â  the aim of this study was to investigate the postgraduate students' views regarding their current and desired participation in curriculum development and compare their views with the curriculum experts' opinions. this study is a descriptive-analytical and both qualities and quantitative methods were used/ the population consisted of two groups. the first group consists of all curri...

Dear Editor, Many years ago unprofessional supervisors were identified as one of the main reasons for the withdrawal of a student’s study. Recently in some universities, unethical supervision has become an increasing concern of students and ethic committees. The last few years has witnessed an increase in the withdrawal rate of students who quit their study because of the poor guidance of their...

We are now looking beyond postgraduate training which ends when junior doctors attain consultant status. Medical education is open-ended. It is a continuum which extends from undergraduate through postgraduate or vocational training to continuing medical education for career, or permanent, grades. In his 'President's Review' published last year in the Proceedings of the Royal College of Physici...

NEARLY 20 years ago the Goodenough Report, reviewing the future of psychiatric education in Great Britain pointed out that 'the major and most urgent need is the training of specialist psychiatrists and particularly of teachers of psychiatry' (H.M.S.O., I944). The Report went on to indicate the special place to be occupied during the postwar period by the Maudsley Hospital Medical School, which...

Cultivation of the postgraduate creativity is the core content of postgraduate education. The reformation of postgraduate curriculums should lay stress on cultivating of innovation ability as the main purpose, update the educational concepts, reinforce teaching reforms, optimize the contents of curriculum structure, and carry out a great diversity of teaching organizational modes. Studies on co...

A recent re-validation of Postgraduate Awards and a move from fifteen to twenty credit modules provided an opportunity to re-think and restructure modules. This research looks at one specific module titled Research and Professional Skills which was restructured to implement a scaffolded approach to delivering the module aimed at increasing the students’ confidence as well as their academic rese...

This paper proposes a new model to support user queries on postgraduate research information at Universiti Tenaga Nasional. The ontology to be developed will contribute towards shareable and reusable domain knowledge that makes knowledge assets intelligently accessible to both people and software. This work adapts a methodology for ontology development based on the framework proposed by Uschold...