This article explores the recent development of new spheres of public engagement within UK higher education through an analysis of the foundation degree qualification. These, according to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), were designed to equip students with the combination of technical skills, academic knowledge, and transferable skills increasingly being demanded by em...

OBJECTIVE Sexual health education is important in addressing the health and social inequalities faced by people with intellectual disabilities. However, provision of health-related advice and education to people with various types and degrees of linguistic and learning difficulties involves addressing complex issues of language and comprehension. This article reports an exploratory study using ...

BACKGROUND Existing theories of self-directed learning (SDL) have emphasized the importance of process, personal, and contextual factors. Previous medical education research has largely focused on the process of SDL. We explored the experience with and perception of SDL among internal medicine residents to gain understanding of the personal and contextual factors of SDL in graduate medical educ...

This article explores the recent development of new spheres of public engagement within UK higher education through an analysis of the foundation degree qualification. These, according to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), were designed to equip students with the combination of technical skills, academic knowledge, and transferable skills increasingly being demanded by em...

In this interconnected age, interpretations of academic freedom have been legally contentious for virtual environments being established in such forums as the World Wide Web and electronic mail on the Internet. This paper addresses the legal issues that arise from the conflict between the concept of academic freedom in higher education and its scope and application in cyberspace. Challenges to ...

Outcomes and benefits of cooperative education (co-op) participation have been well documented; however, they have focused primarily on grade point averages (GPA) and career outcomes. Previous work on predictors of participation shows no significant differences by gender in the aggregate, but there are significant differences by ethnicity and major. One reason students may not participate in co...

Background: At a specialist nursing education in intensive care, located at a University college in Sweden, there was a desire among the faculty to develop their ability to support specialist nursing students in their academic development, as well as in their academic writing, to improve the overall quality of the master theses. A quality improvement design, the Plan, DO, Study, Act (PDSA) cycl...