University Students from Military Families: the same, but different
This research investigated the experiences of university undergraduate students from military families at Brunel University London.
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Military Experience and School Leadership Development in North Carolina
This study sought to understand how military experience influences the leadership development of principals and assistant principals. Six participants were interviewed. The study found that military experience influenced participants’ interpersonal …
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Considerations for supporting Canadian military-connected students in K-12 and higher education
This paper explores the experiences of students in formal education who are from military families.
Tailoring Higher Education Options for Smaller Institutions to Meet Veterans’ Needs: Enhancing Inclusion in Higher Education: Practical Solutions by Veterans for Veterans
This study describes the development of a strength-based program to capitalize on veterans’ assets when transitioning into higher education. The program uses occupational therapy concepts throughout a veteran centric colloquium …
Snapshot Education and Training Bullets
This Bullets summary provides key points from the Education Snapshot, which summarises key themes and issues relating to housing and accommodation among UK serving personnel and veterans, including single people …
Snapshot Education and Training
This Snapshot summarises themes and issues relating to education among UK serving personnel and veterans, including single people and families. The Snapshot sets out current structures of support and policy responses, …
Spillover Effects of Financial Aid for Education: Does Post-9/11 GI Bill Reduce Veteran SNAP Participation?
This study explores the relationship between reliance on a supplementary food program and higher education access through the GI Bill in post 9/11 US veterans.
Changes to the MOD’s Enhanced Learning Credits Scheme
The MOD’s Enhanced Learning Credits Scheme (ELC) promotes lifelong learning among members of the Armed Forces. The scheme provides financial support in each of a maximum of three separate financial …
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Service Children’s Education : Survey of Parental Views 2007
This report delves into the views of parents on their children’s education, in the context of service families.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Service Children’s Education Guide
This guide is for use in school and education settings to ensure service children and families receive the support available and ensure disadvantage due to armed forces life is mitigated …
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How eLearning Can Decrease Challenges of Informal Family Caregivers of Service Members & Veterans with Invisible Injuries
This literature review seeks to highlight the need for education, and training for caregivers providing care to active service members with psychological injuries, such as PTSD and moral injury. The …
Online Course Military Families From Mount Saint Vincent University
This autumn, Mount Saint Vincent University is offering the Military Families course. The online course taught by Dr. Deborah Norris will facilitate an understanding of the pathways through which military culture, family …
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Supporting Service Children in Education Wales
Supporting Service Children in Education (SSCE) Cymru is a Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) programme initially funded by the MOD’s Education Support Fund and funded by Welsh Government from 2019. …
Military parents invited to be research participants
A PhD student at the University of Leeds is researching Service Children’s access to education and SEND provision. Click here if you would like to take part in the research.
DeVos Eyeing School Choice As Option for Military Families: Education secretary raises idea at conservative forum
This piece details actions taken to support military-connected children in the United States by the current administration.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan Will Make Educational Opportunities for Military Families a Priority as Part of Presidential Initiative
This report identifies four strategic priorities that address the primary challenges facing military families in the United States.
The reproduction of the gender regime: the military and education as state apparatuses constraining the military wife student
This paper reports on the experiences and perspectives of military wives as students and potential students within UK Higher Education.
Wiltshire Children and Young People’s Mental Health Survey: 2020 Home Edition
The results of this survey aim to help inform schools of how lockdown (in relation to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic) impacted the well-being and learning of their pupils.
Service Children’s Progression (SCiP) Alliance
The SCiP Alliance has a vision of thriving lives for all children of armed forces families (including reserves, those currently serving and veterans) and believes in the power of collaboration …
Beyond the Barricade: A Holistic View of Veteran Students at an Urban University
For this study, a group veteran and military participants at an urban university were interviewed to determine the extent to which current campus conditions foster a sense of belonging for …
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A Comparison of the Academic Achievement of Matched Groups of Veteran and Non-Veteran Freshmen at the University of Iowa
This paper compares the academic achievement of veterans and non-veterans enrolled at the University of Iowa.
Enhancing Veteran Success in Higher Education
This paper explores the engagement of veterans in higher education in the United States.
Veteran-Students in Transition at a Midwestern University
This paper explores the transition of veterans into higher education and the factors that affect this transition.
Interrelationships Among Resilience, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, Depression, and Academic Outcomes in Student Military Veterans
This paper considers factors for student military veterans to consider as they reintegrate into civilian society and education.
Identifying British Army infantry recruit population characteristics using biographical data (UK)
This paper provides an insight into the British Army infantry recruits’ personal, social and educational background prior to enlistment.
How do you teach children to be resilient? Ask a limbless veteran
Lessons from those who have overcome trauma are helping pupils confront their own personal challenges. hen the IRA bomb exploded, Darren Swift, an army dog handler in Belfast, had several split-second …
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An Evaluation of Mobile Applications Designed to Assist Service Members and Veterans Transitioning to Civilian Life
This article evaluates mobile technologies used to assist service members and veterans in their transition to civilian life.
The military child within the public education system
This policy brief explores topics relating to the military child in the context of school and education, and gives recommendations for the development of the education system in order to …
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Students and Veterans work together to create RHS Chelsea Flower Show Garden
Military charity Help for Heroes and Sparsholt College have announced their partnership for RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018. Their garden, The Force for Good, will tell the powerful story of …
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Conference Poster – Assessing the Mental Health Needs of Service Women: The College Campus as a Site for Intervention
This poster was exhibited at the 2018 ‘Veterans’ Mental Health: From enlistment to retirement’ conference, which was organised and hosted by the King’s Centre for Military Health Research and funded by …
Student Veterans in the Academic Library
Enrollment increases in the number of veterans returning from service in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars offer an opportunity for academic librarians to craft outreach programs that address their unique …
Do military veteran and civilian students function differently in college?
The authors sought to assess military veterans’ functioning in college by comparing their experience with that of civilian students. Students, both SSM/V and civilian, with past exposure to a potentially …
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Answering the call to address chronic pain in military service members and veterans: progress in improving pain care and restoring health
This article explores chronic pain in military members and veterans, with regards to the progress made and challenges that remain, when it comes to treating chronic pain within healthcare services. …
Caring for the Veteran, military and family member, nursing competencies: strategies for integrating content into nursing school curricula
This paper argues that nursing care is an essential part of the care veterans receive and furthermore, providers of nursing care must understand the uniqueness of military culture. Nursing curricula …
Armed Forces Charities’ Education & Employment Provision
This report documents the education and employment provision made by UK armed forces charities. It explores how many forces charities provide this kind of support, the range of services available …
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Welfare Services Statistical Report 2014
The Welfare Services Statistical Report provides an overview of the allocation of grants and funding for 2014 by Poppy Scotland.
Welfare Services Statistical Report 2013
The Welfare Services Statistical Report provides an overview of the allocation of grants and funding for 2013 by Poppy Scotland.
Welfare Services Statistical Report 2015
The Welfare Services Statistical Report provides an overview of the allocation of grants and funding for 2015 by Poppy Scotland.
The Experiential Learning for Veterans in Assistive Technology and Engineering (ELeVATE) Program
This report reviews the ELeVATE program which aims to increase the enrollment, retention, eventual graduation at the college level, and career success of wounded, injured, and ill Veterans in engineering …
Renewing Our Commitments
This publication reaffirms Scotland’s commitment to support our Armed Forces community – Service personnel, veterans and families. It recognises some major achievements in supporting the Armed Forces community and sets out …
The World War II Veteran Advantage? A Lifetime Cross-Sectional Study of Social Status Attainment
This study examines the attainment levels of Second World War veterans.
Educating nurses to care for military veterans in civilian hospitals: An integrated literature review
In the UK, military veterans largely receive care from civilian nurses in civilian NHS hospitals. This study proposes that the nurses providing this care require an understanding of the unique …
Our Community – Our Covenant – Improving the delivery of local Covenant pledges (Second Edition)
The Forces in Mind Trust and the Local Government Association commissioned Shared Intelligence to carry out research into ways of improving the local delivery of the Armed Forces Covenant. The …
Evaluation Report: Stoll London Outreach Service (Transition Support)
The Stoll London Outreach service (Transition Support) comprises two dedicated Transition Support Officers who create support plans with each new Veteran referred to the service, and then work with them …
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Understanding the journey to and through ‘Access to Higher Education Diplomas’ for adults with a Service background
This research report provides an overview of the barriers facing Service Leavers when accessing and completing an Access to Higher Education Diploma.
Working Around the Military: Challenges to Military Spouse Employment and Education
A major challenge to ensuring family wide quality of life is overcoming the hurdles associated with military spouse employment. Although many military spouses work, research indicates that they face difficulty seeking employment and equal …
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Nurses Providing Care to Military Veterans in Civilian Hospitals
The purpose of this continuing nursing education article is to increase nurses’ and other health care professionals’ awareness of appropriate care for military veterans in civilian hospitals. After studying the …
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Preparing Staff to Care for Veterans in a Way They Need and Deserve
This paper provides culturally sensitive information and approaches for care workers working with US veterans in the civilian health care system.
AFF 2014 School Children’s Visits Overseas Survey
The 2014 Army Families Federation (AFF) School Children’s Visits Overseas Survey aims to determine whether current provision for those who receive the School Children’s Visits (SCV) allowance, which enables children …
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The Educational Attainment of Army Children
The main aim of this report is to compare educational attainment of Army children compared to non-Army children. To do this, the report consists of the finding of 3 research …
Educating nurses to care for military veterans in civilian hospitals: An integrated literature review
This article reviews the literature surrounding educating nurses to care for military veterans and seeks to understand how the care of veterans is being incorporated into civilian nurse education and …