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Sickle cell anemia is associated with a hypercoagulable state that may lead to alterations in a coagulation profile. Measurements of coagulation factors are known to have some predictive value for clinical outcome.To determine the coagulation profile of children with SCA in steady state and crisis and compare it with those with normal HbAA genotype.This is a prospective observational study involving 50 children with SCA in steady state, 50 in crises, and 50 with HbAA genotype, carried out...
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Complex congenital cardiac abnormalities are rare among children and contribute to mortality and morbidity. The prevalence and pattern of presentation vary from place to place.The objective of this study was to determine the clinical profile and pattern of presentation of complex congenital cardiac malformations among children attending a tertiary hospital in Enugu State. A cross-sectional retrospective study in which a review of the records of children who attended the children outpatient...
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Blended learning also known as mixed mode, hybrid, flexible or distributed learning, is gaining acceptance and being adopted throughout higher education institutions in the world. The aim of this paper is to identify opportunities that are brought by practice on blended learning in Zimbabwean institutions of higher education. An analysis on the preparedness for blended learning by learners in institutions of higher learning is conducted. Challenges on the adoption of blended learning are...
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This research investigated how a career is conceptualised amongst a sample of previously disadvantaged South African distance learners. The research argued and used a narrative and story-telling approach in understanding career development. This method is used given the need to generate knowledge specific to the local context and using this knowledge to inform a wider audience. Although other methods (mostly quantitative) have aided the process of knowledge generation within the careers...
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The purpose of the study was to determine stakeholders’ perceptions about causes of students’ poor performance in the secondary schools of the Lower Gweru Circuit in Zimbabwe. The major question that guided the research was how stakeholders perceived causes of students’ poor performance in the secondary schools of the Lower Gweru circuit in Zimbabwe. Consistent with the post modern research paradigm that underlined this study, both qualitative and quantitative designs were used....
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Education and training of agricultural librarians is central to the development of an efficient agricultural system because realization of socio-economic stability and sustainable development is anchored on access to information. Zimbabwe is an agro- based economy and as such the education and training of Librarians with requisite knowledge and skills to contribute towards increased agricultural productivity is of greater importance. The realization of the United Nations’ millennium...
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Emanating from the Nziramasanga Commission of Inquiry into the Education and Training of (1999), it is now mandatory for every educational institution in Zimbabwe to teach special needs education. The researchers have noted that in most schools there are pupils learning with some disabilities. This study sought to make a follow up at one tertiary institution to check on the readiness and ability of the teachers on training to teach special needs education. It sought to establish whether the...
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The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of using indigenous languages in formal education in Zimbabwe.The study also investigated the opinions and attitudes of primary school teachers toward teaching science using an indigenous language.Qualitative data was collected using twenty classroom observations and interviews with ten purposely selected primary school teachers.Data were analysed using a thematic analysis.The findings revealed institutional and attitudinal barriers to...
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The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of using indigenous languages in formal education in Zimbabwe. The study also investigated the opinions and attitudes of primary school teachers toward teaching science using an indigenous language. Qualitative data was collected using twenty classroom observations and interviews with ten purposely selected primary school teachers. Data were analysed using a thematic analysis. The findings revealed institutional and attitudinal barriers to...
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This brief communication shares notes from a 2012 meeting of Zimbabwean social workers in the United Kingdom with Ted Rogers, founder of social work education in Zimbabwe. It gives a brief of his work whilst he was still in Zimbabwe and shares his thinking about the current state of affairs in social work education in Zimbabwe. KEY TERMS : Father Ted Rogers, social work education, Zimbabwe.
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Innovation in classroom practices is the engine that drives the process of language learning. In the fifty years that French has been taught in Kenya, there has been a proliferation of methods and approaches, from the traditional to the action based approach which reaffirms and consolidates the communicative approach. This article seeks to give a historical perspective of the teaching of French in Kenya: its expansion, challenges faced by both learners and teachers. In spite of the...
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A Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Award of Msc. (Human Resources Management) of Mzumbe University
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After decades of decline, TB made a dramatic comeback, a situation largely fuelled by the emergence of the HIV pandemic, amongst other factors, including overcrowding, poverty and weak health care system. HIV/TB co-infection, presently poses serious public health challenges especially in the African region, including Nigeria. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of HIV amongst PTB suspects in Nnewi, Nigeria. A total of 1544 pulmonary TB suspects assessing the Nnamdi Azikiwe...
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Religious environmentalism is fast becoming a growing academic discipline with concerns on how to manage the human environment and save man's resources for the future generations.Religious environmentalism has also become a catchphrase for a philosophy of desired value extraction and application of the core valuable principles of religion and philosophy to achieve the sustainable management of the human environment known to as the earth with its extractive resources.The environmental crisis...