Merit awards.

Keeping up With the Joneses: Institutional Changes Following the Adoption of a Merit Aid Policy

The increasing use by private colleges and universities of financial aid based on “merit”, as opposed to based solely on financial need has caused many to raise concerns that this type of aid will go mainly to higher income students crowding out aid to lower income students. However, some analysts suggest that by attracting more “almost full-paying” students through the use of merit aid, instit...

STEM CELLS AND PARKINSON’S DISEASE BY MAHA NAZIR RESEARCH PAPER BASED ON PATHOLOGY LECTURES AT MEDLINK AND VET-MEDLINK 2014 Grade awarded: Pass with Merit

How and What You Pay Matters: The Relative Effectiveness of Merit Pay, Bonus, and Long-Term Incentives on Future Job Performance

Companies regularly use multiple types of pay-for-performance plans to motivate and sustain high performance levels. Although research generally confirms that pay-for-performance plans can influence these outcomes, it is unclear how effective different pay plans are relative to each other. The current study examines how three different forms of pay-for-performance plans—merit pay, individual-ba...

Supporting Quality Teachers With Recognition

Value has been found in providing recognition and awards programs for excellent teachers. Research has also found a major lack of these programs in both the USA and in Australia. Teachers receiving recognition and awards for their teaching have praised recognition programs as providing motivation for them to continue high-level instruction. Motivational theories provide a solid foundation for t...

Mental Health Guides for the General Practitioner

The recent lists of specialists published by the Ministry of Health seem to have abolished the psychiatrist and substituted the term "mental health specialist". This is all to the good, but the status given to them by their medical colleagues who distribute merit awards places them at the bottom of the list, while at the top are the neurologists, to whom patients go suffering from "nerves", bec...