Mr Ballard campaigned on a programme of ensuring student and staff views are listened to in the university, and on issues such as bus passes for mature students, affordable accommodation and top-up fees.
This paper provides key learning from the application of an early reading intervention applied in post-conflict Liberia, which included a robust assessment tool (Early Grade Reading Assessment) to measure the impact of the programme on students' reading levels.
Secondary aims include examination of the impact of the school breakfast programme on students' school achievement, psychosocial function and nutrition.
In the Californian programme, observations of students walking to school suggested an increase in three of five sites which implemented sidewalk improvement projects and two of 10 sites which implemented traffic signals, but no differences were observed for crosswalk and signal or bicycle path improvement projects (Boarnet et al., 2005b).
After three years of running such a programme, the number of student pregnancies at the school decreased from 16 to zero.
Second, notwithstanding efforts to keep costs low, the cost of postage or courier delivery has escalated in recent years with the expansion of the programme to students in more geographically dispersed areas.
Facilities Hull is nearing the end of a four-year, £15m programme of investment in student residential accommodation.
Guardian Unlimited, for instance, reported last week that the Abbey school in Faversham, Kent, is the first in the country to introduce random drug testing; in a video podcast, headteacher Peter Walker explains the whys and hows of the new programme to students.
RP is a lecturer in medical education and provided informal teaching during the remediation period, however sessions were voluntary and not a formal part of the remediation programme for students at either medical school.
Apart from quality control of the PhD project, the graduate school plays a central, primarily facilitating/organisational role in the educational programme of its PhD students, enhancing the breadth and depth of their scientific knowledge and skills.
