This paper measures the importance of indirect network effects in the adoption by colleges and students of ENEM, a standardized exam for high-school students in Brazil that can be used in college application processes. We estimate network effects and find that they are economically significant. Students are more likely to take ENEM the larger the number of colleges adopting it. Similarly, colle...

In all the medical Royal Colleges Fellowship is a higher grade than membership of the College, but in the great majority of Royal Colleges Fellowship is awarded by election to a minority of the members who have been judged by the Council of the College, or by a relevant sub-committee, to have achieved professional distinction. This is the arrangement in the Royal Colleges of Physicians, General...

Engineering Institutions in our country has increased a lot. Ranking the colleges is a mandatory process for the benefit of students, to identify the best college in each discipline. In this paper, we proposed a method to rank the professional colleges. We employ the fuzzy repertory table (FRT) technique to acquire the necessary domain knowledge of engineering colleges from which the ranking is...

Along with the continuous economic and social development and the unceasing progress of science and technology, information technology has penetrated into every field of social life. Therefore, colleges and universities face with serious challenges in personnel management. This needs the continuous integration of information technology and the personnel management in colleges and universities t...

Immigrant youth and children of immigrants make up a large and increasing share of the nation's population, and over the next few decades they will constitute a significant portion of the U.S. workforce. Robert Teranishi, Carola Suárez-Orozco, and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco argue that increasing their educational attainment, economic productivity, and civic engagement should thus be a national prior...

OBJECTIVE To compare the presence of intellectual wellness awareness in students of public and private sector medical colleges in a metropolitan city. METHODS The cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey was conducted from March to November 2011 at Bahria University Medical and Dental College, Karachi, and overall covered five private and 3 public sector medical colleges of the city.The stu...

OBJECTIVE This study examined interventions by colleges in 2008-2009 to respond to students during mental health crises. METHODS Public (N=15) and private (N=25) four-year colleges and two-year community colleges (N=23) in Virginia were surveyed about academic policies governing responses to apparent mental health crises among students and how often they were invoked. RESULTS Procedures use...

Chiropractic education arrived in Canada, principally in Ontario, in 1909 with Robbins Chiropractic Institute, (RIC) in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. After the RIC's closure in 1913, the Canadian Chiropractic College (CCC) Hamilton, Ontario, held its first classes in 1914 under Dr. Ernest Du Val, 1911 Palmer School of Chiropractic graduate. It was during this period that the Hodgins Commission on...

Methods: The study was a cross sectional observational analytic study of 250 interns from 5 medical colleges in Mangalore, Karnataka. Participants were chosen randomly from the intern’s registers of these colleges after obtaining IEC approval and permission from the administration of the respective colleges. Questionnaires were administered by interviewers and the data was collected and later a...

The aims of this study were to determine if dental colleges are clustered in selective states in India and if population to dental college admissions (seats) is correlated with regional health, economic, and human development in that country. There are 29 states and seven union territories in India, with 301 dental colleges. This study used publicly available data from the Dental Council of Ind...