远亲不如近邻

关于邻居的概念,于我而言,更多的是有关童年和少年时的回忆。或许很多人有着与我相似的人生轨迹:童年和少年时期享受着亲密、欢乐的邻里生活;求学时期的后半段离开故土,"邻居"的身份是与"室友"合二为一的;工作后,作为一个"异乡人","邻居"两个字显得最为淡薄,它代表着不同居所里一扇扇紧锁的门,没有感情色彩,拒人于千里。如今,在这个城市安了家,左邻右里,一边是新搬来的租户,一边是一户偶尔住上两三天的人家,还有一户因为刚刚换了"学位房"而搬走了,当然,楼道里更多的是几年来连头也没点过的陌生人。很多时候,走出电梯,看到那一扇比一扇扎实的大铁门,我心中总会泛起一种焦虑,仿佛自己依然是这个城市里多余的"入侵者"。人们总说,儿时的记忆是最深刻的,感受亦然。或许终有一天,我们还能找回一个地方,大家都敞开着大门,等待邻居们一一探索……     

Prescription for learning? Meeting the development needs of the pharmacy profession

This article explores the use of open learning to meet pharmacists' continuing development needs in the UK—a topic that the researchers first explored in 1996. First, it sets those needs in the context of the changing role of the pharmacist within the health care team. Second, the authors report the findings from a one-year study conducted in 1999–2000 by the Scottish Council for Research in Education of continuing professional development (CPD) provided by the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education at the University of Manchester. Data were collected from a 10% sample of registered pharmacists, telephone interviews with some employers and focus group meetings with a sample of pharmacists and tutors. Changes in pharmacists' attitudes to, and uptake of, CPD over the period are highlighted, the most significant of which is the growth in informal learning, an approach that now requires to be incorporated into an integrated model of CPD.     

The First shall be Last

Combining samples from different distributions is a hazardous process. Traditionally form orders in schools have been produced by combining the marks from different subjects. Bryan Wilson describes a teaching approach to sensitize student teachers to the dangers of doing this.