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Abstract: This article examines the role of academic unionism in the perennial crisis bedeviling the university system in Nigeria. It is the contention here that contrary to officially sponsored opinion, the crisis can be linked to external factors, especially the government's handling of industrial disputes. The crisis in the system, which started in the early 1990s, can be seen as the direct off-shoot of the macro-economic adjustment programs foisted on the country and the subsequent...

Nursing and midwifery students constitute a subgroup of health care providers exposed to occupational risk of HIV infection became of direct contact with blood and body fluids during clinical practice. The occupational risk faced by these students is of serious concern, given their limited experience and proficiency in nursing care skills. This study was carried out to provide important baseline data about knowledge, perception and practice with regards to occupational risks of HIV/AIDS...

This paper considers the devolution of authority to public school governing bodies (SGBs) in the context of self-managing schools. It examines the nature of the powers, functions and duties assigned to them in legislation and asks whether the manner in which South African legislation provides for the devolution of authority and power represents authentic devolution of power, or whether it can be characterised as centralisation in disguise. The question is answered by examining, against the...

In this paper, we use firm-level panel data for the manufacturing sector in four African countries to estimate the effect of exporting on efficiency. Estimating simultaneously a production function and an export regression that control for unobserved firm effects, we find both significant efficiency gains from exporting, supporting the learning-byexporting hypothesis, and evidence for self-selection of more efficient firms into exporting. The evidence of learning-by-exporting suggests that...

When students come into the university and become members of the institution for the first time they usually face a number of adjustment problems, the result of stressful experiences they are subjected to by the conditions, events, or situations in their new environment. This study was, therefore, an attempt to find out the nature of students' experiences by finding out aspects (conditions and or events) of the university they assessed as stressful especially during their early days in the...

Journal Article The Politics of Catholic Education in Zambia: 1891–1964 Get access Brendan Carmody Brendan Carmody associate professor University of Zambia, Lusaka Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 44, Issue 4, Autumn 2002, Pages 775–804, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/44.4.775 Published: 01 October 2002

Founded by the British colonial government in the Gold Coast in the 1920s, Achimota was an elite school that signaled the colonial government's commitment to the provision of education and the concomitant belief in the role of education in managing the future of the nation. This study explores the contradictions of the school, in which African culture was used to substitute for anglicized activities, lessons, and entertainments within the school's dominant Western frame, African culture had...

This study explored the health behaviour of academically gifted high school pupils in Potchefstroom, in the North West Province of South Africa. The study was oriented towards behavioural and social science, and its basic philosophy is described as a lifestyle approach. The survey is based on an anonymous self-completion questionnaire. The Health Behaviour in School Aged Children (HBSC) questionnaire was administered to determine the health behaviour of 78 white, Afrikaans speaking high...

At the dawn of the 21st Century, there is growing interest in the sharing of policy and management “success” stories and innovative training methodologies. This is an important part of addressing public policy problems. Global training is gaining increased application especially in underdeveloped nations. This article offers eight strategies for increased participant acceptance of training when provided in other cultural settings.

of K, Fe, Ca, Ti, Nb and Ta. The recognition of two episodes of partitioning metasomatism reported here provides an explanation for previously recognized major differences in the isotopic chemistry of Lashaine peridotite diopsides. Immediately before entrainment and eruption in the Pleistocene, some of the peridotites underwent partial melting

This article examines the common roots of Canada and South Africa in order to explore issues regarding the role and place of religion in public schooling in both countries. Not only do Canada and South Africa share a common religious heritage that explains the historical prominence of Christianity in their school systems, but they also share the recent introduction of constitutionally entrenched human rights documents granting freedom of religion and the right to non-discrimination. The...

This article examines the common roots of Canada and South Africa in order to explore issues regarding the role and place of religion in public schooling in both countries. Not only do Canada and South Africa share a common religious heritage that explains the historical prominence of Christianity in their school systems, but they also share the recent introduction of constitutionally entrenched human rights documents granting freedom of religion and the right to non-discrimination. The...

ABSTRACT An analysis of the 1992/93 drought in eastern South Africa is undertaken for various climatic variables from ECMWF data. Increased westerly winds with surface marine lows and continental highs over southern Africa are prominent features that sustained drought during this period. Anomalous low-level divergence and mid-level subsidence were coupled with reduced tropical moist inflows. An area of reduced water vapour flux extended from 15–33°S and 15–35°E. Anticyclonic vorticity and...

Author affiliation: Department of Advanced Nursing Sciences, University of South Africa, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa. Corresponding author: Valerie Janet Ehlers, D Litt et Phil, RN, P.O. Box 65075, Erasmusrand, 0165, Republic of South Africa ([email protected] or [email protected]).

Science education in Africa has been criticized for more than three decades. In response to the wide spread dissatisfaction with the educational system, Ethiopia has administered three different educational reforms to make the curricula relevant to the day to day life of the learners. The question is to what extent this general educational objective has been translated into appropriate content and instructional strategies. This research attempts to qualitatively analyse and reflect on the...

The handicap, phenomenon too often badly discerned, constitute a problem of public health of part his frequency, his gravity and his cost. Interventions aiming to warn the handicap are located to three levels: primary, secondary and tertiary. The measures as the vaccination, the education about health, the hygiene of the setting, the prenatal surveillance, aiming to reduce and even eradicate the transferable illnesses, is applied and integrates in the setting of the different national...

A wide plate boundary zone between the Nubia and Somalia plates extends through eastern and southern Africa, from the Red Sea-Gulf of Aden region to the mid-oceanic Southwest Indian Ridge. The observed pattern of earthquake activity divides it into seismic belts surrounding relatively stable aseismic blocks. In eastern Africa, the Ukerewe Nyanza plate and the Rovuma plate are separately distinguishable, but in southernAfrica and the adjacent Southwest Indian Ocean, the separation...

The paper examines how the training of all primary school headteachers in Kenya has led to the development of headteachers support groups (HTSGs) in zones and communities. Heads have been encouraged to form small clusters of approximately six schools within reasonable reach of one another. The purpose of the groups or clusters is to provide a forum for headteachers, community members and education officials in the area to share ideas, seek ways of supporting each other and manage their...