Extracurricular Partnerships as a Tool for Enhancing Graduate Employability

Gamification as a tool for enhancing graduate medical education

INTRODUCTION The last decade has seen many changes in graduate medical education training in the USA, most notably the implementation of duty hour standards for residents by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education. As educators are left to balance more limited time available between patient care and resident education, new methods to augment traditional graduate medical educatio...

Graduate Employability in Asia

Job Guarantees, Employability Training and Partnerships in the Retail Sector

This paper discusses the potential value of local, partnership-based employability training and job guarantee programmes, focusing on one example—the ‘Alloa Initiative’. The Initiative involved an employability training and job guarantee scheme developed in partnership with Tesco, a major retailer, in preparation for the opening of one of the company’s new stores. This paper reports on the outp...

The Future of Bitcoin as a Tool for Financial Development

The purpose of research is focused on the insight into the future of Bitcoin on the financial situation, its implications and challenges. The problem of study is to investigate how to deal with a new type of digital currencies (such Bitcoin) that does not have a physical presence and there is no specific body to issue. Thus, this study aims to identify the nature of Bitcoin currency and what ar...

Emerging Technologies for Enhancing Supplier–Reseller Partnerships

Suppliers have traditionally managed their relationships in the indirect reseller channel using inefficient, labor-intensive communications processes. As a result, the tasks of managing resellers and of precisely monitoring reseller productivity in converting leads to sales have been difficult. Today, a whole new category of Web-based software has emerged to address these opportunities. Softwar...