This study addresses the research question: What is the effect of higher education liberalization on the regional distribution of universities and educational attainment in Zambia? The analysis captures the transformative effects of liberalization policies on educational access and regional distribution using data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) across seven of Zambia’s ten provinces. We compare regions that established new universities with those that did not, estimating the averag...

Public Policy  Higher Education 

With the increasing number of schools offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) in mainland China, a series of issues have emerged during its implementation. This paper compares the current situation of IBDP schools in mainland China, including their operations and the career paths of graduates, to explore several prominent problems, such as the elitism of IBDP in mainland China, the loss of IBDP graduates and educational capital, and the absence of national education wit...

Pedagogy  Public Policy 

This study aims to determine and analyze dynamic governance in reducing stunting, determine and analyze supporting and inhibiting factors of dynamic governance in reducing stunting, and determine and analyze efforts to overcome the inhibiting factors of dynamic governance in reducing stunting in Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province. This study is based on the capability theory of dynamic governance by Neo and Chen (2007) in Syafri (2012: pp. 180-186), which constitutes three elements: ...

Public Policy  Demography 

This study aims to determine and analyze Rural Development Planning, to determine and analyze the supporting and inhibiting factors of Rural Development Planning, and to determine and analyze efforts to overcome the inhibiting factors of Rural Development Planning for Local (Dayak) Community Villages in West Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan. This study uses the Community-based Rural Development Planning Concept by Fernandes Simangunsong and Imelda Hutasoit (2021) as an analytic tool, which explain...

Public Policy 

This study aims to determine and analyze government coordination in flood management, determine and analyze the supporting and inhibiting factors of government coordination in flood management, and determine and analyze efforts to overcome the inhibiting factors of government coordination in flood management in Serang Regency, Banten Province. This study uses the coordination theory proposed by George R. Terry in Erliana Hasan and Eva Eviany (2014) as an analytic tool, which contains seven sub-t...

Public Policy 

This study examines the impact of leadership approaches on organizational management and economic growth, focusing on the roles of autocratic, laissez-faire, servant, transformational, and transactional leadership. Data was collected from 84 employees across the 34 public sector institutions in Nigeria. The respondents cut across senior and Junior level officers. The research explores how these leadership styles influence resource management, employee engagement, and overall organizational perfo...

Public Policy  Politics 

Uganda is one of the countries in the world today that recognizes the international and regional human rights instruments in terms of the administration of juvenile justice. It has a constitution and policy frameworks, which contain provisions with a bearing on children’s rights. However, some of the cultural practices in the country have created a massive gap in these rights, although the government of Uganda has a strong mechanism to protect the rights of children. The study argued that the co...

Sociology  Law  Public Policy 

The Nation Rise wind power project was the last industrial-scale or grid-scale wind power project approved in Ontario, Canada despite controversy, opposition and legal action from the “host” community, and even an attempt by the environment minister himself to stop it. Problems surfaced early for the project, months before it was granted a formal commercial operation date, as residents complained of noise from the wind turbines. Documents including email correspondence referencing noise complain...

Sociology  Public Policy 

In the last thirty years, the health sector has ceased to be the main subject of the social state understanding. It has turned into a profit-oriented organization under the domination of capital. Especially during the Covid pandemic, a thoroughly imperialist approach has been displayed regarding vaccination, which is fundamental to health, including the development, sale, and information given of the vaccine. Tens of thousands of Turkish doctors went abroad to oppose the wild capitalist system a...

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Meaning, in multimodal theory, emerges through the intricate interplay and combination of different modes. This study scrutinizes the meanings of online advertisements of Always Sanitary Pads by Procter and Gamble. The theoretical framework comprises Multimodal Theory by Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen. Employing quota sampling as the research design, the instrument was a guiding card, facilitating a nuanced exploration of the communicative intricacies within these advertisements. Th...

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