Showing papers in "Educational Alternatives in 2014"

Challenges and approaches to competency development for future production

Abstract: Research shows that efficient processes through a mere optimization of machinery and equipment are not sufficient in order to be competitive to other companies. The analysis of so-called megatrends indicates flexibility, changeability and efficiency as differentiating factors in the competition of production sites. For this purpose in the future employees at all levels of the hierarchy must be capable to act even in case of complex challenges and in unfamiliar situations. This article identifies the challenges of future production and derives necessary competencies for an exemplary field of action. Based on this, innovative learning approaches are identified in order to effectively develop needed capacities in an efficient manner.

The impact of perceived social support in first- year spanish college students adjustment

Abstract: A large body of research, not specifically developed in Spain, has revealed that adjustment to college can be experienced by emerging adults as stressful or supportive, depending on perceived social support. The aim of the present study was to analyze the extent to which different sources and cognitive/affective components of perceived social support predicted specific areas of adjustment in a sample of 300 first-year university students in Spain. The sample completed the Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ6), the Perceived Acceptance Scale (PAS) and the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (SACQ). Regression analysis revealed that perceived social support was a good predictor of adjustment to college. The association was stronger for peers support than family support once university entry grade point average and gender were controlled for. The relationship between the number of available others when needed and the satisfaction with available support with adjustment was mediated by perceived sense of acceptance.

The effects of the mnemonic keyword method on 8th graders’ l2 vocabulary learning

Abstract: The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of the mnemonic keyword method, which is one of the vocabulary learning strategies, plus the context method on L2 vocabulary learning of 8th graders in comparison with rote rehearsal plus the context method. Forty-five Turkish L1 learners of English as a foreign language with the same level of English proficiency in two intact classes at Konya Abidin Saniye Ercal secondary school were randomly assigned as the mnemonic keyword group and the L1 translation group. Before the instruction period a multiple choice vocabulary test, which was developed by the researchers, was given as the pre-test and after the instruction period, which lasted 3 week, the same test was given as the posttest. The results of the statistical analysis conducted using the t-test on the SPSS 18 revealed that the difference between the two groups’ scores was statistically significant in favor of the experimental group, which employed the mnemonic keyword method combined with the context method.

Insider inquiry: developing a relationship based practice when teaching social work students

Abstract: This paper aims to introduce my research inquiry; developing a relationship based practice when teaching social work students. As a Senior Lecturer in Social Work undertaking a Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice, my choice of inquiry is situated in my everyday practice of teaching. This was a new practice for me when I began in September 2013, a time when reforms were introduced into social work education in the UK. The reforms emphasised the need for social workers to be able to develop effective relationships with service users and professionals. In response to this, I chose to inquire into how I would teach using a relationship based approach, modelling how relationships could be developed. This paper seeks to explain relationship based teaching and present this with alongside current teaching approaches. It then explores the methods intended to be used in the inquiry and considers issues such as power and ethics.

The significance of high school teacher's creativity for innovative pedagogical practice

Abstract: Modern professional education presupposes the formation of the competences of a future competitive specialist capable of self-development and self-education. The development of creative thinking, creative abilities and creative potential of a student’s personality provides the achieving of these aims. Creative organization of the pedagogical process presupposes the inculcation of individual management of the creative process, the formation of psychological and intellectual independence of students, the development of skills of processing different kinds of information to the educational environment. The process of formation of creative thinking provides the transfer of knowledge and skills to a new situation, the discovery of a new problem in a standard situation, alternatives in problem solving, combination and transformation of the well-known methods of action in the new environment. A creative teacher performs diagnostic, prognostic, structural, organizational, communication, research, analytical, social and political functions in his professional activity. He successfully uses innovative pedagogical technologies: trainings, educational consulting, modern techniques of creative thinking such as brainstorming, role-playing and simulation games, case technologies.

Opinions, attitudes and experiences among evaluators of adult educators

Abstract: In recent years, there have been significant changes in the field of adult education which have brought new opportunities for adult educators, expanding the types of programs offered to adult learners As a consequence, adult educators evaluation began a crucial issue This paper focuses on EduEval (Evaluation for the Professional Development of Adult Education Staff) N 538743-LLP-1-2013-1-ITGRUNDTVIG-GMP, an EU funded project which is grounded in an action-research based on the active involvement of practitioners engaged in adult educators’ evaluation in some European countries (which are: Latvia, Italy, Poland, Spain and Greece) EduEval project is started on January 2014, and this paper illustrates the approach that Personality Socialization Research Institute (PSRI) of Rezeknes Augstskola (RA) (Latvia) has designed to gather information about evaluators’ of social adult educators in Latvia It also presents the project objectives and sketches the theoretical background of the PSRI research activity

Students-mothers' conception on combining higher education and motherhood - a comparative intercultural outlook

Abstract: Combining higher education and motherhood is a complicated and challenging task. Within patriarchal societies this challenge turns to be acute. Women living in such societies are deprived from the right of family planning. Motherhood is experienced as a feminine lot women have to comply with. Moreover, it constitutes a guarantee to moving out to the public sphere. This study focuses on the conception of combining higher education and motherhood as it emanated from the experience of religious Jewish students-mothers and Bedouin students-mothers. It probes also the cultural -related similarities and divergences. It transpires that students-mothers from both cultures exert great efforts in their way out of the private sphere and consider higher- education as the ultimate pathway to selfactualization over motherhood. Though the Jewish religious students-mothers are much more influenced by the non-religious society similarities are discerned in the experience of the two groups.

The management of change in education

Abstract: Change management is the process of continually renewing an organization’s direction, structure, and capabilities to serve the ever-changing needs of external and internal customers. It is clear that more theory and research are needed for a better understanding of the process of change in organizations. The purpose of this paper is to discuss a variety of theoretical approaches to the management of the change process within organizations and contribute to the field in this area by presenting an integrated model of change management in educational field. This paper has discussed a variety of theoretical approaches to the management of the change process within organizations. Based on the theoretical approaches to the management of the change process within organizations described, from educational perspective organisational leaders in schools should take steps for change management initiatives for each of organization’s subsystems and should plan and implement this change management process integrated and congruent.

The students' attitude towards science subjects studied in school

Abstract: Our time is characterized by increasingly significance of science in daily needs of people and the necessity of sufficient knowledge to understand the processes and phenomena in the surrounding reality. At the same time people express their proven opinion, that the interest of young people in science tuition decrease. This article presents the results of a survey of students attitude towards science classes at school. Research in several areas: a) interest in learning science; b) knowledge of the character of natural knowledge; c) the applicability of natural knowledge; d) understanding of the cognitive processes inherent in natural scientific knowledge; e) the ratio of students to scientists engaged in science. For all who work in the field of natural scientific education in Bulgaria, but also for those who have interest in education in our country, it would be useful to know the students view on science classes at school. We regard that this would help compilers of school programs and teachers to develop educational strategies aimed to increase the student’s interests in sciences. Anonymous survey reveals that students believe their education in school doesn’t contribute significantly to acquaintance them with the character of natural knowledge. Curriculum content in these disciplines do not assist them in making decisions about current life problems.

Quality assurance and the bologna process in higher education

Abstract: Higher education is expected to meet a wide range of needs for evolving knowledge societies: educating larger numbers of the population, creating new opportunities for students, developing research and innovation, responding to local and regional needs and acting to improve quality and efficiency in all aspects of the higher education. The number of students and institutions has been increasing both nationally and globally. It is essential to focus and increase the quality of educational programs in higher education. The European Union has been developing policies in order to increase the quality of education. The Bologna Process has been one of the important development for increasing the quality in higher education. The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss the quality assurance of the Bologna Process policies in higher education and its application in the Turkish educational system. Higher education institutions should plan and implement their quality management processes and curriculum planning within the scope of the Bologna Process.

A skills and training needs analysis for solar photovoltaics a welsh and uk perspective

Abstract: A Skills and Training Needs Analysis (STNA) to review the current delivery of low carbon education within the UK Higher Education Sector, was conducted for Solar Photovoltaics (PV). The PV STNA revealed a sizable University presence in technology development across the different PV technologies, but a lack of existing provision focusing exclusively on Solar PV across the Higher Education Institutions at level 7. Twenty four Post Graduate courses across the UK including ten within Wales were identified, which cover Solar PV content at master’s level, but this is mainly delivered as part of a low carbon technology module providing an overview of the main renewable technologies e.g. Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Marine, Hydrogen and Wind. The main areas of interest for new training provision are: PV Systems and Design, Advanced Manufacturing, Emerging PV Technologies, Buildings as Power Stations and End of Life Considerations. The STNA highlighted that the training provision offered by the Welsh Energy Sector Training (WEST) project needs to be demand led and align with the identified training needs of the industry to ensure successful uptake of the new training provision and maximum benefit to the Welsh and UK energy sectors. That said, it is also incumbent upon providers to fulfil a leadership role, by identifying the training that is required to meet future industry needs given the changing context for the UK solar industry.

Salivary status of diabetic children

Abstract: Saliva may provide us with clues for the evaluation of dental caries susceptibility and dental caries risk The aim of this study was to compare salivary parameters: flow rate, pH, buffering capacity, glucose in saliva and bacterial count of Streptococcus Mutans and Lactobacillus in healthy and suffering from DM1 children and adolescents in Plovdiv region The study was conducted on 128 children, including 68 children suffering from diabetes mellitus type 1 5-18 years of age,that were refered for treatment of dibetes mellitus to the Paediatric Clinic at Medical University in Plovdiv (groupII) and 60 controlsI (group I) aged 5 to 18 years Metabolic control was determined for each diabetic child by percentage of glucosilated hemoglobin (HbA1C) 29 children were judged to be well controlled (HbA1C≤ 8%) 38 tric children (group IIA) were poorly controlled (HbA1C≥ 8%) (group IIB)The following salivary parameters are determined: salivary flow rate, salivary buffer capacity, salivary pH salivary glucose, microbial counts of Streptococcus mutans and Lactobacillus The statistical analysis was performed using χ-test and Fisher’s exact test Saliva is an easy to collect and study fluid that could help diagnose and monitor systematic diseases, such as diabetes

Quality management in institutes of higher education: the baldrige model

Abstract: Global competition and the changing economic environment, have created a necessity to develop strategies for the development of Higher Education (HE). The success of higher education institutions (HEIs) depends on how the educational leaders work to implement these strategies. However, quality measures play a vital role in the education provided by the higher education institutes (HEIs). Therefore it becomes important to assure quality with sustainable improvement in HE. Discussions on some special problems arising in this context have been widely published and proposals for the solution have been worked out by the application of quality management systems based on EN/ISO 9000 standards series for educational establishments and educational processes. The EFQM model, geared towards education, has also gained much recognition. The American Malcolm Baldridge model, based on the National Baldrige Award for Quality and Excellence, will be presented as an alternative quality management model, with special emphasis on education and specific measures of quality in higher education.

School as a place for developing thinking

Abstract: Today's world of rapid and diverse change needs thinking and creative people who can, in cooperation with others, solve new, surprising problems of humanity and act for the common good. To prepare such a person for life, school should depart from the implementation of top-imposed curricula and textbooks, and take care of the educational environment in which each child will have the opportunity to discover, develop and hone their talents and abilities, and awaken the appetite for learning throughout life. This places new demands on teachers, who become responsible for shaping the future of society towards peaceful coexistence, creative cooperation and humanitarianism.

Community relations in lithuanian schools: the views of pupils, their parents and external evaluators

Abstract: Human relations at school create favourable micro-climate for learning, encourage positive behaviour, motivation, and help to create appropriate conditions for mature personality development. Acknowledging that good relations have a positive effect on personality development, the views of pupils, their parents and external evaluators of school quality assurance agencies was analysed, the current situation of relations at school was observed, trends important to all members of the school community were highlighted and education problems were discussed. The external evaluations show that very good learning outcomes, academic achievements and knowledge of pupils are considered to be very important, while the teaching of moral values and humane relationships are considered less important. Practical and interpersonal relations prevail in schools, whereas personality improvement, ability to reflect and empathise with others, unconditionally rely on the phenomenon of conscience is only an aspiration.

A polyphonic reanalysis instrument for understanding school cultures

Abstract: This paper focuses on describing and discussing the existence of a new research tool for the reanalysis of school cultures. The concept of school culture refers to Berg (2003) and his school development strategy of scope for action. A central issue in organizations is how to reconcile the organization’s nomothetic and idiographic aspirations and structures. At school, this problem can be understood as the dialectical interplay between institutional and organizational values. In-depth knowledge of actors' behavior and attitudes in the context of interaction increases the ability of school development for the benefit of students. Polyphonic reanalysis of a school culture makes it possible to achieve an extended understanding of the underlying patterns of a school s everyday work from a micro-oriented perspective. The new instrument has been tested in a context of pupil culture in primary school.

New vs. traditional institutional order in educational institutions: the case of establishing the first urbanism study programme in Serbia

Abstract: Rapid and externally imposed institutional changes cause conflict and stagnation within educational organisations. The tension arises from conflicts between the newly introduced institutional framework, which imposes change, and the old one, which takes the form of an informal framework and resists changes that disturb the institutional order established with much effort. The informal framework creates difficulties for operating within the new framework and the state of collision between two competing institutional frameworks prevents institutions from continuing to develop. However, the formality of the newly-introduced framework can override the informal framework, because it opens the possibility for individuals to act within the institutional order, provided that they consolidate and follow a new set of formal rules and procedures. Working within the conflict state and analysing it can help identify weak points in the procedure that could not be identified during the establishment of the new institutional framework.

Czech socially excluded roma parents and the context of educational process

Abstract: The text is about Czech socially excluded Roma parents, about what their attitudes on school education are like. The empirical research brings the concrete results about the dimension of social exclusion in the context of Roma parents, and shows what the opinions on the educational process are like. Several groups of the Roma live in the Czech Republic. The most numerous subethnic group are the so-called Slovak Roma, who came to the area of the current Czech Republic after World War II and account for about three quarters of the Roma population in the Czech Republic. The group most isolated from both the majority population and other Roma are the so-called Vlachika Roma (about 10%). There are also several dozens of families of Czech and Moravian Roma who have inhabited Bohemia and Moravia for several hundred years. These Roma were nearly eradicated by the Nazi during WWII; only about 30 families, i.e. approximately 600 Roma survived. The least represented subgroups of the Roma population are the so-called Sinti Roma – German Roma, and French and Hungarian Roma (Ungrike Roma), the so-called “mundane” Roma. Even though no data concerning specifically Roma migration is available, it can be estimated that a great migration of the Roma from Slovakia into the Czech Republic took place in the 1970s and 1980s. The same migration trend has prevailed even after the separation of the two states. As many as 382,500 Slovak citizens have obtained Czech citizenship to whom the Czech network of social services pertains. It is, however, not known how many of them are Roma people. Similarly, no statistical data is available as to how many Roma people who are Slovak citizens live in the Czech Republic as a part of the free mobility between the two countries. In 2002, 843 petitions for Czech citizenship were submitted by members of Roma communities, Slovakia thus becoming the third country by the number of applicants on the list. In 2003, there were 687 applicants for asylum from Slovakia. The Czech Republic is an attractive migration target country for Slovak Roma (both as an asylum country and a target of “long-term visits”) due to the strong family links with members of local Roma communities, who are themselves overwhelmingly Slovak ethnic Roma (Serviko), due to the low language barrier and due to good chances of social advancement. The Slovak Roma immigration into the Czech Republic is a continuing process. The immigrants are most often inhabitants of Roma settlements on the outskirts of East-Slovakian “gadja” villages. They tend to settle down with their relatives in socially secluded communities distributed across all districts of the CR (6 locations in Prague, 4 locations in Brno, 10 locations in Ostrava) The total number of these Roma communities suffering from social seclusion identified in the CR is 310 (year 2006), most of them having come into existence as late as in the 1990s due to the postsocialist transformation. 65% of them have existed for over 10 years and to most of them further Roma move and/or are moved. 35% of the communities came into existence within last 10 years. Social problems of Roma communities living in socially excluded locations:

Issues concerning the education and integration of blind students in albania

Abstract: This study aims to assess the current realistic view of education of blind students in Albania at each schooling stage, including the role and importance of typhlotechnique support during the learning process, the improvement of teaching methodology and curricula defining its inclusion to school program and specific subjects as an integral part of same formative process, factors affecting their education and measures to be undertaken for the improvement of the blind student’s education. The scientific viewpoint is the submission of the ideas and solutions for each of the issues raised, the objective assessment of the actual situation as well as the careful examination of the historical facts affecting this process so far, in order to better understand the latest developments in this field. Since the beginning, it is important to emphasize that the range of the issues concerning the education of blind students are specific, because the vision loss constitutes a very special restriction within the framework of disabilities.

The effectiveness of corporate training in business communication

Abstract: Business Communication training contributes to company overall effectiveness (improved services/product quality, personality development, shortened decision making period), provided that traditional teaching methods are complemented by specifically devised, customised training activities and methods ,e.g. on the bases of London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Spoken English For Industry and Commerce level 3 papers. Research unit-groups are intermediate and above level of English employees of two companies representing different scope, profile and needs. Evaluation methods-progress tests, feedback (self & peer), supervisors’, department managers’, feedback, gathered through personal talks, observations, questioners. Findings–being flexible, customer-focused and integrative, methodology works irrespective of company size, profile or environment; Recommends expansion of teaching methods and tasks applied, suggests the necessity of aggregative training. This paper is aimed to provide an approach to selecting teaching methods and tasks when designing the course in oral business communication; when planning particular unit sessions; as well as each particular session delivery methods.

Welsh energy sector training: a case study of research informing education

Abstract: Many countries report challenges translating research into commercial practice. Although funding is often blamed, lack of appropriate dissemination and engagement with industry can also be an issue. The Low Carbon Research Institute has tackled these issues through Welsh Energy Sector Training. Professional training is being derived from research in the fields of Hydrogen, Large scale power generation, Low carbon built environment, Marine energy and solar PV. Widespread engagement with industry has identified the most relevant research based training topics as well as refining delivery methods.

Evaluation of two camera-based approaches for collecting student feedback

Abstract: Many educators have demonstrated that use of the clicker-based Instant Feedback System (IFS) during lectures advances in students' active learning that results in better academic achievements. The wide proliferation of smartphones and tablets (having high-resolution digital cameras and powerful computing processors) means that simple and inexpensive camera-based feedback systems (CBFS) can and should be developed. In this paper, the usefulness and reliability of two CBFS implementations will be analyzed. A number of tests of the two systems were run in big classes (more than 50 students) and in small classes (less than 20 students). Pedagogical impact of both CBFS implementations is discussed.

Internship project - design in industry vs. research in academia – a case study

Abstract: A mandatory internship program for all engineering students studying towards a B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Academic College for Engineering ORT Braude exposes students to supervised internship in engineering design in industry or research project in academia for at least 1,000 hours. Some 20 years of experience with running the internship program gave us the opportunity to collect data concerning the characteristics of such projects. This study is based on qualitative analyses of interviews with students and their supervisors, observations on final presentations, and document analyses of the students’ project books. This article presents a number of comparative characteristics of engineering design and applicative research internship projects in industry and academia. Additionally, it is shown that internship project contributes to the development and reinforcement of students' professional competencies and personal attributes.

A neuro-cognitive view on what makes an educator 'effective' in nurturing social and personal skills

Abstract: In democratic societies, education should follow a humanistic paradigm and pro-actively support the growth of social and personal skills (SPS) in learners of all ages. In this article, we present a literature review on the factors demonstrated in various educational fields as 'effective' in generating learning success – mostly conceptualized as improved academic achievement – and social and personal growth. Factors that appear across all fields are highlighted. Next, neuro-cognitive literature on how we learn with our brain and our body is evaluated and the findings merged with those of the previous subchapters. Key features to 'successful' educational endeavours are presented, namely Emotions, Action, Cooperation, Reflection, Motivation and Practice. 'Neurologically smart' teaching then means to integrate these features as smooth and appropriate as possible into the individual educational context. There is little research that focuses on educational effectiveness in regard to social and personal growth compared to (purely) academic achievement. Also, although the educator 1 is widely agreed upon to be one of the most crucial factors of impact on the learning outcomes, research addresses only managerial aspects of the educational process, and only marginally touches on intra-personal aspects such as emotional intelligence or leadership style in relation to the growth of SPS in learners. Further research in this area is recommended.

Cultural analysis and reflective processes in preschool – reflective leadership or critical friends

Abstract: The topic of this article is a minor research and development project, maintained as a collaborative research dialogue between practitioners and researchers from preschool and teacher education. The aim of the project was supporting a group of preschool leaders in order to develop a more effective leadership and increase reflective abilities among their subordinates. To achieve this aim we established a creative dialogue between practitioners and researchers, independent of professional belonging, but made up by a general view on the importance of a reflective culture in professional teams. Methodologically we used mentoring as a work tool for developing of the practioners and cultural analysis for mapping and analysis of what eventually took place at their workplace. The results and findings of the project indicate that the professional relationship between the leaders and their subordinates seems to have changed. A remaining question is whether reflective leadership is consistent with the role as critical friend?

Professional competences of teachers in context of an analysis of anamnestic data of pupils with special educational needs

Abstract: The professional preparedness of the teacher is related to his / her diagnostic abilities, which are based on the knowledge of methods and techniques of pedagogical diagnostics and which are directed to the optimisation of the educational and pedagogical process. The application of the knowledge of special educational diagnosis and pedagogical-psychological diagnosis then allows distinguishing individual preconditions and possibilities of education and raising the pupils with special educational needs.

The principle of global axiology and the bipolarized adequacy of the unique „datum”

Abstract: The effects of the inter-disciplinary are those of awareness of the self on the board of the new values of education, and the arrangements of the principle of general axiology are those of orientation, organization and exaltation of knowledge on the stage of re-consignation of the Great Graces. The human brain, in its incipient entirety (overall analytical synthesizer), represents just a value sheet of revalorisation of the self, but not the progressive-evaluative process in the complexity of the identity arrangement. Whilst the Corpus Callous (lat. „tough body”) holds the function of focalizing the creativity at the level of the phenomenological (genetically) stylus from the inside, the body of the Graciousness proclaims its arrangement outside the Self through itself and through others. The Beautiful, at the stage of Graciousness, as a general axiological principle and a value sensitizer space, constitutes the projection of the exteriorization of the Self through the abyss. Or, the motives of enthronement of a value space adequate to the completions, could be those of offering to each attitude taking a real chance of adjustment/connection of the Self to the string of the absolute beautiful, to the string of celestial renewals. A philosophy of education (pedagogy of essence and pedagogy of existence) is the one which supports and is supported by the entire vigor of complexity on logo centrism, on the principle of identity of becoming. The becoming as such, having its own laws, requests the commitments in order to honor our duty as regards the field of professional concerns. Among the subjects of new theories of education: theory and methodology of modern curriculum, sociology of linguistic and literary education, didactics of Romanian language, linguistic didactics as science of new theories of education, generally places a special role as regards its edifying function of domination upon/of interactive-communicative competence. Thus, the values predeterminations of linguistic didactics are those of a science foreground to the professional formation on the board of the new theories of modernist / postmodernist education. From the perspectives of this investigational concept focused on grace of the spirituality of who owns us, we reluctantly bow to the sensitizer mosaic of the exceptional Romanian vocable (word). In this way, the context of the nation’s stylistic matrix that characterizes our ,,UNICUM "site, is constantly tempting us to price on various positioning (processes and revalued principles) to outlining from inside the new divination glimpses: from the fabulous magical of biased children’s innocence toward meaningfully empirical maturity of completions of those who consciously discover and glorify it. In particular, we include here the most eloquent pierce of the relevance of genuine language theories of adequacy knowledge of self-interpretations, especially, as those of grouting continuous storages into eternity. However, what concerns us the analog activities opposite to the grammatical prefiguration of becoming, we ask ourselves to focus them on the grouting of unequivocal transcendence: Beauty will save the world, because the world is created by the laws of beauty Laws of creation of our eternal identity through the Word.

Effect of anxiety awareness on listening comprehension

Abstract: This study focused on how to reduce learners’ anxiety and hopefully improve later listening comprehension. It was the intent of the study to show that through lexical and grammatical awareness listening comprehension can improve. For this purpose, 60students at the Pre-intermediate English proficiency level participated in the study. They were divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group was exposed to anxiety awareness of listening comprehension while the control group participated in conventional listening comprehension classroom. Quantitative findings indicated a negative association between listening anxiety and linguistic knowledge. The study lasted for four weeks and the treatment was applied to learners in experimental group. The sixty participants were given a pre-test and post test following a foreign language listening anxiety questionnaire to answer. The results showed a notable improvement in learners’ listening comprehension and reducing their anxiety due to receiving lexical and grammatical awareness.

Staff training and development: a sine qua non to effective service delivery in nigeria tertiary institutions

Abstract: The need to train and develop staff of the Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria is obvious given the growing nature of work environment, the rapid change in the institutions and advancement in technology among other things. Staff training and development helps to ensure that the members of staff of the institution possess the knowledge and skills they need to perform their duties effectively, take on new/additional responsibilities and adapt to changing conditions. Despite the recognition of the relevance of staff training by management experts and government as enshrined in the civil service rules and white papers on various reforms in Nigeria, the experience of staff training and development in the Nigeria Tertiary Institutions has not met the purpose for which it was meant. This paper examines Staff Training and Development with a view to understanding the determinants of effective service delivery in Nigeria Tertiary Institutions. It makes appropriate recommendations on the need to give all staff equal chance of being trained for effective service delivery in the institutions and the development of the country as a whole.

Education in modern demographic situation in russia: migration aspect

Abstract: Sociological studies reveal demographic, educational, conflict and communication problems caused by the intensification of migration processes as a result of globalization (Castles et al. 1996; Massey et al., 1998; Юдина, 2004). Migration processes are currently providing persistent transformational impact on the demographics and education practices in modern Russia, putting on the agenda the questions about the limits of ethnic tolerance. Reforms (2003-2014) in education caused great damage to the national security system, because as the practice of life shows, the “spirit and the letter” of education in Russia is constantly adapt to the challenges of “real politic”. Our recent research has shown that it is difficult to overestimate the role of education as a backbone factor could play in the integration of modern Russian society, if the impact of the reforms.