OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between admission criteria used to select students and their subsequent academic performance in general nursing diploma Programmeme in the province of Sindh METHODS Using a descriptive co-relational study design, data was collected retrospectively from records of the entire nursing student population of the batch of 2004. Using multiple linear regressio...

At Smith College, the graduation exercises traditionally proceed as follows: Although each diploma is made out to a particular girl, all the diplomas are initially given out at random. All of the girls who do not get their own diplomas then form a circle, and each passes the diploma she has to the girl on her right. Those who now have their own diplomas drop out, and the remaining girls again p...

OBJECTIVES Increasing numbers of minor surgical procedures are being performed in the community. In the UK, general practitioners (family medicine physicians) with a specialist interest (GPwSI) in surgery frequently undertake them. This shift has caused decreases in available cases for junior surgeons to gain and consolidate operative skills. This study evaluated GPwSI's case-load, procedural t...

Dr Mandy Robbins is Senior Research Fellow within the Religions and Education Research Unit, University of Warwick and a Honorary Research Fellow at the St Mary's Centre. Mandy gained her first degree at the University of Wales, Lampeter in 1992 in Theology and Archaeology, her MPhil in Theology at Trinity College, Carmarthen in 1996, and her PhD in Theology at the University of Wales, Bangor i...