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In 1922, a firstever stationary general geographical field training for students of the Moscow University was held in the Moscow region. The paper is inspired by a hundred-year-old publication by a trainee, then student B. Shustov, which describes the reasons for organizing the students' fieldwork at the geographical station in the Vereya district of Moscow Governorate, the place and the format of training, and the research program including mainly meteorological, geomorphologic, geodetic and biogeographic components. Due to various circumstances, the first experience of stationary training in the Moscow region went to nowhere. Later, there were further attempts to arrange a permanent base for training, but they became successful only after almost a quarter of a century. At the same time, the first experience of such training formed some initial principles for conducting general geographical research for educational and practical purposes in the Moscow area. The article also provides information about the author of the publication, B.S. Shustov, who after graduating from the university was for a decade and a half actively engaged in scientific and teaching activities at the Research Institute of Geography and at the geographical department (later - the faculty) of the Moscow State University, and then in the Ryazan oblast.

A three-minute silent amateur film gives a good impression of the climax of the 'Action for Democracy', a campaign meant to completely change the governance and educational structure of the department of psychology at the Dutch University of Groningen. This climax was a mass meeting held on 28–29 March 1969 in which many decisions were made that completely changed the structure of the department. The intention of this meeting was to remove the old hierarchy, bringing down the 'ivory tower' ruled by the professors, and to replace this with democratic structures in which both students and staff members other than professors would gain a voice. This chapter presents possible explanations for the peaceful nature of the student revolution using the ideas of Hans Righart, James Kennedy, and Kees Schuyt and Ed Taverne, historians who have provided general analyses of the Dutch student revolts of the 1960s.

The practice of assessing student performance in human, dental and veterinary medicine at universities in German-speaking countries has undergone significant changes in the past decade. Turning the focus to practical requirements regarding medical practice during undergraduate study away from an often theory-dominated curriculum, the academic scrutiny of the basics of teaching medical knowledge and skills, and amendments to legislation, all require ongoing adjustments to curricula and the ways in which assessments are done during undergraduate medical education. To establish quality standards, the Gesellschaft für medizinische Ausbildung (GMA German Society for Medical Education) reached a consensus in 2008 on recommendations for administering medical school-specific exams which have now been updated and approved by the GMA assessments committee, together with the Medizinischer Fakultätentag (MFT German Association of Medical Faculties) , as recommendations for the administration of high-quality assessments. ; Die Praxis der Leistungserfassung bei Studierenden der Human-, Zahn- und Tiermedizin an Hochschulen und Universitäten im deutschsprachigen Raum hat in der letzten Dekade bedeutende Änderungen erfahren. Die Betonung der praktischen Anforderungen an die ärztliche Tätigkeit in der Ausbildung weg von einer oft theoriedominierten Lehre, die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit den Grundlagen der Vermittlung von ärztlichem Wissen und Fertigkeiten sowie geänderte gesetzliche Rahmenbedingungen erfordern einen stetigen Anpassungsprozess von Lehre und der Art und Weise, Prüfungen im Medizinstudium durchzuführen. Um hier Qualitätsstandards zu etablieren, wurden im Jahr 2008 von der Gesellschaft für medizinische Ausbildung Empfehlungen zur Durchführung fakultätsinterner Prüfungen verabschiedet, die nunmehr einer Aktualisierung unterzogen wurden und gemeinsam vom Ausschuss Prüfungen der GMA mit dem Medizinischen Fakultätentag (MFT) als Empfehlungen für die Durchführung qualitativ hochwertiger Prüfungen ...

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the financial statements of the Teacher Retirement System (System) for fiscal year 1998, and the implementation of Portfolio and Accounting Management for Securities System (PAM), a new investment accounting software package.

In the mid-1990s, a transnational civil society campaign emerged to challenge Big Pharma over HIV/AIDS medicines patent protection. In 2001, the dispute crystallized into a dramatic media event as pharmaceutical companies sued the South African government over medicine patent laws. The South African lawsuit has been described as a "public relations disaster" for Big Pharma, and a turning point in HIV/AIDS medicines and intellectual property rights discourse. This article assesses these claims in relation to a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of 1,000 articles from U.S., U.K., and South African press outlets from 1997 to 2003. The study finds that a key discourse change to occur over this period was the elevation of generic HIV/AIDS medicines from an excluded criminal threat to a respected legitimate option. Given subsequent policy developments considerably increasing access to generic HIV/AIDS medicines in majority world countries, this article argues that the news media discourse change was a key transformative moment in addressing the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. The study also notes, however, that an antigeneric discourse persisted throughout the coverage, signifying the ongoing contestation of medicine patent protection that continues to characterize global HIV/AIDS medicines access.