This project is the outgrowth of the Enhanced AHEC Academic Community Partnership for Health Professions Workforce and Educational Reform. The Enhanced AHEC project has involved faculty from MUSC, USC, Greenville University Center, technical education institutions, the AHEC system, representatives from the State Budget and Control Board, the Commission on Higher Education, DHEC, DHHS, SCMA, SCH...

Nursing education has been plagued with a saturation of content for many years. The multiple contributing factors underscore the complexity of the problem and validate the need for educational reform. The purpose of this article is to discuss various factors contributing to content saturation and propose a conceptual approach for curriculum development and teaching in nursing education.

The project named Higher Education Reform was established in 2004 as one of the implementation elements of the European higher education policy. The core activities of the project were executed throughout the formation of National Teams of Bologna Experts who had the task and duty to contribute to the general and real awareness-rising on the topic of the higher education reform among different ...

In empirical education and labour market research, different approaches for measuring education have been pursued; they reach from ‘number of years of schooling’ and educational scoring as continuous measures to typologies as ISCED and the CASMIN classification as categorical approaches. The value of the CASMIN educational classification has been demonstrated in many studies in comparative soci...

Albeit from varying perspectives, multiple stakeholders (i.e., policy makers, researchers, administrators, teachers, parents) call for teacher professional development as a means of fostering and/or enacting educational reform (Borko, 2004; Cochran-Smith, 2004; CochranSmith & Fries, 2005; Darling-Hammond, 1996, 2000; Little, 2001; Timperley & Phillips, 2003; Zeichner & Noffke, 2001). But tensio...

The Egyptian higher education sector was being subjected to a number of changes due to the policies made by the government. To enhance the role of the private sector, the authorities have embarked on an ambitious and comprehensive financial plan of reform that is to be completed over a ten-year span for the target of making the higher education institutions more competitive and efficient. The r...

In Egypt, the medical sector has been facing the same problems that challenged the system of higher education in the past decades, mainly an increasing student enrollment, limited resources, and old governance and bylaws. These constraints and the escalating paucity of resources have had a major negative influence on quality of education. Consequently, thoughts of educational reform came forwar...

This article highlights how the digital revolution, high technology density, digital confident students and the new educational reform necessitates other theoretical gateways in our contemporary school system. Today we find a consensus among policy-makers, researchers, teacher educators and teachers that competence aims and digital literacy must be given high priority and needs to be explored m...

Reforms which increase the stock of education in a society have long been held by policy-makers as key to improving rates of intergenerational social mobility. Yet, despite the intuitive plausibility of this idea, the empirical evidence in support of an effect of educational expansion on social fluidity is both indirect and weak. In this paper we use the raising of the minimum school leaving ag...