Further Education

Distance education: getting further.

Students’ Transitions to Further Education

This case study focuses upon the transitional experiences of disaffected learners as they progress from secondary to tertiary education. It seeks to identify the both the positive factors and those that caused difficulties, and recommend ways of improving these for learners in order to encourage them in becoming agents within the process. Through analysis of focus group interviews, the study ma...

Further Education of Medical Licentiates

Interpretations of independent learning in further education

Independent learning and independent learning strategies are at present significant topics in educational research. The bulk of this research deals with independent learning in junior and higher education with little based upon the further education sector. The focus of this article is the interpretation of independent learning by 16to 19-year-old students at a further education tertiary colleg...

Headache education for medical students: Wolff's postulates--further communication.

Dr. Young’s reply to my original letter in the April edition of Headache does not address the central issue. The sole object of my letter was to bring to the attention of the readers of Headache the fact that Wolff’s hard scientific evidence showing the involvement of the extracranial branches of the external carotid artery in the pain of migraine has been specifically and inexplicably excluded...