But no amount of seminars could have prepared us for what we faced over the next three weeks.
Teachers and students agreed on the importance of the amount and quality of seminar questions.
For example, in a qualitative study [ 10] students explained that the opportunity for and quality of group interaction was a combination of the teacher, the size of the group, the motivation of students, group dynamics, amount and type of seminar questions and the extent of preparation of the students.
(Nursing Officer, church-run hospital, IDI) The possibility of saving substantial amounts of the seminar allowance was mentioned by many of the informants as very important for their motivation.
"We have to tell students exactly what they are going to receive in advance – number of seminars, amount of contact time, group tutorials, 1 1 tutorials, supervised studio sessions and lectures.
This is one of the unexpected pleasures of being a theorist, but it also comes with a gruelling amount of travel to give seminars and attend conferences.
Collaboration between our two societies has allowed us to disseminate information about various seminars to a larger number of people and has ensured a minimal amount of overlap and conflict between the seminar programs of each group.
On her blog, Ms. Moeller listed, somewhat tongue in cheek, the signs of a self-help junkie, including these: "You could own a small island in the Caribbean for the amount of money you have spent on seminars, retreats, coaches, workshops and books, and yet you are still not satisfied".
On average, GPs were willing to spend a maximum amount of €4000 per year for training seminars in palliative care, whereas nurses would spend approximately €1900 for such classes.
The practice of 'chasing allowances' in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa [ 46], i.e. to try to maximise the amount of allowances earned through participation in seminars or workshops must be understood within a context of experiences of a low salary level.
