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Tara Coppinger; Con Burns; Mai O'Leary; Louise Fleming; Seán Lacey; Aoife L. McCarthy – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
The International Survey of Children's Wellbeing (ISCWeB) is the most wide-ranging and diverse study ever conducted internationally on children from their own perspective. The aim of this study was to pilot the ISCWeB among primary schoolchildren in Ireland to examine their subjective wellbeing and examine the relationship between subjective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Well Being, Life Satisfaction
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Lalli, Gurpinder Singh – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
Abstract Households with children eligible for Free School Meals are at risk of food insecurity. This paper reports on a rapid-response study that investigated the impact of the school food voucher scheme during the COVID-19 crisis on young people, families and schools. It pays close attention to the reliance of the state on the goodwill of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups, Eligibility
Kazianga, Harounan; Linden, Leigh L.; Protik, Ali; Sloan, Matthew – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
We evaluate the long-term effect of a "girl-friendly" primary school program in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design. The intervention consisted of upgrading existing three-classroom schools to six-classroom schools to accommodate more grades. After seven years, the program increased enrollment by 15.5 percentage points…
Descriptors: Females, Elementary School Students, Equal Education, Sex Fairness
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2020
For the March 2020 survey, AACRAO partnered with The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University on the March 2020 survey which recently released the results of the 5th annual #RealCollege survey of students' experiences with food and housing insecurity; it demonstrates widespread food and housing insecurity at more than…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Needs, Food, Hunger
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Crawford, Claire; Edwards, Amy; Farquharson, Christine; Greaves, Ellen; Trevelyan, Grace; Wallace, Emma; White, Clarissa – Education Endowment Foundation, 2016
The Magic Breakfast project provided 106 schools with support and resources to offer a free, universal, before-school breakfast club, including to all Year 2 and Year 6 pupils. The aim of the project was to improve attainment outcomes by increasing the number of children who ate a healthy breakfast. The schools in the project were schools in…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Elementary School Students, Breakfast Programs, Intervention
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Hadebe, Lillie Beth; Mpofu, John – African Educational Research Journal, 2013
The major problems facing urban residents particularly women are poverty, poor food security, growing urban population, hunger and lack of formal employment. Due to lack of employment, the majority of women in urban centres are involved in urban agriculture. The major focus of this research was to establish to what extent women are being empowered…
Descriptors: Food, Safety, Urban Areas, Females