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This essay presents a narrative about the Jackson School in Smith County, Texas, utilizing the voices of former teachers and students who experienced its origin and evolution between 1925 and 1954. It covers the significant events in the story of the school as remembered by African American community members who participated in the day-to-day life of the school. community members of Jackson Heights, Texas faced overwhelming odds in the struggle to provide quality schooling for the...

This paper addresses some of the issues surrounding the posting of newly trained teachers in Ghana. It specifically investigates the assertion that the posting system is ‘ineffective’ from the perspective of newly trained teachers who have been through the process. It emerged from analysis of the qualitative data that newly trained teachers’ experiences and perceptions of the posting process had a significant impact on their occupational culture. The research draws upon documents, interviews...

This article uses school-level data from the Schools and Staffing Survey and the California Department of Education to assess the extent to which African Americans versus non-Hispanic whites attend schools with children with limited English proficiency (LEP) and to test ecological theoretical expectations about spatial patterns arising within the context of multiethnic, multiracial communi ties. In areas with few immigrants, LEP students do not crowd the schools attended by most African...

A five-year review of the pattern and outcome of paediatric admissions in the Children Emergency Room (CHER) of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Enugu, showed a total of 10,267 admissions, a discharge rate of 50.4 percent, a transfer-out rate of 44.3 percent, and a mortality of 5.1 percent. The commonest causes of admission were febrile convulsions (21.5 percent), severe malaria with anaemic heart failure (18.4 percent), acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRTI) in...

Abstract The policy literature in developing countries is replete with narratives of ‘failure’ attributed to the lack of resources, the inadequacy of teacher training, the weak design of implementation strategy, and the problems of policy coherence. This research on education policymaking after apartheid presents the following puzzle: what if the impressive policies designed to change apartheid education did not have ‘implementation’ as their primary commitment? Drawing on data from seven...

Aims: This is a review of articles on sexual behaviour of school students in sub-Saharan Africa published between 1987 and 1999. The objective was to describe what is known in this regard and identify gaps in knowledge. Methods: Literature search using electronic databases and a thumb search of relevant journals identified 47 articles reporting sexual behaviours of school-based young persons aged between 14 and 24 years. Results: The fi ndings indicate a relatively low number of articles...

Physical activity habits fostered and developed early in life tend to persist into adulthood, reducing the incidence of chronic diseases associated with a sedentary lifestyle in later life. This is of particular importance for racial and ethnic minority populations who experience significant disparities in rates of chronic disease. Thus, promoting physical activity in minority children is an effective strategy for reducing these health disparities. Unfortunately, however, recommendations for...

Abstract: In many parts of Africa, university systems are in crisis; squalid conditions, student strife, and increasing state violence have turned many campuses into battlegrounds. Through an in-depth look at the Kenyan case, this paper examines some of the deep political dynamics of the current desperate situation. We demonstrate how in Kenya, state–university links involve attempts by higher-level government officials to control campuses through patronage, surveillance, and violence and...

To measure selected socio-demographic and reproductive history characteristics of parturients at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), Accra, Ghana, and to compute the risk load.A non-randomised cross-sectional survey.Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana.Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, a tertiary institution delivers about 11,000 women annually. From 1st November to 12th December 1994, 961 parturients were studied out of 978 delivered during the study period. Seventeen questionnaires were...

International Review of MissionVolume 91, Issue 361 p. 256-277 SCHOOL FOR PROGRESS: THE RE-ROUTING OF BCMS MISSIONARIES INTO EDUCATION FOR THE END OF EMPIRE IN KARAMOJA, UGANDA BEN P. KNIGHTON, BEN P. KNIGHTON Dr Ben Knighton is registrar and research tutor for the Oxford Centre of Mission Studies. He is a former principal of St Andrew's College of Theology and Development, Kabare, Kenya, where he lived from 1991 to 1998. Ben Knighton worked for the Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society...

Malawi adopted free primary education in 1994 following the democratic election of a new government. This resulted in a massive increase in the demand for primary teachers. Pre-career, full-time teacher education was replaced by the Malawi integrated in-service teacher education programme (MIITEP). This was a mixed-mode system where periods of college-based training alternated with distance and local level support for training with a school base. The programme was introduced in 1997 and has...

Journal of Small Business ManagementVolume 40, Issue 2 p. 154-161 Entrepreneurship Training for Emerging SMEs in South Africa Watson M. Ladzani, Watson M. Ladzani Technikon Southern Africa, South Africa,Search for more papers by this authorJurie J. Van Vuuren, Jurie J. Van Vuuren University of Pretoria, South AfricaSearch for more papers by this author Watson M. Ladzani, Watson M. Ladzani Technikon Southern Africa, South Africa,Search for more papers by this authorJurie J. Van Vuuren, Jurie...

Journal of Small Business ManagementVolume 40, Issue 2 p. 154-161 Entrepreneurship Training for Emerging SMEs in South Africa Watson M. Ladzani, Watson M. Ladzani Technikon Southern Africa, South Africa,Search for more papers by this authorJurie J. Van Vuuren, Jurie J. Van Vuuren University of Pretoria, South AfricaSearch for more papers by this author Watson M. Ladzani, Watson M. Ladzani Technikon Southern Africa, South Africa,Search for more papers by this authorJurie J. Van Vuuren, Jurie...

Journal of Small Business ManagementVolume 40, Issue 2 p. 154-161 Entrepreneurship Training for Emerging SMEs in South Africa Watson M. Ladzani, Watson M. Ladzani Technikon Southern Africa, South Africa,Search for more papers by this authorJurie J. Van Vuuren, Jurie J. Van Vuuren University of Pretoria, South AfricaSearch for more papers by this author Watson M. Ladzani, Watson M. Ladzani Technikon Southern Africa, South Africa,Search for more papers by this authorJurie J. Van Vuuren, Jurie...

Journal of Small Business ManagementVolume 40, Issue 2 p. 154-161 Entrepreneurship Training for Emerging SMEs in South Africa Watson M. Ladzani, Watson M. Ladzani Technikon Southern Africa, South Africa,Search for more papers by this authorJurie J. Van Vuuren, Jurie J. Van Vuuren University of Pretoria, South AfricaSearch for more papers by this author Watson M. Ladzani, Watson M. Ladzani Technikon Southern Africa, South Africa,Search for more papers by this authorJurie J. Van Vuuren, Jurie...

Journal of Small Business ManagementVolume 40, Issue 2 p. 154-161 Entrepreneurship Training for Emerging SMEs in South Africa Watson M. Ladzani, Watson M. Ladzani Technikon Southern Africa, South Africa,Search for more papers by this authorJurie J. Van Vuuren, Jurie J. Van Vuuren University of Pretoria, South AfricaSearch for more papers by this author Watson M. Ladzani, Watson M. Ladzani Technikon Southern Africa, South Africa,Search for more papers by this authorJurie J. Van Vuuren, Jurie...

This chapter examines the impact of colonial interests and nationalist ideology on legal education in Mandatory Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. The chapter briefly dicusses legal education in the British Empire in the first part of the twentieth century and then analyzes the curriculum and the concept of law and legal education that characterized the two competing law schools that existed in Palestine at that time: a British law school and a nationalist one, established...