Inequality in access to, and attainment of, tertiary education, and particularly how it has been affected by a massive growth of student numbers in last decades, is one of major points of interest. Unfortunately, large international surveys focused directly on it are rather scarce. Yet it is possible to analyse the changing levels of inequity across European countries during past sixty years by...

The widespread use of information and communication technology in education and in the community has led to a higher expectation of prospective students’ level and type of computer competency. Currently, most higher education institutions in Australia do not require a minimum entry requirement in computer skills. This applies even to computing degrees. For most undergraduate degrees, entry depe...

The paper attempts to measure relative efficiency in utilizing public education expenditures in the new EU member states in comparison to the selected EU (plus Croatia) and OECD countries. As resources allocated to education are significantly limited, a special emphasis should be given to their efficient use regarding the institutional and legal constraints. By applying non-parametric methodolo...

PURPOSE The core curriculum in graduate medical education (GME) is an educational program that covers the minimum body of knowledge and skills that is required of all residents, regardless of their specialty. This study examined the opinions of stakeholders in GME regarding the core curriculum. METHODS A questionnaire was administered at three tertiary hospitals that were affiliated with one ...

n This overview of rural health care today shows the role that internal medicine can and should play in delivering primary care to rural populations. The American College of Physicians recommends changes to improve access to and delivery of primary care in rural areas. There are six specific recommendations. 1. Implementing universal health care coverage through a system that makes primary care...

This paper uses a novel Bayesian clustering method to categorize the temporal evolution of the share of population participating in tertiary/higher education in 14 European nations. The method represents time series as autoregressive models and applies an agglomerative clustering procedure to discover the most probable set of clusters describing the essential dynamics of these time series. To i...

Due to the continuing reduction of funds, management must find ways to ensure quality operation of tertiary education institutions at an optimal cost. This objective can only be achieved by quality control of the educational process. Its requirements are part of the ISO 9001 standard. Among them is the mapping of educational processes for quality management system. A practical manual was create...

INTRODUCTION In an attempt to address the rural medical workforce maldistribution and the concurrent inappropriate caseload at the urban tertiary teaching hospitals, Flinders University and the Riverland Division of General Practice decided to pilot, in 1997, an entire year of undergraduate clinical curriculum in Australian rural general practice. This program is called the Parallel Rural Commu...