Making Reforms Truly Transform: the Case of Philippine Basic Education

Looking at the analyses and issues raised on the dismal state of Philippine education, one is confronted with the realization that the issues raised are the same year after year. Has nothing been done to improve Philippine education? On the contrary, there have been quite a lot of frameworks for reform in the past 20 years alone; yet, their results have not translated into large-scale, integrated, and sustained outcomes. Why? This writeup provides the reasons.decentralization, basic education, education programs, Philippine Human Development Report (PHDR), education governance, school-based management, education reform, Basic Education Sector Reform Agenda (BESRA)

How Do Philippine Provinces Fare in Terms of Human Development?

Ranking provinces in terms of human development, which provinces fared well and which fared badly across time in each of the components of the human development index? This Policy Note, based on Chapter 3 of the latest Philippine Human Development Report (PHDR), provides the answers. Read on...Philippines, human development, human development index (HDI), Philippine Human Development Report (PHDR), provincial human development index

Religious freedom and the state-church agreement.

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ARCSIM Newsletter, February 2024

ARCSIM approaches fives years and expands services to entire UMS research community. The research enterprise at UMaine has experienced rapid growth in recent years, and with that growth comes accompanying computing, data security, and operational needs. The Advanced Research Computing, Security, and Information Management (ARCSIM) group, led by Director Shane Moeykens, is taking steps to meet these needs by further expanding the computing resources and related services available to UMS faculty and students

Freedom of information and ‘vexatious’ requests — The case of Scottish local government

This paper investigates the cost and incidence of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests within local authorities in Scotland and in particular, the cost and incidence of requests which have been defined as ‘vexatious’ in order to investigate if the negative perceptions surrounding the cost and misuse of the legislation are justified. Additionally, the criteria and guidelines that local authorities are using to define ‘vexatious’ are also examined. The approach taken to the research in this study is a survey of the 32 local authorities in Scotland using freedom of information requests as the data collection method. The findings from the survey revealed that none of the local authorities were keeping records of costs relating to FOI requests. However, 80% were keeping records of numbers of requests. One third of authorities that kept records of ‘vexatious’ requests had experienced such a request. However, the actual number of ‘vexatious’ requests received were extremely low. The findings highlight the difficulties in recording cost data and the general lack of record keeping within organisations. The findings also indicate a very low incidence of ‘vexatious’ requests and suggest that the ‘vexatious’ definition may be applied inappropriately by public authorities

Activity in Acute Public Hospitals in Ireland, 2010 Annual Report

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Uranium Mill Tailings Remediation Performed by the US DOE: An Overview

The report summarizes the history and scope of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Program (UMTRAP) effort, the current status of UMTRAP sites, on-going ground water remediation efforts, the cost of UMTRAP clean-up projects, estimates of future costs, and United States Department of Energy (DOE) recognition of UMTRAP as a model program. Uranium mill tailings were among the first hazardous nuclear weapons production legacy wastes to be created as their production go back to 1940s and the places were uranium was first mined and milled in the US. The first several decades of uranium mining and milling were conducted with little or no effort to control radioactive or non-radioactive emissions from uranium mill tailings. UMTRCA established clean up requirements for all US uranium mill tailings sites. This research was completed money allocated during Round 1 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at [email protected]://commons.clarku.edu/swresearch/1000/thumbnail.jp