The reported study focuses on pre-service teachers’ professional development during the teaching practice. The cohort studied comprised participants in their final year in the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science with Graduate Certificate in Education programmes of a university in Fiji. Analysis of the data obtained using a survey questionnaire indicates that overall, the pre-service teache...

Medical education has evolved to become a discipline in its own right. With demands on medical faculties to be socially responsible and accountable, there is now increasing pressure for the professionalisation of teaching practice. Developing a cadre of professional and competent teachers, educators, researchers and leaders for their new roles and responsibilities in medical education requires ...

BACKGROUND Over the past few decades diabetes has emerged as an important non-communicable disease in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Sight loss from Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) can be prevented with screening and early treatment. The objective of this paper is to outline the required actions and considerations in the planning and development of DR screening services. METHODS A multiple-case study ap...

The article actualizes the issue of effectiveness qualification improvement programmes, presents a four-level model for monitoring learning transfer into practice, which aims to highlight factors program‘s effectiveness. An effective program is considered be one that creates conditions pedagogical practice. Based on this model, case analysis X revealed prerequisites programs and evaluation thei...

there is a trend in health systems around the world to place great emphasis on and faith in improving ‘leadership’. leadership has been defined in many ways and the elitist implications of traditional notions of leadership sit uncomfortably with modern healthcare organisations. the concept of distributed leadership incorporates inclusivity, collectiveness and collaboration, with the result that...

Ireland has seen much change in nurse education resulting in four year degree programmes since 2002. A unique aspect of these programmes was the incorporation of rostered internship. This study explored role transition for a cohort of students at pre and post-registration. The sample consisted of fourth year students registered on BSc nursing programmes (general, mental health and intellectual ...

Mentoring experiences and programmes are becoming increasingly recognised as important by those engaged in capacity strengthening in global health research. Using a primarily qualitative study design, we studied three experiences of mentorship and eight mentorship programmes for early career global health researchers based in high-income and low- and middle-income countries. For the latter, we ...

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Informatics is a relatively new discipline, but is nowadays of key importance in all economic processes. Many professionals need development of different informatics backgrounds. The Informatics Curriculum Framework 2000 (ICF-2000) [3] has been designed to cope with a large diversity of demand for informatics education in a controlled way. It offers 8 different curriculum specifications that fi...

Coursebooks are normally written to contain information, instruction, exposure, and activities that learn- ers at a particular level need to enhance their communicative competence in the target language. Howev- er, many global course books make attempts to include content, topics, and texts that do not disadvantage any learner around the world. That is why global course books normally do ...