IN 2009, the National Network for Learning Disability Nurses (NNLDN) conference was challenged to ensure that the poor standards of care highlighted in reports from the Health Care Commission (2006), the Disability Rights Commission (2006) and Death by Indifference report (Mencap 2007) were never repeated. Much of the poor care that exists stems from institutional discrimination, complacency an...

Clinical legal education is distinguishable from the rest of the law school curriculum and the extracurricular activities available to law students because it places students directly into the role of a lawyer engaged in real-world practice. Clinical programs are often defined by the cases and projects—the pearls at the heart of the experiential learning experience—that comprise their dockets. ...

Two studies with Chinese international students in Belgium and Canada investigated the role of two motivational factors in students’ decision to study abroad: the level of self-determined motivation and the content of their goals. A newly developed questionnaire, the Self-regulation Questionnaire—Study Abroad was used to test the hypothesis that self-determined motivation to study abroad would ...

The purpose of this study was to elaborate the situation of corporal punishment which is being practiced in Nepalese schools going against new policies that promote the non-violence teaching. It was based on original qualitative study of one private school of Kathmandu (the capital city of Nepal) having more than 2000 students and 100 teachers. Results from FGD, observation of the classroom pra...

BACKGROUND Healthcare worker attitudes toward obese individuals facilitate discrimination and contribute to poor health outcomes. Previous studies have demonstrated medical student bias toward obese individuals, but few have examined effects of the educational environment on these prejudicial beliefs. We sought to determine whether an innovative educational intervention (reading a play about ob...

This study came in line with the previous educational literature and studies that called for need to conduct more on concepts of human rights. Therefore, it aimed identify understand reality promoting rights among students special needs. The current attempted answer following two questions: (1) What is role school principals values needs primary schools within Green Line?, (2) Are there statist...

BACKGROUND The number of left-behind children in China is gradually increasing. This study aimed to understand the mental health status and changes in resilience of rural, left-behind middle school students in Yunyang County of the Three Gorges area in China. METHODS A prospective cohort study, including two follow-up surveys, with a frequency of once every 6 months was conducted among middle...