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Despite a strong emphasis on teacher education and development in post-apartheid South Africa, statistics show a low retention of beginner teachers in the teaching profession. This trend has serious implications for learner outcomes, given the contribution teachers can and should make to learner achievement. This is the first wide-scale study of teachers in the first three years of their careers and offers substantive evidence suggesting the need for interventions to support them. Based on...

We evaluated all the albinos with a histologic diagnosis of skin cancer seen in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria, during the 7-year period, (January 2001 to December 2007). The ages, sex, clinical presentation/site(s), number of lesions per patient, type of skin cancer, treatment, outcome and follow up were analyzed. This was compared with the total number of skin cancers. Of the skin cancers diagnosed, 11 percent were in patients with albinism.

As of 2006, only three formally trained neurosurgeons are licensed in Tanzania. Recently, efforts have increased toward training local Tanzanian physicians and assistant medical officers (AMOs) to meet the basic neurosurgical needs of nonurban areas. Between January and July 2006, an initial attempt at such an apprenticeship was undertaken with a locally trained AMO already performing general surgery at Haydom Lutheran Hospital, Tanzania.Fifty-one neurosurgical patients were identified and...

[1] The occurrence of a large earthquake often offers the possibility to constrain fault geometry and related rupture characteristics (kinematics and slip distribution) and provides an opportunity to collect a wealth of seismological, geodetic, and tectonic data. The 2003 Zemmouri earthquake occurred along the eastern coastline of Algiers (Algeria) and enhanced our understanding of coastal and active tectonics in this section of the Africa-Eurasia plate boundary. [2] Ayadi et al. [2008]...

Dental care of HIV-positive individuals plays a vital role in improving their nutritional intake, medication tolerance and effectiveness, treatment success rate, and quality of life. It is therefore important to ensure optimal dental care of this group of people, especially since more of them, with or without knowledge of their serologic status, are now utilizing dental services. The objective of this study was to assess Nigerian dental students' willingness to treat HIV-positive...

Intentions to Participate in Adolescent Training Programs: Evidence from Uganda Oriana Bandiera, Oriana Bandiera 1London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Markus Goldstein, Markus Goldstein 2World Bank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Imran Rasul, Imran Rasul 3University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robin Burgess, Robin Burgess 4London...

The evident correlation of climate impacts and poverty poses a particular challenge for the Southern African region: climatically, the region is warming up faster than the rest of the world, and socio-economically it is one of the world's poorest and most vulnerable regions. With its land and water resources already under stress, the double bind of climatic change and structural poverty will create impenetrable boundaries for sustainable human development unless unprecedented adaptive...

The Catholic University of Mozambique (UCM), a private, not‐for‐profit institution serving central and northern Mozambique, established the Faculty of Medicine in Beira, Sofala Province in 2000. The first class of physicians graduated in 2007. The curriculum is based on local epidemiological profiles, and taught using problem‐based learning (PBL) methods. The mentors for PBL groups include basic science faculty and medical clinicians from the Ministry of Health Central Hospital in Beira....

Abstract Adaptation to climate change occurs largely through action at the local level, which is influenced by international and national levels of political and social organization. This article explores the impact of discourse at the international level on adaptation policy at the national and local level. Discourse defines which knowledge claims, methods and rationalities are accepted and reproduced by actors as a basis for policy development and implementation; this is called ‘framing’....

Journal Article Teaching Business in Tanzania: Evaluating Participation and Performance Get access Kjetil Bjorvatn, Kjetil Bjorvatn 1Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bertil Tungodden Bertil Tungodden 2Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration Chr. Michelsen Institute Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the European Economic...

We installed drinking water and handwashing stations in 17 rural schools and trained teachers to promote water treatment and hygiene to pupils. We gave schools flocculent-disinfectant powder and hypochlorite solution for water treatment. We conducted a baseline water handling survey of pupils' parents from 17 schools and tested stored water for chlorine. We trained teachers and students about hygiene, installed water stations, and distributed instructional comic books to students. We...

The attrition of students is a persistent and seemingly intractable problem of higher education in South Africa. Less than 15 percent of a cohort of matrics get into higher education where about 50 percent of students drop out of university in their first year and a mere 15 percent of them complete their degrees in the allotted time. Predictably the attrition of students from previously disadvantaged population groups may result in further racial and socioeconomic disparity in future...

Cancer of the cervix is the most common malignancy in women of childbearing age in Zambia. It is known to be associated with HIV infection and oncogenic strains of HPV. However, there are few studies of penile lesions as a predictor of malignant and premalignant cervical lesions in female partners.The aim of the study was to determine the association between men with penile lesions and premalignant cervical lesions in their female partners.Thirty-seven couples were screened for penile and...

The current study examined associations between home-school dissonance and several academic and psychological variables among 80 African American male high school students. Regression analyses revealed that home-school dissonance significantly predicted multiple academic and psychological variables, including amotivation, academic cheating, disruptive classroom behavior, lowered academic efficacy, performance avoidant and performance approach goal orientations, and poor self-reported English...

Introduction Like other countries, Nigeria has a body that regulates educational qualifying examinations. Four prominent public examination bodies in Nigeria are the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), headed by Professor Dibu Ojerinde, the National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB), headed by Professor David Awambor, the National Examination Council (NECO), headed by Professor Promise Okpala, and the West African Examination Council (WAEC), headed by Dr. Iyi...

Ultramafic–mafic complexes that intruded into Archaean ortho- and paragneisses in the Andriamena region of north-central Madagascar fall within the domain of a 900-km-long belt consisting of gabbroic and granitoid plutons that has been interpreted as the roots of a Neoproterozoic (700–800 Ma) continental arc. This Andean-type arc is reported to extend from north-central Madagascar through the Seychelles into India. The ultramafic bodies (∼ 2 km × 1 km) are crudely zoned, with dunite forming...

Objective Neurocognitive impairments in schizophrenia are well replicated and widely regarded as candidate endophenotypes that may facilitate understanding of schizophrenia genetics and pathophysiology. The Project Among African-Americans to Explore Risks for Schizophrenia (PAARTNERS) aims to identify genes underlying liability to schizophrenia. The unprecedented size of its study group (N=1,872), made possible through use of a computerized neurocognitive battery, can help further...