The secondment project was devised to allow lecturers time to update teaching skills and become familiar with the use of learning technology. This paper describes the origins of the project and the outcomes after four groups totalling 20 lecturers had completed a secondment to the project. The project has been judged successful and there are plans to continue secondment in the future.

To address health systems challenges in limited-resource settings, global health initiatives, particularly the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, have seconded health workers to the public sector. Implementation considerations for secondment as a health workforce development strategy are not well documented. The purpose of this article is to present outcomes, best practices, and lesson...

This document describes the work carried out during and subsequent collaborative efforts resulting from a 5-week systems-NET Immersive Secondment spent at the Information Systems Laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, California, hosted by Professor Sanjay Lall. In addition to being exposed to a research group at the cutting edge of mathematical control t...

Background There is need to strengthen institutions and mechanisms that can more systematically promote interactions between researchers, policy-makers and other stakeholders who can influence the uptake of research findings. In this article, we report the outcome of a two-way secondment model between Ebonyi State University (EBSU) and Ebonyi State Ministry of Health (ESMoH) in Nigeria as an in...

in glucose-induced thermogenesis in healthy human Address all correspondence to Dr. Acheson. Institute of Physiology, University of Lausanne, 7,Rue du Bagnon, CH1011 Lausanne. Dr. Acheson is on secondment from the Research Department, Nestle Products Technical Assistance Co., Ltd., Case Postale 88, CH-1814, La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland. Received for publication 25 October 1982 and in revised f...

Forty years ago an increase in 'juvenile delinquency' led to a large prison-building programme for young offenders. Today, the emphasis is on community sentencing and a reduction in prison places. The secondment of nurses into youth offending teams makes it possible to offer primary health services to a group of mainly male, vulnerable people.