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Experts are progressively discovering the crucial role of globally mobile talent in today’s competitive business environment and have called the task of securing and retaining these employees the greatest international human resource challenge to date. While many employees willingly accept international work assignments believing in a positive impact on their careers, high-quality research on global mobility and career success is lacking, leaving thousands of ambitious individuals at risk of making shortsighted career decisions. Providing empirical research in this field to better inform employees, employers, human resource practitioners, fellow researchers and academics lies at the core of this work.
Little is documented on educational schemes helping the marginalized Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in rural India. This study documents new avenues of addressing social and gender inequality within the ethnic community of Kanjars through education and improvements in hyigene. Pardada Pardadi Educational Society (PPES) is an innovative NGO providing education to girls from lower castes in Uttar Pradesh. In a project created to engage Kanjar girls, PPES made use of a targeted incentive, a solar lantern, to reward girls with good school attendance as well as to address one of the local community’s needs, that of a clean and cost effective lighting source. This study analyzes the attendance rates of girls before and after the introduction of solar lanterns. In addition, surveys and interviews provide qualitative insights. The overall findings reveal that girls with a solar lantern not only attain higher average attendance but also take onwership of their education.
Very few studies have explored in detail the experiences of Chinese students at German universities, this study is an attempt to create a balance. The research focuses on psychological and sociocultural adjustment experiences of Chinese students at a German university, i.e. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, and their situation after graduation. It reports quantitative and qualitative data and discusses practical implications of the findings. The study provides a starting point for all concerned to review and develop procedures and services which affect the experiences of Chinese students as well as other international students in Germany.
This research measures the creative potential for a representative sample of pre-high school students in Kosovo, it also investigates and develops on both teacher’s and student’s explicit and implicit understandings of creativity and its impact in the classroom. Using mixed methods, the integrated results are utilised to cultivate a rationale for the student’s level of creative potential and offer solutions for moving forward.
In ihrer Dissertation geht die Autorin der Frage nach, welche Faktoren den Lernerfolg nicht-traditioneller Studierender im berufsbegleitenden Studium fördern. Erstaunliche Antworten erwarten den Leser, insbesondere was die Rolle der Anerkennung in der Interaktion zwischen Studierenden und Lehrenden anbelangt. So liefert die Arbeit wichtige Erkenntnisse für Studiengangsleiter und -entwickler, besonders in berufsbegleitenden Formaten sowie für Verantwortliche für wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung.
In diesem Buch werden Erfahrungen aus einem innovativen ganzheitlichen Bildungsprogramm zur Gesundheitsprävention Langzeitarbeitsloser zusammengefasst und Befunde aus der wissenschaftlichen Begleitung dokumentiert. Dabei werden die besonderen Herausforderungen aber auch Chancen eines Projekts deutlich, das in einem modularisierten Gefüge unterschiedlicher Bildungsangebote nicht nur auf die Stärkung physischen, psychischen und sozialen Wohlbefindens zielt, sondern durch kognitive, körperliche und emotionale Elemente gleichermaßen anspricht. Für die Zielgruppe ist dabei besonders bedeutsam, dass INGA sie eben nicht auf ihren Arbeitsmarktstatus reduziert, sondern ihr Wohlbefinden und ihre...