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Several critics have questioned the efficiency of learnerships in general in the South African education and human resources management environment.Concerns have been raised regarding the effective management within each sector education training authority (SETA), the management of finances within the respective SETA's and whether the human resource development (HRD) strategy meets its targets.The main objective of this study was to identify the reasons behind this disparity in learners'...
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The media coverage of climate change issues is in decline in both the developed and developing countries. This situation calls for innovative ways by which the costs associated with climate change coverage can be shared and defrayed; it needs to attract true partners within the media sector and beyond in addressing climate change issues; and it must develop practical solutions to overcoming the systemic public apathy toward climate science and climate science journalism in developing countries.
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A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for master of education degree in the school of education, Kenyatta University, May, 2012
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The aim of this article is to shed light on the entrepreneurship education currently offered at higher education institutions in South Africa (SA).The major questions addressed are: What is the state of entrepreneurship education in SA universities?And how should entrepreneurship be taught?The entrepreneurship programs offered at South African universities, both in terms of content and methods, do not appear to achieve the desired outcomes.Results indicated that South African universities are adhering to the old, traditional teacher-
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Schistosomiasis control programs aim to reduce morbidity but are evaluated by infection prevalence and intensity reduction. We present baseline cross-sectional data from a nested cohort study comparing indicators of morbidity for measuring program impact. Eight hundred twenty-two schoolchildren 7–8 years of age from Nyanza Province, Kenya, contributed stool for diagnosis of Schistosoma mansoni and soil-transmitted helminths (STH) and blood smears for malaria, and were evaluated for anemia,...
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Between the 18 th and the 19 th centuries Muhammad b. ʻAbd al-Wahhabʼs teaching found energetic followers in the countries in far off Arabia, several thousand kilometers. Generally the Wahhabi views have been spread by the pilgrims visited Mecca the in the period of the first Wahhabi state (1744–1811). Wahhabi teaching has acquired a reputation as an applicable for Arabo-Islamic society. This dogma has accommodated and transformed everywhere it has gone. Wahhabi doctrines exerted influence...
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Intertidal mangrove ecosystems are sensitive to climate change impacts, particularly to associated relative sea level rise.Human stressors and low tidal range add to vulnerability, both characteristics of the Doula Estuary, Cameroon.To investigate vulnerability, spatial techniques were combined with ground surveys to map distributions of mangrove zones, and compare with historical spatial records to quantify change over the last few decades.Low technology techniques were used to establish...
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Latterly, the African labour market has fared very poorly, with the result that millions of young jobseekers are unemployed and jobless. Data on employment from the African Economic Outlook of 2012 show that 22 out of 40 million young African jobseekers – chiefly women – have given up looking for a job, facing the high risk of losing their human and social capital. This implies that now more than ever, young people in Africa are in need of inclusive labour market strategies that help them...
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Background: Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) remains a common and one of the major causes of blindness in the developed and western societies. The same situation is shown in emerging economic areas (5,6). In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) however, the issues of visual disability due to diabetes mellitus (DM) are overshadowed by the presence of the prevalent and common nutritional deficiency diseases and eye infections Objective: This clinic-based study was conducted to determine whether diabetic...
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This article examines cultural beliefs and values about disability in one Tanzanian community and the influence of those beliefs on a school for children with disabilities. The larger ethnographic study examined the role of beliefs in the community and the development of the school curriculum. This study used the models of disability as a framework for classifying and understanding the different belief systems present. The study was conducted in a rural community in Tanzania at a school for...
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Abstract Approximately 2,100 (30% of the world's) languages are spoken in Africa (Lewis, 2009), with multilingualism a defining characteristic of the continent.