In countries with high differentiation between academic and vocational education, an individual's future prospects are strongly determined by the educational track to which he or she is assigned. This large-scale, cross-sectional study focuses on low-performing students in academic tracks who face being moved to a vocational track. If more is understood about these students, measures could be t...

Entrepreneurship education has two effects: it improves students’ entrepreneurial skills and provides impetus to those suited to entrepreneurship while discouraging others. While entrepreneurship education helps students to make a vocational decision its effects may conflict for those unsuited to entrepreneurship. We show that vocational and skill formation effects of entrepreneurship education...

An international course in Family Medicine has been held annually in Slovenia for the past 7 years. This paper describes the philosophy, content and methods of the course and discusses its impact. The course is centred around the preparation of a teaching module exploring the central themes of Family Medicine. Course methods include individual assignments prior to the course, keynote lectures t...

A methodology for design based research (DBR) into effective development and use of Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVE) in vocational education is proposed. It blends software development with DBR with two theories selected to inform the methodology. Legitimate peripheral participation LPP (Lave & Wenger, 1991) provides a filter when thinking about vocational education because moving towards...

This study examined gender differences and trends in the participation of Malaysians in education. Trend data for the period between 1990 and 2007 were calculated and compiled from annual reports of the Ministry of Education, and the Department of Statistics, Malaysia. Percentages of male and female student enrolment in government primary, secondary, pre-university, and college and university e...

To the Editor: In the early 1990s, a landmark decision was made by the South African Nursing Council (SANC), and supported by the Department of Health, to close down all adult-education vocational-training nursing colleges in favour of higher education (HE) institutions. Fast-forward 20 years and this 'well-meaning' decision has now plunged South Africa (SA) into its largest shortage of trained...

background: pharmacy education has been changed in recent years. pharmacy students need more practical and clinical skills which come from direct interaction with patients and other health care providers. to achieve this, students need more effective courses and clerkships. in this paper we describe our method to design and evaluate clinical pharmacy clerkship for the first time in ahvaz jundis...

BACKGROUND Most of the efforts to reduce teenagers' tobacco addiction have focused on smoking prevention and little on smoking cessation. A smoking cessation program (TABADO study), associating pharmacologic and cognitive-behavioural strategy, on a particularly vulnerable population (vocational trainees), was developed. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of the program which was offered t...