Britain unveils four–year plans for postgraduate studies

How the PhD came to Britain. A century of struggle for postgraduate education

"assist us in understanding the present position of our discipline". This is a tall order and it is clear that this book would not pass the test were it to be judged by its announced standards. But there is no need to do so. Like Kraepelin's, A century ofpsychiatry is an idiosyncratic book. It is also ahistorical in that nowhere in it is there an explanatory hypothesis to be found. It is, nonet...

Postgraduate Studies in the Field of HCI

D-optimal plans in observational studies

This paper investigates the use of Design of Experiments in observational studies in order to select informative observations and features for classification. D-optimal plans are searched for in existing data and based on these plans the variables most relevant for classification are determined. The adapted models are then compared with respect to their predictive accuracy on an independent tes...

Postgraduate education for pediatricians.

Thank you very much for inviting me to start off the discussions today on post-graduate medical education. Historically post-graduate education has always been grounded in the perception of the specific health care needs of patients. Therefore, I'm first going to address some of the more important health care needs of children, emphasizing the unmet needs which future pediatricians must be prep...

Nursing Postgraduate Students` Experience of Preparing for Nursing Postgraduate Entrance Exam

Introduction: Increased volunteers for postgraduate education have expanded competition. It has been a serious challenge for both participants and educational managers to be prepared for postgraduate entrance exam. This study aims to explain the process of preparing for postgraduate entrance exam among nursing postgraduate students based on expectancy theory. Methods: This study used directed ...