WHICH STUDENTS SKIP SCHOOL? A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS AND STUDENT ABSENTEEISM USING PISA DATA.

Which students skip school? A comparative study of sociodemographic factors and student absenteeism using PISA data.

This article explores which students-with regard to gender, socio-economic background and migration background-skip school in Germany, Japan, Sweden General Aviation and the United Kingdom (UK) according to PISA data.Students who skip school are observed in many countries, but there is not much systematic research that studies this across countries

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Diversity and Distribution of the Dominant Ant Genus Anonychomyrma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Australian Wet Tropics

Anonychomyrma is a dolichoderine ant genus of cool-temperate Gondwanan origin with a current distribution that extends from the north of southern Australia into the Australasian tropics.Despite its abundance and ecological dominance, little is known of its species diversity and distribution throughout its range.Here, we describe the diversity and d

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