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Educational programs for the rural areas cannot by themselves reach out to all the communities under consideration. There has to be an existing or proposed infrastructure that could enable these programs to be conveyed. Although the aim is “education anytime anywhere for everyone,” distributed learning programs cannot by themselves solve the access problem. The dire need to bridge the digital divide and to effectively join the emerging global economy driven by ICT has provided the basis for...
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Farmer field schools (FFSs) are a popular education and extension approach worldwide. Such schools use experiential learning and a group approach to facilitate farmers in making decisions, solving problems, and learning new techniques. However, there is limited or conflicting evidence as to their effect on productivity and poverty, especially in East Africa. This study is unique in that it uses a longitudinal impact evaluation (difference in difference approach) with quasi-experimental...
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The African Rift Valleys results from Neogene–Recent breakup up the African Plate due to continental extension. Compared with the western sector, in the eastern or Gregory Rift Valley the fracturing is accompanied by a large amount of volcanic activity and, in northern Tanzania, the volcanic rocks are relatively young compared with those in Ethiopia and Kenya where the products of the earliest stages of mantle melting are buried beneath older, more-extensive volcanic formations. The volcanic...
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This article reports on findings pertaining to scholarship in education policy drawn from a wider study on all education research in South Africa from 1995 to 2006. This study, which defined education research as broadly pertaining to teaching and/or learning, obtained extensive data from a wide range of sources, including universities, public institutions, NGOs, Education and Training Authorities, museums, publishers, donor agencies, trade unions, conferences, journals and electronic...
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Adapting teaching was a central term of the rhetoric of French colonial education policy prior to the 1944 Brazzaville Conference. This was even more the case when it came to justifying the place given to agricultural education in the school system destined for the indigenous populations at the primary level with the instauration of school gardens. This was developed in Madagascar for political and increasingly economic reasons within the framework of the 1920s policy of enhancement. This...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of an engineering mentorship program on African-American male high school students’ perceptions of engineering as a viable career choice. In this study, indicators included students’ perceptions of engineering, their self-efficacy in the area of mathematics, and their self-efficacy in the area of science. Using an independent t-test to determine a difference of statistical significance, inferential statistics were provided to answer the...
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Background: Spirometry is a noninvasive and cost-effective physiologic test that greatly complements other investigative procedures in evaluation of respiratory conditions. This study was aimed at auditing the spirometry performed at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) Ilorin, Nigeria, and highlighting some of the challenges associated with the procedure. Methods: We reviewed and analyzed the record of spirometry performed at the cardiopulmonary unit of the hospital from June...
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The South African Government’s policy and declared target for inclusion of people with disabilities in the country’s labour market is 2% 2 . According to the South African Labour Guide the figure currently stands at 0.5% and is declining. This article therefore explores this phenomenon and related matters such as affirmative action, defining disability, statistical difficulties, recruitment, access, mobility, education, training, stereotyping and discrimination.
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People in all cultures of the world classify other people most readily in easily identifiable categories. Examples of such categories are race, gender, economic, and physical difference. These categories make the world intelligible because they assign roles and functions attached to the individuals that fill the category. Racial, gender, and other categories that reflect difference may change over time as to the meaning and assigned roles and functions, but the very fact of them being a...