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Falling infant and childhood mortality rates, especially in urban centres, have allowed greater survival of individuals with sickle-cell disorders (SCD), and the need to provide appropriate services has become pressing. The training and employment of counsellors on SCD, shown here to be popular and feasible, seems an essential first step towards the development of a community-based and appropriate policy for coping with SCD in Africa.
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Most students of architecture in Nigeria do not have the ability to translate beautiful proposals into reality. Freehand sketches of design proposals are difficult and often they are completely absent in schools of architecture. Art is a form of mental development in terms of creativity, imagination and aesthetics. Architecture in Nigeria must have a heavy emphasis on art education if evolving an indigenous architecture is to become a reality. Details of the impact of art in the development of creative architects are discussed.
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The consultant in restorative density, Great Britain's closest equivalent to the prosthodontist in the United States, has a broad base of specialist training that includes periodontology, conservative dentistry, and prosthodontics. The dentist specialising only in prosthodontics is rare. British dental education has developed a curriculum that educates a dental provider to serve the needs of the British Health Service and as such has not emphasized prosthodontics as a separate discipline in either the undergraduate or graduate level.
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An HRRC Occasional Paper based on an interview with Zimbabwe's then Minister of Education.
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(1989). Mozambique: making museums a permanent source of teaching and learning. Museum International: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 32-34.
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Work in Nigeria covered a wider range of activities during two years than would be expected during a similar period in the UK. It was a challenging experience as well as being hugely educational. In many ways it is much harder to return to the UK when one's perspective on life and work has been altered as a result of this experience.
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This study investigated attitudes toward second‐language learning over an extended period of time in a cross‐sectional design. Subjects were 1,252 children in Grades 4 through 12 studying Hebrew in a private Jewish school system in South Africa. Five sets of attitudes were measured: attitudes toward learning the language, traditional orientation, nationalist orientation, motivation, and self‐rating of proficiency. Results showed that attitudes decreased in positive value over the nine grade...
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ABSTRACT Researchers have gathered a variety of evidence to support the theory that learning to read in one's “mother tongue” or first language enhances a child's achievement relative to that of children obliged to learn to read in a second language. Evidence collected primarily in Europe and America has been applied by international organizations to support early mother-tongue education programs in many Third World countries. The data reported in this article suggest that a general...
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A review of the short-comings in the World Bank Report on education in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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In this paper, we attempt to show the validity and limits of univariate time series modeling applied to annual production of sugar in Mauritius form 1879 to 1987. We analyse the series through the main components of long-term growth and stationary dynamics of short-term coupled with the impact of exogenous shocks.