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Dental caries is one of the commonest oral diseases in children. Despite this fact, not much attention has been given to studies on this issue among suburban Nigerian children.To investigate the prevalence of dental caries, dental attendance and oral health behaviours among the 12- year-old suburban Nigerian children.Four hundred and two schoolchildren (349 boys, 153 girls) from both private and public schools age 12-year-old participated in the study in 2003. One examiner was calibrated and...

This study examined the factors responsible for the poor quality of the teaching of English as a second language in public secondary schools in Nigeria. To guide the study three research questions were posed. The questions examined the following three variables: (1) Frequency of the use of instructional media; (2) Frequency of the use of instructional techniques; and (3) The school learning environment. A questionnaire was distributed to 3000 senior secondary school students across the six...

This article reports on the problems experienced by the Department of Distance Education, Makerere University, Uganda with the B.Ed. (External) programme with specific reference to the technology needs and expectations of the programme. With a total enrolment of nearly 3,500 students in 2003, this programme was one of the largest distance education programmes for teachers in the country. It was therefore important to establish what technologies the stakeholders of this programme had access...

A total of 1, 260 students who were purposively drawn participated in the study. Thirty-nine variables were investigated under body basics, skinfolds, girths, lengths and breadths / lengths. The results revealed that the students from high socio-economic background exhibited bigger body girths and were taller on the average when compared with those from the low socio-economic background. Nevertheless, none of the students from either backgrounds demonstrated BMI for obesity or overweight,...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY: Chronic kidney disease is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in Nigeria. This study aims at determining the pattern of chronic renal failure (CRF) in a Nigerian University Teaching Hospital.The study was a 10-year retrospective study of consecutive cases of CRF seen at Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria.The frequency of CRF in the population was 3.6% (182 of 5,107). There were 90 males and 63 females...

Specimens of the mussel Perna perna were collected along Moroccan coasts to determine the concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) bioaccumulated in the tissues, and to measure benzo[a]pyrene hydroxylase (BPH) activity. Chemical analysis of PAHs show that the Mediterranean (Nador, Martil, Tanger) and central Atlantic coasts (from Rabat to Jorf Lihoudi) are those most contaminated (351 245 ng.g− 1 dry weight in Tanger). The mussel contaminants were of mixed origin for most of...

High desired fertility is an important factor contributing to the population explosion in sub-Saharan Africa. On a broad sample of 910 respondents from the rural areas of Uganda this paper assesses the impact of health risks, economic contributions from children, traditional community institutions and unequal position of women on desired fertility levels. The paper further scrutinizes how these determinants are affected by education. The results show that fear of diseases and involvement in...

It has been stated that popular culture's deluging society with images of African American males as athletes and entertainers is detrimental to the academic and social growth of this group. African American males are over-represented in the sports world, which has recently been attributed to the intentional and intensive socialization of African American into sports. The consequences that have emerged from this phenomena include an over identification with athletic achievement to the...

Abstract The goal of this paper is to underline the paradox of student mobility and notably the asymmetry between the circulation of goods and the mobility of persons, which is ever more and more notable. Today, the events of September 11 and the response to them raise new questions about academic freedom, freedom of movement, and the role of student mobility. They mark a sharp counterpoint to the celebratory discussions of globalisation and human mobility that dominated during the 1990s....

This paper discusses the distributional consequences of education policies in developing countries, with a specific emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa. We show that human capital is particularly unequally distributed in sub-Saharan African countries and in Middle-East and North Africa and South Asian regions as well. To obtain this conclusion, we build an analytical framework in which the effects of the level and of the structure of human capital are separated, which provides a way to correct...

The 1994 Mw 6.0 and 2004 Mw 6.5 Al Hoceima earthquakes are the largest to have occurred in Morocco for 100 yr, and give valuable insight into the poorly understood tectonics of the area. Bodywave modelling indicates the earthquakes occurred on near-vertical, strike-slip faults with the nodal planes oriented NW–SE and NE–SW. Distinguishing between the primary fault plane and auxiliary planes, using either geodetic or seismic data, is difficult due to the spatial symmetry in deformation fields...

Purpose Teachers play a central role in determining access to education and may mediate epilepsy-associated stigma. We developed and administered a teacher-specific survey to assess teachers’ knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and practices (KABPs) regarding epilepsy in Zambia and social and demographic determinants of KABPs. Methods In 2004, we surveyed 171 teachers in urban and rural regions using a 46-item questionnaire. Knowledge and tolerance composite scores were developed and analyses...

This article presents a model that has the potential to frame research and analysis across a range of different professional contexts. Professions and their professional education programmes are seen in relation to national and international professional labour markets and the multiple socio-economic, political and discursive conditions that constitute professional milieu. Viewed in this way, the profession and education of medical practitioners poses a number of challenges that also...

The wine industry is an integral part of the Western Capes economy, contributing just over 8% to Gross Provincial Product (GPP). The intensive labour required by the industry also provides employment for semi-skilled labour. Changes in climate induced by global warming are likely to affect many aspects of this industry. Current regional projections of rising temperatures and decreased precipitation ((Midgley et al, 2005; New, 2002) will put pressure on both the phenological development of...

Over the next decade many countries of sub‐Saharan Africa will face a demand for qualified secondary school teachers that current systems for teacher recruitment, training, deployment and retention will be unable to meet. While strategies for increasing teacher supply to meet this shortage have been suggested, less attention has been given to investigating the acceptability of these potential solutions by those educators closest to the school and classroom level and who often serve as...

Abstract The scholarship on historical and contemporary African‐American teachers highlights the emphasis on community connections in their work. As such, the scholarship portrays African‐American teachers almost exclusively as givers without fully considering what teachers derive from community connections. This paper describes a qualitative study in which intergenerational African‐American teachers illustrate the dual nature of community connections and the ways in which constructs of...

To determine student attitudes and opinions towards pharmacy education in Egyptian universities to provide information for designing delivery of a revised pharmacy curriculum.Students were recruited from the pharmacy faculties at a government-sponsored university and a privately funded university. Data were gathered using a structured questionnaire and statistically analyzed. Responses from open questions were subjected to thematic analysis.Students spent widely differing amounts of time on...