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Direct linkMacer, Mel; Chadderton, Charlotte – Gender and Education, 2021
This paper reports on the experiences and perspectives of military wives as students and potential students of Access to Higher Education Diplomas, a qualification for widening participation in HE for 'non-traditional' students in the UK -- an under-researched topic. Contributing to both Marxist and feminist theory, we argue that the combined…
Descriptors: Spouses, Military Personnel, Marriage, Students
Doyle, Stephanie; Loveridge, Judith; Faamanatu-Eteuati, Niusila – Higher Education Policy, 2016
This article focuses on a significant group of postgraduate international students overlooked by institutions and policymakers, namely those with accompanying partners and children. The economic importance of international students to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America is highlighted. It is argued…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Spouses, Family (Sociological Unit)
Søndergaard, Susanne; Cox, Kate; Silfversten, Erik; Anderson, Brent; Meads, Catherine; Schaefer, Agnes Gereben; Larkin, Jody – RAND Europe, 2016
Each year, approximately 17,000 personnel leave the UK Armed Forces and return to civilian life. The Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) has called for better transition support in order to assist Service leavers and their families in leading successful civilian lives. FiMT conducted a stakeholder engagement programme in 2015 to identify areas where…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Military Personnel, Family (Sociological Unit), Housing
Download full textAchinewhu-Nworgu, Elizabeth; Nworgu, Queen Chioma; Babalola, Shade; Achinewhu, Chinuru Chituru; Dikeh, Charles Nna – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
This paper will aim to investigate into women's rights pertaining to land in Africa particularly as the case may be envisaged in the Nigerian cultural and legal system. Research has shown that many African women such as in Nigeria are left impoverished once their husbands die or they divorce in West Africa as the land automatically becomes the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, Females, Land Use
Keizer, Renske; Schenk, Niels – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2012
This study investigated the extent to which women's and men's relationship satisfaction within couples is similarly or differently affected by becoming a parent and the extent to which changes in work hours and hours spent on household labor affect a person's own and his or her spouse's relationship satisfaction across the transition to…
Descriptors: Parents, Interpersonal Competence, Observation, Longitudinal Studies
Webber, Louise – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2015
Since Edwards' influential study on mature women students and families in the 1990s, questions have been raised about the effects of Higher Education (HE) on family lives. Edwards maintained that relationships were at risk of breakdown due to the changing identity, increased self-esteem and enhanced confidence levels of women students. Men were…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Higher Education, Adults
Voordouw, Jantine; Antonides, Gerrit; Fox, Margaret; Cerecedo, Inmaculada; Zamora, Javier; de la Hoz Caballer, Belen; Rokicka, Ewa; Cornelisse-Vermaat, Judith; Jewczak, Maciej; Starosta, Pawel; Kowalska, Marek L.; Jedrzejczak-Czechowicz, Monika; Vazquez-Cortes, Sonia; Escudero, Cano; de Blok, Bertine Flokstra; Dubois, Anthony; Mugford, Miranda; Frewer, Lynn J. – Social Indicators Research, 2012
This study estimates the effects of food hypersensitivity on individuals' perceived welfare and well-being compared to non-food hypersensitive individuals. Study respondents were recruited in the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and UK. The difference in welfare between food hypersensitive respondents and those asymptomatic to foods was estimated using…
Descriptors: Spouses, Health, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
Das, Chaitali – Child Care in Practice, 2012
Divorce or separation is one route towards addressing high conflict in marriages and may be a key route out of situations of significant domestic violence for women and children. However, divorce has been associated with feminisation of poverty and other negative outcomes which can be further exacerbated for victimised women. While there has been…
Descriptors: Divorce, Family Violence, Mothers, Foreign Countries
McMahon, Walter W.; Oketch, Moses – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2013
This paper estimates the effects of human capital skills largely created through education on life's chances over the life cycle. Qualifications as a measure of these skills affect earnings, and schooling affects private and social non-market benefits beyond earnings. Private non-market benefits include better own-health, child health, spousal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Educational Attainment, Outcomes of Education
"As a Country We Do Expect": The Further Extension of Language Testing Regimes in the United Kingdom
Blackledge, Adrian – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2009
In recent times debates about language and languages have increasingly become the battleground on which debates about immigration to the United Kingdom (U.K.) are fought. Since 2002 a series of legislative measures has been introduced to ensure that those who wish to become naturalized as citizens of the U.K. or to settle permanently in the U.K.…
Descriptors: Spouses, Language Tests, Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency
Kasearu, Kairi – Social Indicators Research, 2009
This paper explores the strategies for reconciling family and work in different union types. The focus here is on investigating how cohabiting and married individuals perceive the work-life conflict in different European countries. To test the union type impact on work-life balance in the context of different societal conditions, this paper draws…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Conflict, Family Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
Glaser, Karen; Evandrou, Maria; Tomassini, Cecilia – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2006
We investigated the relationship between intensive multiple role occupancy and one key dimension of well-being, social participation (i.e., frequency of participation in social and leisure activities and meeting friends or relatives). Moreover, we examined gender differences in the association between individual, spousal and couple intensive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spouses, Gender Differences, Recreational Activities
Social and Labour Bulletin, 1983
Aspects of women's employment and status, as well as equality of opportunity and wages, in various countries are examined. (SK)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Feminism, Salary Wage Differentials
Wenger, G. Clare; Dykstra, Pearl A.; Melkas, Tuula; Knipscheer, Kees C. P. M. – Journal of Family Issues, 2007
This article focuses on the ways in which patterns of marriage and fertility shape older people's involvement in community groups and their support networks. The data are from Australia, Finland, Germany, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Findings show that childless older adults, regardless of…
Descriptors: Childlessness, Social Networks, Public Service, Older Adults
Fujinaga, Tamotsu; And Others – 1996
This study examined culture-specific attachment systems in Japan (including an Okinawan sample), Korea, China, United States, and the United Kingdom, using a questionnaire to measure the relative importance of various categories of interpersonal relations. Subjects were male and female university students and fathers and mothers of kindergarten…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Confucianism, Family Relationship
