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The specifics of private education is considered in the article. The author points out that the most relevant characteristic of this system in post-industrial society is its independence. Only independent private education can offer a non-standard approach allowing to individualize the process of education.

For the past fifteen years, Brunei Darussalam, through the Ministry of Education, has made extensive efforts and shifted from complete exclusion to inclusive education (IE). Amongst the stakeholders of inclusive education, regular classroom teachers play very important roles in the implementation. This study attempted to explore regular classroom teachers' attitudes and concerns on their involvement in teaching children with special needs in the regular classroom setting. The subjects of the study were 113 regular classroom teachers, selected from 18 inclusive primary government schools nationwide. Data were gathered and analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. An instrument which consists of 10 items was used in this study: 5 items dealt with the teachers' attitudes and 5 on their concerns in their involvement and confidence level in inclusive education. Results indicated that the teachers highly support inclusive education and worked collaboratively to this end. However, from the interview, they expressed concerns like the need for further trainings and provision of appropriate resources to be more effective and confident stakeholders of inclusive education. Recommendations are presented to deal with the teachers' attitudes and concerns on inclusive education.

Professional Social Work Education is commemorating 75 years of its contribution in addressing social problems and social welfare in India. While engaging layers of social realities, social work tries to create academic rigour, tests out new models and demands a statutory professional regulatory system. This article provides an overview on the issues, challenges and concerns of social work education in India. The first part details the historical development, the second part brings out various debates, the third part discusses the future concerns and challenges for social work education in India and it ends with a discussion.

The idea of universal Education was first mooted in 1955 when the universal primary educationscheme was inaugurated by the government of Western Nigeria. The Eastern Nigeria governmentlaunched its own universal primary education in 1957. In Northern Nigeria, education was providedfree by government in a bid to make children attend school (Adeyemi, 2007). Thus, at its onset, theuniversal primary education scheme had been undertaken by regional government. There was noFederal Government intervention until 1976 when the universal primary education (UPE) was launchedto cover the whole country.

Why IPE? Why Now? / Nassrine Noureddine, William Ofstad, and Darla K. Hagge -- History of Interprofessional Education / Nassrine Noureddine and Darla K. Hagge -- Leading the Change through IPE : Building a Culture of Safety / Nassrine Noureddine, Darla K. Hagge, and, William Ofstad -- Interdisciplinary Bias and Dual Professional Identity in IPE / Nassrine Noureddine and Darla K. Hagge -- Shared Understanding of the IPE Team / Nassrine Noureddine, Darla K. Hagge, and William Ofstad -- Getting Started with IPE Curriculum Design / William Ofstad, Nassrine Noureddine, Darla Hagge, and Wendy Duncan -- Assessing an IPE Curriculum : An Overview / William Ofstad, Nassrine Noureddine, and Darla K. Hagge -- Online Interprofessional Education / Zehra Aksu, Nassrine Noureddine, Sharyn D. Gardner, and Crystal Sims -- A Call to Action for Advancing Interprofessional Education / Nassrine Noureddine and Darla Hagge -- Let Toolkits Be Your Quick Start to IPE Learning Experiences Experiences / Nassrine Noureddine, William Ofstad, and Darla K. Hagge

"The State, edited by Richard English and Charles Townshend, tackles the problems of defining and studying the state and the role the nation state has played as the basic political unit in Europe and throughout the world." "The State offers a comprehensive survey of the whole process of state-building over the last two centuries and considers the contemporary state as well as supra-states (such as the European Union). Drawing on the current debates on secessions within the United Kingdom, this book analyses the British state today and its place in the future."--Jacket.