In response to tightened budgets and concerns about higher education costs, the federal government and several states have implemented or considered rules to limit the use of publicly funded grant aid at some schools, particularly at for-profit colleges. While there is some evidence supporting the Bennett hypothesis (that colleges respond to increases in financial aid by increasing tuition or d...

CONTEXT Community-based first aid training is the collaborative development of locally relevant emergency response training. The Sachigo Lake Wilderness Emergency Response Education Initiative was developed, delivered, and evaluated through two intensive 5-day first aid courses. Sachigo Lake First Nation is a remote Aboriginal community of 450 people in northern Ontario, Canada, with no local p...

Skills and awareness of young pedestrians can be improved with on-street practical pedestrian training, often delivered in schools in the United Kingdom by local authorities with the intention of improving road safety. This training is often supplemented by in-class paper based worksheet activities which are seen to be less effective than practical training in that they focus on knowledge acqui...

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 has produced weighty hindrances for the medical educators’ delivery of healthcare and education. educational strategies besieging pandemic aid inimitable challenges to students interested in pursuing Medicine

background: teaching of theoretical and practical first aids are  important courses for medical sciences students. if these courses are  taught with evidence based medicine(ebm), they will be learned better by students. the objective of this study  was the  determination of the  effect of evidence based medical education on learning of first aids. methods: this study had been performed inthe pl...

Background: One of the medical team’s responsibilities is to teach the methods of rescue and aid necessary for casualties who have been injured in disasters. They must be taken away of the place of disaster, transferred, categorized and cured. Methods: Delphi technique was used in this research. Firstly, a number of questions were framed and sent to a number of experts of different majors. They...

conclusions there are a wide range of requirements for disaster aid. proper aid worker selection, frequent and continuous administration of workshops and drills, and cooperation and alignment of different governmental and private organizations are among the suggested initiatives. results four major themes emerged from the data; 1) psychological support, 2) appropriate clinical skills education,...

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This paper examines a US foreign aid project to promote use of new technologies in Egyptian education. Though the project sought to improve teaching and learning, an examination of implementation indicates how goals of Westernization ended up taking precedence. These included a focus on bringing Egyptian educators to the US and on showcasing US hardware and software. This underlying emphasis on...