective group decision making by ranking priorities and by undertaking a discussion of the topic moderated by a facilitator [23]. Sub-study 2: Assess the consumer acceptability and societal preferences for implementing a range of tax-based strategies to reduce ...
The ranking is based on the impact values of the risks calculated as per Equation (1) and reported in Table 4. For example, for Colombia, EC4 is ranked first and its impact value is 3.87 in Table 4, which is the highest. Some of these risks are common to all countries, while ...
Consequently, to assess the difference in perceptions held by the two main parties involved in PPP projects, i.e., public, and private sectors, when it came to the ranking of the 23 identified FRMSs, the Mann–Whitney U test (at 5% level of significance) was performed. The null ...
The first of these is that despite ranking highly in liveability indexes, Australian cities are not always just or fair when it comes to the provision of green space that is so important for health and well being. The second is that a range of measures can be used to better understand ...