scholarly journals Prisoner’s Higher Education in Lithuania and Foreign Countries: Possibilities and Motives

Pedagogika ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Giedrė Kvieskienė ◽  
Renata Katinaitė - Lodh
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Correctional Institutions ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Level

This article presents the educational aspects of prisoner access to higher education while in detention. The theoretical overview discusses the Lithuanian and foreign scientific resources, analyzing the importance of education for all human beings, no matter whether they are incarcerated or not. The empirical part, consists of surveys and questionnaires collected from Ministries of Justice, and other institutions that collect data on prisoners pursuing higher education in seven foreign countries. The empirical evidence highlights the possibilities of and motives for achieving a higher education degree by those performing custodial sentences in prison. The third paragraph of article 24 in Lithuanian law of education No. 38-1804 [11] addresses the right to education for every citizen and legal alien having a permanent or temporary residence in the Republic of Lithuania. The state guarantees the right to primary and secondary education. It also provides for accessibility to higher education, vocational training, and graduate degree programs. The law of education in Article 33, also addresses access to education for socially underprivileged people such as families living in poverty, refugees, people who have dropped out from school at an early age, unemployed, people with addiction problems, as well as those returning from correctional institutions. Thus, despite the social situation in Lithuania, the education system is designed so that it is available to everyone. In order to promote their effective adjustment into the community, disadvantaged individuals need access to education through social services and education assistance programs. This article aims to investigate the opportunities for access to higher education available to prisoners in detention and to understand the motivation. Objective – the availability of higher education in the Lithuanian prison system and the motivation. The article utilizes the following methods: Theoretical: the article reviews the scientific literature and legal analysis of documents of both Lithuanian and foreign authors, sources of information and insight into the normative documents of the formed provisions. Empirical: Surveys conducted with justice ministries or institutions that collect information about higher education for convicts, in seven foreign countries were conducted. Semi-structured interviews with prisoners who have acquired and the benefitted from higher education were also conducted with a written survey. The results of the questionnaire demonstrated that prisoners have a high level of desire to improve themselves through the selection of higher education, while free time is mentioned as a necessary component. Of the surveyed countries, representatives of institutions indicated that prisoners have the opportunity to study in higher education, but this opportunity depends upon certain circumstances. Lithuanian law provides higher education opportunities for socially excluded, at-risk groups. Imprisoned persons have a high level of motivation to be successful in the higher education and for learning. Thus, higher education institutions should have close cooperation with the correctional institutions.

ACCESS TO EDUCATION WITH ONLINE LEARNING AND OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: CAN THEY CLOSE THE GAP?

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Geith ◽  
Karen Vignare
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
Education Gap ◽  
The Right ◽  
Compare And Contrast

One of the key concepts in the right to education is access: access to the means to fully develop as human beings as well as access to the means to gain skills, knowledge and credentials. This is an important perspective through which to examine the solutions to access enabled by Open Educational Resources (OER) and online learning. The authors compare and contrast OER and online learning and their potential for addressing human rights “to” and “in” education. The authors examine OER and online learning growth and financial sustainability and discuss potential scenarios to address the global education gap.

Does Irrigation Mediate Inclusiveness in Education? A Study of Two Villages in Hyderabad and Karnataka

Social Change ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 416-429
Author(s):  
Suma Scaria
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Scheduled Castes ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Development Outcomes

This study basically tries to understand how far sources of irrigation mediate development outcomes relating to education. This micro-level study based on a comparative study of both canal-irrigated and non-canal-irrigated villages in the Hyderabad–Karnataka region shows that public irrigation plays a major role in achieving inclusiveness in education, especially higher education. Unlike a non-canal-irrigated village, in a canal-irrigated village, along with ‘ dominant castes, a few Scheduled Castes (SCs) also have access to higher education. The access to ‘quality education’, in terms of private institutions and English medium schools, is also inclusive in canal-irrigated villages. On the other hand, access to education is limited to big landowners in a non-canal-irrigated village. However, a gender-wise analysis shows that the above inclusiveness in canal-irrigated villages regarding access to education has failed to reach women. Such outcomes in education are explained in terms of landownership pattern, private investment in irrigation and gendered access to education.

scholarly journals Educación superior sin barreras: La accesibilidad de las universidades

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Alba Pastor
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
Information And Communication

Higher Education institutions have developed online information services and degrees as an echo of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) incidence in all society fields. Equal access to education is a fundamental right; but equal access to higher education for people with disabilities is far from being achieved yet. To this inequality has to be added the difficulty of some groups to participate in the information society, the so called infoexclusion. The short number of students with disabilities in higher education makes evident the presence of barriers for this people to get into this educational level. One of them is the low degree of accessibility to digital services and studies offered by the Universities, something that can be considered a new kind of segregation.

scholarly journals The factors of loyalty of social service personnel

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Service Personnel ◽  
Level Of Training ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Level

The article reveals the relevance of the problem under study; relying on the previously developed research base, as well as analyzing the results of various companies in the field of personnel policy. The paper focuses on the fact that for the sustainable development and functioning of the organization, it is not enough to have a high level of training and skills, since the loyalty of staff is not always correlated with the intellectual abilities or skill level of the organization's employees. Loyal staff is highly reliable, responsible and dedicated to their organization. This, in turn, reduces the likelihood of personnel risks (malfeasance, petty theft, property damage, intentional accidents, etc.). The basic definition of staff loyalty is considered, as well as the essence of the main two approaches: foreign and domestic, which in turn are divided into separate approaches. In the process of reviewing domestic approaches, we paid attention to the following authors: K. Harsky, T. N. Chistyakova, and N. V. Mosienko. among foreign approaches, we focused on such authors as: Howard Becker and Lyman porter. Based on the analysis of these approaches, the author's definition of staff loyalty is given. We analyze groups of factors that contribute to the formation and increase of staff loyalty: organizational and personal. The article focuses on the study of factors of loyalty of social service personnel. In order to study and structure the factors of loyalty of social service personnel, the author conducted a sociological study, the object of which was employees of the Kharkiv city center of social services for children, families and youth "Trust". 10 employees of this organization were interviewed using a semi-structured interview method. The age of the respondents is from 26 to 58 years, among them: 2 men and 8 women. All respondents have higher education or several higher education institutions.

scholarly journals Direito à educação e política pública do ProUni

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Gorete Ferreira ◽  
Elias Kallás Filho
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
Politica Publica ◽  
Dsc Method ◽  
The Right ◽  
Keywords Education ◽  
Right Of Access

O estudo discutiu a implementação de políticas públicas que asseguram o direito ao acesso no ensino superior, como meio de inserção na sociedade, buscando responder à seguinte questão: até que ponto o ProUni, como política pública contribui para o acesso ao ensino superior e a formação para a atuação profissional? Mediante o objetivo de conhecer os significados de ser estudante universitário beneficiado pelo ProUni, como política pública que pretende articular o efetivo exercício da igualdade. O trabalho desenvolveu-se em quatro capítulos. No primeiro, faz-se uma apresentação geral do direito à educação, fundamentado na CR e na LDB. No segundo, busca-se uma contextualização sobre o Programa, como política pública de ação afirmativa voltada à ampliação do acesso ao ensino superior. No terceiro, são demonstrados os resultados do estudo; no quarto capítulo, tratou-se da discussão. O estudo foi de abordagem qualitativa, do tipo descritivo, de campo e transversal. Empregou-se o método do DSC. A amostra compôs por 30 alunos de ambos os gêneros, bolsistas ProUni, com idade entre 23 e 40 anos. A conclusão aponta para o fato de que o ProUni, contribuiu de maneira significativa para os bolsistas, que pertencem a população de baixa renda, possibilitando o efetivo exercício da igualdade. Palavras-chave: Educação. Políticas Públicas. ProUni. Ensino Superior. Abstract RIGHT TO EDUCATION AND PUBLIC POLICY PROUNI The study discussed the implementation of public policies that ensure the right of access to higher education as a means of integration into society, seeking to answer the following question: to what extent ProUni, as public policy contributes to access to higher education and training for professional practice? By the aim of knowing the meanings of being college student benefited by ProUni, as a public policy that articulates the effective exercise of equality. The work developed in four chapters. In the first, an overview is made of the right to education, based on the CR and LDB. In the second, we seek a contextualization of the program, as a public policy of affirmative action aimed at broadening access to higher education. In the third, they are shown the results of the study; in the fourth chapter, this was the discussion. The study was a qualitative approach, descriptive, field and cross. We used the DSC method. The sample was composed by 30 students of both genders, ProUni fellows, aged between 23 and 40 years. The finding points to the fact that ProUni, contributed significantly to the stock, which belong to the low income population, enabling the effective exercise of equality. Keywords: Education. Public policy.ProUni.Higher education.

Birth rate, infant mortality, abortion in recent years in various nations

2005 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ermenegildo Spaziante
Keyword(s):  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
Physical Trauma ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Level ◽  
First Year Of Life

Nel quadro delle attuali problematiche concernenti la considerazione e la tutela della vita umana sin dal suo insorgere, l’Autore ha esaminato e comparato tre specifici aspetti statistici concernenti i fondamentali parametri della natalità, della mortalità infantile (nel primo anno di vita), la abortività indotta legalmente registrata, per una duplice coorte di Nazioni, l’una costitutita da venti Nazioni di livello socio-economico più elevato, l’altra relativa a venti Nazioni con sviluppo meno elevato, limitando il secondo gruppo ai primi due parametri, stante la diffusa difficoltà di collezionare dati attendibili per quanto concerne la abortività. Per le Nazioni del primo gruppo l’indagine ha prescelto quegli Stati che abitualmente pubblicano i dati statistici degli aborti legali. La comparazione fra i due termini di tempo, a distanza generalmente di quindici anni, consente un quadro abbastaza significativo delle rispettive incidense. La natalità è in via di progressivo e diffuso contenimento, sia pure con varia intensità. La mortalità infantile evidenzia la grande diversità delle situazioni e delle prospettive per la riduzione delle perdite di giovani vite, in rapporto anche con gli aspetti sociali, organizzativi e scientifici della sanità. L’abortività legalmente autorizzata e registrata nelle Nazioni più sviluppate presenta una grande diversità di incidenza statistica, anche nel tempo, e, piiù di recente, probabilmente in rapporto con le più recenti modalità di attuazione, che inducono alla interruzione della vita nascente anche fuori dell’ambiente ospedaliero ed in tempi sempre più precoci, con un crescente rilievo biologico, ma non meno importante per le implicazioni etiche. ---------- The review of the statistical data, comparing the two extremities of the time span considered (for the MDC 1984 and 2000, for the LDC 1982 and 2000), has brought into evidence some significant indications: a) The birth rate is generally in widespread decrease in the first group. The drop is more noted in Russia, Poland, Bulgaria as well as Japan, Canada and Romania. In three nations however is an inversion of this tendency, in varying degrees in Denmark, Norway, Netherlands. In the l.d.c., the drop birth rate is high in some (Iran, Algeria, Morocco, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Bolivia). In others it is less marked (Mali, Uganda, Ethiopia). b) Infant mortality in the MDC is always more restained, the level emphasizes both the greater healht and social commitment and the scientific progress. In the LDC there is a great difference between those countries that have archieved a laudable progress in the control of this parameter (such as Bolivia, Senegal, Iran, Libya), even though not at the level of the MDC, and those countries where there is a high level of infant mortality, immediately after birth and in the first year of life, that is still very distant from usual, more normal levels of acceptability… and therefore with a high sociological significance that should provoke help from the luckier nations… c) With regard to provoked abortion that is legal and recorded, the statistics emphasize a disparity in the situation and the progression. In the nations of the former Soviet block that had highest levels of abortion, generally there is a drop in the rate although the parameter remains high. In the nations that were not under Marxist rule, generally the abortion rate remains more restained, with a few exceptions; despite this there are elements that lead to the new methods of pregnancy interruption outside of hospital structures and a more widespread use of contraception methods. From the group of indications that can be draw from the statistical data examined, it would seem desirable that there be an increase in conscience and there is a necessity of the promotion of a better culture and a more widespread diffusion of the ethics that surround the defence of the new life coming into being. This should become a fundamental objective of civilization, for a greater accettaption and the right for better protection of human beings at the beginning of life, and more high consideration for the suffering that accompanies not only infant mortality, but also abortion, in the preliminary decision of the woman (not always made freely!) and in the act of abortion itself, with the psychological, pathological and physical trauma that it incurs, that may remain in the memory of the woman as a shocking experience. It is therefore a problem essentially of humanity and civilization, that should be undertaken by the community in a framework that aims to extenuate the serious multiple factors of human existence and pain.

scholarly journals Access to Higher Education: The Israeli Case

2014 ◽  
pp. 27-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Ben-David ◽  
Yaakov Iram
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Minority Students ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
School Policy ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Equity Issues ◽  
High Level ◽  
Rate Of Improvement

Israeli higher education has exhibited a high level of academic achievement. However, access to higher education is at the middle level compared with the OECDs and has presented a middle rate of improvement. Stratification is still evident, especially, for minority students and for students from low socio-economic strata. Equity issues for previous schooling levels nurture stratification in higher education. We argue that there is a need for a holistic equitable school policy reform.

scholarly journals Metode Simple Multi Attribute Rating Technique Dalam Keputusan Pemilihan Dosen Berprestasi yang Tepat

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rezi Elsya Putra ◽  
Selvia Djasmayena
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Level ◽  
Very High

Each lecturer is required to carry out the tridarma of higher education, a career to become a lecturer must be professional in accordance with his knowledge and expertise. Almost every year state or private tertiary institutions, give an award to lecturers who excel one of the benchmarks is from the tri darma performance of higher education. At present in determining the right lecturer with good achievements there are still many weaknesses of one of the criteria used. Then the research has the aim to determine the outstanding lecturers by using the right criteria effectively. The method used is the Simple Multi Attribute Rating Technique (SMART) method using Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Komputer (STIKOM) Muhammadiyah Batam’s lecturer data. The results of this study set the right criteria, so get a very high level of accuracy which is 79%. So this research becomes the right indicator in determining the outstanding lecturers.

scholarly journals Globalization and Education. The Internationalization of Access to Higher Education in Poland – Selected Legal Aspects

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Łukasz Kierznowski
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
The Status ◽  
Recruitment Procedure ◽  
Internationalization Of Education ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

Abstract Affecting many spheres of social life, globalization also inevitably affects the functioning of higher education and the legal status of individuals who intend to apply for admission in a country other than the one where they completed a previous stage of their education. The paper considers selected legal aspects of the access to higher education in Poland, primarily in the context of the internationalization of education, and, thus, the internationalization of the recruitment procedure where individual candidates apply for admission to study on the basis of documents authorizing them to pursue higher education in different legal systems. The background for the reflections is the normative content of the right to education and one of its guarantees, namely the principle of equal access to education – in Poland having the status of a constitutional norm.

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