This study, the Associate Lecturers in Science (ALiS) project, was undertaken as a contribution to the UK's Athena Project, a national drive to improve the recruitment, retention and progress of women in science, engineering and technology in Higher Education.
We need to start by raising awareness on institutional gender and racial biases in the workplace that impact employee retention and progress.
The refresher training courses will include the use of the HBB knowledge and skill videos developed by the AAP and evaluations to examine retention and progress with skills development.
This vastly deployed commercial bank carries a gargantuan book of credit card exposure that it has not reduced to nearly the same degree as some of its competitors; an interesting business retention strategy whose progress I continue to watch.
This underlines the importance of gender-sensitive health workforce planning and retention strategies for progress in MNH.
As ART roll out progresses, retention within programmes will become a key issue determining long-term success.
These mini-courses will take shape as teacher-curated sets of lessons that will be sourced from the platform's video library and will include teacher comments and quizzes in an effort to make it easier for educators to measure progress and retention of material.
It remains to be seen whether parents will buy into these types of platforms as a viable alternative to online or actual, live, in-person (gasp!) tutoring, but the more these types of platforms provide teachers with real, usable tools to assess student progress and retention, the better.
In this study, students' knowledge retention was measured with progress tests.
Despite Zambia's efforts and donor support to its rural health worker incentive and retention scheme [ 18], progress in implementing its human resources strategic plan has been slow and postings have favoured urban areas at the expense of rural areas [ 17, 23].
