An exploratory study was conducted with the aim of discovering and describing experiences of psychiatric nursing students during clinical placement in a psychiatric unit. For the purpose of the study an unstructured interview was conducted with each participant during their first placement in a psychiatric unit to identify the factors experienced as stressful. The results indicated that all eig...

The timetabling problem consists in fixing a sequence of meetings between teachers and students in a given period of time, satisfying a set of different constraints. There are a number of different versions of the timetabling problem. These include school timetabling (where students are grouped in classes with similar degree plans), university timetabling (where students are considered individu...

This study aimed to examine gender and status effects in the kind of e-mails used to manage course administrative issues in an educational setting. Students were asked to respond to an e-mail presented as being from a member of staff, informing them of failure to submit coursework and asking for an explanation to be provided. The sex and status of the sender were varied. The data showed both ge...

Describes the experience on two modules, at Oxford Brookes University where eContent is being used to augment or replace face-to-face lectures. The issues addressed in this work are firstly whether creating inhouse eContent to replace parts of lectures could benefit students, staff or faculty. Secondly how tutors can help students to navigate and select from a variety of electronic resources, t...

Background: Little is known about high school students’ perceptions of school-based pastoral support. This study aimed to explore this in the context of a high school–based emotional support project. Methods: Qualitative interviews explored perspectives on help seeking of students (N = 23) and staff (N = 27) in three UK high schools where a pastoral project was introduced. Data were analysed th...

This descriptive, cross-sectional study of Sudanese medical schools aimed to describe and analyse the proportion of their curricula currently allocated for teaching of communicable diseases and to assess the teaching methods and student assessment tools. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from heads of departments and students in 20 of the 27 medical faculties and from ministry of...

This study examined the association of two widely used measures of attention allocation toward or away from threat-related stimuli: The emotional Stroop task and the attentional probe task. Fifty-three participants responded to computer versions of both tasks where stimuli were presented both subliminally and supraliminally. Thus, four indexes indicating attention allocation were computed for e...

The license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Dear editor We read with great interest the article by Deane and Murphy 1 regarding student and staff experiences of attendance monitoring in undergraduate obstetrics and gynecology (OBG). We agree with the findings of this cross-sectional survey, which show ...

In this cross-sectional study, we surveyed 89 students from four courses to elicit their expectations of the nature of the skills and knowledge, and the degree of self-management and collaboration, which was required for their courses. We compared their responses to the expectations set out in the New Zealand Qualifications Framework. We also sampled a small number (6) of lecturers and compared...

background and purpose: of the significant processes for educational quality promotion is to evaluate the teachers' competency.this study has been conducted with the goal for designing and psychometric the measure for determining the professional competence of nursing faculty members. methods: the present research is the qualitative part of a sequential exploratory combined study of the co...