Improving the organization of modern postgraduate studies: system approach

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Nonna Antonovna Morozova
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Postgraduate Studies

The article deals with the problems of training scientific and pedagogical personnel in Russia at the present stage of postgraduate education, which caused the need to discuss them, both at the level of the country’s leadership, and at the level of the scientific and University community. The directions of improving the organization of modern postgraduate studies in the context of a systematic approach are proposed. The directions of improving the training of postgraduates and the organization of the modern Russian postgraduate school in the context of its two types - scientific and University with the organization of different types of practice: research and teaching. The most significant among the directions proposed in the article are the following: improving the quality of recruitment of applicants to graduate school on the example of a pre-admission system of two-stage training of applicants in the system of professional development of the Research center for problems of quality of training of specialists; the implementation of master’s training programme “graduate student researcher” and “student-expert” on the basis of the principle of continuity of training programs for “masters-postgraduate” and implementation of the program and the model of problem-designresearch teaching academician I.A. Zimnyaya; formation of academic literacy in the process of formation of communicative competence of graduate students by means of educational disciplines «Academic writing» / «Scientific text», «Academic speech»; improving the organization of classroom and extracurricular independent work of postgraduates and its material and technical support; financing of postgraduate education; and a number of others. Along with the actualization of a systematic approach to improving the organization of modern graduate school activities, personal-activity, convergent and scenario approaches to improving the training of graduate students are identified. The proposed ways to solve the existing problems of the organizational plan of the postgraduate school in some of the indicated areas can have a positive impact on its improvement.

Setting up a successful nurse-led intravitreal injections service: pearls from Swindon

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (20) ◽  
pp. 1178-1185
Author(s):  
Hani Hasan ◽  
Sunil Mamtora ◽  
Nimish Shah
Keyword(s):  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Training Model ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Intravitreal Injections ◽  
Nurse Training ◽  
Financial Benefits ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Number Of Injections

The demand for performing intravitreal injections has increased in recent years, prompting the need for more nurse training in their administration. The Great Western Hospitals NHS Trust in Swindon has developed a structured nurse training programme and now has 8 independent nurse injectors trained to undertake injections independently; nurse practitioners now contribute upwards of 85% of the total number of injections. The authors have also demonstrated the financial benefits of using injection assistant devices and shown the positive impact such devices have on training. In September 2019, the authors organised the first course to offer nurses and doctors hands-on experience in administering injections, using the Swindon training model to provide participants with a structured approach to learn how to perform intravitreal injections safely. Nurses made up 96% of participants; the remainder were doctors and managers; 6% had never performed an intravitreal injection; of units where they had, disposable drapes and a speculum were used in 71% of these. The number of injections performed per session at participants' units at the time they attended the course was: 17 or more injections=46%, 13–14=39%, and 11–12=15%. The course was rated 8.9/10 overall for content, with 85% very likely to recommend it to colleagues. All participants indicated that using the Swindon model made them feel confident to deliver injections safely. The authors demonstrated that using a structured training protocol and intravitreal assistant device improves the quality of nurse training and increases confidence in administering intravitreal injections.

The Active Skim: Efficient Reading as a Moral Challenge in Postgraduate Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 220-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Wohl ◽  
Gary Alan Fine
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Appropriate Use ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Self Image

Faculty and students recognize that to succeed in graduate school, the ability to read efficiently and with comprehension is crucial. Students must be able to process information newly presented to them, even when that information seems overwhelming. Comprehending, discussing, and utilizing relevant texts are central to the production of scholars. But what constitutes appropriate techniques of reading, when does one employ various strategies, and for what purposes? In a world in which more is assigned than can reasonably be processed, what constitutes a legitimate practice? In this conversation essay, we discuss the role of skimming, building upon an interview study of 36 social science graduate students in history, economics, and sociology. We ask what students believe about the necessity and appropriateness of skimming, how they honed their skills, and what constitutes normative standards. We treat skimming as a form of “legitimate deviance,” necessary for occupational survival but a strategy that is potentially a challenge to an academic self-image. Students learn techniques that allow them to read rapidly and recall information for later use, but the appropriate use of these techniques is rarely discussed openly in graduate training.

scholarly journals On educational legislation of the Russian Federation in terms of training scientific and educational personnel in graduate school

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
V.S. Senashenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
State Level ◽  
Educational Legislation ◽  
Educational Personnel ◽  
Scientific Organizations ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Impact

Examined are changes in educational legislation of the Russian Federation in terms of training of scientific and educational personnel in postgraduate studies (adjunct). It is noted that as a result of the initial transformations of the “Bologna format” in accordance with FH-273, the effectiveness of the national graduate school has significantly decreased. The impact of the new changes in the educational legislation of the Russian Federation in terms of the training of scientific and educational personnel in graduate school on the quality of postgraduate programs and the nature of postgraduate training are discussed. Corrective measures have been proposed to improve the effectiveness of postgraduate studies at both the level of educational and scientific organizations and at the state level.

scholarly journals Peer Review: A Tool to Enhance the Quality of Academic Written Productions

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Maria Fernanda Poveda de Brusa ◽  
Liliya Harutyunyan
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Future Research ◽  
English Class ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
The Impact

Higher education focuses on promoting the training of autonomous, critical professionals who adapt to the ever-more demanding labor market. To achieve these objectives, it is necessary to rethink teaching practices in order to allow the student to be the main actor and modeler for their learning process. Previous studies based on Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory have shown that learning should be treated as a socio-cultural activity. Indeed, according to this approach, individual knowledge is firstly constructed at a social level. Peer review, for its part, is a learning tool based on the sociocultural approach. It allows students to achieve higher levels of autonomy and critical thinking. This research’s aim is, on the one hand, to analyze the effect of peer review on the quality of academic essays and, on the other, to examine the way in which linguistic and communicative competence in academic writing are affected. This experimental study was carried out with 68 level B1 + students (32 men and 36 women) in a private university in Ecuador during one academic year. After the statistical analysis, it is concluded that peer review has a positive impact on academic writing. However, the impact is higher in the communicative competence than in the linguistic competence. This result is aligned with previous research, which shows that students tend to prioritize message over form. Future research should investigate peer review’s long-term impact upon students and their ability to transfer skills acquired in English class to other subjects, or even to professional contexts.

Gamification and Mobile Learning

2022 ◽  
pp. 630-645
Author(s):  
Ana Nobre ◽  
Vasco Nobre
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Instructional Strategy ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Meaningful Experiences ◽  
Positive Results

Gamification has been a very frequent research topic in the area of education in recent years, with some positive results, such as increasing student engagement and motivation. However, studies on gamification as an instructional strategy are recent and need more data to help teachers in its use in the classroom. Thus, this work describes a gamification experience of a social game with graduate students, teachers in primary and secondary education, and discusses how the elements present in games can provide engagement and favor learning. Furthermore, the authors present the Kahoot app as a possibility to stimulate and engage students in the teaching-learning process, analyzing some implications of learning with a mobile device. The results had a positive impact on increasing student engagement in both Game Social and Kahoot. Therefore, gamification and mobile learning can be good alternatives to increase the quality of teaching, generating meaningful experiences in the classroom.

Thesis consultation: a review

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karlene Patricia Robinson ◽  
Karlene Saundria Nelson ◽  
Jessica Claire Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
The Body ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
The University

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relative merits of thesis consultation with a librarian prior to graduate submission and to explore whether thesis consultation has a significant impact on the quality of the theses submitted by postgraduate students. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a quantitative case study approach. The total number of thesis scrutiny reports written by librarians between 2009 and 2014 has been reviewed for errors found in theses. Errors have been classified as referencing errors and formatting errors. These have been compiled in a spreadsheet and analyzed using the SPSS statistical package. Findings This paper highlights that thesis consultation has had a positive impact on the quality of the theses students submitted for examination at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. Thesis consultation with a strong focus on referencing clearly assisted students learning and applying different citation styles. There was a decrease in the number of referencing errors over time. Not much difference was seen in terms of formatting errors. Further tests showed that there was a statistically significant positive relationship between thesis consultation and the number of referencing errors made by graduate students. Practical implications This study may have implications for the engagement of academic libraries with their graduate communities. With thesis consultation, a librarian may scrutinize the same thesis more than once. Although this may increase the workload of librarians, thesis consultation/scrutiny will have a positive impact on the quality of research produced by graduate students. Originality/value This study shows that students benefited from thesis consultation and there was a significant reduction in citation errors. In reviewing the literature, it has been noted that research done in the area of thesis consultation was very limited; hence, this study significantly contributes to the body of knowledge that presently exists.

scholarly journals Formation of Soviet Postgraduate Studies in History in USSR in 1930s: Legislative Regulation and Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 444-460
Author(s):  
A. M. Skvortsov
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Soviet Power ◽  
Scientific Personnel ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The formation of the institute of postgraduate studies in history in the USSR in the 1930s is examined in the article. The sources used are published legislative acts, journalistic materials, archival data. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the proposed problem was often considered in the context of the history of scientific and scientific and educational institutions or exclusively through regulatory legal acts without taking into account the practice that actually existed and developed under the influence of the community of scientists. Using the materials of curricula for the training of graduate students of Moscow University, Leningrad University, the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, as well as using the individual plans of graduate students, the author proves that the older generation of historians sought to integrate pre-revolutionary standards and mechanisms for training dissertation candidates into the new conditions of Soviet power. It is stated in the article that, despite the publication of numerous decrees, instructions, rules by government structures in relation to the institute of graduate school in the 1930s, there were no clear recommendations on the nature of the process of training scientific personnel. Supervisors of post graduate students, as a rule, themselves determined the scope of requirements for applicants. The author reveals the relative freedom of historians in determining the conditions and scientific criteria for entering the scientific community of neophytes.

scholarly journals Research activities of graduate students of Russian universities: problems and solutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-80
Author(s):  
T. E. Zerchaninova ◽  
I. S. Tarbeeva
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
The State ◽  
Publication Activity ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
Russian Universities

At present, a new stage of reforming postgraduate studies as the third stage of higher education has been identified. All measures taken by the state are aimed at increasing the number of defenses of dissertations for the degree of candidate of sciences at the end of graduate school. However, the percentage of PhD graduates who have defended their dissertations has been steadily declining every year. +e purpose of the study is to identify the problems of research activities of graduate students of Russian universities and propose ways to solve them. +e following methods were used to collect data: analysis of official documents, online survey and free interview. 386 postgraduate students from 42 Russian universities took part in the survey. As a result of the study, the main problems of research activities of postgraduate students of Russian universities were identified: low performance of postgraduate studies (in 2019, only 10,5% of graduate students defended their dissertations); lack of necessary resources (financial, material and technical, etc.) for conducting empirical research, experiment, this problem is especially relevant for representatives of technical specialties; low publication activity of graduate students; insufficient support of the research activities of graduate students by the scientific supervisor, the graduate department and other structures of the university; the need to combine work with graduate school; insufficient level of financial support for research activities of graduate students from the state and the university; lack of the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities among postgraduates to carry out research activities and write a dissertation for the degree of candidate of sciences; problems in the organization of the educational process in graduate school. Based on the results of the study, proposals were made that can contribute to solving the identified problems in the selection of graduate students, the development of the educational component of postgraduate programs, state final attestation, publication activity and financial support for graduate students.

scholarly journals The Specifics of Training Highly Qualified Personnel in Postgraduate Studies Using Information and Communication Technologies in Russia and Abroad

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-173
Author(s):  
Tatyana V. Sklyarova ◽  
Vladimir S. Malyshev
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
Information And Communication

Modern requirements for Russian higher education in general and the system of training highly qualified personnel in particular arise from the necessity to improve the quality and efficiency in order to ensure the countrys international competitiveness in important areas of life. The research is aimed at filling the need for a detailed analysis of algorithms, frameworks and principles of organizing the process of training highly qualified personnel in graduate school, using information and communication technologies (ICT). The comparative nature of the work, which analyzes Russian and international experiences in this field, allows to obtain data that have not previously been systematized in the present context. The study is based on scientific and pedagogical publications of Russian and international authors. The purpose of the study is to consider the theoretical, methodological and organizational aspects of training graduate students, using ICTs in the selection of the analyzed material. The comparative analysis makes it possible to identify and systematize the specifics of informatization in training scientific and pedagogical personnel, the current implicit state of which complicates its interpretation in terms of the educational process organization and management. As a result, we can identify the following eight characteristics of the system of training highly qualified personnel in postgraduate studies using ICTs: theoretical and methodological foundations, characteristics of electronic learning systems, conditions for effective application and input data for their design, requirements for scientific supervisors and students, factors that update this type of training and a list of basic terms and concepts. The described characteristics can be used as a theoretical basis for further research, for example, in order to determine the actual parameters of designing the environment for students in graduate school as a means of scientific and pedagogical training of highly qualified personnel. The given descriptions of technologies in the context of the peculiarities of the impact of informatization on the implementation of the educational process, together with references to sources, allow to use the materials of the article as data for its planning and organization. The results of the research can be useful for specialists in designing, organizing, implementing and supporting the educational process in higher education using ICT tools: research supervisors, graduate students, managers and designers of educational programs.

scholarly journals Assessing Postgraduate Students’ Satisfaction with Quality of Services at a Turkish University Using Alternate Ordered Response Models

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Ali Kemal Çelik ◽  
Erkan Oktay ◽  
Üstün Özen ◽  
Abdulkerim Karaaslan ◽  
İkram Yusuf Yarbaşı
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Logit Model ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Ordered Logit ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Ordered Logit Model ◽  
Ordered Response ◽  
Academic Services

The aim of this study is to determine postgraduate students’ general satisfaction with the quality of academic services. For this purpose, a written-questionnaire was conducted to 400 graduate students at Atatürk University, Turkey. The dependent variable of the study was the satisfaction level of graduate students which has a natural order. Hence, four different ordered logit models were performed to determine factors that may influence satisfaction levels of graduate students with the quality of academic services. Along with standard ordered logit model, other alternative ordered response models were also performed including generalized ordered logit model, partial constrained generalized ordered logit model, and heterogeneous choice model. Results reveal that a variety of factors are associated with quality of higher education services including age group, tuition fee, undergraduate education, monthly individual income, monthly household income, type of graduate school, current status of postgraduate education, advisor’s academic degree, and time elapsed for postgraduate education. The outcome of this study may give a valuable information for decision-makers of higher education institutions and may provide a benchmarking option in terms of past, present and future higher education policies.

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