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The effects of free tuition policy on university academic performance in Chile

AbstractIn 2016 Chile initiated a policy of free tuition for students from families in the lower half of the income distribution to improve access to and completion of higher education. The empirical effectiveness of the policy has not yet been completely demonstrated. This study analysed the difference in levels of academic performance of students enrolled in 12 Chilean universities with and without free tuition. The study used a regression discontinuity design with a running discrete variable locally randomised. The results show that the academic performance of students receiving free tuition was equivalent to that of students paying the full cost. There was no difference in the course pass rate of those with or without free tuition. Over time the effects of the policy could reduce inequality in the professional labour market. In addition, the study suggests that there may be complementary practices that further improve university student achievement and completion rates.

Sistem Pengelolaan dan Pengembangan Wakaf Secara Produktif di Pondok Pesantren Al-Uswah Kuala Kabupaten Langkat Menurut Undang-undang No. 41 Tahun 2004 Tentang Wakaf

The purpose of this study was to determine the productive waqf management and development system at the Al-Uswah Kuala Islamic Boarding School, Langkat Regency, and also to find out the forms of productive waqf management and development at the Al-Uswah Kuala Islamic Boarding School, Langkat Regency. This type of research includes empirical research with a qualitative approach. The subject of this study involved the Chairperson of the Al-Uswah Kuala Islamic Boarding School Foundation, Nazhir Waqf, and the Community, with a qualitative descriptive research analysis. The results of the research conducted show that the waqf management and development system productively at the Al-Uswah Kuala Islamic Boarding School, Langkat Regency is carried out by administering and collecting data on waqf assets, then recording them in a notarial deed so that they have permanent legal force, and carrying out maximum supervision so that the utilization Waqf assets are in accordance with their function and main objective, which is to develop Islamic education as a place to nurture true Muslims. Then, the productive management and development of waqf at the Al-Uswah Kuala Islamic Boarding School in Langkat Regency is carried out in two forms, namely the physical form in which waqf assets are developed by adding and constructing various buildings needed in the educational process at the institution. Apart from that, it is also being developed in the form of waqf management policies especially for the needs of the students, for example providing free tuition fees for orphans and high achieving students so as to help the Muslim community (santri's parents). While the form of waqf assets is distributed to the surrounding community in the form of donations such as groceries and so on at certain moments. So that the productive management and development of waqf assets is in accordance with Law no. 41 of 2004 concerning Waqf.

Sistem Pengelolaan dan Pengembangan Wakaf secara Produktif di Pondok Pesantren Al-Uswah Kuala Kabupaten Langkat: Studi Analisis Menurut Undang-Undang No. 41 Tahun 2004 tentang Wakaf

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine the productive waqf management and development system at the Al-Uswah Kuala Islamic Boarding School, Langkat Regency, and also to find out the forms of productive waqf management and development at the Al-Uswah Kuala Islamic Boarding School, Langkat Regency. This type of research includes empirical research with a qualitative approach. The subject of this study involved the Chairperson of the Al-Uswah Kuala Islamic Boarding School Foundation, Nazhir Waqf, and the Community, with a qualitative descriptive research analysis. The results of the research conducted show that the waqf management and development system productively at the Al-Uswah Kuala Islamic Boarding School, Langkat Regency is carried out by administering and collecting data on waqf assets, then recording them in a notarial deed so that they have permanent legal force, and carrying out maximum supervision so that the utilization Waqf assets are in accordance with their function and main objective, which is to develop Islamic education as a place to nurture true Muslims. Then, the productive management and development of waqf at the Al-Uswah Kuala Islamic Boarding School in Langkat Regency is carried out in two forms, namely the physical form in which waqf assets are developed by adding and constructing various buildings needed in the educational process at the institution. Apart from that, it is also being developed in the form of waqf management policies especially for the needs of the students, for example providing free tuition fees for orphans and high achieving students so as to help the Muslim community (santri's parents). While the form of waqf assets is distributed to the surrounding community in the form of donations such as groceries and so on at certain moments. So that the productive management and development of waqf assets is in accordance with Law no. 41 of 2004 concerning Waqf. Keywords: Management, Development, Productive Waqf.

Reducing child marriage in sub-Saharan Africa: Evaluating the joint potential of protective marriage and education policies

The public health burden associated with child marriage is undeniable. To combat this practice, there has been widespread passage of national minimum-age-of-marriage policies. However, evidence on their effectiveness has been mixed. Policies that guarantee access to education may also be needed to create a viable alternative to marriage. Prior studies have not considered the complementary influence of tuition-free education policies, nor tested for potential synergy between the two policies. We conducted a natural experiment to better quantify the relationship between protective marriage laws (those that establish a minimum age of 18 even with parental consent) and tuition free secondary education on the frequency of child marriage and births, considering both the individual and synergistic contribution of the two policies. We linked globally-comparable data on national policies to multiple rounds of DHS data (2003–2021) from 16 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. We used two-way fixed effects (TWFE) models to evaluate the relationship between policy change and child marriage among women aged 15–26. Neither policy alone had a statistically significant effect on either child marriage or early fertility. However, the interaction terms were significant, suggesting that implementing both a new protective marriage policy and free tuition during the observation period had a significant impact on lowering early marriage and births. This impact was more pronounced for outcomes under age 15 as compared to those under age 18. This study provides a better understanding of what policies matter to effectively reduce child marriage. While it is possible that each policy marginally contributes to a reduction in child marriage, our evidence suggests that both protective marriage policies and tuition-fee secondary school are needed to have a meaningful impact.

Pengaruh Pemberlakuan Program SPP Gratis 12 Tahun Terhadap Perekonomian Indonesia

This research aims to find out the views of the public regarding the issue of the implementation of free 12-year tuition fees (Sumbangan Pembinaan Pendidikan) from elementary, junior high, to high school levels in the Riau Islands. The sources of this research were obtained from students and university students located in Tanjungpinang. This type of research uses a qualitative approach. This research uses primary data. Primary data used in this study were obtained directly through distributing questionnaires to respondents. This study involved 32 people, including students and students in Tanjungpinang City. One of the factors that cause a weak educational foundation is the low level of income and the large population in Indonesia. Analyzing the quality of education is very important before schools receive assistance or mentoring, and this issue is not only related to money. It was found that communication between policymakers and implementers can change how programs are run.

Negative Unintended Consequences of the GOAL Scholarship on Local Private Tertiary Institutions in Guyana

The GOAL (Guyana Online Academy of Learning) Scholarship initiative aims to enhance educational accessibility by providing Guyanese students with free tuition at various foreign tertiary institutions. While the program is designed to democratize education and offer valuable opportunities, it has inadvertently created significant challenges for local private tertiary institutions. This article explores these unintended consequences, focusing on the financial and operational impacts on private institutions, and proposes strategies to balance the benefits of the scholarship with the sustainability of the local private education sector.

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How free tuition became a policy in Chile: the importance of policy actors and their beliefs

How free tuition became a policy in Chile: the importance of policy actors and their beliefs

SMA Kosgoro Bogor's Student Attendance Accountability Through Finger Print That Led to Appreciation

SMA Kosgoro Bogor uses fingerprint technology as a tool to improve accountability of student attendance and monitoring. The implementation of fingerprint technology has enabled the school to have detailed and automated information about student attendance. This article aims to explain how the use of the fingerprint system at SMA Kosgoro Bogor can improve student attendance accountability. The method used in this research is a descriptive qualitative method that produces descriptive data in the form of written or oral observations of people and observable behaviour. The data source of this research uses primary data sources and secondary data. The research subjects were all students of SMAS Kosgoro Bogor. One form of appreciation given is the provision of free tuition scholarships at the beginning of each month that meets predetermined criteria, such as consistent daily attendance, recorded in the school attendance system, designated as a nominee by the homeroom teacher, active in extracurricular activities, speaking well, and behaving politely.

Indonesian EFL students’ perceptions of TikTok utilization in EFL learning

Despite its increasing popularity among young adults, TikTok has been very slow in finding its way into the English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching profession. Yet before introducing the application into the EFL classrooms, it is no doubt imperative to discern what is preferable among EFL learners. Thus, the aim of the present study was to examine the extent to which EFL learners perceive TikTok as facilitating their learning. To this end, the participants (N = 31) were asked to fill out a short, online questionnaire to gather information about (i) whether they utilized TikTok as an affordance for their EFL learning and (ii) whether they perceive its integration into the EFL classrooms as facilitative of their learning. The findings revealed that although they did not explicitly mention that they used TikTok as an affordance for their EFL learning, they held a belief that TikTok is effective in promoting their English proficiency. According to the students, there were three factors of note which contribute to the effectiveness of TikTok, namely abundant authentic input availability, easy-to-grasp information and availability of free tuition related to English language learning. Pedagogically, it implies that TikTok is worth integrating into the EFL classrooms.

The intergenerational effect of tuition-free lower-secondary education on children’s nutritional outcomes in Africa

ABSTRACT One in five child deaths under age 5 are a result of severe wasting. Malnutrition at early ages is linked to lifelong consequences, such as reduced cognitive skills, reduced earnings in adulthood and chronic health conditions. Countries worldwide have committed to addressing child undernutrition, and ending hunger is foundational to the Millennium Development Goals. In this paper, we study the intergenerational effect of providing free tuition in secondary school on future children’s nutrition. We combined a novel longitudinal dataset that captures educational policies for 40 African countries from 1990 to 2019 with the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). We identified three countries that introduced free secondary education several years after implementing free primary education. Exploiting this variation in timing we estimate the additional impact of providing free secondary education over free primary education. Using a difference-in-difference approach, we find that introducing free secondary education significantly reduced wasting. Cohorts exposed to free secondary had an 18% relative decrease in wasting. The impact on cohorts exposed only to free primary was smaller and not statistically significant. Expanding free secondary education has long-term, intergenerational benefits and is an effective path to reducing malnutrition. Results are robust to different specifications.

A Pilot Study of Drayton Valley’s Zero-Fee Tuition Program

ABSTRACT This qualitative pilot study introduces and reflects on early development and implementation of the Zero Fee Tuition (ZFT) program in the rural, oil and gas town of Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada. This innovative, primarily municipally funded program, implemented in 2019, provides local students with up to $5,000 in free tuition for select post-secondary programs. Here we situate ZFT within higher education funding debates and other publicly funded tuition assistance programs in North America. ZFT is then put into conversation with a typology of tuition assistance Promise programs in the United States, framing ZFT as a last dollar, place-based, and universal program. Implications for such programs are explored in the context of Canadian post-secondary education. We conclude by drawing implications from our pilot examination of ZFT.

Manajemen Pemasaran Jasa Pendidikan dalam Menarik Peserta Didik Baru di MI Melalui Hubungan Masyarakat

This research aims to determine the marketing management of educational services in attracting new students at MI Roudlotul Mubtadiin through public relations. The research method uses a descriptive qualitative approach, namely by describing and explaining the marketing management of educational services in attracting new students at MI Roudlotul Mubtadiin through public relations. Marketing of educational services at MI Roudlotul Mubtadiin in attracting new students uses a marketing mix, namely: providing integrated skills and knowledge to students, free registration fees and tuition fees, a comfortable, safe and suitable location for carrying out the teaching and learning process, promotion through communication and networking. relations with the community, have supporting and adequate infrastructure, the learning process follows the Madrasah curriculum/government curriculum. Public relations management in attracting new students at MI through community relations, namely carrying out national holiday commemorations involving the entire community, next are events commemorating Islamic holidays, compensation for orphans, birthdays in the month of Rabiul Awal, visiting almost all students, parents of students who are illness, condolences to all students, students' families, communities around MI who have died and visits by institutional leaders to local communities who are less fortunate in order to receive scholarships or discounts on funding.

Increasing Academic Achievement through Madrasah Principal Strategies

Strategy is a procedure used to carry out an activity to achieve madrasah goals. In carrying out the leadership process, the head of the madrasah certainly has strategies that will be carried out as a leader in the madrasah for improving student achievements to become an indicator of the success of managing the madrasah. This research aims to find out how the madrasa head's strategy, and the implementation of the madrasa head's strategy in improving the academic achievement of students at MA Unggulan XYZ Jombang. This research uses a qualitative approach with a case study type of research and is descriptive in nature with subjects namely the head of the madrasah, head of curriculum, and also teachers. The data collection techniques used were observation, interviews, and documentation studies. The validity of the data was tested by triangulating sources and techniques. The data obtained was analyzed through data reduction, data presentation, and data verification. The results of this research show that 1) the madrasa head's strategy in improving students' academic achievement by supervising, sector reading, boosting six superior madrasa programs, and also giving appreciation to students who excel in the form of free tuition fees for one semester 2) implementation of the madrasa head's strategy in improving Students' academic achievements are carried out by holding sectoral reding evaluation meetings by communicating with each other with sectoral readings.

Implementation Deep Learning Method On Decision Support System For Smart Indonesia Card Scholarship At University Of KH. Bahaudin Mudhary Madura

Scholarships are financial aid or funds awarded to individuals or groups to support education, research, or other academic development. There are many types of scholarships such as academic achievement scholarships, non-academic achievement scholarships, financial scholarships, and others. College scholarships are financial aid or funds provided to students to assist them in their pursuit of higher education. Scholarships in tertiary institutions can be full such as smart card scholarships or partial such as free tuition scholarships, and the aim is to encourage wider access to education and help students who are talented but face financial constraints in pursuing their education. At the University of KH. Bahaudin Mudhary Madura for scholarship applicants there are very many, there are hundreds or even nearly thousands of students who register, especially on the smart Indonesian card scholarship and this also requires very fast time and a good level of accuracy in decision making. Therefore, it requires a decision support system. In this study, the deep learning method was applied to a decision support system with a loss of 1.43%, an accuracy rate of 98.57% and a system runtime of 77ms/step.

EVALUASI STRATEGIK BERBASIS STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP DI LEMBAGA PENDIDIKAN

ABSTRACT Strategic Evaluation is very important to be carried out by every educational institution because in practice there are still many educational institutions that do not do it intensively, which has an impact on the sustainability of the institution and this is where strategic leadership has an important role. This research aims to obtain information about the implementation of strategic evaluation based on strategic leadership and the results of the Strategy Evaluation carried out at STAI Muhammadiyah Tulungagung. This research is qualitative research with a case study type, the data collection methods used are in-depth interviews, participant observation and documentation. The results of strategy evaluation activities carried out by STAI Muhammadiyah Tulungagung include: 1) holding workshops and mentoring for lecturers which brought in presenters from various circles, namely senior lecturers and presenters from Kopertais IV Surabaya, 2) holding meetings which were held at the beginning of the lecture and at the end of the lecture at the same time joint evaluation, 3) placing lecturers according to their expertise, 4) collaborating with various existing institutions to improve the quality of lecturers and students, 5) increasing the number of students by making collaboration between students and lecturers more effective in looking for new students as well as collaborating with Ketanon Village and providing scholarships free tuition until graduation. Keywords: Strategic, Evaluation, Educational, Institutions, Leadership

The Power of Certainty: Experimental Evidence on the Effective Design of Free Tuition Programs

Proposed “free college” policies vary widely in design. The simplest set tuition to zero for everyone. More targeted approaches limit free tuition to those who demonstrate need through an application process. We experimentally test the effects of these two models on the schooling decisions of low-income students. An unconditional free tuition offer from a large public university substantially increases application and enrollment rates. A free tuition offer contingent on proof of need has a much smaller effect on application and none on enrollment. These results are consistent with students placing a high value on financial certainty when making schooling decisions. (JEL H52, H75, I22, I23, I28, I32)

Sistem Pengelolaan dan Pengembangan Wakaf secara Produktif di Pondok Pesantren Al-Uswah Kuala Kabupaten Langkat menurut Undang-Undang No. 41 Tahun 2004 tentang Wakaf

The purpose of this study was to determine the productive waqf management and development system at the Al-Uswah Kuala Islamic Boarding School, Langkat Regency, and also to find out the forms of productive waqf management and development at the Al-Uswah Kuala Islamic Boarding School, Langkat Regency. This type of research includes empirical research with a qualitative approach. The subject of this study involved the Chairperson of the Al-Uswah Kuala Islamic Boarding School Foundation, Nazhir Waqf, and the Community, with a qualitative descriptive research analysis. The results of the research conducted show that the waqf management and development system productively at the Al-Uswah Kuala Islamic Boarding School, Langkat Regency is carried out by administering and collecting data on waqf assets, then recording them in a notarial deed so that they have permanent legal force, and carrying out maximum supervision so that the utilization Waqf assets are in accordance with their function and main objective, which is to develop Islamic education as a place to nurture true Muslims. Then, the productive management and development of waqf at the Al-Uswah Kuala Islamic Boarding School in Langkat Regency is carried out in two forms, namely the physical form in which waqf assets are developed by adding and constructing various buildings needed in the educational process at the institution. Apart from that, it is also being developed in the form of waqf management policies especially for the needs of the students, for example providing free tuition fees for orphans and high achieving students so as to help the Muslim community (santri's parents). While the form of waqf assets is distributed to the surrounding community in the form of donations such as groceries and so on at certain moments. So that the productive management and development of waqf assets is in accordance with Law no. 41 of 2004 concerning Waqf.

Common education in schools. Gauging potentials for democratic transformation: a case study from Greece

This article examines how educational commons, in which teaching and learning are shaped by the entire educational community on terms of equal freedom, contribute to democratic empowerment and renewal. Intervening in the critical debate over public formal education and the scope it allows for radical democratization, discussion draws on a case study conducted in the self-organized school Solidarity School Mesopotamia in Moschato, Athens, Greece.The Solidarity School is an informal tutoring or supplementary tuition school which is attached to the formal high school curriculum. One of its main objectives is to support students for the courses they attend in public schools and to prepare them for public school and university entrance exams. This attachment foists constraints on education, however, the commons-based organization and the alter-political nature of the school put a crucial twist on educational practice. This generates considerable transformative effects which are reflected markedly in the ambiance of teaching and learning.The School promotes socio-economic and political equality not only by providing free tuition to students whose families may not be able to afford private supplementary teaching and might not be able thus to enter university or to learn foreign languages. The School nourishes also a culture of equal freedom, solidarity and civic engagement which refashions the hegemonic habitus of consumerist individualism, passivity and submission to socio-political hierarchies.The article argues thus that there is room for educational commons and democratic transformation even in structures which remain tailored to formal schooling but refigure educational hierarchies and modes of governance, infusing education with an alternative democratic ethos of solidarity, equal freedom and grassroots self-organization.