OBJECTIVE to identify the political-pedagogical projects of the undergraduate nursing programs in Santa Catarina, Brazil according to the guidelines of the Ministries of Health and Education, considering the education of professionals under the principle of integrality. METHOD documentary study with a qualitative approach. Nine projects were analyzed. RESULTS the colleges from the Southern ...

SR is a language for concurrent programming. This paper describes the SR language, presents some examples of SR programs in the context of an undergraduate operating systems course, and provides some programming assignments that can be used in an open laboratory. The SR language can be used by instructors of operating systems courses to give students experience in writing concurrent programs th...

Although Occupational Therapy in Iran is relatively a new profession, it has been well progressed, providing various services for people with all kinds of disabilities. As such, in the last decades, OT has been recognized as the major demand in all governmental, private and NGO sectors. Due to this demand, occupational therapy training programs have been increased from three into ten, expecting...

In recent times a dramatically decreasing tendency in female participation in Computer Science has been documented around the world. When this occurs, it creates a series of problems that must be addressed. For the case of the undergraduate and graduate programs in Computer Science and Informatics at the Universidad de Costa Rica, we present evidence that (a) women are under-represented at both...

1 Peter R Turner, US Naval Academy, Mathematics Department, Annapolis, MD 21402, [email protected] 2 John Burkhardt, US Naval Academy, Mechanical Engineering Department, Annapolis, MD 21402, [email protected] Abstract  There is a strong and increasing desire for more multidisciplinary activities within mathematical, scientific and engineering education. This has found particularly strong voice in t...

The relevance of pre-registration programs of nursing education to current and emerging trends in healthcare and society could have a significant future impact on the nursing profession. In this article, we use a PESTEL (politics, economics, society, technology, environment, and law) framework to identify significant current and future priorities in Australian healthcare. Following the PESTEL a...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners identify interprofessional (IP) collaboration in education and practice as an innovative strategy that plays an important role in mitigating the global health workforce crisis. Evidence on the practice of global health level in interprofessional education (IPE) is scarce and hampered due to the absence of aggregate information. The...

--Minorities are an underrepresented group in science and engineering fields. Factors that impact on this include lack of role models, home environment, economics and educational opportunities. The changing technological global economy requires an increase in the diversity of our scientists and engineers in both industry and academia. To accomplish this goal, K-16 programs funded by industrial,...