Many factors, with differing priority ratios, need to be assessed in the evaluation of forest roads. Stakeholder perceptions differ in the road assessment process and this research addresses those differences between academic and practitioner groups. The focus was on four main forest road assessment factor groups (technical, economic, environmental, and social) within 23 sub-factors to determin...

Radon is considered a significant contaminant that affects indoor air quality. However radon is only known to few people, and there is limited documented research on its health hazards in Nigeria. We therefore assessed the awareness of radon and its health risk among employees of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Academic and non-academic staff members from all the 13 faculties were ...

Deakin University, Australia, has committed resources over a number of years to developing the use of information and communication technologies in all aspects of teaching and learning. This paper focuses on the development over a four year period of an Asynchronous Learning Network (ALN) for distance education students studying undergraduate introductory macroeconomics. The research is based o...

BACKGROUND Evidence for the superiority of particular characteristics in PBL tutors in medical curricula is generally inconclusive. Most studies have investigated the effectiveness of content experts compared with that of non-experts as measured either by student satisfaction or academic achievement. A few have compared academic staff tutors with student tutors. The purpose of this study was to...

It is widely accepted in the higher education literature that a student-centred approach is pedagogically superior to a teacher-centred approach. In this paper, we explore the notion of student-centredness as a threshold concept and the implications this might have for academic staff development. We argue that the term student-centred in the Rogerian sense implies a focus on the person of the s...

Rachel Applegate is Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, Indianapolis; e-mail: [email protected] Over half of all non-student employees of academic libraries are support staff. What competencies should these workers possess? To what extent are these competencies similar across library departments and across library types—in what ways do they diff...

The purpose of the Rural Economy 'Staff Papers' series is to provide a forum to accelerate the presentation of issues, concepts, ideas and research results within the academic and professional community. Staff Papers are published without peer review.

During the feasibility study into a National Union catalogue for the UK (UKNUC), a questionnaire survey was undertaken of the needs of both academic staff in higher education and library staff. A response rate of 40-50 per cent was achieved, 846 questionnaires being returned for academics and 724 for librarians. The analysis suggests that a UKNUC would be highly valued and heavily used by all c...

High status universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale and Trinity College Dublin are often old (absolutely or relatively) and usually research-led. Universities aspiring to high status, while not being able to do anything about their age, frequently claim to be research-led and/or adopt policies and practices of their prestigious counterparts which emphasise research as their primar...

conclusions our study revealed a high prevalence of postural disorders especially fhp, rsp and scoliosis among iranian dental staff. the female dentists were less susceptible to fhp and scoliosis. results the prevalence of the forward head posture (fhp), rounded shoulder posture (rsp), scoliosis and hyperlordosis were reported in 85.5%, 68.8%, 18.8% and 17.3% of the participants, respectively. ...