This paper presents the findings of a scoping exercise to map the professional doctorate for nurses and midwives in three Australian Universities using a modified form of Illuminative Evaluation. The visit was prompted by the increase in the number and range of professional doctorates introduced in the UK over the last decade which stimulated a desire to obtain details of similar programmes in ...

This paper reports on teachers' preferences for online professional development programmes in Indonesia. Relying data from 330 university English teachers, the results of our discrete choice experiment suggest a significant positive preference synchronous interaction but negative costly programmes, offering no certificates participation or completion, conducted over longer period and using digi...

Transnational Higher Education (TNHE) post-registration top-up nursing degree programmes are relatively new in Malaysia and their impact in clinical settings is unknown. This research interprets Malaysian nurses’ experiences of such programmes and their perspectives of the extent TNHE theoretical knowledge has been applied in clinical settings. The contextual framework was established by drawin...

The need for continued access and provision to continuing professional development (CPD) has been recognised by the construction sector. However accessing formal CPD opportunities while working fulltime in the industry is a challenging undertaking. It is recognised that learning is a complex set of interrelated cognitive processes. In higher education changes that can be identified are the need...

Coaching is emerging as a major professional development and performance enhancement process for senior managers and executives. There are, however, few professional development programmes aimed specifically at coaches themselves, and no internationally recognised qualification or professional standard. Much of the literature on coaching has been written by practitioners or those with an intere...

This article draws on research undertaken by the Professional Association of Lecturers in Youth and Community Work (PALYCW) collaboration with Open University, University Glasgow Hull. The authors are all part a community practice lecturers teaching higher education (CYW) degree programmes. These CYW programmes professionally endorsed Development professional bodies across UK. They adopt inform...

1.1 Introduction This report outlines the findings from an educational evaluation that comprehensively measured the impact that masters' degrees in healthcare management, leadership & management development and quality and safety in healthcare management had on graduates who completed the programmes at the Institute of Leadership, Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) in Ireland. The results present...

Modern conceptions of education are based on normative goals concerning learning outcomes in terms of competencies to acquire. The objective of the Swiss competencies framework was to define general and profession-specific learning outcomes for Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes in nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy (ergotherapy), midwifery, nutrition counselling, and technicia...

The research presented here is justified by the lack of tradition in Spain with regards to socioeducational intervention programmes based on training and group support, as well as the proven benefits of these methods in foster care. It addresses the need to go deeper into the acquisition and consolidation of the core professional competences for running socioeducational groups with foster famil...

BACKGROUND This paper discusses the rationale behind, and an approach to, the development of a graduate level interdisciplinary curriculum in literature and health care that incorporates community-based learning. Such an innovative approach emerges from the recognition that professional training in both health care and humanities programmes often does not model the kinds of collaborative relati...