HEIS (Higher Education Information System) is a project funded by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports started in the year 2001. HEIS is a comprehensive information system that provides support for education related processes taking place within a higher education institution. As a part of the project, a data warehouse was developed to provide reporting and analytical features...

Background: The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) (Council of Europe 2001) has, over the past decade, come to be widely used as a reference tool for teaching, learning and assessment (Alderson 2002; North 2014). The focus of the current study is on scaling the China Standards of English (CSE) vocabulary descriptors for College English education in Mainland China, where College Engli...

HEIS (Higher Education Information System) is a project funded by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports started in the year 2001. HEIS is a comprehensive information system that provides support for education related processes taking place within a higher education institution. As a part of the project, a data warehouse was developed to provide reporting and analytical features...

The national government settled on "Healthy Japan 21" as the premier preventive policy of lifestyle related diseases in 2000. In 2005, the effectiveness of the campaign was conducted, but the results did not turn out as expected. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare made the "Japanese Food Guide Spinning Top (JFG-ST)" as a practical and easy way to improve eating habits for all of the peop...

*Acknowledgements: This report presents initial results of a community based preschool program implemented by Save the Children in the Gaza Province of Mozambique. We thank a number of colleagues and institutions that have assisted at various stages of the evaluation. Barbara Bruns played an instrumental role in launching this evaluation and formed an integral part of the evaluation design team...

In Brazil, nursing professionals are trained based on the perspective of professional competencies. The objective of this exploratory, descriptive study was to identify the critical-emancipator potential of the competency, as described by the Brazilian Ministries of Education and of Health. The sources used for data collection were the regulating documents of technical professional education of...

n Brazil, nursing professionals are trained based on the perspective of professional competencies. The objective of this exploratory, descriptive study was to identify the critical-emancipator potential of the competency, as described by the Brazilian Ministries of Education and of Health. The sources used for data collection were the regulating documents of technical professional education of ...

Mathematics is considered to be one of the key areas for growth and development in Egyptian schools (Monk et al., 1999). Therefore, reforming mathematics education has been given priority by the Egyptian Ministry of Education. Accordingly, a particular emphasis has been given to the professional development of mathematics teachers. This paper is a case study of the role of the Egyptian National...

Mathematics is considered to be one of the key areas for growth and development in Egyptian schools (Monk et al., 1999). Therefore, reforming mathematics education has been given priority by the Egyptian Ministry of Education. Accordingly, a particular emphasis has been given to the professional development of mathematics teachers. This paper is a case study of the role of the Egyptian National...