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Tanzania suffers from a severe lack of health practitioners trained in neurosurgical procedures. To address this problem, we have implemented an initiative, modeled after the experience of other pioneers in international neurosurgery, to establish cost-effective and sustainable neurosurgical care by teaching fundamental neurosurgical skills to local surgeons. In this report we describe our early experience in Northwest Tanzania and discuss the potential for this training model to improve...
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Objective: This study investigated the social, demographic and contextual factors associated with injury among adolescents in a low-income urban sub-Saharan African setting. Methods: Data on 2 176 adolescents aged 11–16 years were divided into three groups: Those that reported not being injured, those that had been injured once, and those that had been injured multiple times within a 12-month recall period. We conducted bivariate analyses to screen for associations with several social,...
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A shared history is crucial to the formation of a national imagined community. Many post-ethnic conflict societies, such as Tito's Yugoslavia and Kagame's Rwanda, have attempted or are attempting to build new national imagined communities in order to overcome genocide. Building this community requires a new understanding of the past that is able to co-opt divisive elements of history that helped to fuel identity based violence. History education provides a mechanism for states to construct...
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The paper attempts to evaluate the Global economic crisis and the challenges to entrepreneurship development of technical vocational education and training in oil and Gas sector of the Nigerian economy. Effects of the global melt down in the economies of developed countries of the world and its chain-link action has gradually enveloped the entire world economy. This development impacted negatively on the Nigerian economy coupled with the Niger delta crisis that has drastically affected oil...
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Degree awarded: Ph.D. Religion and Culture. The Catholic University of America%%%%This dissertation can be viewed by CUA users only.%%%%Within the context of the Millennium Development Goals, governments and donors have made improvements in human development in developing countries a key priority. Public sector service providers have a leading role in efforts to improve health and education outcomes, but private providers, including faith-inspired institutions (FIIs), may also contribute....
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This paper presents a general overview of the recruitment of international teachers to augment the teaching cadre in Ethiopia. One of the purposes of the Commonwealth Research Symposium on Teacher Mobility, Recruitment and Migration in 2011 was to learn from the experience of the Commonwealth Teacher Recruitment Protocol (CTRP). Although Ethiopia is not a member of the Commonwealth, this paper intends to present Ethiopia’s experience related to the themes of the symposium. The paper analyses...
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This paper investigates the impact of idiosyncratic and covariate economic shocks and the resulting work burden on children on the likelihood of children completing primary education or dropping out of primary school. In this endeavour, censored Cox proportional hazards model was estimated using data from the Young Lives study of childhood poverty. The estimated results indicate that both idiosyncratic shocks and covariate shocks have a statistically significant effect on the risk of...
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Educational reforms, as driven by the Millennium Development Goals, envision schooling where all children and young people participate and have opportunities to succeed. To achieve this vision across Sub Saharan Africa requires both large numbers of new teachers and for existing teachers to have access to professional opportunities relevant to their context and the specific realities of their schools – teacher education institutions need to focus greater attention on their students’...
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Transforming Student Periodicals into Persuasive Podiums: African American Girls at Lincoln High School, 1915–1930 Henrietta Rix Wood (bio) In the early twentieth century, African American girls at Lincoln High School joined young people throughout the United States who were producing school-sponsored periodicals. Like other students, Lincoln girls wrote accounts of their academic, athletic, and extracurricular activities for their school yearbook and newspaper. As students at the only...