OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to determine what patients, professionals and significant others regarded as the most important positive- and challenging aspects of Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programmes for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and to gain insight into how such programmes could be developed and improved. METHOD A modified Nominal Group Technique meth...

The study aims to develop effective diagnostic tools for identifying and assessing professional deficits among inclusive education teachers implementing adapted basic general programmes students with mental retardation (hereinafter referred as ABGEP MR). paper discusses a that is being conducted currently at the State Autonomous Institution of Additional Professional Education Irkutsk Region “E...

ABSTRACT The study assessed the use of rural radio as agricultural information dissemination tool among farmers in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State. The specific objectives were to: describe the socio-economic characteristics of the respondents, identify rural and agricultural programmes normally aired on radio, find out the level of patronage of the programmes, identify the convenien...

BACKGROUND The number of nurses able to independently prescribe medicines in England has risen steadily in recent years. AIM To evaluate the adequacy of nurses' educational preparation for independent prescribing and to describe nurses' experiences of their continuing professional development as prescribers in practice. DESIGN AND METHOD Postal questionnaire survey. PARTICIPANTS Random sa...

Confronted with the diverse problems that university continuing education is facing, our presentation focuses on the continuing education of primary and secondary school teachers which indeed, is experiencing two problems: a decrease in government funding, and a decline in numbers, for university continuing education seems irrelevant for teachers who register in it. We choose to broach the ques...

Examines an increasingly important feature of further and higher education provision: the development of distance-learning opportunities for managers and teachers interested in education management qualifications in the context of a newly marketized education service in England and Wales. Draws on a university survey of prospective distance-learning “clients” who had expressed an interest in po...

The recent change in working patterns of doctors in training has meant that the traditional systems of education are under increasing pressure and that there is the need to maximise new opportunities for learning. One new opportunity may arise after the introduction of the mandatory assessment systems (Mini-CEX, DOPPS, Multi-source feedback, and Case based discussion) in the Foundation Programm...

Despite the large and diverse cohorts recruited annually across globe to university sport programmes, few studies have assessed value of peer support within sports education settings. Even more surprising is lack research explored encounters mentors who help deliver these schemes impact it had on their professional development. Conducted at a post-92 English university, this study benefits moti...