...An increasing high school dropout rate is due to the fact that our education system is a grade-based system, that uses standardized tests to measure ones intelligence and achievements. Students who don’t measure up as well as others in terms of their grades, begin to quit at an earlier stage in education, with the belief they aren’t good enough to succeed in further education. With education inflation, the grade standards and pressure for students, are at a constant rise, which makes it more difficult for students to excel. For example, if a student was once a B grade student, they could easily be downgraded to a low C, because of the increasing competitive rivalry amongst students. As shown in Figure 3. There is a large percentage of students...
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...of staff have a BSN or higher education. Based on research, there is a movement by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing to increase the percentage of BSN or higher educated nurses in workforce. The BSN prepared nurses are assets to hospitals because studies have shown that a high percentage of BSN prepared nurses directly correlates to lower hospital mortality, surgical patient mortality, lower rescue failure, and better patient outcomes, and etc. Findings A study by Dr. Linda Aiken and her colleagues published in the 2003 Journal of the American Medical Association, found direct positive relation to better patient outcomes due to higher educated nursing work force. A Nursing Research done in 2005 by Dr. Carole Estabrooks at the University of Alberta concluded that mortality rate was adversely affected by higher ratio of nurses. A study published in medical care in 2012 also discovered that in surgical patient’s mortality rate was 14% lower in Magnet hospitals. This report’s author determined that these improved results were due to hospital investing in hiring more nursing staff with higher education that is BSN or hire. The clinical care leader and higher level leader’s education is also linked to better led and prepared nursing work force and increasing superior patient outcomes and employee satisfaction. After looking at multiple studies, it is clear that having nurses with higher education is very important to the success of health care institutions...
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...Well first off, let me start by saying how I am the worst nightmare for anyone who plans on cutting the spending of education or making it hard for students to earn their inalienable right to an affordable and quality higher education. I hold steadfast to the value of education and the doors it opens for millions of individuals here in this state and abroad. Therefore, I take this issue of high tuition fees and level of debt seriously! I will draft legislation that addresses this dire issue and keeps you on the path of success without going in debt by doing so. I plan to stop the cutting of spending in education, introduce a paid 2 year tenure of college by the state, and lastly, lower interest rates. I say if you want to boost our economy and see an increase in revenue, how about you start making more money available for college students who are our future entrepreurs, egnineers and physcians. Average state spending has decreased to 23% less per student. That is about $2,026. This decrease in spending has caused tuition prices to soar, by soar I mean 28%. Tuition has been raised more than 22.7%. This is adversely effects the quality of education you are receiving in the classroom. With no money, colleges are forced to create larger class sizes, cut courses, and, and fire the best professors. Here in Mississippi, government has cut spending by 25.2%, that is $2,524.(CBPP) If you ask me that could have been all it took to save several students from taking out a loan. We have...
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...Case: Natureview Farm It is recommended that Natureview should accept Option 1 and breaks into supermarket channel. First, by doing so, the company will be able to get higher revenue and meet the requirement more easily. Second, it will help Natureview to target new customers. Third, launch Option 3 can help Natureview to increase its brand value. Because Option 1 will expand six SKUs of 8-oz, it will bring the largest dollar and unit share of the refrigerated yogurt, which provide a great potential revenue in the future among three options. [Exhibit 1] Since most of yogurt is sold in supermarket, it would be the best place to promote the sales for Natureview. According to the previous companies’ experience, entering supermarket to sale yogurt can bring over 200% of revenue within two year. Therefore, with first mover advantage and our products premium quality, Natureview have strong success possibility following in the footsteps of successful companies. Choosing Option 1 can provide a great chance for Natureview to earn more new customers and build trust with them in a long-term. Because Natureview will expand its market area into a new market channel and meet more various customers in the future. [Exhibit 2] Since 46% of people prefer to purchase dairy products in supermarket and 97% of people will purchase yogurt in supermarket, expanding the market into supermarket will help Natureview have more chance to earn customers than before. If Natureview release multiple...
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...Introduction The local issue this report will focus on is the impact of increasing population densities and urban sprawl on the CBD and surrounding areas. The issue is that an ever-increasing population and higher densities will mean worse roads and higher rate of traffic related problems, higher crime levels, fewer facilities for the general population, higher price of living, more expensive land prices and increased pollution levels as well as other problems. Since urbanisation began as a trend since the last half of the century, Australia has been facing problems accommodating the swelling population. Geographical processes relevant to the issue include • migration • urbanisation • spatial inequality • urban development • sustainability...
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... Inequality caused by student debts: The crushing American Dream Proud of their nation, Americans always consider the United States a land of opportunity, where the American dream that everyone can achieve prosperity and success through hard work in a society with few barriers is world-famous. Though higher education is a sign of success in the U.S., the American dream is crushing. Student debts are getting more burdensome because the university tuition is expensive and bankers always lend high interest loans to students. During the last seven years, student debts for graduation have increased about 40 percent. Over 15 percent of the students cannot repay their debts, which may eventually cause a worse consequence. Definitely, it will lead to inequality among those who can afford to attend universities and those who cannot. In recent years, student debts have become serious problems. Stiglize (2012) pointed out that “in 2012, according to the Federal Reserve and the Department of Education, nearly 13 percent of student-loan borrowers owe over $50,000, and about 4 percent owe more than $100,000” (“Student Debt,” para. 6). Increasing student debt has weighed down many Americans because students cannot pay it back. The increasing interest rates, the soaring tuition and the sluggish incomes are the main factors that lead to greatly increased student debts. First of all, although they have seen the tough condition faced by the students, predatory lenders...
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...becoming a new disruptive innovation that will radically change the scene of higher education. This report will analyse the external environment for MOOC provider Udacity, evaluate their competitive strategy and then discuss the future outlook for them and the industry. | Contents Introduction 2 The External Environment 2 Udacity’s competitive strategy 4 The future of the industry and how Udacity can sustain competitive advantage 6 References 7 Appendix 1 – PEST Analysis Table 11 Appendix 2 – PEST Analysis Graph 12 Appendix 3 – Product Life Cycle 13 Appendix 4 – MOOC Industry Life Cycle 14 Appendix 5 – Strategic Groups 1 15 Appendix 6 – Strategic Groups 2 16 Appendix 7 – Porter’s Five Forces (Current) 17 Appendix 8 – Porter’s Five Forces (Future) 18 Appendix 9 – SWOT Analysis 19 Appendix 10 – New Strategies 20 Appendix 11 – Commonly Required Skills and Resources 21 Introduction Udacity is a massive open online course (MOOC) provider based in Silicon Valley, offering career-focused education. They are partnered with tech-giants Google and Facebook and their mission is to “bring accessible, affordable, engaging, and highly effective higher education to the world” (Udacity, 2015). The External Environment Udacity’s macro environment (appendix 1) shows increasing numbers of mature and part-time learners are looking for alternatives to traditional education (Morris, 2013). They require cheap and flexible classes (Butcher and Rose-Adams...
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...SOCIAL PROBLEM Educational Inequality: A Social Problem in the U.S. SOCIAL PROBLEM Educational Inequality: A Social Problem In the U.S. Introduction: The goal of education is to make sure that every student has a chance to excel, both in school and in life. Increasingly, children's success in school determines their success as adults, determining whether and where they go to college, what professions that they enter, and how much they are paid. Why is that getting a good education is dependent upon a person’s socioeconomic status? Education is a right in the U.S, but it seems to be accessible for the privilege. Why do we have inequality in education? Let’s look at different views explaining some possible causes or contributors to this issue. “Social inequality is the expression of lack of access to housing, health care, education, employment opportunities, and status. It is the exclusion of people from full and equal participation in what we, the members of society, perceive as being valuable, important, personally worthwhile, and socially desirable. Economic inequality is expressed through the unequal distribution of wealth in society. This has obvious ramifications in terms of the unequal distribution of what that wealth may purchase; housing, health care, education, career prospects, status - in our society, access to all these things is largely dependent on wealth. Because of the nature of our society - post industrial, competitive, capitalist, commercially driven...
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...importance of obtaining a higher education for a better workforce of the nation. The rapid increase in globalization of the 21st century has completely changed the course of the world allowing a vast open playing field and competition from every direction. Foreign students have gained access to the American workplace due to outsourcing and breached the job market for American workers who lack the necessary skillset and education qualifications. While the worldly competition in education has drastically increased, President Obama has addressed a goal for the nation by 2020-for America to be top in the highest proportion of college graduates of the world. One of the greatest challenges that plays as an obstacle for this goal is the problematic college access. On the contrary, Germany has found that college education is not a necessity at all and has successfully maintain a low unemployment rate. However, the economy and government of the United States is structured very differently, and the framework of Obama’s plan proved that a stronger educated population is directly correlated with a stronger nation itself. History and Theoretical Framework For much of America’s history, a college education was not needed to make a decent living as the difference between the average wages of high school and college graduates was very minor. After WWII, however, the growth of education started to move in a forward direction as the demand for highly skilled labor was increasing. In fact by 1999,...
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...FACTS ABOUT ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION 3. IMPORTANCE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION 4. IMPORTANCE OF LIFE EXPERIENCE 5. CONCLUSION 6. LIST OF REFERENCES Introduction Within the last 25 years the number of entrepreneurship courses increased twentyfold and amazon.com lists over 45,000 books dealing with entrepreneurship. This demonstrates the increasing interest in entrepreneurial education and illustrates that there is a strong belief that entrepreneurship can be taught. In contrast, successful business leader as Zineb Hefiri didn’t attend any entrepreneurial courses and argue that her success came from her life experience.1 Moreover, there are plenty stories about entrepreneurs who run a business without a college degree, some without even finishing high school. Are they the exception or is being an entrepreneur an art that you either have or don't have? What is the road to be a successful entrepreneur? Does entrepreneurship education make people better entrepreneurs? Or are life experiences enough to establish the required skills and knowledge? The purpose of this dissertation paper is to identify what makes a successful entrepreneur and to determine to which extent entrepreneurial education has more impact than a person’s life experiences. ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬___________________________________ 1Mondo, M 2011, Entrepreneurship: Managing new venture growth, Pearson Education, viewed 04 December 2011 Facts about Entrepreneurial Education As a matter of fact...
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...will benefit me in the future. The government intervention with Obama lowering rates of federal loans back in August 2013, but I wish for more financial assistance availability. My personal opinion is that financial assistance for higher education should be a more important base topic in today’s world. There are more and more cut back on college funds each year, and to make matters worse the real cost of college has risen steadily since the 1940s. Government aides and Pell grants have been reduced significantly; and obtaining free grants has become harder. Schools have raised tuition; which drops down the students enrolling in school due to loan affordability or not enough aids available. Over the past years, access to higher education has expanded from being privileged at birth, to having a certain qualification. In (Schumpeter, 13 April 2011; Hazelkorn, 31 May 2012) the impact of the financial trouble in California on its public University system is symptomatic of problems around the world. Whether funded from public or private sources, escalating costs and tuition fees have prompted The Economist to suggest that higher education could be the next bubble. The quality of higher education is coming under increasing scrutiny. If higher education is the engine of the economy, governments are looking for verifiable and measurable evidence of benefit and impact. Students, as...
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...text review, 50 articles were retained for data extraction. Results are presented below by thematic areas. HIV Education The need remains in many countries to implement HIV educational programming in prisons to increase both prevention and care and treatment knowledge among prisoners while also reducing stigma.1 Programmes should be comprehensive, yet easy to administer and where possible include components on prisoner concerns. 2-11 For example, HIV positive prisoners in a Southern United States prison were rated more negatively by other prisoners and staff than prisoners with other diseases and described stigma as a barrier to seeking HIV testing. 2 Fields reported success in utilizing participatory methods that allowed women to build skills and gain resources. 3 Grinstead reported higher success rates when incorporating topics beyond HIV. During sessions with soon to be released prisoners, facilitators were able to address employment and housing concerns increasing session interest while continuing an HIV focus. 6 HIV education programmes that incorporate peer-based education remain important prevention tools. 3,4, 11 Participants randomly placed into a peer delivered intervention indicated significant reductions in reported sexual risk behaviours compared to those in placed in non-peer led interventions. 11 ,3 Additionally, delivery of HIV-related education using videos containing peers was shown to be an acceptable delivery model. 12 HIV counselling and testing Counselling...
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...Interdisciplinary Management Research V QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN EDUCATION Suzana Vlašić1, Smiljana Vale2, Danijela Križman Puhar3 3 smiljanavale@net.hr Financial Manager, Maistra d.d., Croatia, danijela.krizman.puhar@maistra.hr 2 ____________________________________________________________ ____ Abstract Having considered the current situation of the Croatian educational system and the quality of all its individual components, we can’t help but notice that the awareness of the importance of education as a foundation for the growth and development of each country isn’t strong enough. Education quality is becoming increasingly important for those who are involved in it either directly or indirectly, and for those who use its services. Access to education and quality education are to be regarded as mutually dependent and indivisible needs and rights. This is primarily achieved by developing creativity, civic and democratic values, as well as by knowledge, abilities and skills needed for everyday and professional life. Basic education is not sufficient or complete, and therefore should be considered only as a basis for learning that needs to be used all life long. Lifelong learning for all has become one of the pillars of development. Quality management is a part of management aimed at achieving quality goals through planning, monitoring, assuring and improving quality. Involving all members of the organization brings us closer to total quality control (Total Quality...
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...Higher Education is one of the most important phenomenons in the 21st century. It is undergoing some major transformations and developments which are mainly effected by Globalization. Such as, international education, global capitalism, spread of culture and media, trade and work. Thus, it’s crucial to interpret the term of Globalization, which becomes a major backdrop of other phenomenon, including high education. Certainly, higher education provides prerequisite skills and higher life opportunities to people. However, the education system today is facing some challenges. There is over-education and over- supply of educational institution and the change of the global labour market. Higher education provides more chances for people to obtaining jobs. People who graduated from university are highly employable due to their wealth knowledge, creativity and ability of solving problems. According to the research of Yue et al. (2004) ‘The level of education level has a significantly positive impact on successful job seeking. The higher the education level, the greater the probability of success.’ Which indicated that higher education make a positive effective to people in job seeking as well as working in a favorable position. The reputation of the higher education institution also has a significant and positive impact on employment. Graduates from key universities have greater employment probabilities than their counterparts from ordinary universities. The employment rate...
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...Determinants of Critical Success Factors of Quality Management in Higher Education Institutions in Morocco Using DELPHI method by: Youssef Loutfi Supervised by: Dr. Abderrahman Hassi Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Business Administration Al Akhawayn University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Master of Business Administration Al Akhawayn University Summer 2014 iii Dedication In conducting this process, I would like mention people to whom this work is dedicated. To my parents, Habiba Hamdi and Abdessamd Loutfi, who instilled in me very young the thirst for knowledge and determination. Your values, your humility and generosity have always guided me and represent what I most admire in a human being. Here I take a special place to celebrate the sacrifices you have made to educate us and to enable us to follow our dreams. Thank you dear parents for this unique feeling of success and excellence, thank you to support me when I doubted especially you believed in this dream despite all the sacrifices it required. Thank you to believe in this project, our project. To my sister and brother, Ijlal and Ahmad Amine. Thank you for your patience and your great sense of humor. To Sofia, my treasure. My apologies for any breach of my duties. You have come to accept my frequent absences and my moods. Thank you Sofia. To Mr. Hassi Abderahman, you felt my ambition, you have believed in me and you opened the doors of knowledge. To...
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