Religion as a barrier to the use of student loans for higher education: A community-based participatory study with Somalis living in England     

Alija Avdukic  Fawad Khaleel  Ahmed Abdullah  Abdulbasit H. Brawe 《British Educational Research Journal》2023,49(2):370-404

The unwillingness of the Somali community to finance higher education has largely gone unnoticed within the academic literature and government policy documents. This study explores the role of religion and the influence of Shari'ah scholars on the use of interest-bearing student loans within the Somali community. In the absence of any theoretical framework on this topic, we explore the multiple socioeconomic factors that may influence the attitude, perception of need, motivation and action of using student loans for higher education, by proposing the UK Somali Muslims Acceptance of Interest-bearing Student Loan Model. This is also a community-based participatory study that actively involved Somali community members in exploring and interpreting the results. This was achieved through regular consultations with the sampled Somali Muslim communities within the UK. Our results contribute to the broader debate on the effect of cultural, religious and social values of marginalised communities on inclusion and widening access policies for higher education. The findings reemphasise that people sharing the same location do not necessarily share the same level of opportunities for higher education because of the intersectionality of race, religion, gender and class. The results also show the complexity of the issue of exclusion and the atheoretical nature of student loans as a financial instrument for improving financial inclusion and widening access to higher education among Somali residents in England.  相似文献   

DIAMOND: A tool for monitoring the participation of students in online lectures     

Mershad  Khaleel  Said  Bilal 《Education and Information Technologies》2022,27(4):4955-4985

Education and Information Technologies - The principle of traditional education has transformed fundamentally within the last few years. The growth of new computer and communication technologies...  相似文献   

UV-B Induced stimulation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase in human fetal hepatocytes     

V. B. Chari  R. S. R. Gaddameedi  M. Raghuveer Singh  Sathish Kasina  Khaja Khaleel Ur. Rahman  C. M. Habibullah  Surya S. Singh 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2004,19(1):118-121

We investigated the effect of UV-B irradiation on PI 3-kinase activity in human fetal hepatocytes. When cells were exposed to monochromatic (304nm) UV-B light, a significant increase in intracellular PI 3-kinase activity was observed in a dose dependent manner with maximal activity upon 1500 Jm⁻² irradiation. At 1500 Jm⁻² dose PI 3-kinse activity increased by 80% in membrane fraction of fetal hepatocytes of 25 weeks gestation. PI 3-kinse inhibitors wortmannin and LY294002 specifically inhibited the UV-B induced lipid kinase activity and blocked significantly the UV-B induced cell viability. The data suggests a correlation between cell survival and elevated levels of PI 3-kinase and suggest that UV-B irradiation at a dose of 1500 Jm⁻² is ideal for fetal hepatocyte transplantation. Also, PI 3-kinase levels could be a representative marker for viable UV-B irradiated fetal hepatocytes for transplantation.  相似文献