Bangladesh shares many socio-cultural, financial, and health issues typical of developing countries. Despite some encouraging developments in health measures at grass-roots level, medical education in Bangladesh faces many challenges. This article provides a snapshot of the current situation of undergraduate and post-graduate medical education with particular emphasis on pedagogical issues, hig...

women are faced with violence in the private sphere (by their father, husband) and in the society (public sphere). regarding irretrievable impacts of violence on women and society, governments have not considered the matter seriously. the objective of this article is to present research findings on disguised violence that is violence in the family (domestic violence) which for many reasons are ...

introduction: purchasing scientific journals take a large amount of university library budget. so choosing journals with a scientific validity that response to universities needs is so important. this article aims to have a survey on usage rate of isfahan university of medical sciences users on public, environmental and occupational health journals to confirm core journals via bradford scatteri...

institutional environment influences entrepreneurial intention and behavior. however, cognitive models have not usually included this factor in their analyses. therefore, the main objective of this study is to evaluate the direct, indirect and moderating effects of institutional environment on entrepreneurial intentions using the theory of planned behavior. this is a descriptive survey research...

Universities are knowledge based organizations whose functions are largely confined to teaching and research. They are designed to operate to discover and disseminate knowledge by possessing significant and relevant expertise in all disciplines. India has a very vast structure of education and its higher education sector is now highly advanced, compared to its neighboring countries. The vast ne...

Received April 8, 2013 Revised Jan 20, 2014 Accepted April 26, 2014 To meet the growing need for increased capacity in higher education, the government of Bangladesh encouraged development of private universities in 1992. Currently, there are sixty private universities, thirty-four public universities and three international universities in Bangladesh. Although the increased number of universit...

The purpose of this paper is to offer a critical discussion of information systems adoption in the public sector (often referred to as e-government) and to contribute to the debate by offering a public value perspective. The paper points to the public value paradigm as an alternative approach to studying ICT enabled public sector reforms. This paradigm, we argue, proposes an alternative way of ...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the status of teaching and learning persian language across world universities. to this end, 10 respondents including university professors, lecturers and graduates of persian language from 8 first rank universities in asia, europe and america were interviewed. then from among 41 universities in 22 countries, 326 persian language learners were selecte...