...Ruth Deery; Mari Phillips Integration of midwifery and nurse education into higher education was completed in 1996. This article highlights issues which emerged prior to, during and post‐integration. It focuses on the process itself, student support, status, titles and employment contracts...

... on the education commissioning agenda. Proposes that changes in higher education and among NHS employers are likely to lead to greater flexibility in management education, but that opportunities will only be taken if both parties show initiative and imagination. Accreditation Competences Higher education...

...Eileen James Addresses the transfer of nurse education from schools of nursing, previously located within health authorities and, more recently, hospital and/or community trusts, to institutions of higher education. The pressures this has produced for both providers and participants...

...John Edmonstone The new education commissioning system in the NHS in England offers opportunities to health care employers to achieve greater value for money. This article offers five means by which this could be achieved ‐ tighter contracting with Higher Education; moving from block to cost‐per...

... on a regional NHS case study of the application of SML, while the third provides a complementary US case study in a health care provider organization, where SML has been adopted for a leadership development programme. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Health care Higher education Human resource development...

... different interpretations of the extent to which competence assessment provides evidence equivalent to the analytical interpretations required at postgraduate levels. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Assessment Higher education Management development Management studies National Health Service...

... (with 17 questionnaires fully completed). This overall response rate of 73 per cent (with an approximate ratio of 2:1 of higher education to in‐service courses) provides a representative picture of national resources. The results of the questionnaire are published in detail elsewhere[ 3 ]. Broadly...

... competences and variance in the training needs for the two organizations. In the case of NHS technicians it was possible to define areas where provision of a new training scheme would be beneficial. Their counterparts in higher education revealed a much lower degree of interest in the provision of external...