scholarly journals Review of registration requirements for new part-time doctors in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Leitch ◽  
Susan Dovey
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Medical Graduate ◽  
Full Time ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
Registration Period ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time

INTRODUCTION: By the time medical students graduate many wish to work part-time while accommodating other lifestyle interests. AIM: To review flexibility of medical registration requirements for provisional registrants in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada. METHODS: Internet-based review of registration bodies of each country, and each state or province in Australia and Canada, supplemented by emails and phone calls seeking clarification of missing or obscure information. RESULTS: Data from 20 regions were examined. Many similarities were found between study countries in their approaches to the registration of new doctors, although there are some regional differences. Most regions (65%) have a provisional registration period of one year. Extending this period was possible in 91% of regions. Part-time options were possible in 75% of regions. All regions required trainees to work in approved practice settings. DISCUSSION: Only the UK provided comprehensive documentation of their requirements in an accessible format and clearly explaining the options for part-time work. Australia appeared to be more flexible than other countries with respect to part- and full-time work requirements. All countries need to examine their registration requirements to introduce more flexibility wherever possible, as a strategy for addressing workforce shortages. KEYWORDS: Family practice; education, medical, graduate; government regulation

scholarly journals The Hybridisation of Conventional Higher Education: UK Perspective

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Open Learning ◽  
Tertiary Sector ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Radical Approach

Before the creation of the United Kingdom Open University (UKOU) - its Charter was given in 1969 and the first students were admitted in 1971 - the full-time residential model of higher education was pervasive, with part-time and distance modes of study seen as separate and inferior. The UKOU demonstrated the effectiveness of distance learning but also, because of its success, in some ways inhibited change in the mainstream tertiary sector. As social and political pressures on the sector grew, higher education providers were forced to innovate and models of “open learning” offered ways forward. As a result, the distinction between “distance” and “face-to-face” delivery rapidly eroded during the 1990s. However, barriers still remain to a more radical approach to provision as a whole.

I. The United Kingdom

1979 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.S. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Full Time ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Back Ground ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Time Courses

The evolution of information science in response to the demand for scientific information is discussed as a back ground to the development of part-time and full-time courses in the United Kingdom to provide a formal education for information scientists. The work of the Institute of Informa tion Scientists in evaluating courses and maintaining a high standard of entry to the profession is also treated.

(Non)Participation in the Labour Market: Alternative Indicators and Estimates of Labour Reserve in United Kingdom Regions

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
A E Green ◽  
C Hasluck
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Participation ◽  
Full Time ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Training Schemes ◽  
The Unemployed

In the context of the continuance of mass high unemployment in the United Kingdom and considerable debate concerning the ‘real level’ of unemployment, the authors of this paper go beyond the official unemployment rate by focusing on the development of alternative indicators of labour reserve in the regions of the United Kingdom. They show how, on a step-by-step basis, successively ‘broader’ indicators of labour reserve (more specifically, those on government training schemes, various categories of those conventionally defined as economically inactive who would like a job, and those in part-time work because they could not find full-time employment) may be derived by means of data from the Labour Force Survey. They then go on to outline the key features of regional variations in the scope for additional labour-force participation. As labour supply is a dynamic concept, and the utilisation of the labour reserve implies transitions from unemployment and non-employment to employment, selected information on transitions between labour-market states and on the previous economic circumstances of the unemployed is presented. Some key features of the broad regional geography of those categorised as in employment, but ‘on the margins’ of the labour reserve, are highlighted also. Finally, the implications for policy of substantial labour reserves in many regions in the United Kingdom are explored.

Transitions through part-time work in Spain and the United Kingdom: a route into secure employment?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Smith ◽  
Inmaculada Cebrián ◽  
María A. Davia ◽  
Virginia Hernanz ◽  
Miguel A. Malo
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Part Time Work

scholarly journals Employment Adjustment and Part-Time Work: Lessons from the United States and the United Kingdom

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 389-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Borowczyk-Martins ◽  
Etienne LalÉ
Keyword(s):  
Working Hours ◽  
The United States ◽  
Full Time ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Employment Adjustment ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Labor Adjustment ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Stock Flow ◽  
Part Time Work

We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we develop a stock-flow framework to describe the dynamics of part-time employment. The evolution of part-time employment is predominantly explained by cyclical changes in transitions between full-time and part-time employment. Those transitions occur overwhelmingly at the same employer, entail sizable changes in individual working hours and are associated with an increase in involuntary part-time work. Our findings provide a novel understanding of the cyclical dynamics of labor adjustment on the intensive margin. (JEL E24, E32, J22, J23)

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