Concepts of quality and methods of measurement appropriate to commercial settings have been applied to higher education without adequate consideration of their applicability. One result has been inconsistency between the desired outcomes of quality assurance, explicit philosophical choices about the concept of quality and the choice of methods to demonstrate quality. Within the commercial conte...

BACKGROUND Nurses as the largest group of health care providers should enjoy a satisfactory quality of working life to be able to provide quality care to their patients. Therefore, attention should be paid to the nurses' working life. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate the quality of nurses' working life in Kashans' hospitals during 2012. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional s...

This paper examines the student, program delivery and school factors that influenced student achievement in the Cisco Networking Academy. The Academy uses the Internet to distribute a centrally developed curriculum and standards-based online testing, and combines that with local instructors who teach classes to students. This study, conducted with 10,371 students at 1,651 schools, found that in...

background & aim : increasing students’ academic stress especially during taking final exams may result in sleep  disorders, fatigue, poor academic performance and low functional efficiency. the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between sleep quality with fatigue severity and academic performance of nursing students. methods & materials : in a cross-sectional study, the sleep ...

Academic quality assurance, historically a national concern, has been evolving rapidly over the last several decades in reaction to the forces of globalization. The first response was the development in many countries of new national models for assuring academic quality in the context of adoption of mass systems of higher education (Brennan and Shah 2000; Dill and Beerkens 2010), which itself w...