For several years, all five medical faculties of Switzerland have embarked on a reform of their training curricula for two reasons: first, according to a new federal act issued in 2006 by the administration of the confederation, faculties needed to meet international standards in terms of content and pedagogic approaches; second, all Swiss universities and thus all medical faculties had to adap...

background: although nursing faculties may believe that they possess a core of knowledge about ethical interactions with students, they may unwittingly risk crossing an ethical boundary in the learning environment. the ethical dimension in education exists because the instructor has authority to contribute to or impede the students’ acquisition of knowledge. therefore, this study aimed to deter...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between quality of work life (qwl) and organizational commitment (oc) and their dimensions in faculty members of physical education faculties and departments of state universities. sample consisted of 217 faculty members of physical education faculties and departments. walton’s (1973) qwl questionnaire and mayer and allen (oc) questionna...

While some innovative practices have been identified and disseminated, a wider adoption of Web 2.0 tools in Higher Education (HE) teaching practices is not taking place. A study of the drivers and barriers of these technologies in HE outlines that implementing these approaches entails contradictions and conflicts with faculties’ and students’ beliefs and expectations. Based on a critical perspe...

the aim of this research is to understand and assess the application of organizational learning capabilities in the status quo and review desirable situations in the context of the agricultural faculty environment. data were collected from 329 faculty members in 19 public agricultural faculties using a survey questionnaire. results indicate that organizational learning capabilities are below av...

The peer-review system as a critical tool in academic processes is regarded to be essential. It not used only evaluate the manuscripts submitted journals but also tenure decisions, promotions, and grant applications. However, during last few decades, has become subject of research criticized from various aspects. Many scholars studied process presented biases emerging due characteristics author...

This study aims to compare quality gap of educational services at Zahedan University of Medical Sciences from students and faculties viewpoints. In a cross-sectional study, survey questionnaire was completed by two distinct groups of respondents- 230 faculty members and 384 students. Mass majority of the both groups declared there was negative gap in each of the five dimensions. Mean quality ga...

Programming is one of the basic subjects in most informatics, computer science mathematics and technical faculties’ curricula. Integrated overview of the models for teaching programming, problems in teaching and suggested solutions were presented in this paper. Research covered current state of 1019 programming subjects in 715 study programmes at total of 218 faculties and 143 universities in 3...

What type of computer is the human mind/brain? The answer we propose is this: the mind is a symbol manipulating computer, an abstract virtual machine realized in a brain performing connectionist computation. This characterizes the core of higher cognition, the particularly challenging and important realm of cognitive faculties operating in domains like abstract reasoning and language — facultie...

Student Council voted last night in an emergency session to appeal for faculty support in its campaign for campus democracy. The motion requests "the various faculties to determine that the question of a binding referendum (on the draft) is a matter of administrative affairs and therefore one to be rightly determined by j£e administration " President lue l l G. Gallagher has placed the question...