Word: curriculum
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...STATE UNIVERSITY of New York recently experimented with such an approach. The universities program combined a strong scientific curriculum with practical technical training so as to prepare students for the job market while leaving the door open for medical school. Centered around the laboratory, the program sought to provide students with a theoretical understanding of the material, which is the basis for the clinical methodology taught in medical school, while at the same time investing the participants with readily applicable skills. By focusing on both the scientific and technical side of medicine, they were able to produce trained medical technologists...
...Africa opposed to apartheid to explore other ways by which to help in fields of critical importance to the welfare of black South Africans. Among the alternatives under consideration are efforts to assist black unions in the use of mediation and arbitration, opportunities to assist in teacher training or curriculum development, possibilities for improving medical education, and methods for helping integrated private schools in South Africa...
...students. For them, the results of the poll will be virtually meaningless; they will press for a random lottery regardless, unless faced with the prospect of student insurrection. Their way of thinking, grounded in the paternalistic "we know what is best for you," also brought us the Core Curriculum...
...future leaders of the textile industry. Every year Charlottesville's Institute of Textile Technology (I.T.T.) turns out a new crop of masters of science imbued with the latest high-tech manufacturing and management skills. "It's a lot different from other graduate programs," Alexander says of I.T.T.'s curriculum. "It's more industry related." Not affiliated with a university, the institute is completely supported by some 35 textile companies that it serves as a supplier of the kinds of cutting-edge team players regular schools of higher education have not been turning...
...education system in the U.S." And it is one of the strongest forces for continuing adult education. Courses range from remedial English to nuclear engineering. Some subjects, such as language and accounting, overlap those in the nation's traditional schools. Others compensate for gaps in the conventional curriculum. General Electric's manager of management education, James Baughman, for one, says, "There is vast illiteracy on business-school faculties" in both the mechanics of advanced technology and its management implications. Says a Texas Instruments executive: "As technology changes, universities tend to lag one to three years behind what's happening...