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Background : Epilepsy is the most common neurological problem of childhood, and its incidence is highest in the first decade of life. Children with epilepsy are burdened by the limitations it imposes on them such as psychological stress (especially when they have seizures in school), loss of school hours and possible effect of the seizure itself on cognitive function. Lack of information and inappropriate beliefs contribute to poor attitude towards epileptics so I sought to determine the...
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Authentic assessments provide an alternative to informal and formal assessments which may reduce the number of African Americans in special education programs. This literature review will explore the use of authentic assessment for at risk students in special education programs in urban settings. Learning disability and emotional disorders continue to be overrepresented in minority children and have become a national dilemma that occurs in urban educational settings. Learning disability is...
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Ghana is a perplexing case of success and failure, characterized as one of the best performing countries in sub-Saharan Africa in terms of economic growth, but falling far behind other African states in terms of education quality. Despite the fact that the Ghanaian government invests as much as 30% of the countrys budget in its education sector, in 2011 basic education results were the lowest in thirteen years, causing a public uproar, leading the media to label this a disgrace to the...
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This paper presents key findings from Young Lives school survey in Ethiopia conducted in 2009–10, contextualised by cross-sectional evidence from the Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey. The findings suggest that educational exclusion operates through complex mechanisms which conspire to limit the access opportunities of disadvantaged children during the course of the education life-cycle. Exclusion is associated with family ill-health, poverty, livelihood and labour demands,...
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The study was carried out to examine the issues and options in selected secondary schools in Akure Local Government Area of Ondo state. A simple random sampling technique was used in selecting 10 out of 27 public secondary schools and 120 respondents utilized for the study. Findings show that the respondents are young, of both male and female gender, but mostly males, cut across all the educational fields. Though most secondary schools have school libraries, but they enjoy very low...
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HIV/AIDS is affecting the majority of the population, particularly the productive age group between 15–49 years resulting in social and economic crisis. The rate of HIV infection would undoubtedly be lowered if safe sexual practices such as correct and consistent use of condoms had been followed. The aim of this study was therefore to assess intention to use condom among students in Agena preparatory school, Guraghe zone, Ethiopia. Agena is an urban area in south Ethiopia. Institution based...
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Aim: To explore and compare students' perceptions about male nursing at Faculty of Nursing Zagazig University in Egypt and Shaqra University in Saudi Arabia. Method: This study is an exploratory comparative descriptive study. Two types of samples were used: A convenience sample including the nursing students (160) at Faculty of Nursing Shaqra University and A stratified proportionate sample (323) from different years of student nurses at Faculty of Nursing Zagazig University. An exploratory...
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Teacher education is an essential component of the educational system because teachers, among others, help to develop human capacity and implement educational policies for the realization of the nation’s objectives and goals. The development of teacher education in Rivers State, a chip of the then Eastern Nigeria that was created on 27 th May, 1967 with a myriad of challenges, contributes to data on the subject in Nigeria and explains how these challenges were surmounted. From a gradual...
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The study was aimed at determining standard values for head circumference, inner canthal distance, outer canthal distance, canthal index and circumference interorbital index of Ikwerre school children between the ages of 3-18 years. The measurements of head circumference, inner and outer canthal distances, canthal index and circumference interorbital index were obtained from a randomly selected sample size of one thousand, five hundred and twenty-three(1523) children, Seven hundred and...
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Engaging with difference is an important skill for teachers in current South Africa. Critics of the dominant approach to teaching on and with difference in pre-service teacher education argue that it mostly promotes de-contextualised celebrations of diverse cultures without addressing critical issues of power and social forces. One of the reasons that educators shy away from engaging with issues of power and privilege in the classroom is the fear of highly explosive emotions that might...
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A research report submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the award of Masters Degree in Distance Education of the University of Nairobi
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Factors that Hinder Youth Entrepreneurship: A Case of University Students in KenyaGadhia, S. - 2013
A Research Report by Shalini Gadhia, Submitted to the Chandaria School of Business in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Masters in Business Administration (MBA).
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With female British imperial support in the newly conquered Transvaal, Anglican women missionaries opened St Agnes' School for African girls in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, in 1909. To secure state funding, marketable domestic or 'industrial' skills were highlighted, though creating Christian homes was always an allied objective. The contrasting educational priorities of the pioneers, as compared with a teacher hired in the 1920s, help uncover the changing pressures on mission schooling both...