Abstract Background: In this article "Student to Staff Index" was improved by implying student grades and staff academic ranks in every institute as a new "Standard S. to S. Index". Also "Utilized S. from S. Index" was introduced for controlling and ranking the private universities.  Methods: This index uses the numbers of classes a...

background: in order to evaluate educational courses, usually different criteria of student and academic staff are being used. these criteria for students include their number, fields, the ratio of post-garaduate students to all students, and for staff, they are composed of their number, their rank in the academic pyramid, as well as the ratio of students to academic staff classified based on t...

introduction: student admission indicators typically depend on either student fields or community current career needs. in addition, specific fields have particular needs. the main aim was to determine student admission indicators in medical records field in different degrees in isfahan medical sciences university in iran in 2007. methods: this study was analytical in which data were collected ...

Background: in order to evaluate educational courses, usually different criteria of student and academic staff are being used. These criteria for students include their number, fields, the ratio of post-garaduate students to all students, and for staff, they are composed of their number, their rank in the academic pyramid, as well as the ratio of students to academic staff classified based on t...

Educational Achievement and the Allocation of School Resources The school resources – educational outcomes debate has focused almost exclusively on spending levels. We extend this by analysing the relationship between student achievement and schools’ budget allocation decisions using panel data. Per-pupil expenditure has only a modest relationship with improvement in students’ standardised test...

AIMS To investigate the impact of a new structure for supporting healthcare students and mentors in practice placements (Placement Development Teams). INTRODUCTION The English Model National Partnership Agreement for healthcare education required Strategic Health Authorities, Higher Education Institutions and National Health Service Trusts to redesign strategies for student support. Placement...

This qualitative study describes the perspectives of diploma nursing students and staff nurses on the student-staff relationship and the impact this relationship has on student learning. Staff and students, working in a clinical practice model setting in a large urban hospital, participated in focused interviews following a 15-week clinical practice assignment. Findings revealed there were seve...

The paper is concerned with the planning of training sessions in large organisations requiring periodic retraining of their staff. The allocation of students must take into account student preferences as well as the desired composition of study groups. The paper presents a bicriteria Quadratic Multiple Knapsack formulation of the considered practical problem, and a novel solution procedure base...

Healthcare profession students participate in a range of clinical placements within multidisciplinary health care settings. Often these placements offer students opportunities to participate in activities with staff and/or students from other healthcare disciplines. Although health service staff generally recognise the importance of clinical placements for student learning, they sometimes feel ...