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This study examines the influence of women's education on postpartum practices and fertility in Ilorin, a Nigerian urban community. Using life-table survival analysis to estimate breastfeeding and abstinence durations and the Cox Proportional Hazards Model to estimate relative risk of weaning and terminating abstinence, women's education was found to have a strong negative relationship with breastfeeding and postpartum abstinence. The use of contraception was low in this community and...

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsEducation and Income Determination in Kenya. Arne Bigsten George PsacharopoulosGeorge Psacharopoulos Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Comparative Education Review Volume 29, Number 4Nov., 1985 Sponsored by the Comparative and International Education Society Article...

"Relationships of Schistosoma Haematobium, Hookworm and Malarial Infections and Metrifonate Treatment to Growth of Kenyan School Children" published on Nov 1985 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

ReadingVolume 19, Issue 3 p. 172-176 Use of an informal reading inventory for reading assessment of Nigerian primary school children J. Umolu, J. Umolu Faculty of Education, University of Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.Search for more papers by this authorW. Mallam, W. Mallam Faculty of Education, University of Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.Search for more papers by this author J. Umolu, J. Umolu Faculty of Education, University of Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.Search for more papers by this...

A training program which encourages trained primary health workers in Nigeria to develop and integrate theoretical and community-relevant skills, is described. Prior to field work (field posting), students received lectures on health concepts related to their prospective field assignments. They were then tested on these concepts at the end of the lectures. Practice modules, as an operational approach in the community were developed. There was evidence to suggest enhanced knowledge base,...

Abstract Nigerian society today exhibits symptoms of serious moral malaise. There is consequently widespread concern about the nation's moral predicament. This paper is an attempt to investigate the roots of the problem. The problem appears to lie mainly in the uncritical adoption of the values of an alien culture particularly the values of individualism and materialism in social, political and economic relations. Current approaches to moral education in Nigerian schools have been examined...

Malawi is seen as a society in transition, and as a consequence, it is argued, Malawian managers face particular problems where traditional and Western values intersect. The role of the Polytechnic of Malawi as a provider of management education in this environment is thus problematical. The thesis begins with a description of the Malawian business environment in its geographical, historical, political, cultural, economic and institutional forms, and then goes on to examine the problems...

The basement volcano-sedimentary rocks of northeast Sudan form part of the Nubian Shield of northeast Africa. Volcanic rocks from the Kadawēb area yield Rb—Sr wholerock isochron ages of 718 and 722 Ma and initial 87Sr/86Sr ratios of 0.7027 and 0.7029. In the Homogar area, 150 km to the south, volcanic rocks yield a Rb—Sr whole-rock isochron age of 671 Ma and an initial 87Sr/86Sr ratio of 0.7034. Although all of these lavas have been altered by a low-grade greenschist facies event, isotopic...

In the caldera wall of the volcano Menengai, Kenya, a late Quaternary peralkaline trachyte ash-flow tuff is densely welded and shows evidence (e.g. a well-defined lineation) or rheomorphism. The ash-flow tuff overlies a variety of volcanic and volcaniclastic deposits, with some of which it has intimate and complex relationships interpreted to have formed during post-emplacement processes. Where emplaced over a low-density pumice-fall deposit, the dense rheomorphic ash-flow tuff invaded the...

The reaction of teachers to an innovation, the Science Education Project in South Africa, has been analysed by considering the demands made on them in their roles of subject specialist, classroom director, professional and employee. The Science Education Project relies on phased, ongoing inservice work, incorporating courses, on‐site teacher support and teacher groups, to achieve its purposes of encouraging teacher growth and hence more active, pupil‐oriented classrooms. The four roles...

The Karisimbi volcano (Rwanda) is one of the principal eruptive centers of the Virunga volcanic range. It is located at the southern tip of a NE-SW volcano-tectonic axis on the western branch of the East African Rift. The different morphological units (caldera “Branca”, pit crater “Muntango”, domes and flow domes) built up on the main edifice make Karisimbi the most complex central volcano of the Virunga range. The products of Karisimbi's activity are essentially fluid lavas of basic or...

ABSTRACTThis paper examines the distribution of annual and seasonal rainfall in the north-eastern Ghana during the 1975–1977 drought. Water budgets for the study area are estimated to assess the nature of water availability in the drought period.

This article addresses several issues relevant to a better understanding of why archaeologists have generally failed to reach a consensus on the dating, regional impact, or identification of earthquake destructions in the depositional records of Roman / Byzantine Palestine and the province of Arabia. An evaluation of earthquake destructions in these regions from the 2nd through the mid-8th century A. D. is based upon an analysis of both ancient textual accounts and contemporaneous...

Abstract The connotative meaning of time was investigated in Egyptian and American university students. A factor analysis of 16 semantic differential scales disclosed that both groups construed time in a somewhat similar fashion. A multivariate analysis of the scales revealed that the Egyptians described time in more favorable terms than did the Americans. In contrast, the Americans reported time to be more predictable and more understandable than did the Egyptians.

The ∼ 2.5-Ga old predominantly volcanic rocks of the Ventersdorp Supergroup represent a cratonic cover sequence within the Kaapvaal Craton of southern Africa. They are underlain by the rocks of the Witwatersrand Supergroup and are overlain by sediments of the Transvaal Supergroup. The sequence consists of six formations and is more than 3700 m thick. It comprises basaltic, andesitic, dacitic and rhyolitic lavas with agglomeratic intercalations as well as subgreywacke, conglomerate, local...

(1985). Integrating science and technology into a policy of lifelong education in Nigeria. International Journal of Lifelong Education: Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 319-325.

This research project, undertaken in the Department of Nursing Science at Unisa between 1978 and 1981, focuses on nursing education in general and in particular on nurses as postregistration students furthering their education through the medium of teletuition in the nonresidential academic setting offered by Unisa.