Many of us have heard from colleagues that our country’s postsecondary institutions cannot keep up with projected growth in the middle-skill occupations. In fact, according to some projections, the ...

Information competency skills are the skills necessary to glean information effectively from sources. Many individuals develop these skills during their school years, while others develop them after ...

What Is the Nursing Skills Competency Program? Is the Nursing Skills Competency Program the Same as Continuing Nursing Education? What Are the Benefits of the Nursing Skills Competency Program? How ...

The growing demand for assessment in all aspects of surgical competencies will inevitably embrace the whole of dental surgery. The aim of this paper is to review the literature and discuss some of the ...

Womack Army Medical Center held its annual, week-long Nursing Skills Fair in the Health Education and Staff Development Department, Oct. 26 to 30. The fair provided nursing and ancillary health care ...

Educators are very familiar with “soft skills,” or those that are peripheral to the core curriculum—nice additions if you have the time. Associating “soft” with a skill often means it is often ...

A new course at the University of Minnesota is teaching undergraduate medical students cultural competence skills. The course focuses on teaching differences in cultural practices that medical ...

The Institute of Management Accountants recently updated its Management Accounting Competency Framework, adding some new capabilities to help accountants stay relevant in a rapidly changing field that ...

New longitudinal research from Finland has found that children's early spatial skills and knowledge of written letters, rather than oral language skills, predict competence in math. The study included ...