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This paper analyses the politicization of decision making in the education sector in Kenya since independence in 1963, to 2000. Utilizing a catalogue of major political decisions that have influenced trends and patterns of educational growth and policy formulation in Kenya, I demonstrate how such decisions have interfered in the running of education. I argue that these political decisions have marginalized the role and contribution of professionals and thus impacted negatively on policy...

Abstract One of the expected utilitarian values of education is the development of competencies for effective business practice after school. This article presents findings of a study on the effect of education on Business Skills Cognition among indigenous microscale business owners in Kenya. Data were collected from 208 respondents using an interview schedule, observation schedule and checklist. Business Skills Cognition as the dependent quantitative variable was measured using five broad...

By using a climate system model of intermediate complexity, we have simulated long-term natural climate changes occurring over the last 9000 years. The paleo-simulations in which the model is driven by orbital forcing only, i.e., by changes in insolation caused by changes in the Earth's orbit, are compared with sensitivity simulations in which various scenarios of increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration are prescribed. Focussing on climate and vegetation change in northern Africa, we...

By using a climate system model of intermediate complexity, we have simulated long-term natural climate changes occurring over the last 9000 years. The paleo-simulations in which the model is driven by orbital forcing only, i.e., by changes in insolation caused by changes in the Earth's orbit, are compared with sensitivity simulations in which various scenarios of increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration are prescribed. Focussing on climate and vegetation change in northern Africa, we...

By using a climate system model of intermediate complexity, we have simulated long-term natural climate changes occurring over the last 9000 years. The paleo-simulations in which the model is driven by orbital forcing only, i.e., by changes in insolation caused by changes in the Earth's orbit, are compared with sensitivity simulations in which various scenarios of increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration are prescribed. Focussing on climate and vegetation change in northern Africa, we...

By using a climate system model of intermediate complexity, we have simulated long-term natural climate changes occurring over the last 9000 years. The paleo-simulations in which the model is driven by orbital forcing only, i.e., by changes in insolation caused by changes in the Earth's orbit, are compared with sensitivity simulations in which various scenarios of increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration are prescribed. Focussing on climate and vegetation change in northern Africa, we...

This case study highlights findings from the first two years of a cross-institutional and cross-national effort to link university students in South Africa with university students in the United States via a graduate seminar on globalization and the information society. The seminar is taught using synchronous and asynchronous web-based tools, providing students with the opportunity to participate in complex, cross-national learning teams. These Global Syndicates represent important...

En combinant des donnees macro-economiques sur 45 pays et des donnees micro-economiques sur 4 pays comparables, nous revelons l’existence de differences entre les niveaux d’education atteints en Afrique selon l’identite du colonisateur. En 1960, les ex-colonies britanniques affichaient une performance educative superieure. Ces differences sont robustes au controle de certains facteurs pre-coloniaux et ont persiste dans le temps jusqu’en 1990. Cependant, le differentiel d’education ne...

Research Article| March 01 2003 Teaching the History of Architecture in Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco: Colonialism, Independence, and Globalization Ali Djerbi, Ali Djerbi Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Abdelwahab Safi Abdelwahab Safi Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2003) 62 (1): 102–109. https://doi.org/10.2307/3655087 Views Icon Views Article contents...

The aim of this study was to determine selection criteria for prospective dentistry students at the University of Pretoria. A study of the relevant literature was undertaken, and experts at universities in South Africa and Britain were interviewed. A job analysis questionnaire was used to identify the relevant job requirements that could serve as selection criteria. Potential selection criteria that were identified include physical potential (e.g. visual-spatial and mechanical ability),...

Abstract In about three and a half decades since its introduction, business teacher education has made a modest impact on the teaching profession in Nigeria. However, effort to improve its standard and quality seems to have been slowed down by a number of factors such as low public interest, curriculum structure, inadequate personnel, inadequate material resources for training, and slow adaptation to research and technological challenges. Through assessing the current trends in the...

How is citizenship understood in South Africa, a new democracy with a deeply divided past? This paper describes the approach to citizenship education in recent educational policy, and in curriculum developments. It does so against the background of a conceptualisation of citizenship based on both the participatory vision of the anti-apartheid struggle and on the citizen as presented in the new Constitution. The shifting nature of the divisions that still deeply divide this society is...

Mycobacterium ulcerans disease starts as a painless, subcutaneous nodule, excision of which prevents the development of large Buruli ulcers. An outreach programme was set up in Ghana to promote nodule recognition and excision. The programme was cost-effective and shifted the pattern of disease presentation. This could from a model for other countries.

A public expenditure tracking survey (PETS) of the resource flows of the public service providers in the health and education sectors in Rwanda traced the budgetary resource flow from the ministry of finance to primary health centers and some primary schools for 1998 and 1999, collecting information on income sources, expenditures on basic services, and the practices of accountability. It also surveyed administrators and facility heads on the problems they face, how these problems could be...

In light of the recent socio-political transformation in South Africa, the article examines whether post-apartheid society offers young adults new and different possibilities for constructing their identity, or whether ‘race’ still constitutes a central defining feature of their representations of Self and Other? It draws on findings from a study that examined the self-articulated self-conceptions and future identity aspirations and threats of 542 undergraduate South African students of...