Changing petroleum engineering education to meet industry demands

2010 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 309
Author(s):  
Lisa Smith ◽  
Brian Evans
Keyword(s):  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Petroleum Engineering ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Migrant Students ◽  
Career Option ◽  
Petroleum Engineer ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Permanent Residency ◽  
Local Students

The Department of Petroleum Engineering at Curtin University had its inception in 1998. For the last 10 years, it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduating more than 200 students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during 2006/7 saw a sudden and substantial growth in industry employment opportunities, which resulted in the department losing over half of its staff to industry. At the same time, the supply of local students reduced to less than 10% of those taking the course. This loss in both student numbers and staff at the same time threatened the department’s future, and resulted in the need for a new focus to return the department to stability. A number of new initiatives were introduced, which included: bringing industry into the decision-making processes; introducing a new two-year Masters program to assist high quality migrant students obtain Australian permanent residency; increasing the advertising of petroleum engineering as a career option to schools and industry; linking with UNSW, UWA and Adelaide universities to establish a joint Masters program; introducing a new Bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering; changing the block form of teaching to a semester-based form; and having the Commonwealth recognise the new Masters program for Commonwealth funding of Australian students as a priority pathway to a career as a petroleum engineer while the Bachelors program gathered momentum. This paper maps the positive changes made during 2008/9, which led to a 100% increase in student numbers, a 50% increase in staff to stabilise teaching, a 400% increase in active PhD students, and industry projects to deliver an increasing stream of high quality, industry-ready, graduate petroleum engineers over the next 10–20 years into the current ageing population where the average age of a petroleum engineer is 51.

Statistical Methods in the Automotive Industry

2015 ◽  
Vol 791 ◽  
pp. 56-62
Author(s):  
Ewa Golińska ◽  
Marcin Zemczak
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Statistical Process Control ◽  
Statistical Methods ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Statistical Process ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Controlling of the manufacturing processes is one of the key factors that allow companies to produce goods of high quality. In the article one of methods of the quality management - statistical process control (SPC) has been discussed. On the example of the car headrests manufacturing enterprise benefits from applying this method have been presented. Authors pointed out that the use of statistical methods in decision-making processes must not be difficult and time-consuming, if is being supported by a computer with using inexpensive tools.

scholarly journals UK National Data Guardian for Health and Care’s Review of Data Security: Trust, better security and opt-outs

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Chan ◽  
Concetta Tania Di Iorio ◽  
Simon De Lusignan ◽  
Daniel Lo Russo ◽  
Craig Kuziemsky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Data Security ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
National Data ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
High Quality Health Care ◽  
The Uk

Sharing health and social care data is essential to the delivery of high quality health care as well as disease surveillance, public health, and for conducting research. However, these societal benefits may be constrained by privacy and data protection principles. Hence, societies are striving to find a balance between the two competing public interests. Whilst the spread of IT advancements in recent decades has increased the demand for an increased privacy and data protection in many ways health is a special case.UK, are adopting guidelines, codes of conduct and regulatory instruments aimed to implement privacy principles into practical settings and enhance public trust. Accordingly, in 2015, the UK National Data Guardian (NDG) requested to conduct a further review of data protection, referred to as Caldicott 3.  The scope of this review is to strengthen data security standards and confidentiality. It also proposes a consent system based on an “opt-out” model rather than on “opt-in.Across Europe as well as internationally the privacy-health data sharing balance is not fixed.  In Europe enactment of the new EU Data Protection Regulation in 2016 constitute a major breakthrough, which is likely to have a profound effect on European countries and beyond.  In Australia and across North America different ways are being sought to balance out these twin requirements of a modern society - to preserve privacy alongside affording high quality health care for an ageing population.  Whilst in the UK privacy legal framework remains complex and fragmented into different layers of legislation, which may negatively impact on both the rights to privacy and health the UK is at the forefront in the uptake of international and EU privacy and data protection principles. And, if the privacy regime were reorganised in a more comprehensive manner, it could be used as a sound implementation model for other countries.

Auditors’ Use of Brainstorming in the Consideration of Fraud: Reports from the Field

2010 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 1273-1301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph F. Brazel ◽  
Tina D. Carpenter ◽  
J. Gregory Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Risk Assessments ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Public ◽  
Fraud Risk ◽  
Public Company ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Fraud Risk Assessments ◽  
Audit Standards

ABSTRACT: Audit standards require auditors to conduct fraud brainstorming sessions on every audit. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has raised concerns about auditors’ fraud judgments and the quality of their brainstorming sessions. We develop a measure of brainstorming quality to examine how it affects auditors’ fraud decision-making processes. We test our measure using field survey data of auditors’ actual brainstorming sessions for 179 audit engagements. Respondents report considerable variation in the quality of brainstorming in practice. We find some evidence that high-quality brainstorming improves the relations between fraud risk factors and fraud risk assessments. We also determine that brainstorming quality positively moderates the relations between fraud risk assessments and fraud-related testing. Our results suggest that the benefits of brainstorming do not apply uniformly, because low-quality sessions likely incur the costs of such interactions without receiving the attendant benefits. By documenting best practices from high-quality brainstorming sessions, our findings can inform auditors on how to improve their consideration of fraud.

scholarly journals A “House United” or a “House Divided”: Investigating the Role of China’s Household Registration in Educational Quality and Equity in K12 Classrooms

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huan Shu Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Educational Equity ◽  
Educational Quality ◽  
Migrant Students ◽  
Household Registration ◽  
Registration System ◽  
Urban Migrant ◽  
Process Of Urbanization ◽  
Local Students

The household registration system and policies have profound influences on the economic development, social transformation, and the process of urbanization and industrialization in China. This research paper conducted an extend review on China’s household registration policy’s influences on rural-to-urban migrant students’ educational participation, attainment, and achievement in K12 levels. Previous review of academic achievement gaps between rural-urban and migrant-local students identifies the quest for educational equity for every student, but much of them leave open the question of the historically rooted Hukou system’s powerful influences on migrant students’ educational experiences and outcomes in their processes of integration to the new social and cultural environment.

The Effects of Peer Parental Education on Student Achievement in Urban China: The Disparities Between Migrants and Locals

2021 ◽  
pp. 000283122198965
Author(s):  
Jinho Kim ◽  
Yuying Tong ◽  
Skylar Biyang Sun
Keyword(s):  
Parental Education ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Migrant Students ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
Urban Migrants ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Local Students ◽  
The Impact

Despite scholarly consensus on the positive influence of peers’ parental education on students’ academic achievement, less is known about whether marginalized students reap similar benefits as their nonmarginalized counterparts. Using data from the China Educational Panel Survey and a quasi-experimental design, we show that the impact of classmates’ parental education on test scores is significantly stronger for local students than for migrant students in urban schools. These differential effects are largely driven by rural-to-urban migrants and not by urban-to-urban migrants. Additionally, we find that rural migrant students benefit less from the positive effects of peer parental education than their local counterparts, especially when their local peers hold higher levels of discriminative attitudes toward rural migrant students in their classes.

Nursing Issues

2019 ◽  
pp. 211-217
Author(s):  
Victoria Harmer ◽  
Cathy Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Novel Therapies ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Outcomes Of Care ◽  
Cancer Nursing ◽  
Care Specialist ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Nursing Roles ◽  
Improve Patient

Abstract: High-quality nurse–patient interaction has the potential to improve patient experience and outcomes of care. Specialist nursing is evolving to include a range of roles to support more complex care in a changing healthcare landscape, where there is an increase in incidence, an ageing population with comorbidities, more treatments, and new and novel therapies all delivered under increasing financial pressures. This chapter discusses the main specialist nursing roles in breast cancer care and the key issues facing breast cancer nursing.

scholarly journals Spending the pupil premium: What influences leaders’ decision-making?

2020 ◽  
pp. 174114322090506
Author(s):  
Rebecca Morris ◽  
Graeme Dobson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Social Disadvantage ◽  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Accessible Information ◽  
Attainment Gap ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Effective Use

Introduced in England in 2011, the pupil premium policy was an ambitious reform aimed at tackling the persistent attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their more affluent peers. The policy provides school leaders with the professional autonomy to determine how pupil premium funding should be used. This article examines the decision-making processes and influences involved in the use of these additional resources. We conducted interviews with 21 school leaders from different contexts across the Midlands in order to investigate the approaches, perceptions and experiences that influenced their engagement with the pupil premium policy. The findings highlight the range of strategies employed to determine how the funding should be used and the factors that influence the decisions made. Our data also indicate the tensions and challenges that are experienced by school leaders in relation to effective use of the funding. We conclude with recommendations for policymakers and practitioners in relation to the requirement for high-quality, accessible information to support pupil premium use, the role of accountability mechanisms and the need for wider societal reform in order to tackle social disadvantage.

scholarly journals 450 EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES FOR FRAIL OLDER PEOPLE, THEIR FAMILIES, CARERS, AND HEALTH-CARE PROFESSIONALS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. ii14-ii18
Author(s):  
R J Viggars ◽  
A Finney ◽  
B Panayiotou
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Educational Programmes ◽  
The Uk

Abstract Introduction With an ever-increasing, ageing population, there is inevitable increase in people living with frailty with a growing demand on the NHS in the UK. Healthcare policy emphasises holistic care and a multimorbid approach to meet these needs. Frailty is seen as a measurable, complex, fluid and variable state affected by a balance of resilience versus vulnerability across domains which impact on quality of life. The FCCF positions frailty as a LTC and suggests that a holistic and person-centred approach to education is required for people living with frailty, their families, carers and health care professionals. This is a systematic review of research studies providing educational programmes or initiatives to these groups and addresses whether the content and application will compliment and support the facilitation of the FCCF. Methods Following standardised methods and guidelines, electronic databases were searched. Two reviewers were involved in the research collection process, applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Quality appraisal tools were used to ensure robust quality assessment and then the findings were narratively synthesised. Results There was real heterogeneity of study design with variable quality according to the tools used. There was a paucity of high-quality evidence; (2 = high quality, 3 = low quality, 5 = medium quality). There were four thematic domains prominent from the synthesis: 1) Health Promotion (namely exercise and nutrition), 2) Empowerment, 3) Self-care, 4) Online platform delivery. Conclusion It is evident that educational programmes and initiatives are vital for the prevention and management of frailty. To be truly effective, such programmes must include a combination of health promotion, empowerment and self-care and be accessible to all target populations. Further work is needed to look at effective, accessible, sustainable delivery systems, including that of online digital platforms.

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