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"Carol I" National Defense University is a military institution of higher education accredited in accordance with the Romanian Law of national education that is part of the Romanian education system.In terms of the quality of the educational services provided, the university complies with and applies the national standards in this field, being evaluated periodically by the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education.The education system implemented in "Carol I" National Defense Universityprovides, simultaneously.

BACKGROUND: Professionalism standards encourage physicians to participate in public advocacy on behalf of societal health and well-being. While the number of publications of advocacy curricula for GME-level trainees has increased, there has been no formal effort to catalog them. OBJECTIVE: To systematically review the existing literature on curricula for teaching advocacy to GME-level trainees and synthesize the results to provide a resource for programs interested in developing advocacy curricula. METHODS: A systematic literature review was conducted to identify articles published in English that describe advocacy curricula for graduate medical education trainees in the USA and Canada current to September 2017. Two reviewers independently screened titles, abstracts, and full texts to identify articles meeting our inclusion and exclusion criteria, with disagreements resolved by a third reviewer. We abstracted information and themes on curriculum development, implementation, and sustainability. Learning objectives, educational content, teaching methods, and evaluations for each curriculum were also extracted. RESULTS: After reviewing 884 articles, we identified 38 articles meeting our inclusion and exclusion criteria. Curricula were offered across a variety of specialties, with 84% offered in primary care specialties. There was considerable heterogeneity in the educational content of included advocacy curriculum, ranging from community partnership to legislative advocacy. Common facilitators of curriculum implementation included the American Council for Graduate Medical Education requirements, institutional support, and preexisting faculty experience. Common barriers were competing curricular demands, time constraints, and turnover in volunteer faculty and community partners. Formal evaluation revealed that advocacy curricula were acceptable to trainees and improved knowledge, attitudes, and reported self-efficacy around advocacy. DISCUSSION: Our systematic review of the medical education literature identified ...

Environmental degradation is a global concern and an increasing one. Increasing population pressures, escalating consumption patterns and rapid industrial development are key contributors to this degradation. There is a growing recognition that sustainable development policies, plans and actions have a better chance of being implemented when they are supported by an educated, informed public. The objective of this paper is to highlight the need for the inclusion of environmental education into the curricula of engineering studies in order to raise environmental awareness at an early stage in their careers. The main aim of such environmental education is to provide engineers with the background to environmental issues such that they develop solutions that take into account the needs of the natural environment and which seek to minimise any negative impact.

During the last five years higher education research in Germany seems to be in a significant upturn. This is a side effect partly of the obvious boom of empirical educational research in general and partly of the reform movement that has affected the German higher education system since middle of the 1990s. The demand for data in the field of higher education will increase considerably in future. The available data infrastructure for higher education research in Germany consists of two complementary main sources: on the one hand the official higher education statistics, on the other hand survey-based research. All in all, there are no serious or principle obstacles to access to the available data stock. Access in particular to some of the most important surveys could be improved by the establishment of a Forschungsdatenzentrum at HIS Hochschul-Informations-System. Furthermore, there are some deficiencies in the present data provision. New topics and demands of data provision have to be integrated into official statistics and survey based research – e.g. such issues as migration status, competencies, lifelong learning, quality of studies, institutional effects, international mobility, programs to promote younger scholars etc.. In particular there is a lack of panel designs. The very new National Education Panel Study (NEPS) will eliminate some but not all of these deficiencies. [author's abstract]

In a comprehensive study of two-hundred fifty homeschooling families in urban, rural and suburban areas of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the researcher examined all aspects of the instruction, materials and curricula employed by the families in a ten-year longitudinal study from 1998 through 2008. The researcher conducted interviews and gathered questionnaire data from: 1) all of the families in the sample in 1998, and 2) those families still residing within the same designated district in 2008. Significant changes occurred in the demographical data and the families' instructional programs. Within the methods/materials/curriculum data, increases occurred in the: 1) use of prepared curricula (religious and non-religious), 2) the acquisition of more textbooks from local school districts, 3) use of the public library, 4) technology applications, 5) consultation with instructional specialists/teachers, and 6) greater networking with other homeschooling families. In their pooling of resources, sharing of expertise, and communicating with other homeschooling families, the homeschoolers had upgraded and diversified their choices of pedagogy and their modalities for delivering instruction.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- The TRIO Programs: A Primer* -- Abstract -- Background -- Pipeline of TRIO Programs -- TRIO Upward Bound (UB) Program -- Eligible Recipients -- Program Participants -- Program Intensity and Activities -- Outcome Criteria -- TRIO Talent Search (TS) Program -- Eligible Recipients -- Program Participants -- Program Intensity and Activities -- Outcome Criteria -- TRIO Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC) Program -- Eligible Recipients -- Program Participants -- Program Intensity and Activities -- Outcome Criteria -- TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) Program -- Eligible Recipients -- Program Participants -- Program Intensity and Activities -- Outcome Criteria -- Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement (McNair) Program -- Eligible Recipients -- Program Participants -- Program Intensity and Activities -- Outcome Criteria -- TRIO Staff Development (Training) Program -- Eligible Recipients -- Program Participants -- Program Intensity and Activities -- Outcome Criteria -- Comparison of Key Features of the TRIO Programs -- Program Appropriations and Project Participants -- Major HEOA Amendments to Common TRIO Provisions -- Required Program Activities -- Prior Experience Points -- Student-Serving TRIO Programs -- TRIO Training -- Application Review Process (Appeal) -- Award Amounts and Numbers of Program Participants -- Length of Grant Award -- Multiple Grants for Different Populations -- Research, Evaluation, and Assessments -- SSS Independent Evaluations -- AY1991-1992 Freshman SSS Participants -- 2006 SSS Promising Practices -- AY2007-2008 Freshman SSS Participants -- SSS PART Reviews and Annual Performance Report Data -- UB Independent Evaluations -- UB PART Review and Annual Performance Report Data -- TS Evaluations -- TS PART Review and Annual Performance Report Data -- EOC Evaluations.