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The South African Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) is currently involved with its second round of national programme reviews in the field of education. Such national reviews are designed to foster quality and equity within the broader Higher Education (HE) system as whole, through peer evaluation and public discourse processes and decision-making. One of the key features of this South African Higher Education Quality Assurance (HEQA) system has been its extended attempt to build...

Abstrad The article addresses the concept of quality assurance (QA) and its relation to quality in higher education which itself is a component of total quality manage­ ment. It then examines the regulatory policies for higher education followed by the meaning of the concept of democracy in the South African Constitution and its impact and implications on the higher education. The cornerstone of any democracy is an inductive (bottom-up) approach rather than a deductive (top­ down) approach....

This article is a critical overview of the symposium on the contribution of the quality assurance process to democracy recently held at the University of Stellenbosch. It argues that recent symposia and colloquia in which South Africans themselves have attempted to stake out their intellectual credentials are extremely important and that the Stellenbosch event must be seen in this light. The article makes an assessment of the self-consciousness of the participants in relation to the major...

The article interprets a particular set of debates on whether quality assurance in South African higher education widens democracy or not. The interpretation explores the extent to which higher education quality assurance fulfils three conditions posited for democracy (inclusion, participation and enhancement), drawing in as points of reference goals for quality in higher education as articulated by the Higher Education Quality Committee (fitness of purpose, fitness for purpose, value for...

Research regarding the specific needs of the L2MI teacher points to the need for developing a training course that not only ensures advanced levels of personal proficiency in the medium of instruction, but also certifies the ability to apply methodological and presentational skills that enhance and promote learning in the L2MI subject content classroom. This article describes the design and implementation of an integrated course for second language medium of instruction (L2MI) teacher...

This article attempts to explore why and how student involvement is a necessary, but under-developed and under-utilised strategy for enhancing quality distance education in South Africa. Any critical analysis of education in South Africa needs to consider the historical and current social contexts, and in this case the analysis needs to explain the circumstances and social forces responsible for the timing, method and approach in which quality assurance in higher education, and specifically...

The purpose of the study was to find out whether attitudes of women towards the education of female children was related to the level of a woman's education, her occupational status and her environment. A total of 300 respondents completed the survey instrument that was designed foe the study. Data were analyzed using Pearson's correlation coefficient, chi-square at alpa level of .05 and a two-tailed t-test of independence. The study revealed that the level of education of women influenced...

The term scientific literacy is defined differently in different contexts. The term literacy simply refers to the ability for one to read and write, but recent studies in language literacy have extended this definition. New literacy research seeks a redefinition in terms of how skills are used rather than how they are learned. Contemporary perspectives on literacy as a transfer of learned skills into daily life practises capture the understanding of what it means to be scientifically...

The Fifth Libyan Diabetes and Endocrinology Conference (LDEC2007) was held over the first three days of May this year. Tripoli's spring weather was at its best and the venue, Teachers’ Union Hall on “Treeg Ashatt”, gave the meeting a very cozy ambience of a family gathering rather than an official academic conference.

The Fifth Libyan Diabetes and Endocrinology Conference (LDEC2007) was held over the first three days of May this year. Tripoli's spring weather was at its best and the venue, Teachers’ Union Hall on “Treeg Ashatt”, gave the meeting a very cozy ambience of a family gathering rather than an official academic conference.

We conducted a national household survey to estimate the prevalence and causes of hearing impairment in Egypt. From 6 randomly selected governorates (Alexandria, Dakahlia, Luxor, Marsa Matrouh, Minia and North Sinai), 4000 individuals were screened for hearing loss. The prevalence of hearing loss was 16.0% with no significant sex differences. There were significant differences between the age groups and governorates: Marsa Matrouh had the highest prevalence of hearing loss (25.7%) and North...

We conducted a national household survey to estimate the prevalence and causes of hearing impairment in Egypt. From 6 randomly selected governorates (Alexandria, Dakahlia, Luxor, Marsa Matrouh, Minia and North Sinai), 4000 individuals were screened for hearing loss. The prevalence of hearing loss was 16.0% with no significant sex differences. There were significant differences between the age groups and governorates: Marsa Matrouh had the highest prevalence of hearing loss (25.7%) and North...

Mathematics is a very important subject in Nigeria. Yet, for more than twenty years, mathematics education in Nigeria has been in a sorry state. Mathematics achievement has been very low and frustrating. So far, every effort made to save Nigerian education from the devastating effect of persistent poor mathematics achievement has failed. An experiment to address the problem of poor achievement in mathematics in Nigerian high schools was carried out in Edo State of Nigeria. Eighteen simple...

AIM: Anecdotal evidence suggests that the practice of implant dentistry, gold standard for edentulism is presently very low in Nigeria. This article proposes a model for teaching dental implant education and also emphasises the need for inclusion of standardised dental implant education in the dental curriculum in Nigeria. METHODS: A literature search using the MEDLINE was conducted on various models for teaching of dental implant education worldwide. RESULTS: Implant dental education for...

This article explores the impact of conflict and war on children's moral education, taking the case of Palestine as an example. It begins by giving a brief background to the emergency situation in Palestine and the impact this has on children. The second section reports research findings about the attitudes of Palestinian teachers, parents and young people towards the effects of the current conflict on children's personal development and towards the possibility of moral education while the...