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Examines the information-seeking behaviour and information needs of professional nurses at Obafemi Awolowo University Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria and the adequacy of the information sources used. Five hundred practising nurses were used as respondents in the study, conducted between January and March, 2004. The study revealed that nurses were aware of their needs for current information for effective professional practice. Attending meetings, seminars, conferences etc., library...

In this paper we study the long-term labor market implications of school resource equalization before Brown and school desegregation after Brown.For cohorts born in the South in the 1920s and 1930s, we find that racial disparities in measurable school characteristics had a substantial influence on black males' earnings and educational attainment measured in 1970, albeit one that was smaller in the later cohorts.When we examine the income of male workers in 1990, we find that southern-born...

Twenty-first-century urban schools face unique challenges in being culturally responsive and providing quality education to culturally diverse and low-income students. The academic achievement gap for low-income and ethnic youth poses the need for new and innovative interventions by educational institutions. School counselors are in a unique position in schools to assume leadership roles in reducing academic disparity. This article discusses the experience of urban youth identified as being...

Parent participation has been strongly linked to student success. Yet, in urban schools, African American parents often are uninvolved. This article presents eight strategies that school counselors can use to better collaborate with African American parents. ********** The changing demographics of students in public schools have been a catalyst for reexamining the role of school counselors in the 21st century. Many writers have acknowledged that in order to effectively attend to the needs of...

This article, firstly, analyses changes in higher education internationally since about 1980. It shows that essentially similar shifts - massification, marketisation and managerialism, overseen by the regulatory state - emerged with striking synchronicity in advanced capitalist societies. Secondly, it argues that since 1994 these international trends have impacted substantially on higher education practices and policies in South Africa. It asks whether such impact has compromised...

Mauritius, like many developing countries, has a need for educational reform. Education is a contentious policy area where it is difficult to build consensus. Mauritius has a well-established procedure, the civic network, for involving the public in policy making, and building state legitimacy and capacity. Yet, in recent attempts at educational reform, the civic network has been avoided. Instead, they have relied upon technocratic policy making which, in political terms, has had limited...

The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of African American faculty on their organizational socialization in kinesiology-based (i.e., sport pedagogy, exercise physiology, motor behavior, sport management/history) programs at predominantly White American1 institutions of higher education (PW-IHE). Participants were 9 African American tenure-track faculty members from various kinesiology-based programs at PW-IHE. Data were gathered via interviewing and analyzed within the...

Objective: To assess the Mantoux test reaction pattern in healthy BCG vaccinated Primary School Children aged 6 -10 years in Nnewi, South–East Nigeria. Materials and methods&#58Four Primary Schools were randomly selected out of 43 government owned primary schools in the town. The entire BCG vaccinated pupils in each school were the sample frame. Mantoux test was administered in 662 pupils that met the inclusion criteria and had their results read 72 hours later. Results&#58 Three groups of...

Abstract A new species of Stream frog, genus Strongylopus, is described. The new species is similar to its northern Tanzanian congener S. kitumbeine, but may be distinguished from that species by its facial markings, smaller tympanum, minor differences in head and snout shape, nostril closer to tip of the snout than to the eye, dorsal colour pattern, longitudinal skin folds, immaculate abdomen and slightly reduced webbing on the foot. It is suggested that there is a ‘northern volcanic’ group...

Numerous South African policy documents support the use of ICTs in education, claiming that they can be beneficial to education, in a variety of ways. This article seeks to understand how ICTs are used in practice as part of teaching and learning, since access to ICTs alone does not ensure use, nor automatically add value. Through a regional study conducted in five higher education institutions in the Western Cape, we describe how and to what extent academic staff and students are using...

Extracted from text ... Perspectives in Education, Volume 23(4), December 2005 vii Editorial Education in South Africa - what have ICTs got to do with it? LAURA CZERNIEWICZ AND CHERYL HODGKINSON-WILLIAMS Introduction This Special Issue of Perspectives in Education set out to publish empirical, research-based studies that examine reflective practice and the theoretical framing of information communication technologies (ICTs) in South African education. In the call for papers we...

This article describes a web-based application designed to provide meaningful access to the study of Computer Science to speakers of an African language who have limited experience of using English for academic purposes. Our research is focused upon students of Computer Skills in the Extended Studies Programme at Rhodes University who have studied English as a second language for the matriculation examination. The intervention involves the cooperative production and sharing of...

A large literature examines the link between shocks to households and the educational attainment of children. The authors use new data to estimate the impact of shocks to teachers on student learning in mathematics and English. Using absenteeism in the 30 days preceding the survey as a measure of these shocks they find large impacts: A 5 percent increase in the teacher's absence rate reduces learning by 4 to 8 percent of average gains over the year. This reduction in learning achievement...

There is a need to conduct a research on identifying the training needs, which is considered one of the most essential components of a staff development programme. The present status of planning in-service training programmes and workshops for Mathematics teachers in Yemen lacks appropriate methodology and a systematic and comprehensive assessment of the trainees' needs. In addition, no attention has been paid to systematically identify in-service needs for Mathematics teachers of...

The dismantling of South Africa's apartheid-controlled education system after 1994 brought with it unprecedented policy complications, among them the question of how best to integrate the desiderata of access and merit in school education and tertiary sectors. For the higher education sector, institutional mergers became an increasingly visible policy tool with the advent of the Asmal Ministry in 1999. Mergers promise better quality programs with improved access, accelerated...