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Background: To understand the role of infrastructure, manpower, and education and training (E&T) in relation to Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) in Indian healthcare organizations. Methods: Mixed method approach using quantitative survey and qualitative interviews was applied. Through key informants, healthcare professionals from 69 hospitals (public & private) were invited to participate in online survey and follow up qualitative interviews. Thematic analysis was applied to identify the key emerging themes from the interviews. The survey data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: 60 healthcare professionals from 51 hospitals responded to the survey. Eight doctors participated in semi-structured telephone interviews. 69% (27/39) of the respondents received E&T on AMS during undergraduate or postgraduate training. 88% (15/17) had not received any E&T at induction or during employment. In the qualitative interviews three key areas of concern were identified: (1) need for government level endorsement of AMS activities; (2) lack of AMS programs in hospitals; and, (3) lack of postgraduate E&T in AMS for staff. Conclusion: No structured provision of E&T for AMS currently exists in India. Stakeholder engagement is essential to the sustainable design and implementation of bespoke E&T for hospital AMS in India.

S. 3-31: Green, Edith: The federal role in education

This article discusses how neoliberal and neoconservative ideologies, policies, and political projects inform the changing nature of educational privatization efforts by the right wing. It contends that these projects, which are global in nature, threaten the development of forms of education conducive to the expansion of democratic social relations. The author argues that the struggle for critical public education could not be more necessary and worthwhile at the present moment.

ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT REFORM, REAUTHORIZATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY CONSIDERATIONS -- ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT REFORM, REAUTHORIZATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY CONSIDERATIONS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 ACCOUNTABILITY ISSUES AND REAUTHORIZATION OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- EVOLVING ROLE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN EDUCATION-RELATED ACCOUNTABILITY -- Standards-Based Reform Movement -- Goals 2000 -- The Improving America's Schools Act -- THE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT -- Adequate Yearly Progress

Peculiarities and differences of the religious studies and religious (spiritual)education, its nowadays status in Ukraine are explored. The author proves thenecessity and legitimateness of secularism and afterwards religious studies orientation of the state educational system in Ukraine. ; У статті розкриваються особливості і відмінністьрелігієзнавчої та релігійної (духовної) освіти, їх нинішній стан в Україні. Обґрунтовується необхідністьі правомірності світськості, а відтак релігієзнавчостівсієї системи державної освіти країни.

1. Authenticity and higher education : the Nietzschean University in the twenty-first century / Richard Smith -- 2. Become the one you are : on commandments and praise : among friends / Babette E. Babich -- 3. Nietzsche's practice of solitude / Horst Hutter -- 4. Nietzschean ethics and authenticity : beyond the consensual and the subjective / Paul Smeyers -- 5. Nietzsche's radical retreat into solitude : cultural pessimism or self-diagnosis? / Ken Cussen -- 6. Measure and bildung / Paul van Tongeren -- 7. A philosophy for education / Thomas E. Hart.

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the pedagogical and gender issues embedded in distance and cyberspace education. Pedagogical issues to be addressed relate to access, teaching and learning, quality, and research within distance and cyberspace education. The paper will further analyse the gender dimension in cyberspace education in South Africa. Our paper limits itself to cyberspace teaching and learning as a process that takes place using the Internet or the World Wide Web, or uses some digital information and communications technology (ICT). We understand ICT to be a broad concept that includes all forms of electronic communications in both digital and analogue forms. Pedagogical issues in this paper are covered in a broader context, but our analyses of gender issues is limited to cyberspace education. (...) (AAS/DÜI)

As higher education leaders, it is vital to understand who is attending our schools and know how to provide the support they need. The number of Chinese international students studying abroad has increased by 600% over the last two decades. Higher education institution leaders need to understand this growing segment of their student population and meet their unique needs. Unfortunately, regional data is lacking concerning antecedent factors of acculturative stress for Chinese international students. The purpose of this narrative study was to understand Chinese international students' perceptions of the factors, if any, that may lead to acculturative stress while attending a four-year public university in the southeastern United States. The research question was, How do Chinese international students understand their cultural and academic experiences at a public, four-year university in the southeastern United States? This study was based on an interpretive paradigm study. This narrative inquiry population included three Chinese international students enrolled full-time at a public, four-year university in the southeastern United States. The key conclusions were (a) university interactions in the southeastern United States are largely positive, with a few exceptions; (b) cultural differences have a powerful influence on Chinese international students' acculturative experiences in the southeastern United States; (c) current political and social conditions in the United States are causing heightened stress among Chinese international students; and (d) language challenges are the single greatest stressor for Chinese international students in the southeastern United States.

Opens with a look at the current state of youth & young adult political engagement/detachment, before focusing on civic education as a traditional means of fostering political engagement. Results from the 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress Civics Assessment & other data reveal poor results for civic education, which is seen to be in decline since the 1960s. In this light, the relevance of civic education is articulated in terms of the relationship between such information & good citizenship. Effective approaches to civic education are noted along with the challenge inherent to such education in the face of paradigmatic differences regarding the kind of citizenship Americans wish to see taught. 12 References. J. Zendejas