Perceived Importance of Core Competencies among Extension Professionals in Nepal

Information professionals in Brazil: core competencies and professional development

Introduction. We discuss the concept of core competencies applied to policies for teaching and training information professionals, particularly librarians. Method. Sixty graduates of the Institute were employed as information professionals. These sixty were asked to attribute degrees of importance to specific items associated with knowledge and skills that, within the scope of this research, we...

Integrating Adult Learning into Extension: Identifying Importance and Possession of Adult Education Competencies Among County Extension Faculty

An ex post facto case study was conducted to determine critical professional development needs of county extension faculty in the area of adult education. To conduct the study, a survey was administered to a group of 60 county extension faculty representing one extension district within a Southeastern US state. The constructs measured in the survey included embedded perceptions as to the import...

Training infection control and hospital hygiene professionals in Europe, 2010: agreed core competencies among 33 European countries.

The harmonisation of training programmes for infection control and hospital hygiene (IC/HH) professionals in Europe is a requirement of the Council recommendation on patient safety. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control commissioned the 'Training Infection Control in Europe' project to develop a consensus on core competencies for IC/HH professionals in the European Union (EU). ...

Organization management system affecting extension professionals motivation

Accuracy of Extension Professionals’ and Farmers’ Perceptions regarding Privatization and Commercialization of Agricultural Extension Services

This study examined the accuracy between extension professionals and farmers regarding their perceptions of privatization and commercialization of agricultural extension services. The study was carried out in Delta State, Nigeria and it had a sample size of 224 respondents comprising of 134 extension professionals of the Delta State Agricultural Programme (DTADP) and 90 farmers that were random...