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Many African countries are liberal in accepting medical degrees and specialist qualifications acquired abroad. This in part stems from the lack of training programs on the African continent that can supply the required or near the required numbers of doctors to serve the populations. As the majority of African states are English-speaking, academic and professional qualifications obtained in other English-speaking countries are more likely to be accepted than those from countries with some...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse factors that influence access to secondary education, and strategies for improving access to secondary education in Kenya.

Purpose – To investigate the extent to which secondary schools practiced aspects of total quality management (TQM).

PURPOSE: The Essential Bronchoscopist© (EB©) is a web-based, laddered curriculum of bronchoscopy-related knowledge. It is freely accessible in four languages (English, French, Spanish, Japanese) and will soon be available in more languages. It is comprised of six modules, each with approximately 30 interactive question-answer sets and a module-specific learning objective and post-test. It covers many of the issues in the major categories available in traditional bronchoscopy textbooks. Its...

A distance learning course from the UK for biomedical students in the Gambia might be a blueprint for programmes throughout Africa, says Mareeni Raymond

L’article situe les développements post-apartheid de l’enseignement supérieur dans un contexte particulier de transition par “transplacement” (un compromis entre l’ancienne classe dirigeante et un mouvement nationaliste modéré). Il suggère que la politique macro économique néolibérale d’après 1994 a eu pour effet de limiter la capacité de l’État à transformer la société civile selon sa propre vision. La troisième section discute des politiques clés concernant la transformation de...

The Quaternary Eburru volcanic complex in the south-central Kenya Rift consists of pantelleritic trachytes and pantellerites. The phenocryst assemblage in the trachytes is sanidine + fayalite + ferrohedenbergite + aenigmatite ± quartz ± ilmenite ± magnetite ± pyrrhotite ± pyrite. In the pantellerites, the assemblage is sanidine + quartz + ferrohedenbergite + fayalite + aenigmatite + ferrorichterite + pyrrhotite ± apatite, although fayalite, ferrohedenbergite and ilmenite are absent from more...

Mineral chemistry, textures and geochemistry of syenite autoliths from Kilombe volcano indicate that they crystallized in the upper parts of a magma chamber from peralkaline trachytic magmas that compositionally straddle the alkali feldspar join in the “residuum system” (ne = 0–1.03; qz = 0–0.77). Mineral reaction and/or overgrowth processes were responsible for the replacement of (i) Mg–hedenbergite by aegirine–augite, Ca–aegirine and/or aegirine, (ii) fayalite by amphiboles, and (iii)...

Ambiguous findings have been reported in previous studies concerning the relationships between resting metabolic rate (RMR), effects of exercise, and race in postmenopausal women. The purposes of this study were (1) to determine the effect of exercise training on RMR in postmenopausal women and (2) to determine whether this effect is different by race. We analyzed data from 24 African American (AA) (age, 56.3 +/- 5.0 years) and 23 Caucasian (CA) (age, 58.6 +/- 6.1 years) women. RMR was...

Basic education - considered essential for building democratic societies and competitive economies - has headed the agendas of development agencies in recent years. During the same period, Egypt topped the lists of recipients of development assistance and proclaimed education to be its national project. In this new study, political scientist Fatma Sayed explains how Egyptian domestic political actors have interacted with and reacted to international development aid to Egypt's educational...

Abstract The Cold War and the reshuffling of the world economic and political order were witnessed by the critical decade of 1990s. This brought political and economic changes that have increased the significance of development assistance as an important mechanism affecting international relations. Such changes forced policy makers in donor countries to rethink the destination and agendas of assistance. The concept of development was widened to give more importance to human development...

Current research on child abuse shows that local and international criminal laws seem to have failed to offer children sufficient protection against child abuse globally and in Zimbabwe. Children are the most vulnerable major subgroup least capable of assuring their own welfare. On the contrary, child abuse laws the world over including Zimbabwe, appear to be lenient to child abuse perpetrators instead of protecting the victims. Few offenders are being convicted. Most aspects of the existing...

Urban development strategies that aim to eradicate poverty will only be successful if these strategies include ecological sustainability criteria relating to sanitation, solid waste removal, energy, building materials and food security. (1) This paper uses the Lynedoch EcoVillage development in Stellenbosch (near Cape Town) to demonstrate that this can result in a balance between growth, equity and sustainability without any one of these criteria being seen as less or more important. In...

The main purpose of this study was to explore sources of information and levels of knowledge on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among youth in secondary schools in Ilala district Dar es Salaam. A cross sectional survey was undertaken among secondary school youth selected randomly from three public secondary schools. A self-administered questionnaire was used to gather information on socio-demographic characteristics sexual activity STIs-related knowledge and sources of information on...

The purpose of this prospective observational study was to evaluate the extent of visual impairment in a socially and professionally active population attending the Tropical Ophthalmology Institute of Africa (IOTA). Thanks to high recruitment rate at the IOTA, which is the third reference eye centre, a total of 828 patients ranging from 18 and 50 years of age and consulting for the first time were included between February 1 and May 4, 2003. Each patient underwent a thorough ocular...

The role played by Education Management Information System (EMIS) in educational planning in Mozambique is mixed. At the national level the initial evidence suggests that EMIS helps generate targets for policy frameworks. In addition EMIS supports the ministry of education and culture to establish targets and objectives for their strategies, as well as helping them to monitor progress towards achieving them at the national level. However, on the downside it would appear that links between...

At state level, a systematic approach to educational planning, supported by Education Management Information System (EMIS), is now developing with a clearer role for the federal government in the support, coordination and monitoring of state-level EMIS. However, a lack of reliable baseline data constrains realistic targeting of indicators. Structures and responsibilities for EMIS are complex, reflecting historical developments and more recent imperatives but improved synergy between existing...