This volume of Higher Education to 2030 discusses trends and prospects regarding changes in the population of students, academic teaching staff and graduates in higher education in OECD countries, from both a quantitative and qualitative standpoint. It examines in particular the link between these developments, demographic changes and higher education policy. The book is thus concerned no less ...

Using World Values Survey data on seven European democracies, we explore how authoritarian attitudes often associated with Radical Right party support are related to both individual-level and macro-level influences. We find that socio-demographic variables, such as age, education and social class, have similar effects across countries. Nonetheless, even after controlling for these socio-demogra...

ferable struggle to live and the necessity of preserving a healthy verile stock probably stated their attitude to their weaker brethren. Many peoples including the Spartans, elts and Romans, for instance, required all newly born infants to submit to searching ?Crutiny to exclude evidence of poor development and physical defect. Some even lri:iposed rigorous tests of fitness, as for example the ...

background & aim : for diagnosis, prevention and treatment of female sexual problems, it is crucial to understand the ways women conceptualize their sexuality. the aim of current qualitative study was to explore the participant’s perceptions and understanding of sexuality. methods & materials: in this qualitative study, fifteen married women aged 21-42 interviewed face to face as they referred ...

This paper introduces a class of intermediate inequality indices, ( ) , I δ π , that is at the same time ray-invariant and unit-consistent. These measures permit us to keep some of the good properties of Krtscha’s (1994) index while keeping the same “centrist” attitude whatever the income increase is. In doing so, we approach the intermediate inequality concept suggested by Del Río and Ruiz-Cas...

BACKGROUND Sexual and reproductive rights include access to accurate and appropriate information in order to make informed decisions. In the current age of media globalization and Internet, adolescents are exposed to information about sexual health and sexuality from a myriad of sources. The objective of this study was to explore sources of information and adolescent learning about sexual healt...

Abstract Introduction Diverse literature on sexual health promotion using social media suggests that increasing information reach and interaction are crucial. This study integrated the unified theory of acceptance use technology (UTAUT) to model predictors young adults’ behavioural intention interact with sexuality education media. Methods A total 936 adults in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa who ...

Anita Diamant’s first novel The Red Tent (1997) retells the story of Dinah, Jacob’s and Leah’s daughter, Joseph’s sister in Genesis chapter Old Testament. In this revised story, Diamant creates silenced woman Testament, as narrator novel. Weaving a different narrative than Hebrew myth, tries to subvert hierarchical structures phallogocentrism by focusing on women’s bodies, femininity, sexual po...