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Miranda Lai; Erika Gonzalez – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
Quality interpreting in courts and tribunals requires high competence in language and contextual knowledge, as well as interactional management and ethical reasoning skills. But a cohort of the interpreting workforce in Australia -- particularly those from the so-called "new and emerging" language backgrounds -- has been disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Mentors, Translation, Professional Personnel, National Standards
Andreas Culora; Claire Davey; Gabriela Freitas; Julia Griggs; Catherine Glaze; Brendan Parker; Synnove Rabbevaag; Beatriz Sasse; Robert Spence; Kathy Sylva – UK Department for Education, 2025
In June 2021, the Department for Education (DfE) announced the Early Years Education Recovery funding, a £180m package of support to help the sector recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. It comprised training programmes, qualifications, guidance and targeted whole setting support, delivered through a series of complimentary work programmes. This…
Descriptors: Mentors, Expertise, COVID-19, Pandemics
Richard Churches; Richard Warenisca; Tricia Bunn; Tom Bennett – Education Development Trust, 2025
Behaviour Hubs is a one-year programme of support (two years for multi-academy trusts [MATs]), available across England to mainstream primary and secondary schools, special schools and alternative provisions (such as pupil referral units). It aims to help senior leaders create the conditions for an effective and sustainable behaviour culture…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Trusts (Financial), Secondary Schools, School Culture
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Bloch, Roland – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2022
Creating critical mass has become a cornerstorne of science policy on both national and transnational levels. It suggests that once a certain size is reached, exponential growth or accelerated change will occur. In reconstructing theories, policies and practices associated with critical mass, the paper traces the image of critical mass as a size…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Scientific Research, Financial Support, Competition
Clement Adamba; Dante Castillo-Canales; Chhorn Lin; Emily Gustafsson-Wright; Mustapha Mensah; Rosa Maria Moncada; Erick Nehring; Elyse Painter; Sorachana Seng; Wendy Smith; Leslie Tettey – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2023
To address the learning crisis and other challenges facing children and youth (those 15-24 years of age) it is critical for governments, multilateral and bilateral funders, other donors, and implementers to have a clear understanding of program costs and cost breakdowns to inform financing decisions. For nearly a decade, the Center for Universal…
Descriptors: Costs, Intervention, Early Childhood Education, Child Development
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Hefler, Günter; Steinheimer, Eva – Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, 2020
This contribution focuses on Austria and its response to Youth Guarantee (YG) by explaining the reasons of the Austrian government not to participate in the YG, but to continue using a significant part of ESF funding for the 2014-2020 period for programmes with a high intake of young adults. This chapter therefore explores the specifics of an…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Program Descriptions, Educational Finance, Financial Support
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Ana Aidé Cruz Grünebaum; Kevin Renato Rojas Sandoval; Sophia Verónica Maldonado Bode; Amber Gove; Jennifer Elizabeth Johnson Oliva – RTI International, 2025
The purpose of this article is to describe the learnings of primary school teachers in rural Guatemala as a result of an action research experience. This experience took place in the context of the "Basic Education Quality and Transitions" activity, or BEQT, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Rural Areas
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Pomson, Alex; Gonshor Cohen, Frayda; Mattenson, Pearl; Rotem, Zohar – Journal of Jewish Education, 2020
This paper is a first effort to systematically document programmatic interventions in five of the ten communities participating in The Jewish Teen Education & Engagement Funder Collaborative, a joint philanthropic effort launched in 2013. The paper identifies patterns and trends reflected in the programmatic choices made by each community. It…
Descriptors: Jews, Judaism, Intervention, Adolescents
European Union, 2021
The Commission increased aid for education in emergencies and protracted crises to 10% of its total humanitarian aid in 2019. We assessed how the Commission managed this new level of support. We found that projects were relevant and achieved their expected results, but reached fewer girls than boys. Most projects in our sample were too short…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Cost Effectiveness, Financial Support, Educational Finance
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Morley, David; McKenna, Jim; Gilbert, Stephen; French, Jamie; Till, Kevin; Quarmby, Tom; Turner, Graham – High Ability Studies, 2018
This study explored the extent of financial constraints experienced by athletes on the England Talent Pathway, as perceived by talent leads from various sports. Using a mixed-methods approach, 34 participants completed online surveys with 26 follow-up interviews. Findings showed the prevalence of financial constraints on individuals within the…
Descriptors: Talent, Athletes, Foreign Countries, Costs
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MacCarty, Nordica; Walkin, Julie – Advances in Engineering Education, 2022
Many of today's engineering students are seeking international, intercultural, and interdisciplinary educational opportunities that involve acquiring real-world project experiences while working toward making a difference in communities. Even as university teaching and learning is tied to terms and learning modules and therefore has certain…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Foreign Countries, State Universities, College Faculty
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Kelcey, Jo – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2019
This article examines a school program operated by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) for Palestinian refugees in Gaza in 1949 and 1950. Drawing on historical records from organizations involved in the broader relief effort, it examines why the school program was set up and how it operated, and considers the lessons it offers for…
Descriptors: Refugees, Program Descriptions, Educational History, Educational Finance
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Aboal, Diego; Tacsir, Ezequiel – Research Evaluation, 2017
In this article we perform an impact evaluation of a programme that provides ex post subsidies to researchers in Paraguay. The analysis spans across the first 2 years following the programme (short-run). Ex post subsidies are prevalent in Latin America; however, the analysis of their effects has received little attention in the literature. Thanks…
Descriptors: Researchers, Productivity, Program Evaluation, Bibliographies
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Jakobs, Eva-Maria; Digmayer, Claas – AILA Review, 2020
This article examines how written feedback is used to support the production of texts for purposes of reuse. The case study refers to an entrepreneur training program at the University of Texas at Austin. In the program, Korean startups are trained in understanding the US market, and developing pitches that convince US investors. They are…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Case Studies, Entrepreneurship, Universities
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Beutel, Denise; Tangen, Donna; Carrington, Suzanne – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2019
This paper reports on the implications of participation in an Australian Award Short Course Awards programme for inclusive educators from South Asia. Seventeen educators from Nepal, three from Bangladesh, and one from Sri Lanka participated in the short course in Brisbane, Australia with a follow up component in Kathmandu, Nepal. The aim of the…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Disabilities, Awards, Program Descriptions
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