BACKGROUND Assessing the quality of postsecondary education remains a difficult task, despite many efforts to do so. No consensus or standard definition of educational quality has yet been agreed upon or developed. PURPOSE This study evaluated the quality of massage education in the United States using three closely-related questions to frame the evaluation: 1) Is accreditation improving the ...

The objective of the study was to compare agricultural investment and production rural agrarian women in Uganda that had received microcredit those not. A quasi-experimental used assess differences between performance indicators enterprises for existing incoming borrowers Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) microfinance. Propensity score matching ensure comparability groups in-coming ...

(EPI) is a non-partisan, non-governmental organization dedicated to policy-based research on educational opportunity for all students. With offices in Virginia Beach, VA, Toronto, ON, and Melbourne, Australia, EPI is a collective association of researchers and policy analysts from around the world dedicated to the mission of enhancing our knowledge of critical barriers facing students and famil...

A variety of public and private programs provide financial support for the costs of nurses' training in exchange for service commitments to work in rural, underserved, and other needy areas. Little is known about the number, size, and operations of these support-for-service programs for nurses. We identified and in this article describe such programs in eight southeastern states. Eligible progr...

In this article, we have considered the main aspects of managing loan portfolio commercial banks Republic Kazakhstan in context increasing cross-border impact sanctions on economy. Factors such as high credit risks, non-repayment loan, inefficiency banks' lending activities, deterioration quality portfolio, degree riskiness policy require optimization process a bank. The trends gradual growth s...

CONTEXT In the mid-1980s, states expanded their initiatives of scholarships, loan repayment programs, and similar incentives to recruit primary care practitioners into underserved areas. With no national coordination or mandate to publicize these efforts, little is known about these state programs and their recent growth. OBJECTIVES To identify and describe state programs that provide financi...