To the Editor: In the early 1990s, a landmark decision was made by the South African Nursing Council (SANC), and supported by the Department of Health, to close down all adult-education vocational-training nursing colleges in favour of higher education (HE) institutions. Fast-forward 20 years and this 'well-meaning' decision has now plunged South Africa (SA) into its largest shortage of trained...

Background: In a context of scarce statistical information, this paper focuses on the professional development of Vocational Education and Training teachers in Italy, namely those teaching vocational subjects. It provides a statistical picture of it, in an international perspective and along three dimensions (participation, needs and barriers). Methods: Data used in this article originate from ...

This article is an analysis of recent reform of vocational education and training in New Zealand. I argue that the 1999 election of a ‘third way’ government led by the New Zealand Labour Party raised the possibility of the previous administrations’ neo-liberal or market-led vocational education and training strategy being overturned. Evidence suggests little progress has been made towards reali...

A radical primary health care-oriented reform of the medical services in Albania is now under way, calling for adequate revision in medical education. The reform has started in 1994. In January 1997, the Department of Family Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Tirana, was established for the development of general practice and family medicine, and with it a new era in medical edu...

AIM OF THE STUDY Breast cancer is the most frequent malignancy affecting women. Some reports suggest the influence of socioeconomic status, including education, on survival rates for cancer patients. This report analyzes the effect of patients' education level on their survival. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective analysis of the group of 810 breast cancer patients treated in single center i...

This retrospective cohort study examined the vocational outcomes in forty-four traumatically brain injured patients. Patient files selected were limited to those who were seen for the development of an original Life Care Plan and were subsequently seen at least once for a complete update of that plan. Patients who were retired at the time of the brain injury were excluded. Each participant was ...

Technical and Vocational Education (TVE) refers to education that prepares persons for gainful employment (Finch & Crunkilton 1999). TVE refers to deliberate interventions to bring about learning which would make people more productive (or simply adequately productive) in designated areas of economic activity (e.g., economics sectors, occupations, specific work tasks), TVE has the potential to ...

Objective: Today people are aware of the important role of agriculture as a vital source in their life. Development in agriculture and making healthy food for human, needs trained man. Vocational schools and agricultural training centers provided the first stage for arriving at this purpose. One of the reasons for the weak influence of agricultural training centers in creating occupational oppo...