The student workforce: untapped possibilities

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Barriers and Possibilities

The burden of disease associated with problematic alcohol and drug use demands a strategic approach to workforce development as much as it does to other areas of policy development and implementation. However, health workforce development, and in particular health workforce planning, has had a checkered career internationally. Barriers to health workforce development have included a failure to ...

Student Workers: The Untapped Resource for Library Professions

For years libraries have hired hundreds of student workers to maintain crucial functions in the library. Without student workers, libraries cannot provide essential services to the university community. Yet limited research exists on how libraries have developed professional career tracks for student workers and library staff. Investigators from Carbondale developed a survey to determine what p...

Practice nurses as mentors for student nurses: An untapped educational resource?

This article describes an evaluation process aimed at exploring the issues related to placing third year undergraduate students with Practice Nurses for their adult branch community placement. The evaluation process was based on an iterative action research cycle, demonstrating a reflective approach to the placement. This evaluation of student nurse placements with Practice Nurses intended to p...

Using Student Experts as Technology Assistants in Schools: An Untapped Resource

One of the best resources for helping teachers implement their technology curriculum is a student tech assistant. In Woodridge School District a select cadre of students from each school is given formal training in advanced topics such as creating web pages, hypermedia, and network trouble shooting in order to assist the classroom teachers.

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