Based on a literature review and a survey of existing programs, this preventive outreach program emphasizes staff training in order to prepare college staff to implement a variety of outreach efforts following the suicide attempt or death of a student on campus. Specific guidelines are offered for the management of the suicide crisis, with special attention focused on the friends of the suicide...

Independent learning and independent learning strategies are at present significant topics in educational research. The bulk of this research deals with independent learning in junior and higher education with little based upon the further education sector. The focus of this article is the interpretation of independent learning by 16to 19-year-old students at a further education tertiary colleg...

English stakeholder collaboration has resulted in a new quality assurance process for non-medical health and social care placement providers and higher education institutions. This study aimed to discover the impact on student support that taking part in a pilot had on participating placement areas. Using a questionnaire survey with longitudinal follow-up one year later, we found that placement...

The Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program has gained national and international recognition for its school- and community-based activities. After the introduction of Yellow Ribbon to a Denver-area high school, staff and adolescents were surveyed to determine if help-seeking behavior had increased. Using a pre-post intervention design, staff at an experimental school and comparison school wer...

A detailed analysis was made of individual agency practices, and of average across agencies, in weekly instructional hours and student work hours attributed to the Level II fieldwork program during one 12-week assignment. The study is based upon data collected on daily log sheets from students and agency staff and related to their activities for instruction and agency work for that period. Ques...

This article describes how a small liberal arts college library created a digital library using existing staff and financial resources. The Hekman Digital Archive (HDA) was created using a digital media archive module of the library’s integrated library system, and is maintained by one library staff member with the help of numerous student assistants.

14.1 Members Kenji Ono (Team Leader) Jorji Nonaka (Researcher) Mikio Iizuka (Researcher) Chongke Bi (Postdoctoral Researcher) Daisuke Sakurai (Postdoctoral Researcher) Kazunori Mikami (Technical Staff) Tomohiro Kawanabe (Technical Staff) Seiji Fujino (Senior Visiting Scientist) Naohisa Sakamoto (Visiting Scientist) Masahiro Fujita (Visiting Technician) Kentaro Oku (Visiting Technician) Steve Pe...

The implementation of a Web-based survey of student feedback about courses using a database for storage, searching and retrieval of feedback data is reported in terms of its role in building a learning community around improving the quality of student learning experiences, enhancing academic teaching staff productivity and facilitating the scholarship of teaching and learning.

This is a case study paper concerned with the introduction of blended learning on a part-time higher education programme for mature students. The interpretive work draws on four action research cycles conducted over two years with two student cohorts. Discussion is based on observations, staff and student focus groups and interviews examining the students’ expectations