Recruiting and Retaining Technologists in a Rural Area

Recruiting and retaining high-quality teachers in rural areas.

In examining recruitment and retention of teachers in rural areas, David Monk begins by noting the numerous possible characteristics of rural communities--small size, sparse settlement, distance from population concentrations, and an economic reliance on agricultural industries that are increasingly using seasonal and immigrant workers to minimize labor costs. Many, though not all, rural areas,...

Recruiting and Retaining a More Diverse Workforce

Recruiting Retaining Advancing

This paper focuses on implementing a multi-agent simulation using distributed Linux cluster for swarm intelligence between multiple agents in the context of a battlefield or hostile area scenario. Different aspects from several different papers can provide ways in which to develop an autonomous agent algorithm. An autonomous agent algorithm will have the group of individual worker agents collec...

Recruiting and retaining rural students: evidence from a faculty of dentistry in South Africa.

INTRODUCTION There is a shortage internationally of adequately trained health professionals to service rural areas. Health professionals are more likely to practice in communities that are like the one in which they grew up. The WHO therefore suggests targeted university admission policies to facilitate the enrolment of students from rural areas. In South Africa, rural students have special nee...

Challenges for rural communities in recruiting and retaining physicians: a fictional tale helps examine the issues.

In the 2003 Québécois movie Seducing Dr Lewis, 1 the island of Sainte-Marie-la-Mauderne in Quebec is in decline, with many of its residents unemployed. A company offers the island’s citizens hope for a more prosperous future when it considers building a factory on the island; however, there is one catch: the community must have a permanent family physician. The community’s recruitment attempts ...