Postgraduate Diploma and MSc in E-Commerce at Birkbeck College

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandeep Kapur
Keyword(s):  
Birkbeck College ◽  
Postgraduate Diploma

scholarly journals Investigating competencies needed by European-trained doctors in rural South African hospitals

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Barnacle ◽  
Oliver Johnson ◽  
Ian Couper
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Rural District ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Rural Medicine ◽  
Rural South ◽  
District Hospitals ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Postgraduate Diploma

Background: Many European-trained doctors (ETDs) recruited to work in rural district hospitals in South Africa have insufficient generalist competencies for the range of practice required. Africa Health Placements recruits ETDs to work in rural hospitals in Africa. Many of these doctors feel inadequately prepared. The Stellenbosch University Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health is launching a Postgraduate Diploma in Rural Medicine to help prepare doctors for such work.Aim: To determine the competencies gap for ETDs working in rural district hospitals in South Africa to inform the curriculum of the PG Dip (Rural Medicine).Setting: Rural district hospitals in South Africa.Methods: Nine hospitals in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga were purposefully selected by Africa Health Placements as receiving ETDs. An online survey was developed asking about the most important competencies and weaknesses for ETDs when working rurally. The clinical manager and any ETDs currently working in each hospital were invited to complete the survey.Results: Surveys were completed by 19 ETDs and five clinical managers. The top clinical competencies in relation to 10 specific domains were identified. The results also indicate broader competencies required, specific skills gaps, the strengths that ETDs bring to South Africa and how ETDs prepare themselves for working in this context.Conclusion: This study identifies the important competency gaps among ETDs and provides useful direction for the diploma and other future training initiatives. The diploma faculty must reflect on these findings and ensure the curriculum is aligned with these gaps.

Josiane F. Hamers and Michel H.A. Blanc, Bilinguality and bilingualism. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv + 468 pages. Hb $90.00, pb $30.00.

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-421
Author(s):  
Pieter Muysken,
Keyword(s):  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Birkbeck College ◽  
Cambridge University

This is the second edition of a very impressive handbook that was published first in French in 1983, and subsequently in English in 1989. This new edition was prepared directly in English. Josiane Hamers is Professor of Psycholinguistics and Bilingualism at the Université de Laval, Québec, and Michel Blanc is Emeritus Reader of Applied Linguistics and Bilingualism at Birkbeck College, University of London.

scholarly journals Advancing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning using Learning Theories and Reflectivity

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lester Brian Shawa
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Constructivist Learning Theory ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Policy Perspective ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
South African Universities ◽  
Social Constructivist Learning ◽  
Postgraduate Diploma

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) remains a mostly elusive notion. For universities to genuinely contribute to SoTL, they must delineate clear parameters of engagement. For example, while some engage SoTL at the academic level, others examine it from an institutional policy perspective. Others view it from national and international frameworks that impact teaching and learning in universities. Engaging SoTL at the academic level, this article uses a postgraduate diploma module, Higher Education Context and Policy (mostly attended by university academics from South African universities) to show how a facilitator could draw from learning theories and reflectivity to teach and advance SoTL. More specifically, it demonstrates how a facilitator could mediate the module utilising a social constructivist learning theory perspective.

scholarly journals Launching the first postgraduate diploma in medical entomology and disease vector control in Pakistan

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (Supp.) ◽  
pp. 76-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.R. Rathor ◽  
A. Mnzava ◽  
K.M. Bile ◽  
A. Hafeez ◽  
S. Zaman
Keyword(s):  
Vector Control ◽  
Medical Entomology ◽  
Disease Vector ◽  
Postgraduate Diploma

scholarly journals Eva G. R. Taylor

1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-101
Author(s):  
J. G. Crowther ◽  
C. H. Cotter ◽  
Helen Wallis ◽  
D. H. Sadler ◽  
René Hague
Keyword(s):  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Honorary Member ◽  
Birkbeck College ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
The University

Professor Eva G. R. Taylor, an Honorary Member of the Institute since 1954, died in Wokingham on 5 July 1966, aged 85. She was a Fellow of Birkbeck College and Victoria Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society. From 1930 to 1934 she was Professor and Head of the Department of Geography in the University of London, and in 1944 became Professor Emeritus.

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