... as a “cheap option”. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Corporate planning Distance learning Hospitality industry Nurses This paper aims to discuss the realities for academic staff who are considering offering courses by distance learning. It will recommend the need for a business planning approach...

...Yvonne Hill; Janet MacGregor; Kate Dewar Aims to explore the various factors that influenced the outcomes of an orientation course for nurses and midwives entering higher education for the first time. Data were gathered by questionnaire and findings analysed to determine potential enabling...

...Yvonne Hill; Janet MacGregor; Kate Dewar Responding to government initiatives which demand that quality in education be identified in a measurable way, nursing, in its move to professionalization, has sought to gain academic parity with other professions allied to medicine and has entered higher...