shahid motahari educational festival has annually been held to improve medical education quality in iran. the present study aims to determine the product of holding six courses of the festival from the viewpoints of medical sciences university faculty’s members. this cross-sectional study was conducted among 473 academic members of medical universities in iran. participants filled out a self-ad...

this article deals with the engineering education of mechatronic in the different universities of canada, while every educational aspect of their curriculum is described in detail. this study shows that the desing of any educational program to some extend depends on the department where the program is carried out and the cooperation and help of the other departments. it seems that gradually thi...

Much attention has been given to education reform at the primary and secondary level in the United States since the “Coleman Report” (Coleman et. al., 1966). Consideration by Becker, Murphy and Tumura, (1993) , of the role of education on economic growth, the lagging performance of the U.S. relative to other nations at the primary and secondary educational levels, and competition among states t...

In the past decade, widespread educational changes were proposed for education at all levels of the system in South Africa. Educational reform has therefore become an inescapable part of the reality of teachers’ work. Initial implementation of the new curriculum for schools, guiding reform after the shift to democracy in 1994, was not easy for teachers and this was later revised and streamlined...

The AL-MAJIRI school system is a variant of private Arabic and Islamic schools which cater for the religious and moral development of Muslims. In the past, the system produced clerics, scholars, judges, religious reformers, eminent teachers and great men who are worthy of emulation, particularly in northern Nigeria. Gradually, the system lost its glory but continued to discharge its educational...

In the year 2006 the “Instituto Universitario Autónomo del Sur” decided to introduce a modification in the curricula of its Computer Science careers. Such modification was based on the guidelines of the Bologna process, particularly on the adoption of a credit system similar to the ECTS (European Credit Transfer System). The authors of this article saw this institutional decision as an opportun...