OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONTINUOUS EDUCATIONAL SPACE

Evaluation of a Continuous Educational Program for Urinary Stones

Considering the significance of continuous medical education and its role in the quality of the presented health and treatment services, and the holding of more than 3000 of such programs, this study was carried out to determine the effect of continuous medical educational program regarding renal stones during the years 1997-1998. In this study, the educational trial strategy was carried out o...

Information Technologies: Opportunities for Advancing Educational Assessment

Skills for the Future: Educational Opportunities for Digital Curation Professionals

Several cultural heritage institutions all around the world have set up special services, trainings, courses or programs focusing on curation of digital material. Digital curation is a multifaceted task with a great variety of responsibilities, preconditions and objectives. For the first time in this field the DigCurV project offers a framework to locate competences and skills related to vocati...

Unequal Educational Opportunities Due to Gender Issues among Nursing Students

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Insuring Educational Risk: Opportunities versus Income∗

We develop a model of education where individuals face educational risk. Successful graduation depends on individual effort to study and public resources. After realization of risk, they either work as skilled or as unskilled worker. We show that an optimal public policy consists of tuition fees combined with skill-contingent loans, lump-sum transfers/taxes, and public funding of the educationa...