Macquarie University has recently pronounced a number of teaching related policies. This study recognises the critical position of teaching staff and the impact that these policies have on their teaching activities. A large and diverse department presents an inclusive environment to investigate teaching staff’s sentiments, engagement and how they have complied and coped. Staff felt stress due t...

Macquarie University has recently pronounced a number of teaching related policies. This study recognises the critical position of teaching staff and the impact that these policies have on their teaching activities. A large and diverse department presents an inclusive environment to investigate teaching staff’s sentiments, engagement and how they have complied and coped. Staff felt stress due t...

Background: The issues of patient safety and healthcare quality have become increasingly important around the world since the 1990s. Many hospitals manage to reduce the number of adverse events (AEs) that can threaten patient safety in healthcare organizations. Assessing the existing patient safety culture gives hospital management a clear vision of an organization’s strengths ...

BACKGROUND Lectures continue to be an efficient and standardised way to deliver information to large groups of students. It has been well documented that students prefer interactive lectures, based on active learning principles, to didactic teaching in the large group setting. Despite this, it is often the case than many students do not engage with active learning tasks and attempts at interact...

The aim of this research was to identify and explain the impact of selected contextual factors on the teachers’ perception of the achievement of goals and objectives in teaching technical culture in Croatian elementary school, as basic technical education teaching. In accordance with the research goal, a representative sample of teachers of Technical Education was used (N=382), and data were co...

Adjusting to new and different institutional settings remains a challenge for young faculty members. It is argued that one should not change their teaching pedagogy, for instance, in the first year or two, to adapt to a new institutional culture. A literature review reveals some tips and advice to new faculty to be successful in academia. Oftentimes, these guidelines are general in nature and r...

Cultural integration in foreign language teaching is one of the ways to help learners develop competence. In teaching, there have been many successful models cultural integration. Vietnamese also a interest some countries. Vietnam, model foreigners has initially implemented with good results. The program was based on number culturally integrated learn effectively, including such elements as exp...

the purpose of present study is to evaluate the role of teaching entrepreneurship on the employment of iranian higher education graduates in today`s changing world. the delphi method is used and a sample of 46 entrepreneurship specialists is questioned about the subject. once the data are collected, they are analyzed using χ2-square freedman test and kendal correlation. final results reveal tha...