'World-class PR'

A world-class program.

It is said that if you give a man a fish you feed him for a day, but if you teach him to fish you feed him for a lifetime. In the spirit of this adage, the International Training and Research in Environmental and Occupational Health (ITREOH) program trains health scientists, clinicians, epidemiologists, toxicologists, engineers, industrial hygienists, chemists, and allied health workers from de...

Towards World Class Commissioning Competency

The paper considers the overarching objectives of the UK healthcare system, and the ways in which commissioning was originally intended to contribute to the achievement of these objectives. It also reviews a number of existing frameworks describing the activities of commissioners and the competencies required to perform these tasks effectively. From this, fourteen domains of competency for worl...

World - Class Pricing The Journey

World-Class Universities or World Class Systems?: Rankings and Higher Education Policy Choices

'The task given to them [the universities] was simple. They knew the measurement criteria of the THES rankings. All they had to do was to identify how their existing plans for improving the quality of their institutions matched those criteria'.

World-class expertise: a developmental model.

The field of psychology has done a remarkable job discovering the ways people differ from one another in their abilities and talents, but has long neglected the diverse ways people can unleash those capacities. There is no plausible mechanism by which our genes directly encode skills like how to dribble a basketball, play the violin, or solve an algebraic equation. We are not born knowing how t...