Feedback represents one of the key factors that affect student learning. A question is raised here as to what extent engaging students with feedback and considering their voices as partners in the assessment process can improve their confidence and therefore their learning. The objective of this action research was to support the introduction of the Essay Feedback Checklist (EFC) to first year management students at a British University. This research examined the use of EFC as an interactive two-way communication tool between tutors and students. The research also aimed to help management students to be more aware of the assessment criteria thus to be more engaged in feedback. Data was collected from students and tutors before and after the use of the EFC in order to highlight their perspectives regarding the effective use of the tool. The research's findings argued that students found the EFC useful to support engagement with the feedback and in improving their confidence through receiving quality feedback to develop their work further. Tutors and students claimed that the EFC created an interactive environment in providing feedback and it helped to open a dialogue about it, but they also highlighted some drawbacks.

This paper focuses on how HR professionals view their role in contributing to organizational effectiveness in the HE sector. Drawing on interview data, we trace how rival definitions of organizational effectiveness relate to two emergent conceptions of rationality. Firstly we identify instrumental forms of rationality based on assessments of how well (or efficiently) organisations achieve pre-ordained objectives. Secondly, we identify stakeholder satisfaction models of organisational effectiveness, which concern the extent to which competing needs of stakeholders are satisfied and, thus, presuppose a more dialogic view of rationality. Our findings suggest that HR professionals do support attempts to re-orientate their institutions towards a top-down form of organisation, which would privilege high-level objectives and efficiency. This we argue implies a move away from a more traditional view of universities as discursive and participatory organisations, where effectiveness is regarded as meeting the varied needs of stakeholders, such as academics, students and the wider society, in a balanced way. However, whilst the HRM professionals largely favour such a shift, they acknowledge limitations to the extent that is practical or even entirely desirable.

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Cryptosporidium species are the second leading cause of diarrheal disease and death in children of developing countries. This study aimed to determine the prevalence rate of Cryptosporidium among children under 5 years old with diarrhea, who were admitted to a big tertiary hospital in Egypt.This was a hospital-based cross-sectional study involving children 200aged <5 years old in the gastroenterology causality at Cairo University Pediatric Hospital between February 2021 and October 2021. Morning stool samples were microscopically examined as fresh smears and modified Ziehl-Neelsen stained materials.The results showed that all participants suffered from diarrhea <30 months old. A high prevalence 21/200 (10.5%) of Cryptosporidium was detected. But, there was no significant difference between cryptosporidiosis positive or negative cases with respect to stain technique, age, sex, residence, Z-score of weight, symptoms, or stool consistency.