Source:International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship
(2008)
Working in communities is increasingly a feature of UK (United Kingdom) higher education. Within the last decade communities of practice (CoPs) have migrated from organisational development departments and evolved to become tools for practice based learning in educational settings. More recently, in…
Source:British Journal of Industrial Relations
(2008)
The preservation of the apprenticeship system in the Australian construction industry contrasts with its decline in Britain over the last three decades. This decline is conventionally ascribed to changes in industrial structure, specifically a decline in the role of the public sector, intensificatio…
Training posts in primary care or hospital practice settings provide rich learning opportunities for trainees. Trainees will appreciate and benefit from support for their learning in the clinical setting, exposure to modern teaching methods and constructive feedback. Planning is very much at the hea…
Teenagers who have failed to become apprentices in trade or industry are still required to attend school up to twelve years of schooling in Bavaria. In the last years the number of these adolescents without apprenticeship increased. Most of these adolescents come from families with low socioeconomic…
Source:European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
(2008)
Objective: The object of this study was to establish what residents in 1994 and 2003 characterised as an ideal clinical teacher and whether differences existed between residents' views in 1994 and 2003. Study design: Setting: postgraduate medical education in the Netherlands. Subjects: 207 obstetric…
Source:Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics
(2008)
Employability is a widely used in term in the labour market lexicon. Yet there is no consensus on how the concept should be applied and a fog of ambiguity surrounds the term. Making employability 'work', however, is essential not only for younger people to access and sustain work but also for addres…
Source:IEEE International Professional Communication Conference
(2008)
This on-going study analyses Malaysian engineering students' oral presentations in relation to communication competencies during their 20 to 25-week Industrial Training Program. Students from four engineering faculties of two universities in Malaysia participated in this study. They were located at …
This paper addresses the issue of Vocational Education and Training in Schools - an issue that has recently attracted significant political attention particularly in light of current national skills shortage in Australia. Specifically, it investigates secondary school students' perceptions of VET in…
By studying at territorial level different domains of collective action in relation to the issue of risk, this paper analyses the regulation as the product of dynamics of cooperation and competition between different actors and institutions. Two types of configurations are identified: extending the …
In the global production network scenario, the nature of skills demanded by the firms cannot be met by general and technical education alone. This limitation can be overcome to a large extent when firms provide training to their employees. In this context, we examine the provision of firm level trai…
