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The paper aims at analysing the impact of the likely change in rainfall on food availability and access to food in Sudan. The empirical investigation is based on an integrated approach consisting on a stochastic method and CGE model. The former provides the likely changes in sorghum, millet and wheat productivity and their probability of occurrence according to rainfall predictions based on historical data. These results are at the basis of the shocks simulated in a standard CGE model...
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The paper aims at analysing the impact of the likely change in rainfall on food availability and access to food in Sudan. The empirical investigation is based on an integrated approach consisting of a stochastic method and CGE model. The former provides the likely changes in sorghum, millet and wheat productivity and their probability of occurrence according to rainfall predictions based on historical data. These results are at the basis of the shocks simulated in a standard CGE model...
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The paper aims at analysing the impact of the likely change in rainfall on food availability and access to food in Sudan. The empirical investigation is based on an integrated approach consisting of a stochastic method and CGE model. The former provides the likely changes in sorghum, millet and wheat productivity and their probability of occurrence according to rainfall predictions based on historical data. These results are at the basis of the shocks simulated in a standard CGE model...
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Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) programs typically require their graduates to learn to swim proficiently. However, the research base is underdeveloped regarding the aquatic experiences of African Americans in PETE programs. The purpose of this study was to explore the meaning African American PETE teacher candidates ascribe to their aquatic experiences. Participants were six African American teacher candidates. The research design was explanatory multiple-case study. The primary...
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The study investigates the basic factors responsible for rapid expansion in provision of university education between 1980–2008 in Nigeria. It analyses in particular, the extent to which Fields’ proposition holds sway in this respect. The study used secondary data obtained from JAMB, NUC, the CBN Statistical Bulletin and Annual Abstract of Statistics from NBS. The ordinary least square (OLS) estimation technique was used to examine the extent to which social demand consideration had...
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The paper provides a reflective account of the research carried out in South African schools focusing on physical access and learning. The paper argues that while physical access is not a major education problem in South Africa, meaningful learning remains an elusive goal for many, particularly the marginalised and the poor, notwithstanding the numerous education polices enacted since 1994. It argues further that there are many reasons for this, including how learners are taught, the...
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Background There is a paucity of radiographers with postgraduate (PG) qualifications even though such qualifications in radiography started in Nigeria almost two decades ago. There is, therefore, a need to evaluate the attitude of radiographers to PG education with a view to establishing their major constraints and ways to enhance enrollment for study further. Aim and objectives This study determines the level of awareness of the existence of PG education opportunities among radiographers in...
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The aim of this paper is to identify some all-inclusive objectives for values education in our country. These should naturally appeal to the majority of our citizens. Such all-encompassing educational aims form the parameters within which all other (immediate and proximate) goals will ultimately receive their deepest meaning. As final and all-encompassing objective for values education in any community, the ideal of a just state where free, equal, impartially treated, like-minded, critically...
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This study is an investigation into the scope, role, and function of student development and support (SDS) within higher education in South Africa. The underpinnings and frameworks of SDS were explored during the research, as well as its integration into the institution and into organisational structures, the relationship between SDS and the policies of the Department of Higher Education and Training, and the influences from the national and international context of SDS. Policies emerging...
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Universal primary education ranges prominently among the Millennium Development Goals and is thus regarded as an important component of human development. In addition, education is widely believed to allow a country to access a higher steady state growth path by accumulating human capital. Consequently, education is one of the key pillars in the development strategies of all African countries and is also one of the main areas in which development aid is given on a large scale. If educational...
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The OLPC project has been known to supply young students in poor developing countries with computer (the XO-laptops). The laptops are meant to be an educational tool that can help prevent poverty and illiteracy. The pedagogical method approach that OLPC organization encourages is the constructivism. The OLPC encourages teachers and students to us a constructivism approach to learning, meaning that the students takes control of his or her learning and is not dependent on the teacher to learn....
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SCHOOLING CITIZENS: The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum America. By Hilary J. Moss. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2009.A half century ago, Bernard Bailyn exhaled long sigh of frustration over history of in Education in Forming of American Society (1960). The story of schools, he wrote, had been told as if they were self-contained entities completely disconnected from other developments in American history. Schools were explained as democratic and progressive...
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In order to define criteria for long-term climate change models in Southern Africa, an overview of the available pollen data during the Late Quaternary is needed. Here we reassess the paleo-climatic conditions in southern Africa by synthesising available fossil pollen data that can provide new insights in environmental change processes. The data considered here include the latest as well as previously published information that has been difficult to assess. Available calibrated pollen...