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This study focused on establishing how the university teacher-education curriculum affects the performance of secondary school teachers. Following a descriptive survey research design, lecturers, university students, secondary school teachers and students assessed teaching and learning in their institutions. This study established that most lecturers and secondary school teachers use lecture (teacher-centred) methods. Theoretical teaching is widely practiced at both school and university...

The atmospheric dust contribution to U-series nuclides in soils is evaluated by analyzing two soil and paleo-soil (< 10 ka) profiles from the Mount Cameroon volcano where Sr–Nd–Pb fingerprints are clearly affected by Saharan dust accretion. The comparison of measured U-series disequilibria between bulk soils and associated parent lavas suggests that dust inputs can contribute up to 25% of the U and Th budget in soils whereas chemical weathering affects a maximum of 7% of the U budget. The...

With the profession of clinical psychology and its formal training programmes less than 40 years old in South Africa, it is important that efforts are made to critically examine its challenges and the extent to which it is meeting the prevailing mental health needs. The profession has gone through a chequered history in South Africa and needs to look at how it realigns its goals and practices, to be in tune with the imperatives of democracy, and to ensure that mental health benefits accrue...

Transport, health and disability are interlinked on many levels, with transport availability directly and indirectly influencing health, and health status influencing transport options. This is especially the case in rural locations of sub-Saharan Africa, where transport services are typically not only high cost, but also less frequent and less reliable than in urban areas. This special issue presents papers concerned with three different aspects of the transport/health/disability nexus –...

Abstract This article explores the movement of African university students from French West Africa to France during the last years of French colonial rule (1946–60). The author argues that the act of traveling between these spaces at a time when the new French Union supposedly produced greater equality within the imperial system allowed students to point out their continued inequalities, despite their so-called elite status. Indeed, the Atlantic voyages themselves were often a key place of...

Simulating the deformation of active volcanoes is challenging due to inherent mechanical complexities associated with heterogeneous distributions of rheologic properties and irregular geometries associated with the topography and bathymetry. From geologic and tomographic studies we know that geologic bodies naturally have complex 3D shapes. Finite element models (FEMs) are capable of simulating the pressurization of magma intrusions into mechanical domains with arbitrary geometric and...

There have been concerns about the teaching and learning modes in both conventional and Open and Distance Learning (ODL) institutions globally. Such concerns emanate from issues of quality and standards in education. In view of such concerns, the study examined the teaching and learning modes in Open and Distance Learning (ODL). These were examined in relation to how they contribute to quality and standards within the the context of ODL. The study focused on the Zimbabwe Open University...

Drawing on evidence from a wider study on the cost and cost-effectiveness of sexuality education programmes in six countries, and focusing on the examples of India and Nigeria, this paper argues that advocacy is a key, yet often neglected component of school-based sexuality education programmes, especially where sex and sexuality are politically or culturally sensitive issues. It also suggests that advocacy is not a one-off activity but needs to be carried out continuously and adapted as...

After nearly two decades of military dictatorship, democratic civic education has been integrated into the Ethiopian school curriculum. This paper examines the policy–practice concordance in implementing the civic education curriculum based on empirical evidence generated on the philosophical underpinnings, curricular contents, pedagogical approaches, and the role of instructional technology. Data were gathered through a questionnaire survey on 179 randomly selected high school students, key...

Abstract Joseph A. Semugabi, Chief Librarian at the Law Development Centre, discusses political-legal developments since 1986 which resulted in the restoration of rule of law and the liberalization of university education in Uganda. He then explains how these have had a significant impact on the country's only institution of practical legal training and its law library.

52 Introduction 54 Materials and Methods 59 Variety and trial selection 59 Drought Stress Index (DSI) Methodologies 62 Running the Canesim Model 62 Estimation of Canesim input variables 63 Calculation of the six DSI’s 66 Statistical Analysis 71 Results 74 Canesim data validation 74 Validation of observed varietal yield performance to drought stress 75 Evaluating the DSI’s 76 Validation of the chosen DSI 82 Discussion 83 Conclusion 85 List of Equations 86 References 87 Stellenbosch University http://scholar.sun.ac.za

South African national education policy is committed to promoting gender equality at school and to facilitating the successful completion of all young people's schooling, including those who may become pregnant and parent while at school. However, the experience of being pregnant and parenting while being a learner is shaped by broader social and school-based responses to teenage pregnancy, parenting and female sexuality in general. Drawing on qualitative research with a group of teachers...

Children aged between 1 month and 10 years from one rural coastal locality, two rural upland localities and two urban localities in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea were examined between September 1980 and September 1982. Hookworm (predominantly Necator americanus), Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura increased in prevalence with age. The prevalence of Strongyloides fuelleborni subspecies kellyi, where present, was either highest in the < 1 year age group or similar in all age...

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Film Africa 2012 Call Me Kuchu. 2012. Dir. Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright. Uganda/US. 87 min [Google Scholar] also organized workshops for adults in partnership with the British Film Institute (BFI), including one scriptwriting workshop, led by the award-winning filmmaker Rungano Nyoni; one filmmaking masterclass with South African director, actor and producer Akin Omotoso; and one panel discussion on...