Source:The Learning Potential of the Workplace
(2008)
Since the 1980s, the focus on learning environments has changed considerably in educational research. In earlier decades, most efforts were concentrated on optimisation of the classroom system by improving instructional technology and instructional and training systems (Romiszowski, 1988). Optimisat…
What is the competency? It will integrate the new technology and the career content into the basement of the vocational education. In addition, it also has to furthermore research to identify the content or rubric of competency (Hsu, 2006). The purpose of this study is conducting the competency rubr…
Source:International Journal of Comparative Sociology
(2008)
Theoretically, the central research question of this article pertains to the way in which national institutional arrangements, namely educational systems, and related modes of labour markets and welfare provisions, affect the aggregate effectiveness of youth labour market integration in the new EU m…
Source:Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research
(2008)
The paper investigates the relationship between assessment and learning through an empirical study of apprenticeship training. The paper suggests that well-established modes of learning, which facilitate meaningful assessment in apprenticeship training, present an "antidote" to a traditional emphasi…
The emergence of healthcare assistants (HCAs) in general practice raises questions about roles and responsibilities, patients' acceptance, cost-effectiveness, patient safety and delegation, training and competence, workforce development, and professional identity. There has been minimal research int…
PROBLEM ADDRESSED: The Family Medicine Residency Program at the University of Alberta has used academic sessions and clinical-based teaching to prepare residents for private practice. Before the new curriculum, academic sessions were large group lectures given by specialists. These sessions lacked c…
As elsewhere, vocational education and training (VET) has a poor image in Hong Kong. To remove the stigma, the Vocational Training Council of Hong Kong embarked on pro-active strategic planning to make it more relevant and cost-effective, exposed long and widely held myths that VET is for dullards w…
The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists1 is responsible for the training of 1,500 resident2 anaesthesiologists throughout Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. The training program is conducted over a minimum of five years and is taught within 174 training hospit…
