The education of nurses has traditionally been conducted in the hospital based setting. This changed over the last few decades, with nursing education now being a tertiary based course in many countries. There were numerous reasons for this move, the main goal being to improve the educational experience of students and thus the competence of graduates. Nurse academics whose role is to educate s...

The aim of this study was to document the amount of recent change in Australian nurse academics' scholarly productivity and to investigate the influence of demographic factors such as gender, academic rank, qualifications, increase in qualifications, state of residence, university and university size. Scholarly productivity was calculated from an audit of journal articles. The findings of this ...

According to the Dualistic Model of Passion (39), passion entails valuing, liking, and spending time on an activity. The Dualistic Model also posits two types of passion for activities: harmonious passion (individual voluntarily engages in the activity) and obsessive passion (individual is compelled to engage in the activity). The purpose of the present study was to examine the possible links b...

proposal at Cambridge University, the heads of three science departments have opposed plans that would offer better salaries for senior academics at the expense of junior and support staff. Short-term contracts are a particular problem for women. A recent report from the AUT shows that the number of female academics has risen by 43 per cent in the past seven years, while the number of male acad...

This study is designed to investigate into how academics (university lecturers) who were involved in the design and development of MOODLE based-courses use the blended learning system to facilitate teaching and learning in the classroom and what factors facilitate or impede the effective design of MOODLE by academics .Qualitative research design was used. Various existing courses of seven lectu...

AIM To explore the perceptions of early career nursing academics on leadership in academia. BACKGROUND There is growing emphasis on leadership capacity building across all domains of nursing. However, there is limited evidence on leadership capacity in early career academics. This study tested an intervention to develop leadership capacity amongst early career nursing academics in two Austral...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to identify UK English academics’ conceptions of information literacy and compare those conceptions with current information literacy standards and frameworks. Design/methodology/approach – Three year AHRB-funded study involving 80 academics interviewed throughout the UK and using the phenomenographic research method to discover variation in experience ...

The paper describes present condition in education system in regard to current social circumstances, both national and foreign ones. Also, the issue of unpreparedness (at all possible levels) regarding the impact of foreign “interested parties” is treated. Specific interest exists for the possible innovation of university teaching and the active engagement of both academics and students. Resear...

This paper is the third in a series of studies emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving). It considers previous studies of the usage of electronic journal articles through a literature survey. It then reports on the results of a survey of 542 academic authors as to how they expected to use open-access research papers. This data is compared with results...

This paper reports on an investigation, ongoing since the early 1990s, and now in its second phase, of how academics have sought to make sense of the `quality revolution’ which has been such a dominant feature of UK higher education in the last decade or so. The paper begins by considering the turbulence and uncertainty which has become characteristic of today’s higher education systems, and wh...