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The goal of architectural education is directed towards the attainment of a humane and responsive environment.This is subsumed in the overall purpose of education, which is to prepare people to perpetuate and improve their society.In this endeavour architects are trained to understand the nature of societal problems in their environmental context.This paper takes a critical look at the programmes of architectural education in Nigeria in their bid to contribute to, and improve the quality of...

This paper examines the environmental pollution and remediation of oil spillage in the Nigerian Coastal areas. Oil spillage is one of the greatest environmental problem Nigeria is currently battling with especially in the Niger Delta zone. Oil communities have been at the receiving end of this environmental problem. The problems has generated a lot of concern within of the three tiers of government especially in oil producing states. The coastal area of the Niger Delta is the home to oil...

Information materials for the visually impaired must be transcribed into alternative format before they are made available for use. The use of information materials in alternative format by the visually impaired is limited by availability. The study investigates the availability and use of information materials in alternative format by persons with visual impairment in selected libraries in Nigeria. The study is a survey. Fourteen purposively selected libraries were used based on the...

[1] This article presents the first results regarding the investigation of the response of the equatorial ionospheric F region in the African sector during geomagnetic storm periods between April 2000 and November 2007 using GPS-derived vertical total electron content observed at Libreville, Gabon (0.35°N, 9.67°E, dip latitude −8.05°S). We performed a superposed epoch analysis of the storms by defining the start time of the epoch as the storm onset time. During geomagnetic storms, the...

This paper looks into the issues surrounding the students' strike at the University of Botswana in 2009. The variables considered included; gender, nationality, residence, attitude towards violence and support for the strike. There were 327 valid responses from the sample of 337 students across the departments and program levels. The Chi- square and Logistic Regression analyses were used to relate the variables. It was found that a culture of violence was brewing up among the male students...

Education in Nigeria is an instrument par excellence for affecting national development. In spite of the global efforts to broaden opportunities in many schools all over Nigeria, many are not responding adequately to the needs of their students. A large majority of the learners do not acquire even minimal levels of learning due to such factors as poverty, malnutrition and different multi-cultural contexts, and many children still relegated to environments that discourage learning. The...

The spread of mobile devices and wireless networks help the learning process and offer opportunities for knowledge acquisition also brings hope to universities use technology to improve their services. The aim of this paper is to measure the Egyptian student's perception toward the concept and benefits of m-learning through a survey of two hundreds and eighteen students at different colleges in Egypt. Data was collected and analyzed using SPSS.

Studies have reported no sex differences in variability of anthropometric characteristics, except in skinfolds with males more varied than females. Whether this is true of South African rural children is not known. The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential sexual anthropometric variability and verify its presence in rural South African children. Data on 263 female and 190 male participants from the Physical Growth, Health, Nutritional and Physical Fitness Status of Rural...

Very few studies have examined stigmatising attitudes towards epilepsy by school children in Africa. We explored attitude towards epilepsy among 205 secondary school students in Lagos, Nigeria. Stigmatising attitude was measured by a modified Bogardus Social Distance Scale. A significant proportion of the students endorsed negative attitudes towards peers with epilepsy. For example, only 24% thought most students would invite an affected person to their birthday party and only 31% thought...

The Ghanaian government has recently ratified its commitment to Education for All (EFA) and to reaching marginalised students through inclusive education. This article critically examines the often conflicting demands of internationally driven initiatives and their subsequent interpretation and implementation in a disparate culture. A controversial debate juxtaposes conceptualisations of disability as rooted in social injustice with positions which see disability as an impairment located...

The Ghanaian government has recently ratified its commitment to Education for All (EFA) and to reaching marginalised students through inclusive education. This article critically examines the often conflicting demands of internationally driven initiatives and their subsequent interpretation and implementation in a disparate culture. A controversial debate juxtaposes conceptualisations of disability as rooted in social injustice with positions which see disability as an impairment located...

The Ghanaian government has recently ratified its commitment to Education for All (EFA) and to reaching marginalised students through inclusive education. This article critically examines the often conflicting demands of internationally driven initiatives and their subsequent interpretation and implementation in a disparate culture. A controversial debate juxtaposes conceptualisations of disability as rooted in social injustice with positions which see disability as an impairment located...

The Ghanaian government has recently ratified its commitment to Education for All (EFA) and to reaching marginalised students through inclusive education. This article critically examines the often conflicting demands of internationally driven initiatives and their subsequent interpretation and implementation in a disparate culture. A controversial debate juxtaposes conceptualisations of disability as rooted in social injustice with positions which see disability as an impairment located...

The Ghanaian government has recently ratified its commitment to Education for All (EFA) and to reaching marginalised students through inclusive education. This article critically examines the often conflicting demands of internationally driven initiatives and their subsequent interpretation and implementation in a disparate culture. A controversial debate juxtaposes conceptualisations of disability as rooted in social injustice with positions which see disability as an impairment located...

The Ghanaian government has recently ratified its commitment to Education for All (EFA) and to reaching marginalised students through inclusive education. This article critically examines the often conflicting demands of internationally driven initiatives and their subsequent interpretation and implementation in a disparate culture. A controversial debate juxtaposes conceptualisations of disability as rooted in social injustice with positions which see disability as an impairment located...

This study sought to find out the perceptions of the students in Senior High schools in the Sunyani Municipality in Ghana on abortion. The study employed the descriptive survey research design. With the simple random sampling procedure, 364 students were selected from a total of 6,824 to participate in the study. The study found out that the students perceived abortion to be morally unacceptable. A significant majority of the students disagreed with arguments that are in favour of abortion....

Basic physical fitness was measured using 8 different measures for 10,295 South African children and youths (5,611 boys, 4,684 girls) ages 6 to 13 years. These measurements included height, weight, Body Mass Index, standing long jump, shuttle run, sit-and-reach, sit-up (EUROFIT testing battery), and cricket ball throw scores. Due to the effects of earlier apartheid laws on separating communities, it was hypothesized that scores for different ethnic groups may differ. Therefore, in addition...