The paper will appear in a slightly edited form in a special issue of Feminist Economics on the work of Amartya Sen, in 2003. The authors are grateful to the editors of the special issue and to the referees for their comments and guidance. The Institute of Social Studies is Europe's longest-established centre of higher education and research in development studies. Postgraduate teaching program...

A personal teaching philosophy is an essential and active element of a teacher. Acquiring a philosophy is powerful, in that it directs and guides a teacher’s teaching practices in the classroom as well as how they perceive teaching and learning and the students around them. This paper aims to discuss the importance of developing and reflecting on a personal teaching philosophy as a pre-service ...

This paper reports the findings of a study conducted to analyse the effect of mobile device intervention for student support services and to gauge its use for enhancing teaching – learning process as a future study in the context of offer of Distance Education programmes. The study was conducted with the learners of the coveted Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Cardiology programme of Indira Ga...

Dr. Ilir F. Progri is currently an independent Consultant. He was an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cal Poly, Pomona, California, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses and conducts research in the field of navigation and wireless communications. Dr. Progri was the Program Co-Chair for the Wireless Telecommunications Symposium 2006 ...

John Michael Harrison (Mike Harrison) was born in London, England on February 2, 1915 and died on November 30, 2007 at his home in Brookline, MA. He received his early education at Stonyhurst College and then graduated from the Institution of Electrical Engineering, London, in 1942. He then obtained a postgraduate academic diploma in psychology from University College and Birkbeck College, Univ...

Undergraduate surgical teaching in Singapore began 100 years ago, when the Medical School was founded. A significant step had been taken to enable local students to be trained in and to attain the diploma of Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery (LMS). Plans for postgraduate education were temporarily derailed when the Japanese occupied Singapore in 1942. Postgraduate surgical teaching received an...

The University of Sydney’s school of chemistry is one of the largest chemistry departments in Australia with a strong record of achievement and an international research reputation. There are typically around 100 postgraduate students undertaking research towards doctorate and masters degrees. The school offers postgraduate programs in all areas of contemporary chemistry leading to the followin...

This paper serves as both an example and a warning to academics seeking an alternative to traditional instructional methods for an increasingly computer literate cohort. Survey results confirmed that Graduate Diploma students were entering the Information Technology course with existing spreadsheet and database skills, but not to the extent that these applications could be totally withdrawn fro...