See You Again Next Week
Suggests that student tutoring may provide a partial solution to the high attrition rate in education plus training for 16‐18‐year‐olds in Britain. Focuses on the Pimlico Connection – a student tutoring scheme initiated by Imperial College, London in 1975 – in which students act as volunteer tutors in local primary and secondary schools. Evaluates the scheme, in which 1,300 volunteer students assisted nearly 15,000 school pupils, and concludes that, with appropriate commercial backing, effective management and willing participants, student tutoring has great potential for raising schoolchildren′s aspirations.
Empowering Traditional Mentoring Matching Mechanism Selection Using Agent-Based System
The need for higher technology to assist is clearly evident. Decision Support System is part of an information system that focuses on support and decision making management. For this research, the Intelligent Decision Support System Modelling for Mentoring is the proposed research domain and Faculty of Cognitive Sciences & Human Development, UNIMAS is the research location. The main function of the system is to provide a mechanism to match mentors and mentees based on several criteria of mentors suggested in past studies. The criteria included are the age, marital status, education, gender as well as vocational area of the mentors. The research also applies agent technology in its development of the Decision Support System. The ability of the agent to react freely with the surroundings and taxonomy without user instructions will speed up decision making. RAD methodology using Oracle 9i software is the foundation of implementation. The result from this research shows that this system can be introduced to improve the procedures available and to set the path for a more seamless, to have a better candidate selection and effective mentoring program.
Marketing the mpa degree: Access and program structure as determinants of successful enrollments
During the months of October through December of 1982, a national comparative evaluation of 186 MPA programs was undertaken to determine which variables are associated with enrollment strength across these programs. Two sets of variables, one corresponding to the structural characteristics of the program, the other corresponding to measures of access for these programs, were statistically analyzed. The findings are as follows: (1) the highest enrollments are determined by access to a market population and whether or not the program was located in a school of public administration; (2) there is a fundamental difference between programs oriented towards full-time students and those oriented towards part-time students; (3) full-time oriented program enrollments are dependent on structured characteristics of a program while part-time oriented programs are sensitive to access variables and not program characteristics and; (4) larger enrollments are associated with organizational autonomy with the lowest enroll...