Foreign language teachers, like all design their courses by first investigating and paying attention to learners’ special needs. In this paper, a needs analysis survey is presented. This took place in class of adult graduates from Greek Merchant Marine Academies. Learners are naval engineers who participate postgraduate course with the purpose upgrade professional diploma. The subject includes ...

<p>The increasing population, rapid development, number of motorized vehicles and community activities are part the current transportation problem. These problems can have an impact on improving need for parking. At Kertapati Station there is a parking space facility. Provision if not appropriately arranged be problem interfere with level comfort in service process result traffic jams, es...

abstract background: identification of the main needs of infertile patients is essential to provision of appropriate supportive services and care based on their needs. thus, the present study aims to explore infertile couples’ counseling needs. materials and methods: this study was carried out with an inductive qualitative content analysis approach during 2012–2013. the participants of this stu...

Training needs analysis (TNA) is the first step in the training and educational strategy of an organisation and is crucial to meeting the continuing professional development needs of the healthcare workforce and service. TNA must be carefully planned, conducted and have clear outcomes to ensure that training interventions are implemented effectively and that they lead to meaningful changes in s...

The port industry is facing a dramatic wave of changes that have transformed the structure of the industry. Modern seaports are increasingly shifting from a “hardware-based” approach towards “knowhow intensive” configuration. In this context knowledge resources, learning processes and training initiatives increasingly represent key elements to guarantee the quality of service supplied and hence...

This study analyzed the requirement of English education for arts students and the language needs for arts administrators in the workplace in Taiwan. A total of 83 participants, comprising 37 graduate students majoring in the arts and 46 company administrators in art-related jobs, responded to a questionnaire requesting their opinions concerning English education. The results indicated that the...

This study analyzed the requirement of English education for arts students and the language needs for arts administrators in the workplace in Taiwan. A total of 83 participants, comprising 37 graduate students majoring in the arts and 46 company administrators in art-related jobs, responded to a questionnaire requesting their opinions concerning English education. The results indicated that the...

Population growth can lead to public school capacity issues as well as increased school bus utilization, which, in turn, can result in longer school bus transport times for regular and special needs students. Special needs or medically fragile students are children with special health care needs who are at increased health and safety risk. It is common practice to provide special needs students...

Educational needs assessments (hereafter NAs) are inattentive to cost considerations and are frequently dominated by elite stakeholder groups. In this article I make a case for adopting a cost-utility approach, illustrating the argument with data generated in a NA of central library services in a Canadian school district. Using survey data from eight stakeholder groups, I found that (1) NAs bas...