Administrative Positions Research Articles

The Discrimination of Nurses in Healthcare Administration and Management: A Critical Analysis

The current study is about the discriminatory attitudes and behaviors with nurses in healthcare management as a manager equal to the doctor which is not yet recognized by the doctors. The study was carried out employing the qualitative research methods in order to understand the research problem through the perspectives of affected population. The researchers chose to conduct this study to investigate the problem through the nurses’ perspectives. The sampling type was purposive whereby the research participants who have lived experiences are selected for the in-depth interviews. The sample size of the study is 5 nurses (male) serving as in the government hospitals. The researcher collected the data in natural settings from the targeted population. The researchers used thematic analysis for research findings of the study. All collected data were transcribed and coded to develop the categories and themes. The findings of the study reveal that the nurses are discriminated by the doctor community who are health administrators in government hospitals. This attitudes and behavior is manifested on different fronts such as politically, socially and professionally. Such an attitude diminishes the creativity and enthusiasm of the nurse medical practitioners due to the injustice on professional grounds. Although, nurses claim that they can be health administrators if government authorized them and put them into these key administrative positions to serve even better.

Indigenous women's employment in natural resource industries in Canada: Patterns, barriers and opportunities

This paper identifies barriers and opportunities that Indigenous women in Canada face in energy, mining, and forest sector employment through a review of scholarly and practitioner literature published between 2000 and 2022, and 10 in-depth interviews conducted between May and August 2021 with Indigenous women working in various capacities within (or knowledgeable about) natural resources industries in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. Our findings reveal that it is important to understand the intersections of gender, culture, ethnicity/race, language, and class to respond to the challenges Indigenous women face in natural resources employment. Some of the barriers that Indigenous women encounter in these industries are similar to those faced by non-Indigenous women (glass ceilings, lack of mentors, for example). Indigenous women encounter the added dimension of racism (based on Indigenous status) as well as limitations based on geographic location. Our recommendations for improving the status of Indigenous women in natural resources industries in Canada include implementing specific targets for Indigenous women in professional, technical, and senior administrative positions; enabling the Native Women's Association of Canada to serve as an information and employment conduit to industry associations and employers; and creating mechanisms to enable Indigenous women who live off-reserve to access quality employment opportunities. Enabling Indigenous women to access skilled, well-paid employment in natural resources should be considered a key priority and opportunity for governments, resource development companies, industry associations and gender equality advocacy organizations.

ATTITUDE AND ASPIRATION OF UNDERGRADUATE AGRICULTURAL STUDENTS

Agricultural education forms the foundation for the development of requisite manpower for research, education, training and transfer of technology to the field and extension activities throughout the country. Six colleges of Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University were selected for the study. List of final year students of all colleges were obtained and among them total 150 students were randomly selected for the study by applying proportionate simple random sampling (59.29%). The finding of the study shows that Nearly three fifth (58.67%) of the respondents held favorable attitude towards higher education. Whereas, in case of educational aspiration majority (82.67%) of the respondents had shown their interest towards higher studies and willing to join for post-graduation. While 32.67 per cent of the agricultural students aspired to secure academic position in agricultural university as their first preference followed by administrative position in the Department of Agriculture (24.67%) in the occupational aspiration. Whereas, in entrepreneurial aspiration, more number (23.33%) of the students were most interested to take up agriculture as an enterprise followed by establishment of organic production unit (12.00%).

The association between workload, alcohol use, and alcohol misuse among psychiatrists in China.

Survey alcohol use and workload among Chinese psychiatrists and explore their associations. We conducted an online questionnaire among psychiatrists working in large psychiatric institutions across the country. We collected data including demographic factors, alcohol use, and workload. Alcohol use was assessed using the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test-Consumption (AUDIT-C), and workload-related questions included working hours, night shifts, and caseloads. In total, 3,549 psychiatrists completed the survey. Nearly half (47.6%) reported alcohol use, and the percentage of alcohol use in males (74.1%) was significantly higher than in females. 8.1% exceeded the AUDIT-C cutoff scores for probable alcohol misuse (19.6%in males and 2.6%in females). AUDIT-C scores were significantly correlated with working hours per week (p = 0.017) and the number of outpatient visits per week (p = 0.006). Regressional analysis showed that alcohol use was significantly associated with the following factors: longer working hours (Working more than 44 h/week, OR = 1.315), having an administrative position (OR = 1.352), being male (OR = 6.856), being single (OR = 1.601), being divorced or widowed (OR = 1.888), smoking (OR = 2.219), working in the West (OR = 1.511) or the Northeast (OR = 2.440). Regressional analysis showed that alcohol misuse was significantly associated with the following factors: fewer night shifts (Three to four night shifts/month, OR = 1.460; No more than 2 night shifts/month, OR = 1.864), being male (OR = 4.007), working in the Northeast (OR = 1.683), smoking (OR = 2.219), frequent insomnia (OR = 1.678). Nearly half of the psychiatrists in China reported alcohol use and 8.1% had probable AUD. Alcohol consumption is significantly associated with several workload-related factors, such as long working hours, heavy caseload, and administrative duties. Alcohol misuse was inversely associated with the number of night shifts per month. While the direction of causality is unclear, our findings may help identify vulnerable professional groups and develop more targeted interventions to improve healthcare professionals' well-being.

UPAYA PENINGKATAN KINERJA MELALUI PENDIDIKAN DAN PELATIHAN DI KANTOR WILAYAH KEMENTERIAN AGAMA PROVINSI KALIMANTAN TENGAH

The performance of government organizations cannot be separated from the performance of civil servants as individuals in it. This condition shows that the competence of civil servants in Indonesia is a problem that needs serious attention. One of the efforts that can be taken in overcoming the problem of civil servant competence is through education and training (Diklat). Qualitative research with this phenomenological method will use performance management and effort theory. The approach used is phenomenology. Data collection techniques using semi-structured interviews, observations and documentation. The effort to send Administrator Leadership Training (PKA) which aims to develop participant competencies in order to meet managerial competency standards for administrator positions and propose supervisory leadership training (PKP) participants aims to develop participant competencies in order to meet supervisory managerial competency standards. In addition, it is also sought to send technical training participants to complement the technical capabilities of some employees in charge of certain technicalities and send administrative training participants to complement the administrative capabilities of several employees with a priority scale by considering budgets and other considerations. The inhibiting factors found in efforts to improve the performance of civil servants through education and training at the Regional Office of the Ministry of Religious Affairs of Central Kalimantan Province are the lack of available budgets to send training participants as needed, as well as the age factor and mastery of technology by the training participants sent so that the training results are not as expected.

FEATURES OF THE NORMATIVE FIXING OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL STATUS OF THE COMMISSIONER FOR EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

The article defines the place of the position of the European Court of Human Rights Commissioner in the system of positions of executive authorities, discloses his administrative and legal status and characterizes the elements of his status. It was found that the legal regulation of the status of employees who hold political positions in the system of executive authorities has many shortcomings: 1) the absence of competitive selection when electing a person to a political position negatively affects the quality and efficiency of personnel; 2) there are no effective mechanisms for monitoring the activities of such employees both on the part of higher management entities and on the part of the public; 3) there is no legal responsibility of such officials for inefficient, unprofessional and even illegal activities; 4) there is no general definition of political service, political employees and classification of public positions in executive bodies; 5) the activity of such employees is regulated by secondary legal acts, which have significant gaps and shortcomings in terms of establishing their administrative and legal status. It has been proven that the position of the European Court of Human Rights Commissioner is a political position in the system of executive authorities, which must be reflected in the provisions of national legislation. Based on modern approaches to determining the administrative-legal status of subjects of public administration, it was concluded that the administrative-legal status of the European Court of Human Rights Commissioner includes the following structural elements: 1) the purpose of creation and functioning; 2) task; 3) subject of education; 4) authority; 5) functions. It has been proven that in the scientific literature there is a certain imbalance in research on the legal status of public servants: a) along with a detailed analysis of the administrative and legal status of public servants who hold administrative positions in executive bodies, there is a fragmentary (unsound) analysis of the status of public servants who hold political positions in this system; b) against the background of a thorough analysis of the constitutional and legal status of political officials, there is no generalized analysis of the legal status of all without excluding political officials. It is recognized that the study of the administrative-legal status of political officials, which includes the Commissioner for the European Court of Human Rights, is today a promising direction of research in national legal science.

Challenges of Developing the Institutional System of Public Education in the 1920’s in Hungary

The issue of developing the institutional system of public education significantly determined the area of ​​Hungarian cultural policy in the period following the First World War. As a result of the territorial losses, the reorganization of the public education system became necessary from an administrative position, besides this, the country did not have an acceptable number of public education institutions, and even the condition of the existing schools was not satisfactory in several cases; all of this could not serve the idea of national education appropriately to the era. An identifying politician of the era was Kunó Klebelsberg, who started the building of elementary schools based on the concept of cultural supremacy to deal with the uneducated crowds and to improve the Hungarian economy through the people’s knowledge. He has initiated enormous improvements, such as the construction of thousands of new school classrooms and teachers’ apartments in just a few years, based on the Act VII of 1926 on the Establishment and Maintenance of Village Schools initiated by him.

Mentoring to subvert racialized‐gendered spaces: Critical perspectives of black women academic administrators

AbstractBlack cis/trans women faculty face many challenges that impact their access to and success within administrative positions. We use critical race feminism (CRF) to highlight the role of mentoring in subverting multiple axes of power Black women encounter along the pathway to academic administration.

Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on moral distress of care home staff caring for people with dementia

AbstractBackgroundHealthcare providers caring for people living with dementia may experience moral distress when faced with an ethically challenging situation, such as an inability to provide care that is consistent with their values. The COVID‐19 pandemic both created new and exacerbated pre‐existing factors which contributed to the experience of moral distress amongst healthcare providers in LTCHs.MethodWe conducted an online survey to examine changes in mortal distress during the first wave of the pandemic, its contributing factors and correlates, and its impact on the well‐being of LTCH staff. A total of 227 health care providers from LTCHs across Ontario, Canada completed the online survey. Using a Bayesian approach, we examined the associations between moral distress and staff demographics and roles, and characteristics of the LTCH in which they worked.ResultMore than 80% of LTCH healthcare providers working with people with dementia reported an increase in moral distress since the start of the pandemic. They frequently experienced physical and emotional symptoms related to moral distress more than once a week, with the most common symptoms being physical exhaustion (55%) powerlessness (39%), sadness/anxiety (38%) frustration/anger (31%), and difficulty sleeping (33%). There was no difference in the severity of distress by age, sex, role, or years of experience. The most common situations associated with moral distress were lack of activities and family visits, insufficient staffing and high turnover, and having to follow policies and procedures that were perceived to harm residents with dementia. Respondents working in not‐for‐profit or municipal homes reported less sadness/anxiety and feelings of not wanting to go to work than those in for‐profit homes. Front‐line staff were more likely to report not wanting to work than those in management or administrative positions. In the survey’s free‐text responses, respondents elaborated on the emotional impact of the change in care delivery for LTCH residents.ConclusionMoral distress increased during the pandemic, negatively affecting the well‐being of healthcare providers in LTCHs, with preliminary evidence suggesting that individual and systemic factors may intensify this negative effect.

Measuring the performance of higher education among state universities and colleges in SOX Region, Philippines

As state universities and colleges (SUCs) in the Philippines are confronted by tough competition for limited resources, and to show to government legislators that subsidy on tertiary education meaningfully produces significant returns; thus, they are pressed to undertake continuous improvement for optimum performance. Practically, measuring the performance of SUCs is essential to identify critical issues, make informed decisions, and enhance higher education policies. In this descriptive-evaluative study, the institutional performance was measured using the Fiscal Year 2016 SUC levelling instrument of department of budget management (DBM) and the commission on higher education (CHED), covering four key result areas (KRA): i) Relevance and quality of teaching; ii) Research productivity, iii) Community engagement; and iv) Resources management. Respondents included 217 faculty members and 24 deans from the four SUCs in SOX Region, Philippines. A combination of descriptive and inferential statistics was used in the data analysis. Results indicated that the SUCs fared randomly in the leveling scheme. SUC-Y got excellent performance, while SUC-X tailed at a very satisfactory rating in all areas. Statistical tests showed that SUC-Y was relatively superior to the other SUCs. Moreover, the performance of SUC-W and Z were comparable and found as the lowest in the group. The major issues and challenges affecting institutional performance include multi-tasking or designation of faculty to administrative positions, inadequate laboratory facilities, and limited online modality for laboratory subjects.

Paternalism to Partnership: The Administration of Indian Affairs, 1786–2021 by David H. DeJong (review)

Reviewed by: Paternalism to Partnership: The Administration of Indian Affairs, 1786–2021 by David H. DeJong Ryan Hall (bio) Keywords Indigenous peoples, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Native American history Paternalism to Partnership: The Administration of Indian Affairs, 1786–2021. By David H. DeJong. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Pp. 510. Cloth, $70.00.) Until relatively recently, government administrators exercised an extraordinary degree of power over Indigenous people. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) officials could dictate almost every aspect of Indigenous people's lives, including where they lived, how and what they bought and sold, what they owned, what they wore and ate, the languages they spoke, how they received and managed money, how they organized their governments, and even how and whether they raised children. Indigenous people resisted, but these policies had undeniably important, and often disastrous, consequences for generations. Yet historians still have an incomplete understanding of the BIA and its inner workings, and in recent decades there have been disappointingly few studies of the Bureau (and of its pre-1824 antecedents in the War Department). Bureaucracy is, after all, an unattractive and intimidating area of study. By design, bureaucracies perpetuate [End Page 352] themselves by producing enormous piles of bloodless and abstruse documentation, the sheer volume of which make them frustratingly difficult for historians to use or comprehend. Paternalism to Partnership seeks to bring some clarity to the study of Indian affairs bureaucracy by focusing on specific individuals. Using separate chapters for each, it offers historical sketches of the sixty-three men and two women who held the highest administrative position in the federal government's Indian affairs system from 1796 through 2021. It typically provides a two- to four-page biographical sketch for each administrator, along with several pages of primary-source excerpts that demonstrate his or her "personal philosophy" (xv). By structuring its analysis in this way, the book contends that individual administrators played essential roles in determining the course of Indian affairs, and by extension, the history of Indigenous people in America. These chapters illuminate the major questions and controversies that preoccupied generations of administrators: for instance, whether the BIA should be under civilian or military control; to what extent the government should manage Indigenous trade; whether treaties should be the primary mechanism for dealing with tribal nations; whether Indian agents should be political appointees or career civil servants; to what extent the BIA should force or advocate for cultural assimilation; and how the BIA should manage Indian lands and money. The chapters also show substantial change over time. While administrators in the nineteenth century generally came to the job with little experience in Indian affairs and were committed to policies of forced assimilation and land dispossession, by the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries top administrators mostly came from Native communities themselves, and advocated policies of economic development and limited tribal sovereignty. In DeJong's telling, the paternalist BIA of the nineteenth century gave way, bit by bit, to the BIA of today, which is ostensibly focused on serving tribes in a spirit of consultation and partnership. This book gleans these observations from a modest source base. The biographical sketches draw heavily from Robert Kvasnicka and Herman Viola's volume The Commissioners of Indian Affairs (Lincoln, NE, 1979) and a relatively small number of other primary and secondary sources. The primary-source excerpts, which make up about half of the book's total length, come mostly from the annual reports that administrators made to their superiors. These excerpts would not be difficult for historians to find on their own—the commissioners' annual reports are all online and [End Page 353] familiar to any historian of the subject—and the author never introduces or contextualizes them, their intended audience, nor the specific moment when they were written. Still, compiled together they provide snapshots of each administrator's views at a particular point in time. This approach shows what individual commissioners believed and sought to achieve during their tenure, but it also limits the book's perspective on how Indian affairs operated. For example, one of the shortest chapters (just a page and half) discusses William Clark, the famed Corps of Discovery co-captain...

Piano Sonatas I-IV by Allen Sapp (review)

Reviewed by: Piano Sonatas I-IV by Allen Sapp Edward Komara Allen Sapp. Piano Sonatas I-IV. Edited by Alan Green. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2021. (Recent Researches in American Music, v. 90) [1 score (x, 88 p.) ISBN 9781987207651, $200] During his lifetime, Allen Sapp (1922–1999) was better known as an education administrator than as a composer. Yet he was thoroughly trained in music composition at Harvard University's music department in the 1940s, and subsequently he composed over 140 works. The scores appearing in print during his lifetime were reproductions of his holographs. The Music Library Association encouraged the initial research and recovery of his music by awarding the 1991 Walter Gerboth Award to Alan Green. Published by A-R Editions a year before the centennial of the composer, Green's edition of the first four of Sapp's ten piano sonatas (1941–1989) sets the standard for the future of his score publications. Green's curation of the Sapp legacy has resulted in his thesis "Allen Sapp: Composer, Teacher and Administrator" (MA thesis, SUNY Buffalo, 1994), the book Allen Sapp: A Bio-Bibliography (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996), the placement of Sapp manuscripts at SUNY Buffalo upon the composer's death in 1999, and his biographical entry in Grove Music Online. The first important secondary study was Howard Pollack's chapter on Sapp and Robert Middleton in Harvard Composers: Walter Piston and His Students, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992; henceforth Pollack). Two important dissertations followed. David Curtin's "The Piano Music of Allen Dwight Sapp: A Performer's Guide to the Complete Miscellaneous Works" (DMA diss., University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, 1997) presents the piano music other than the sonatas. Charles Hogan's "The Piano Sonatas of Allen Sapp: A Study of Style and Language" (DMA diss., University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, 2010) is a probing study into dodecaphony, [End Page 655] texture, harmony, and form. Finally, there are Sapp's brief summaries of Sonatas II, III and IV in the notes accompanying Lambis Vassiliadis's recording of those works (Koch Discover International DICD 920535 [1999], CD). The task of this review is threefold: to evaluate Sapp's first four sonatas; to recognize the editorial work of Alan Green in editing the compositions from manuscripts; and to use A-R Editions' newly-published edition towards clarifying the various published comments from Sapp, Green, Hogan, and Pollack. As Hogan shows (pp. 3–4), Sapp composed his piano sonatas in groups of three; each of them may be associated with a particular time in his life. Sonatas II, III and IV ("the Roman sonatas") were composed in Rome, Italy in 1957 during a rest leave away from his grueling teaching post at Harvard. Sonatas V, VI, and VII came in 1980 after time-consuming administrative positions at SUNY Buffalo (1961–1975), Florida State University (1976–1978), and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (1978–1980) and upon his return to teaching at the last institution in 1980. The final completed trilogy (VIII [1986], IX and X [both from 1989]) came shortly before he was elected to faculty leadership positions in 1989 and 1990. Sonatas XI and XII were begun (Green, Bio-Bibliography, 49) but found unfinished after his 1999 death (Hogan, 4). His first sonata (1941) is something of a lone wolf that lacks companion sonatas, as Sapp admitted to Hogan (p. 7): "That was One; that was isolated. I didn't do anything more with that because of the war and the army involvement." Implicit in nearly every sonata is the composer's wife Norma Bertolami Sapp (1921–1995). They met as students in 1941 and married in 1943. As a pianist in the 1940s, she performed in Harvard's concerts of new music. Later, she gave the premieres of Sapp's Sonatas II (revised), IV, V, VI, and VIII, with accomplished performances of III in the 1970s and '80s. According to Green (Bio-Bibliography, 48), she never recorded commercially, and one opportunity to record the Roman sonatas in 1993 was cancelled due to her arthritis and anemia. This is regrettable, partly for her...

Religious Educators and Change

Do religious educators as administrators make for better agents of change? As more religious educators come into administrative positions in theological higher education, this article probes the religious educator and change. The article begins by examining religious education and its aims. It then offers different change theories and subsequently problematizes them as the article argues that community is foundational to change for religious educators of color and female religious educators. The article continues by introducing metaphors to speak of the religious educator and concludes with reflections as to why religious educators in administration present a persuasive possibility for change.

STRUCTURAL-SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SURNAMES OF ODESA REGION MOTIVATED BY PROFESSION NAMES

Introduction. The article analyzes the surnames of Odesa formed from profession names. A thematic classification was made and 18 groups were selected. The word-forming features of the surnames in the Odesa region were considered. The relevance of the study is determined by: the almost complete absence in modern onomastics of regional studies of onyms formed from the names of professions; the importance of identifying the specificity of the functioning of onyms formed from profession names in Odesa and the influence of social processes on this specificity; the social and practical significance of the problems of nomination and the growing interest of the population in the issues of onomastics.
 The purpose of the study is to identify the structure, formation and distribution of onyms motivated by profession names and to determine the sociocultural components of anthroponyms related to professional activity. The subject of the research is the structural, semantic and functional features of onyms motivated by the names of professions. The object of the research is surnames formed from the names of professions.
 Materials and methods. As the main method for collecting and systematizing the material, the descriptive method was used. When comparing the regional characteristics of surnames formed from profession names, the comparative and comparative-historical methods were used extensively. The material of the research were the surnames found in printed and electronic telephone directories, as well as minutes books of the departments of the RAC. A total of 1,850 names were analyzed.
 Results. In conclusion, the analysis of the surnames in Odesa formed from profession names proves the high level of relevance of appellative vocabulary in the processes of their creation, establishes the reasons for the dominance of certain thematic groups of surnames.
 Сonclusions. The most numerous is the group of surnames formed from the names of craftsmen, and significantly fewer surnames were formed from the names of administrative positions and titles, from the names of church ministers, military affairs, trade, food industry, education and art. As a result of word-formation analysis, the largest number of surnames with the suffix -enk-, and the smallest - with the suffix -ets were indicated.

ADVANCING FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING WITH AI-ASSISTED MODELS; INSIGHTS FROM LECTURERS AND UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS

Artificial intelligence has provided universities with arrays of tools to advance the teaching of foreign languages and improve the performance of their students. Attempts have been made to expounds on the benefits of integration of artificial intelligence tools in 21st century foreign language classrooms, at university levels; however, it is crucial to gain insights from university administrators and lecturers on the nature of their current curriculum, the factors impeding integration of AI models in their foreign language lecture halls, and perception of the varying significance of AI in improving students’ performance and teachers’ efficiency. This paper pursues an analysis of the challenges and prospects of full integration of artificial intelligence at the university levels, in teaching foreign languages. The study community includes 180 university administrators at various administrative positions, and 120 university lecturers from Jordanian and Saudi institutions. The respondents were selected randomly, and data was collected through administration of digitally designed questionnaires. Data was analysed using relevant statistical measuring tools, which are contained in different descriptive statistical tables. Findings indicate that over 80% of the sample accepted that AI models are not fully integrated or not integrated at all in their respective universities/ Over 38% of the participants rejected the claim that full integration of AI models in foreign language education may distract students. Whereas majority rejected this claim, the acceptance of the claim by over 20% is indicative of the apprehension of the system. Again, 32% of the surveyed population acknowledged the insufficiency of proficiently trained personnel within the university system to effectively incorporate artificial intelligence into the pedagogy of foreign languages. It is therefore imperative for universities to include the knowledge of AI models in their recruitment criteria and to fully embrace the use of AI patterns in foreign language teaching, considering the huge impacts on students’ performance.

Employees of the banking sector in Guizhou Province in China: prevalence of migraine, symptoms, disability and occupational risk factors

BackgroundAlthough studies have identified a high prevalence of migraine among employees in the banking sector, the symptoms of migraine, related disability and occupational risk factors are not well understood.AimsTo determine migraine prevalence, symptoms and disability among bank employees in Guizhou province in China and to examine occupational risk factors associated with migraine positivity and symptoms.MethodsIn a cross-sectional survey, two-stage probability sampling was used to select bank employees in Guizhou province, China. From May to October 2022, uniformly trained interviewers conducted face-to-face interviews using the HARDSHIP questionnaire. Logistic regression was used to examine factors associated with migraine positivity and symptoms.ResultsOf 1,985 contactable eligible subjects, 1,929 (male 45.4%, female 54.6%) completed the survey. The one-year prevalence of migraine was 27.2% (95% CI 25.2–29.2%). Of migraine-positive individuals, 11.2% had a monthly frequency ≥ 15 days, 11.8% had an attack duration > 72 h, and 14.9% had severe pain intensity. The median of days lost from work, housework and social activities due to migraine during a three-month period was 4, 3 and 2 days, respectively, with more than half (52.8%) patients reporting Grade III or IV disability. In multivariable analyses, positions in data analysis (OR = 1.8 [95% CI 1.2–2.8], p < 0.01) and information technology (OR = 3.8 [95% CI 1.7–8.3], p < 0.01) were occupational risk factors for migraine positivity. It was also found that professional positions were predictive of migraine attacks ≥ 15 days per month, administrative positions were predictive of duration > 72 h and severe pain intensity of migraine attacks, and working in remote branches was predictive of duration > 72 h.ConclusionsMigraine is prevalent among employees in the banking sector in Guizhou province in China, with a large proportion of sufferers carrying a high burden of symptoms and disability. The practical implication of this study is that the risk factors identified here could be translated to the focus of workplace monitoring and interventions to manage and prevent migraine.

Exploring the secondary level teachers’ appointment system in Bangladesh for ensuring quality teachers

The study aims to investigate the issues embedded in the secondary-level teacher recruitment system from the structural perspective, which affect the motivation of the teaching profession, appointment and retention, and teacher development. The study applied the qualitative method and identified the issues that cause skill teacher shortage through causal relation analysis. The study used interviews with policymakers and administrators to identify the causes of the shortage of high-quality teachers in secondary institutions and discerned the solutions to ensure quality secondary education in Bangladesh. Adverse appointment and retention systems; and weak and stagnant teacher development facilities, were identified as the demotivating factors for taking the teaching profession. The solutions were found to enhance the attraction for teaching: firstly, by increasing salary, upholding teachers’ position in society and educational administration, and improving the working environment. The appointment and retention systems should be friendly by selecting and facilitating quality teachers. Lastly, a comprehensive and interconnected teacher development system should be initiated to ensure high-quality teachers at the secondary level.

Impact of Teaching Workload on Scientific Productivity: Multidimensional Analysis in the Complexity of a Mexican Private University

Researchers primarily dedicate their time to teaching in Latin American universities. For this reason, it is essential to determine how teaching time affects (or contributes to) the scientific productivity of researchers working under these conditions. We analyzed the incidence of gender, groups taught at undergraduate and graduate levels, the researcher proficiency level, and the number of thesis students advised, among others, for the impact on the scientific productivity (annual publications) of a group of professors. We analyzed the data using both statistical and regression methods. Contrary to our initial hypothesis, the number of groups taught does not significantly influence research productivity; it is affected by other factors such as belonging to the Mexican Researcher System (SNI) or having a researcher or administrative position at the institution. Our results can help guide the formulation of academic and research policies that contribute to the scientific productivity of Latin American universities.

The Paradox of Documentation in Early Childhood Special Education in Finland and Norway: Exploring Discursive Tensions in the Public Debate

A child’s right to special educational support is often ensured through documentation, which, as an institutional practice, is consequential. We explore documentation as a policy solution in Finnish and Norwegian early childhood education and care (ECEC) systems, which have both been undergoing changes as the realization of special educational support is found to be insufficient. We investigate discursive tensions in the public debate regarding documentation and illustrate tensions between documentation as 1) a way of safeguarding a child’s right vs. a barrier to support, 2) assessments requiring distance from vs. closeness to the child, and 3) decisions requiring pedagogical vs. administrative positions.

Jaime E. Rodríguez O. (1940–2022)

Jaime E. Rodríguez O. (1940–2022)