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A ROADMAP FOR MINERALS PROCESSING EDUCATION
2. Funding pressure on universities delivering minerals education, resulting
from the cyclic nature of commodity prices, is reducing the number of
mineral processing professors in full time employment in universities
3. Many mining companies that once developed and shared technical
literature are less able to do so; in addition, many companies have
curtailed their mentoring of entry level engineers.
The logic model for the content of Mineral Processing
Education
The Education Commission adopted a program evaluation logic model
as part of its endeavor to help define educational content for Mineral
Processing. Logic models are used, for example, by government to
monitor progress towards delivery of target outcomes of a program.
The models provide a framework to monitor how the inputs (e.g.,
budgets, people) are transformed into the outcomes. They are generally
developed by a group, aiming for consensus based on the contribution
of all stakeholders. Educational programs provide excellent cases for the
use of logic models. Applying this framework to Mineral Processing, with
the ultimate outcome of identifying the content of a Mineral Processing
education program, this report outlines the program content from the
perspective of practitioners.
The components of a generic logic model for a program evaluation seen
in Figure 1 are:
Inputs: the program’s human, financial and material resources, and
their organization
Activities: the programs, services, products, transactions that transform
the inputs into outputs
Outputs: the direct products of the program, or the transformation of
resources into something that is delivered to clients
Outcomes: in the short term, the results of the program and their
effects on target groups, stakeholders and their environment, and in the
medium to long term their impacts on the overall goals of the program.
Impact: on the system as a whole.
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