the study aimed at a critical assessment of the environmentalism components introduced in the civil engineering curriculum in india polytechnic colleges (state of tamilnadu) and associate degree level technical institutions in iran .the objective of study was to compare technical education curriculum in civil engineering with respect to environmentalism. both qualitative and quantitative techni...

The 8-step template was created during the early phases of studying the present curriculum. The 8-step template includes: (1) Establishing the exact nature of curriculum problems, (2) Prioritizing and accessing needs, (3) Projecting a long range curriculum plan, (4) Consulting parallel accredited schools catalogs for similar programs, (5) Adapting national and international model curriculums, (...

The academic program for the Harvard School of Dental Medicine's Advanced Graduate Program in Oral Implantology is based on scientific evidence applied to educational quality, translational research, patient care, and service. The objective of the program is to enable highly motivated individuals with proven scholarship and excellence in patient care to achieve academic leadership in the clinic...

This paper analyses the role that different components of the academic strength of the secondary-school curriculum (i.e. number, subjects and grades of advanced academic courses) play in explaining social origin differences in access to prestigious universities (but also to other higher education institutions) in Scotland and the USA. A central aim of the paper is to investigate whether the mec...

BACKGROUND Being aware of the limits of traditional discipline-based education, the Faculty of Dentistry at King Abdulaziz University (KAU) tasked basic medical science faculty members with developing a new integrated curriculum for undergraduate dental students to be applied in the 2014/2015 academic year. OBJECTIVE To determine the students' perceptions of the restructured curriculum and el...

South Africa has had a number of curriculum reforms since 1994 which have been based on both political and education grounds. However, there is a dearth of knowledge about the nature of the envisioned graduates, especially with respect to social challenges. This can be addressed by exploring the curriculum ideology which outlines the vision of subjects within an education system by clarifying t...

this paper describes one university’s approach to improving the quality of teaching and learning at the institutional level, based on the premise of improving the design of curriculum rather than focusing on the skills of teachers as such. the paper describes the process by which university-wide principles of curriculum design were defined and agreed, as well as the parallel campaigns needed to...

Risky Business iii Acknowledgments ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career and The National Consortium on Health Science and Technology Education (NCHSTE) want to thank the many people who supported this work and helped develop these integrated curriculum units. We would especially like to thank the academic and health science teachers from 12 high schools who participated in ou...