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<p>Living quality and experience in medium or higher density student housing in Wellington is suffering from the inconsiderate internal spaces and underutilised common areas. The aim of this design-led research thesis is to provide design solutions that would be able to improve the quality of life in local student housing in architectural aspects. Several precedents were documented and analysed in each design phase to state the design directions and goals. Findings from each proposed design scheme was taken as base to expand and develop the next iteration. The three design phases have covered iterations of different project scales. Started from the designs of individual units to a block-wide student village, the iterations have addressed the research question by suggesting three design strategies, which were hyper efficiency, transitional shared space and blurred boundary. The design proposals illustrated how these strategies would be applied in different scales and how they would make positive impacts in terms of improving the quality of life in compact living environment.</p>

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<p>Living quality and experience in medium or higher density student housing in Wellington is suffering from the inconsiderate internal spaces and underutilised common areas. The aim of this design-led research thesis is to provide design solutions that would be able to improve the quality of life in local student housing in architectural aspects. Several precedents were documented and analysed in each design phase to state the design directions and goals. Findings from each proposed design scheme was taken as base to expand and develop the next iteration. The three design phases have covered iterations of different project scales. Started from the designs of individual units to a block-wide student village, the iterations have addressed the research question by suggesting three design strategies, which were hyper efficiency, transitional shared space and blurred boundary. The design proposals illustrated how these strategies would be applied in different scales and how they would make positive impacts in terms of improving the quality of life in compact living environment.</p>

Censo local sobre consumo de drogas en población escolar

Introduction: Under the framework of social prevention of violence, the results of a survey on drug use in school population in a locality in Guadalupe, Zacatecas, Mexico, are presented. Objective: Determine the prevalence of drug consumption in the local student population. Method: The questionnaire developed by INPRFM for ENCODE 2014 in its version for student age populations was applied. The questionnaire was answered by 96.6% of the population studied (N=1139). Results: 33.3% of the students stated that they had been offered drugs as gifts and 7.9% stated that they had been offered to buy drugs. Lifetime prevalence were 49.4% for alcohol, 37.6% for tobacco and 24.3% for some drugs such as amphetamines, tranquilizers, marijuana, cocaine, crack or rock, inhalants, methamphetamines or heroin. Prevalence of use in the last twelve months were 56.9% for alcohol, 20.1% for tobacco and 13.2% for other drugs. Prevalence of use in the last month were 35.8% for alcohol, 9.1% for tobacco and 9% for other drugs. Discussion: the relevance of a bivariate logistic regression analysis is proposed to study the connection between personal or sociodemographic characteristics with drug use. Two routes of action are proposed: a) Psychosocial, brief interventions adapted to the population and b) Socio-political, influence on the social context of conflict and illegality.

Integration of foreign students studying at Primorsky Krai universities into the local student community

В настоящей работе исследуются особенности интеграции иностранных студентов, обучающихся в Дальневосточном федеральном университете, в местное студенческое сообщество. Анализируется динамика привлечения иностранных студентов в вузы Приморского края, выбор ими специальностей, а также комплекс факторов, благодаря которым вузы Приморского края, и, в частности, ДВФУ, являются привлекательными для иностранной молодежи. На примере ДВФУ рассматриваются наиболее успешные практики интеграции иностранных студентов в принимающее сообщество. Показывается, что дополнительными факторами можно считать наличие хорошо отлаженной рекрутинговой системы, а также филиальной сети и представительств вузов за рубежом. Также анализируются те проблемы, с которыми сталкиваются иностранные студенты: недостаточное знание русского языка для освоения программ профессиональной подготовки, наличие определенной культурной дистанции.

How diverse is your reading list? Exploring issues of representation and decolonisation in the UK

There is a growing impetus, from university students and administrations, to decolonise the curriculum and develop diverse reading lists. Yet, there is limited theoretical or empirical analysis of the authorship of current reading lists to justify this imperative. The present study developed and applied a method for auditing the authorship on reading lists of two modules, one from science and one from social science, in a research-intensive British university. The paper explores whether these reading lists can be considered descriptively representative of the student body or scholarly community. The analysis of reading lists found empirical basis for concerns that university curricula are dominated by white, male and Eurocentric authors, with some exceptions. The reading lists did not represent the diverse local student body but came closer to representing the demographic profile of academic staff. To interpret these findings, the paper argues that reading lists have a role to play in decolonising our universities, and offer opportunities to critique and deconstruct disciplinary boundaries. Further research is required to explore student and staff views of reading lists and the meaning of diversity, to evaluate existing tools, and address barriers to decolonising our curricula on a global scale.

The Differences of Consumer Behaviors Towards Merantau Student and Local Student

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Bringing the Global Home: Students Research Local Areas through Postcolonial Perspectives

This article describes a class that draws on postcolonial insights to create a global sociological imagination. Postcolonial approaches can make visible how global connections have shaped our local environments even if these relations are not always immediately visible. Specifically, students in this class highlight how global relations, such as the slave trade, settler colonialism, racial formations, or migrations, constitute the local. If we start to reconnect global ties, how do we interpret local inequalities differently? Whose voices do we fail to listen to, and why are these global linkages and histories silenced or forgotten? The article describes the development of the curriculum and local student research projects as the main class assignment. It then discusses how students grapple to understand how global ties are and always have been crucial to our everyday lives and think critically about giving voice to perspectives that have conventionally been marginalized.

Accelerated Change

This chapter captures the almost feverish events leading up to the Criminal Laws (amendment) Act 2013. It starts with the tragic rape of 16 December 2012, and describes the way a local student-led protest rapidly snowballed into a headline-grabbing movement. It attempts to piece together how the word and the passion spread like wildfire throughout the capital, largely through social media. Within days the government announced several women’s safety measures in the capital and constituted a 3-member committee to look into changing the law. The chapter then summarizes the anti-rape movement in India over the years to provide the background for the tumultuous public outburst, as well as the evolution of the law before resuming the narrative on the working of the Verma committee and the speedy sailing of the legislation through parliament. The movement fits primarily the punctuated equilibrium driven by a ‘trigger’ event.