Traditionally, higher academic education has favored the acquisition of individualized conceptual knowledge over context-independent procedural knowledge. Applied degrees, on the other hand, favor procedural knowledge. We present a conceptual model for classifying a business curriculum. This classification could inform discussion around the difficulties associated with issues such as assessment...

Periacetabular osteotomy (PAO) is a very effective reconstructive procedure for treatment of acetabular dysplasia. An orthopaedic paediatric surgeon and a reconstructive hip arthroplasty surgeon performed this procedure together in the early phase of their learning curve and then performed it individually. The early clinical and radiographic results of 85 consecutive PAOs performed in this acad...

Background: in order to evaluate educational courses, usually different criteria of student and academic staff are being used. These criteria for students include their number, fields, the ratio of post-garaduate students to all students, and for staff, they are composed of their number, their rank in the academic pyramid, as well as the ratio of students to academic staff classified based on t...

Most recently, however, there is evidence of a turn-around in the number of degrees awarded in economics. Intriguingly, along with this recent increase in U.S. degrees awarded in economics, there has been an increase in academic economists’ interest in their teaching, Becker (2003, forthcoming). For instance, when the receipt of economics degrees were at a relative high of 2.3 percent of all U....

Using a sample of dental students (N=373) from four Canadian dental schools, this longitudinal study determined whether the new Canadian Dental Association (CDA) structured interview was a predictor of clinical and academic performance. The new interview predicted clinical performance in the third and fourth years of dental school, but not academic performance. The Canadian Dental Aptitude Test...

Misconceptions about the nature of the computing disciplines pose a serious problem to university faculties that offer computing degrees, as students enrolling on their programmes may come to realise that their expectations are not met by reality. This frequently results in the students’ early disengagement from the subject of their degrees which in turn can lead to excessive ‘wastage’, i.e. re...