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The need to develop capacity for health services and systems research (HSSR) in low and middle income countries has been highlighted in a number of international forums. However, little is known about the level of HSSR training in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We conducted an assessment at four major East and Southern African universities to describe: a) the numbers of HSSR PhD trainees at these institutions, b) existing HSSR curricula and mode of delivery, and c) motivating and challenging...

This study employs participatory disaster risk and vulnerability assessment to analyse vulnerability to disasters in informal settlements in Mwanza city, Tanzania. The results show that a plethora of factors – human, physical, social, economic and natural – interact in complex non-linear ways to shape vulnerability to disaster in informal settlements in Mwanza city. The study shows that coping strategies of some individuals in informal settlements reinforce their risks to disaster. For...

This study investigated grammatical errors in a corpus of 18 essays written by 18 participants. The participants were third-year Tunisian students who were studying business English at the ISEAH Institute of Kef in Tunisia. They had experienced approximately the same number of years of education through primary, secondary and university education in Tunisia. All of the participants came from non-English speaking backgrounds and seldom communicated in English outside the school. The...

Public policy knowledge and skills are required to transform the Ethiopian civil service and to assist Ethiopia in developing and transforming to a middle-income economy. Accordingly, the study on which this article is based aspired to establish whether Public Administration education and training programmes being used at Ethiopian universities include public policy capacity development in order to provide civil servants with the policy skills that they need to function effectively in the...

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is ideal for diagnostic use in resource-limited environments, but its use is often limited by lack of local expertise. Some training courses have been established to bridge this knowledge gap, but little is known about the efficacy of these courses. This study evaluated the effectiveness and sustainability of a six-month POCUS training program for Rwandan physicians. A prospective observational cohort study of Rwandan physicians was conducted over six-months....

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is an effective diagnostic technology in resource-limited settings. There is increasing interest in introducing ultrasound training in such environments, but few reports describing long-term follow-up and impact of a POCUS program in a resource-limited setting. We introduced a POCUS program in Rwanda, and sought to determine the number and type of ultrasounds performed, the impact of a remote quality assurance (QA) program, and the effect of POCUS on patient...

Teamwork has become critical building blocks worldwide to accomplish organisational goals. Although many educational institutions in South Africa have taken the route of teamwork, attributes such as empowerment and accountability require critical reflection. Teamwork features prominently in the Integrated Quality Management System (IQMS) policy mandated by the Department of Education, to facilitate the provision of quality teaching and learning, and the continuing professional development of...

AbstractStudies of the politics and history of Zimbabwe since independence have neglected the significant role played by student activists. This article explores why and how this group of educated youth, who formed the first civic organisation to challenge ZANU(PF), was able to pierce gerontocratic social orders and play a political role in Zimbabwe's recent violent history. It argues that the university gave students a social and intellectual status which they used to pursue ‘self-mastery’...

This article seeks to critically analyse the role of community-based paralegals (CBPs), mainly within a South African context. Having defined CBPs, it focuses on the roles, functions and qualifications required of CBPs in South Africa. The current lack of statutory recognition and regulation of CBPs in the country and proposals for future recognition and regulation are considered. This article briefly refers to examples of paralegal work and regulation in other countries. Arguments for and...

The Lace and Voorspoed kimberlites occur on the Kaapvaal Craton (South Africa), and form part of the Kroonstad Group II kimberlite (orangeite) cluster. The Lace kimberlite is composed of a main pipe and a satellite blind pipe, the latter of which does not reach the current land surface (~ 30 m below the current land surface), and is not observed connecting with the main pipe at depth. The main pipe increases in size from ~ 100 m to ~ 250 m in diameter at depth. The Voorspoed kimberlite pipe...

Drawing on post-structural and post-colonial conceptions of gender, this paper explores multiple student masculinities and femininities in the classrooms of four junior secondary schools in Botswana. These gendered identities, it is argued, are negotiated within broader institutional constraints that have been socio-historically produced. Such constraints include the colonial legacy of heavily authoritarian (and inherently gendered) teacher-student relations, which in turn are sustained (and...

Older sequence stratigraphic models suggested that submarine landslide and turbidite activities are greatest during sea-level lowstands. However, growing evidence indicates that many turbidite systems are also active during sea-level transgressions and highstands. The Moroccan Turbidite System comprises three depocentres, of which Agadir Basin is closest to the Moroccan slope and Canary archipelago. The very large volumes of sediment transported by individual sediment flows in this system...

This study was to determine any significant difference between the incidence of infectious morbidity with the use of a 24 hour antibiotics regimen compared to a 7-day course of antibiotics following elective caesarean section using a cheap and easily available combination of Ampicillin/Cloxacillin and Metronidazole.Two hundred patients planned to have elective caesarean section for various indications and who satisfied the inclusion criteria were enrolled in the study in two groups of 100...

In order to improve on the curriculum and participation rate of adult learners in the current Adult Basic Education (ABE) program in Nigeria, this explorative study investigated the entrepreneurial (or vocational) training needs of illiterate women in Cross River State (CRS).Three research questions were posed to elicit from the participants their demographic characteristics, perception of the ABE program and perceived entrepreneurial training needs.The descriptive-survey design was adopted...

The prevalence of urinary tract infection (UTI) among children attending primary schools in Maiduguri was investigated in this study. The study was carried out between January and April 2011 among apparently healthy pupils. One hundred and twenty (120) clean-catch urine samples were obtained from the pupils using standard procedures. Microbial culture on Cystein Lactose Electrolyte Deficient (CLED) ager and subsequent Biochemical tests revealed 31.7% of the samples with significant bacterial...

The prevalence of urinary tract infection (UTI) among children attending primary schools in Maiduguri was investigated in this study. The study was carried out between January and April 2011 among apparently healthy pupils. One hundred and twenty (120) clean-catch urine samples were obtained from the pupils using standard procedures. Microbial culture on Cystein Lactose Electrolyte Deficient (CLED) ager and subsequent Biochemical tests revealed 31.7% of the samples with significant bacterial...