This paper deals with the occupational absorption of female immigrants from the former Soviet Union (now the CIS) into Israel’s labor market, and their participation in subsidized vocational training courses. About 43 percent of these immigrants had participated in such a course during their first five years in Israel. A calibration of a dynamic choice model in which immigrants’ decision regard...

This joint paper is based on cooperative work done by the TERECoP project partnership during the 3 years of the project (2006-09) and presents a constructivist methodology for teacher training in robotic technology and its implementation within the framework of teacher training courses. The courses gave teachers the chance to pass from their initial role of a trainee in robotics to that of a te...

The University Center for Academic Learning and Teaching (UOCG) provides the University of Groningen with an educational program to train fully qualified secondary school teachers in many secondary school subjects including computer science. This two-year Master’s in Education Program consists of teacher training that includes a large internship component and teacher training courses, in additi...

Because public health is a continually evolving field, it is essential to provide ample training opportunities for public health professionals. As a natural outgrowth of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Prevention Research Centers Program, training courses of many types have been developed for public health practitioners working in the field. This article describes three of the ...

Background: Effective leadership that rises from managerial training courses is highly constructive in managing hospitals more effectively. This study aims at investigating the relationship between leadership effectiveness with providing management training courses for hospital managers.    Methods: This was a cross-sectional study carried out on top and middle managers of 16 hospi...

  Background: Teachers’ self-efficacy and development may be conceptualized as their beliefs in their own ability to plan, organize and carry out activities that are required to attain educational goals. In this study, we examined the effect of different medical education training courses (six-day, one- month short- term and six-month long- term courses) on perceived self-effica...

More Training? No doubt general practitioners and mental welfare officers will play their part in coping; the fact remains that only a minority of either have had special training in the subject and must depend on their increasing experience. Some of them, and their patients alike, may suffer from their lack of training. Can we, the N.A.M.H., do anything more here? Courses have long been run, b...

Robotically assisted microsurgery or telemicrosurgery is a new technique using robotic telemanipulators. This allows for the addition of optical magnification (which defines conventional microsurgery) to robotic instrument arms to allow the microsurgeon to perform complex microsurgical procedures. There are several possible applications for this platform in various microsurgical disciplines. Si...

One of the paths that lead to excellence in teaching in higher education involves training of faculty members in higher education pedagogy. This study gives a summary of individual surveys and hands-on experience acquired through implementation of methodology courses for faculty members. At the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and at other higher education institutions throughout the Czech ...

background: high-risk unsafe behaviors (hrubs) have been known as the main cause of occupational accidents. considering the financial and societal costs of accidents and the limitations of available resources, there is an urgent need for managing unsafe behaviors at workplaces. the aim of the present study was to find strategies for decreasing the rate of hrubs using an integrated approach of s...