Higher levels of enrollment are usually sustained, in part, because "credentialing"—the attainment of degrees or certificates of achievement has become a social necessity.
Previous research links test anxiety to poor academic performance, a decreased attainment of degrees, and limited career options (Enright et al. 2000; Ergene 2003; Kennedy and Doepke 1999; Mealey and Host 1992).
University of the People (UoPeople) -- the world's tuition-free, non-profit, online university dedicated to servicing all those constrained -- has already admitted close to 100 Haitian individuals for the attainment of degrees in Business Administration and Computer Science.
These results are not surprising in the Singapore context, where nurses are starting to work towards attainment of degree qualifications.
Socioeconomic, cultural, and experiential factors also play a role in students' pursuit of, persistence in, and, ultimately, attainment of STEMM degrees.
Based on our finding we argue that increasing the number of people with deep knowledge in STEM will lead to greater acceptance of biological evolution, which provides an additional justification for increasing the attainment of STEM degrees.
The study's author concludes that shifting the focus of admissions away from individual achievements, developing cooperative rather than competitive learning environments, and helping high school students develop a more realistic picture of undergraduate life may lead to greater minority enrollment and attainment of college degrees.
A recent study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found there are 209 federal programs designed to increase knowledge of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and attainment of STEM degrees.
Thus, the mode of being of the aesthetic perceiver, the artist, the compassionate agent, and the ascetic saint each has moral value in virtue of their possessing a degree of true understanding of the world, which enables the attainment of a degree of freedom from ordinary egoism, and which leads them to not add to or possibly to diminish the amount of suffering in the world.
The state's constitutional authority is a vital means for citizens to address these grave and serious issues, as they must if we are to progress in knowledge and understanding and in the attainment of some degree of consensus.
While at Cambridge he first studied zoology but soon switched to French and Russian literature; he graduated with first-class honours in 1922 and subsequently wrote that his almost effortless attainment of this degree was "one of the very few 'utilitarian' sins on my conscience".
