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The aim of this study was to identify factors that influenced career choice among high school students in Tanzania. The information obtained would be used to formulate effective recruitment strategies and counseling students on their career expectations in dentistry. All 352 high school students who were studying in five randomly selected high schools completed a pre-tested questionnaire containing twenty-four items addressing five factors. Image of a profession (good experiences from the...
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The principal objective of this study is to explore the hypothesis that a blockade of Na+ channels can prevent some of the mechanisms involved in ototoxicity. For this purpose, the potential action of the voltage sensitive Na+ channel antagonist, vinpocetine, on the ototoxicity induced by the representative aminoglycoside antibiotic, amikacin, in guinea pigs was tested for almost half a year. Amikacin (450 mg/kg) administered daily (i.m.) for 5 days increases the thresholds of the auditory...
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Abstract The literature endorses the critical role of needs assessment for effective INSET (In-service Education and Training). This view is not however, adequately supported by empirical research. There is also a dearth of literature on the process of needs assessment. The few studies that explore the process focus on the use of questionnaire and interview methods. The latter method was found to be inappropriate for the unqualified primary teachers participating in an INSET programme in...
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Examination of faecal samples of 6,430 school children aged between 2 and 20 years, for gastrointestinal parasites using sedimentation and Kato smear techniques was carried out in Benin City, Nigeria between January 1997 and December 1998. Four thousand two hundred and thirty six (65.8%) were infected. Three species of protozoa and 8 species of helminths were recorded as follows: Entamoeba histolytica (6%), Entomoeba coli (4.8%), Giardia lamblia (5.2%), Schistosoma mansoni (2.4%), Fasciola...
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Political change in South Africa since 1994 has led to a marked increase in opportunities to gamble. The purpose of the study was, therefore, to investigate attitudes towards gambling in African University students with the Gambling Attitude Scales by sex, course of study, and personality traits such as conservatism and risk-taking. The sample included 136 University of the North students, 80 first-year psychology and 56 second-year African law students. The students were 69 men and 65 women...
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In the previous political dispensation of South Africa religious education was modelled on the Christian National Education policy. After the democratic elections in 1994 many public schools in South Africa became multi‐cultural and multi‐religious. A new education model, Outcomes‐based Education, was introduced in 1997. This influenced the position and curriculum of religious education. Problematic situations surfaced in many schools where communal values and religion are regarded as...
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This article seeks to explore some of the issues that underpinned the development and teaching of a course in risk assessment in child protection in South Africa. University College Chichester and the Institute of Child and Family Development at the University of the Western Cape are involved in an ongoing programme of co-operation that began in 1997. As part of this programme the course was taught by the author, a female, white, English, ex-social-worker academic to a majority black South...
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Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt. Gregory Starrett. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 324 pp.
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Using data from a Household Income and Expenditure Survey and data collected by the author, this paper presents up-to-date private rates of return to education in Botswana. The empirical fitness of the Mincerian Earnings Function is also tested. The major results are: (1) rates of return rise by level of education; (2) the empirical fitness of the human capital model is quite robust; (3) education is not income equalising; (4) women are paid less than men despite being on average more highly...
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Over the last decade universities across the world have been grappling with quality and quality assurance issues. In several countries national policies on higher education quality assurance have been evolving, mostly with the purpose of putting external systems of quality assurance in place. In many instances, these policies and systems had less effect on the quality of teaching and learning than had been expected. This paper serves as a comparison of national quality policy developments in...
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To determine the age specific prevalence of impairment and disability relating to hemiplegic stroke in one rural area of Tanzania.During the yearly house to house census of the study population of 148 135 (85 152 aged 15 and over) in August 1994, specific questions were asked to identify those who might be disabled from stroke. People thus identified were subsequently interviewed and examined by one investigator. In those in whom the clinical diagnosis of stroke was confirmed a more detailed...
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Introduction Public officials worldwide face an ever-changing situation. The environments in which they function have become increasingly complex over the past few decades, bringing varied and growing challenges in service delivery. They are confronted by shifting values, new governments, more assertive populations, multiple and pluralistic needs for public services, with new services being introduced and existing services being restructured, and with new tasks, new technology, new knowledge...
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Although drought is a normal, recurring feature of climate, little progress has been made in drought management in most parts of the world. A United Nations study of selected Sub‐Saharan African countries revealed that most states have little experience in proactive planning for drought. Only Botswana and South Africa have made serious efforts to develop drought preparedness and response. The lack of contingency planning for drought events in the region results from limited financial...
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To examine the level of reported quality of condom use by young adult Zimbabwean males at higher learning institutions.A cross sectional descriptive survey.Two technical colleges in Harare, Zimbabwe.A sample of 400 subjects (200 from each of the higher learning centres).Reported quality of condom use.All participants were males who had at least completed 'O' levels, or the equivalent of high school. The majority of the participants were single (78.2%), while a fifth (20.2%) were married and...