American universities to give e-textbooks a try
Five universities in the Unites States are set to order e-textbooks
in bulk in an effort to ease the burden of rising textbook prices - on
both the students and the universities themselves - through a deal
jointly brokered between the participating universities, Internet2 and
publisher McGraw-Hill.
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Community Based Experience and Services: An Innovative Medical Education
As a resolve of the University of Ilorin, in order to produce
doctors that are sensitive to the community health needs of a majority
of our populace the College of Health Sciences established the Community
Based Experience and Services (COBES) programme as an innovative
medical education program. The curriculum is student-centred,
community-based and centered around problem-solving. During COBES,
medical students are posted to the communities at the 2nd, 3rd, 5th and
6th year of their training with specific learning objectives tailored at
the achievement of the cardinal objectives of at the medical college.
The students are evaluated through field assessments by faculty members,
community based medical personnel, oral and written presentations of
reports and written examinations. Some medical schools have remodeled
their curricula to accommodate programmes similar to COBES and some of
our staff have been resources to other institutions within and outside
Nigeria
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GUNi
members actively participated in the Latin-American Encounter on
University Management (VIII Jornadas de Gestión Universitaria)
More than 400 higher education professionals from Argentina, Brazil,
Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Germany, Mexico, Peru, United States
and Venezuela participated in the regional encounter held in Santiago,
Chile from 11-13 January 2012.
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