Education Finance in Arizona: 1997 The Unsettled State of the State

Confusion reigns; at best, the state of the state seems to be unsettled

Federal Student Financial Aid In The 1990s: Crisis And Change?

II appears likely that the rest of this century will witness continued erosion to the goals of access and choice (to higher education student aid]

The “New” Performance Funding in Higher Education

Over the past several years, public higher education, both in the U.S. and internationally, has increasingly been required to explain, defend, and validate its performance and value to a wide variety of constituents, including governors, legislators, students, parents, employers, and taxpayers

Educational Considerations, vol. 31(1) Full Issue

Educational Considerations, vol. 31(1) Fall 2003 - Full issu

Table of contents and editorial information for Vol. 31, no. 1, Fall 2003

Table of contents and editorial information for Vol. 31, no. 1, Fall 200

Foreword

This edition of Educational Considerations is devoted to the issues impacting on higher education at the beginning of the 21st century: declining revenues from all sources; increasing demands for accountability; increasing costs leading to increases in tuition and fees; enrollment management; and the changing role of state governments

Financing Higher Education in Fiscal Year 2003: The State of the States

So begins the 2002 Fiscal Survey of the States from the National Governors Association. Nearly every state has reduced budgets and cut expenditures in light of reductions in anticipated state revenues

The Utility of HEGIS Data in Making Institutional Comparisons

Several changes need to be made in the instructions to the HEGIS finance form to enhance the usefulness of the information

Family support in practice : voices from the field

This paper revisits core family support messages for social work practice in working with children and families, linking to findings from high-profile child protection cases in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Drawing on a comparative study where these identified practice messages were explored through the lens of testimony of family support workers in the UK and Ireland, these core messages are examined. Operating with hard-to-engage children and parents, we hear how families and family support worker colleagues now view the core functions of child and family work across both jurisdictions (Ireland and England). The authors argue that by naming a more detailed set of practices that are deemed as most useful by families, based on the benefits and challenges of intensive family support work, key messages arise that have major resonance for social work and multiagency practice into the future. A basic message from this study is that valuable lessons on engagement and intervention with families can be drawn for professionals by examining the practice elements of this group of paraprofessionals in the child and family arena. This paper adds to debates on the role of support and intervention in social work and family support work

Zirconium complexes of bipyrrolidine derived salan ligands for the isoselective polymerisation of rac-lactide

We report a series of Zr(iv) 2,2′-bipyrrolidine–salan derived complexes and their exploitation for the ROP of rac-lactide to afford highly isotactically enriched PLA.</p