Institutional Research as Adjunct to University Management

Meditation as an Adjunct to the Management of Multiple Sclerosis

Background. Multiple sclerosis (MS) disease course is known to be adversely affected by several factors including stress. A proposed mechanism for decreasing stress and therefore decreasing MS morbidity and improving quality of life is meditation. This review aims to critically analyse the current literature regarding meditation and MS. Methods. Four major databases were used to search for Engl...

Exercise training as an adjunct to asthma management?

During the past few years the world wide web has crept persistently into our collective consciousness. At first only a minority could or wanted to communicate in its specific jargon and some even revelled in that exclusivity, but the net has since widened and become much more accessible and available. Thorax must embrace the technological changes and opportunities that this brings. The printed ...

Institutional Change : A Research Handbook : 2006 , Oxford University

From Institutional Research to Information Management: A changing paradigm for institutional researchers in higher education

Globalisation has altered the nature and complexity of the operating environment for higher education. Universities, in turn, have needed to become even more complex organisations than they had previously been – needing to become increasingly corporate in their approaches and increasingly entrepreneurial in outlook. One aspect of the changes that are occurring in universities concern the growin...

Research Knowledge Management can be Murder - University Research Management Systems

Use of the term knowledge management varies depending on the context. In this paper we will investigate its use in relation to research output in universities. Universities need to keep track of their research and to note what research papers have been written, the topic of the research, who collaborated in the writing and where the research was published. To collate and store this data some ty...