Process pedagogical approaches - a tool to reach target groups of universities
The article deals with classical and innovation methods used in pedagogical process at universities and their influence on development of capabilities of graduates of faculties. Capabilities which students obtain in education process complete their professional profile and can be helpful in ensuring their employability in the labour market. Therefore it is very important to promote process-oriented pedagogical approaches as a specific tool of marketing mix of universities and innovation methods as an integral part of this tool. The use of modern teaching methods is a sign of significant competitive advantage nowadays. Universities should pay attention to examining opportunities to streamline the tools of communication policy in their promotion. Responses to new forms of marketing communication presenting new process-oriented pedagogical approaches can also help universities with redefinition of their target audiences.
The necessity of counselling and vocational orientation in students’ career management
This paper contains a research study about the necessity to provide counselling services in universities and the utility of such services for students and graduates. A qualitative research study based on semistructured in-depth interviews was conducted, having as main objectives to identify students’ opinions regarding the personnel recruitment process, the compatibility with a job and utility of counselling and vocational orientation services. The results revealed that students appreciate such services, they want to benefit from them, but they do not know about their existence. Therefore, a better promotion of these services and a genuine involvement of universities for providing them to the students are the best future strategies.
AN INTRACORPOREAL (ABDOMINAL) LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE, XXII: Précis and State of the Art.
Under NHLI auspices, our laboratories have concentrated on the development, modification, evaluation and validation of an intracorporeal left ventricular assist device,*t which has the potential of reducing these mortalities.3' '3'18'32'4' Its use may also broaden the criteria for operability in high risk patients. This left ventricular assist device is conservatively five to six times as effective as the intra-aortic balloon (Table 1) .1,11,12,19,23,24,25,26 Unlike the intra-aortic balloon, which is a volume displacement device that augments existing circulation and is dependent upon a regular ECG signal, this intracorporeal left ventricular assist device is a definitive blood pump which can capture the entire cardiac output with the biologic heart in situ and can be actuated either synchronously or asynchronously.28'30'34'35'36'46