Providing Access to Higher Education for Refugees: Comparative Analysis and Policy Recommendations for South Korea

Coursera for Refugees: Universal Access to World-Class Education

In June 2016, President Obama announced a Call to Action that gave impetus to private-public partnerships to address the global refugee crisis, including Coursera for Refugees [1]. As a result, a multi-stakeholder collaboration between Coursera, the U.S. Department of State, and nonprofit organizations around the world have enabled thousands of refugees to access a unique catalogue of MOOCs to ...

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Wheelchair users, access and exclusion in South African higher education

BACKGROUND South Africa's Constitution guarantees everyone, including persons with disabilities, the right to education. A variety of laws are in place obliging higher education institutions to provide appropriate physical access to education sites for all. In practice, however, many buildings remain inaccessible to people with physical disabilities. OBJECTIVES To describe what measures South...

The value of higher education: analysis of reasons for tendency to study at university

The aim of this study was to measure the value of higher education among students in two public and non-public universities in Isfahan. The research method was descriptive correlational.  The sample size was 307 master students in all disciplines whom were randomly selected. Data gathering tool was Luttrell & Richard 30 item questionnaire in five dimensions including family expectations, focus ...

‏‎facilitating lexical access for the fluent production of speech‎‏

‏‎the hypothesis is that recent and frequent exposure to lexical items leads to a more fluent production of speech in terms of rate of speech. to test the hypothesis , a one- way anova experimental design was carried out. 24 senior student of efl participated in a one-way interview test. data analyses revealed that those who were exposed frequently to the lexical items over a week prior to inte...