Internet Use among Central Luzon State University Students Thelma T.Dancel Carlota Villaroman Angelie D. Maningas Nico F.Ace Salas BSBA1-1 First Semester Academic Year 2009 - 2010 One of the technologies dominating the computer industry today is Internet technology. The Internet, also called the Information Superhighway, is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol
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and then examines its international impact on higher education development. He contends that globalisation is predominantly economic, and points out that global exchanges in the economic, cultural and educational domains continue to be unequal. At the same time, education is increasingly treated as a business. By exposing the negative side of globalisation and its effects on universities, the author aims to counter the uncritical acceptance of globalisation as a positive force for higher education
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which constituted their abilities to lead. The studies investigated individual traits such as intelligence, birth order, socioeconomic status, and child-rearing practices (Bass, 1960; Bird, 1940; Stogdill, 1948, 1974). Stogdill (1974) identified six categories of personal factors associated with leadership: capacity, achievement, responsibility, participation, status, and situation but concluded that such a narrow characterization of leadership traits was insufficient: "A person does not become a leader
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understanding during the period this course lasted. I also express my profound gratitude to my Project Supervisor, Mr. O.J Odewale for his assistance and scholarly advice. My special thanks goes to the Director-General, Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Prof. S. O. Akande, Mrs. C. O. Adelani, Mr. V. O. Akinrinlade, Mrs. P. E. Bassey, M. O. Akinyemi and others too numerous to mention for their wonderful support. ABSTRACT Examination malpractice is one of the cankerworms threatening
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dropping hobbies and activities the person used to enjoy; losing interest in them, feeling an urge to drink, having relationship problems, having problems with the law, having money problems, and requiring a larger quantity of alcohol to feel its effect (Videbeck, 2007). Alcoholism does not only affect the adults. According to Sociological theory, alcoholism is a learned response. This often happens at a young age. A child may see things around them or on TV of people drinking and they tend to believe
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"coming of age thing" when a student goes to teenage life and encounters vices such as drinking and smoking is very rampant nowadays. Such vices cannot be ignored anymore as to the more students seem to be detaching from their spare time or even they intend to cut classes just for this so called vices, they seem to be enjoying freedom too much. A student may be influenced to be involved in any of the stated variables. High School is far different from being a college student. A person will have a new
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Mongolian Education Alliance Ulaanbataar, Mongolia All rights reserved ©2005 Mongolian Drop Out Study THE MONGOLIAN DROP OUT STUDY By Mercedes del Rosario International Educational Policy Studies Teachers College, Columbia University Research Associate, Drop Out Project In Collaboration with Battsetseg Donrov Officer Division of Monitoring, Evaluation and Coordination Ministry of Science, Education and Culture of Mongolia Bayartsetseg Bayarsaihan Assistant Faculty of Social Science Mongolian
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ELL versus non-ELL student initial team referral (IC or other prereferral intervention team) and ultimate IEP Team referrals. Initial referral concerns also differed significantly between ELL and non-ELL students. IC Teams were found to be more effective than existing prereferral intervention teams in decreasing the special education referrals of ELL and non-ELL students. The results of the present study serve as a foundation for future research in the areas of at-risk ELL students and their referrals
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Many people judge the superiority of the country based on its economic resources and the currency in the world market. I am if the firm view that the success if each and every country should be judged based on the quality of education and the educational system that prevails in that country. The first democratic president of South Africa once said in his famous speeches: “education is the most powerful tool we can use to change the world”. Education serves as a primary back-bone for every developed
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university students. The US normative sample is described as participants (N = 899) aged 18 to 29 years who were screened beforehand to exclude individuals with a history of neurological, learning, emotional and attention difficulties. The South African sample consisted of university students (N = 93) from both genders, between the ages of 18 and 29, who were screened in terms of hearing and visual impairments and any history of psychiatric or neurological difficulties. These students were from the
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