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In light of the normative assumption of the role of knowledge in economic productivity and in response to strong exogenous policy orientations (mainly from the World Bank), the government of Ethiopia has restructured and expanded the higher education (HE) subsystem since the late 1990s. In critically analysing selected policy documents, this article seeks to understand the seemingly unlinked agendas of strengthening the role of HE in supporting the knowledge-intensive development agenda and...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of principals' conflict management styles on performance of teachers' duties in public secondary schools in Masaba South area, Kisii County, Kenya. The study sought to address the following specific objectives; examine how the principal's collaborative conflict management style influences performance of teachers' duties in public secondary schools in Masaba South area; to identify the effects of principal's compromise conflict...
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Total Parenteral Nutrition has been available in developed countries for the past three decades and has proved to be very valuable as one of the most important therapeutic tools in the history of Medicine. Amongst the great advances in Medicine in the last century it is the only one that this hospital and most tertiary hospitals in Nigeria do not routinely benefit from its service to patients who need it. In this overview, the pathogenesis of malnutrition in surgical patients, body...
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Breast cancer and HIV/AIDS are two major issues in women’s health at the beginning of the second decade of the 21ST century. Both conditions affect predominantly premenopausal women in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa. Literature on breast cancer in women with HIV are still few and most of them are case reports based on experience with 1-5 cases. No clear association has been established between breast cancer and HIV/AIDS. This study focused on the incidence of breast cancer among HIV infected...
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The occurrence of major zoonotic disease outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa has had a significant impact on the already constrained public health systems. This has, as a result, justified the need to identify creative strategies to address threats from emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases at the human-animal-environmental interface, and implement robust multi-disease public health surveillance systems that will enhance early detection and response. Additionally, enhanced reporting and...
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Classroom Interaction behaviours at the pre-primary level of education especially in Nigeria is still a relatively new concept. Thus, there seem to be no instrument to measure the nature as well as quality of such activities between teachers and learners during instruction. These could be partly the reasons why there is dearth of information on this aspect of preschool activities in Nigeria. The foregoing therefore, underscores the need to develop and validate an instrument (PCIEI) which has...
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South Africa is a multiracial country where different cultures and languages coexist. Culture can be conveyed through language. Language conditioning is also social conditioning, and through words we make sense of our own and others` experience. In this paper I investigate the meaning of two culturally significant words: (English) peace and (African) ubuntu. Data findings will show how L2 speakers of English, when asked to define peace, promptly operate a process of transfer of the meaning...
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Entertainment-education is a media tool used to reduce the spread and stigma associated with HIV/AIDS. This pilot study explored how African American (AA) college students understood stigma as portrayed in the South African film Yesterday. Data were collected through a focus group where four major themes emerged. One is “we can talk, but please do not touch.” The study shows that films on HIV/AIDS that feature people of African descent can be used to generate classroom discussions and...
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Humanitarian engineering comes in many forms. This paper describes a case study of how an engineering design subject was transformed by basing the assessment on a call for funding for a development aid project. This, in conjunction with the opportunity for students to participate in an extra-curricular site visit to the community of Ilahita in Papua New Guinea which was the target of the project form a learning environment where students were extremely highly motivated to engage in...
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This study investigates the determinants of educational outcomes in the developing world by estimating an education production function for Botswanan secondary schools. Education plays an essential role in the development process, as a high-quality educational system is the only means by which a developing country expands its stock of human capital. Additionally, education contributes to the improvement of health outcomes and political institutions. Sub-Saharan Africa is perhaps the region...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the challenges facing managers in managing conflict in schools of South and South Central Regions of Botswana. In this study, the schedule of interview was used to collect empirical data. A random sample of 50 school managers and deputy school managers was selected for interviews. Major findings of the study revealed that school managers do not perceive conflict as an inevitable phenomenon that is real in any organization. They lack skills and...