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Summary Background Anecdotal data suggest that combed natural African hair reaches a length steady state. Easier grooming and anticipated long hair have made relaxers popular. Objectives These hypotheses were tested in a cross‐sectional survey of 1042 school children using a piloted questionnaire and hair length measurements done on four scalp regions. Results Participants included 45% boys and 55% girls. Girls consider length important for hairstyle choice ( P < 0.0001). There was no...
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This report maps and assesses the status and practice of higher education quality assurance (QA) in Sub-Saharan Africa. It centers on quality assurance in degree-granting tertiary institutions, but also incorporates, where available, information on other types of tertiary education. A main finding is that structured national-level quality assurance processes in African higher education are a very recent phenomenon and that most countries face major capacity constraints. The research for this...
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The use of indigenous African languages in official circles has largely been determined by Africa's contact with the west. In particular this has been the usage of English, French and Portuguese in most of Africa's colonial world. This has attracted the use of such terms as Anglophone, francophone and Lusophone, respectively, even after African governments have attained independence from their colonial masters. To a large extent, the influence of English has been determined by colonial...
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Twenty‐five years since the onset of HIV/AIDS, young people aged 15–24 now make up half of new HIV infections. This paper advocates for comprehensive sexuality education as an effective panacea to reverse this, with teachers stepping up and embracing their role as sexuality educators. The exploration of this challenge is informed by a small‐scale participatory study of teacher responses in a rural primary school in Nakuru district, Kenya. Dialogue was held with 18 teachers (11 females, seven...
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The importance of mother tongue in the cognitive, linguistic, personal and educational development of children cannot be overemphasised.It is out of this recognition that the UNESCO declared 2006 the Year of African Languages.In spite of this, the language policy in Kenya continues to be tilted in favour of English and to some extent Kiswahili, at the expense of mother tongues.The question posed in this paper is: When will the mother tongues in Kenya take their rightful position in the...
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Most independent African states are now, like Lesotho, about forty years old.What has become of foreign languages such as French that once thrived under colonial rule albeit mostly in schools targeting non-indigenous learners?In Lesotho French seems to be the preserve of private or "international" schools.Can African learners in a developing country such as Lesotho, most of whom attend public or government schools, take to a European foreign language in a world where knowledge of key foreign...
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This study examined the attitudes and level of commitment of lecturers towards teaching in tertiary educational institutions in south Eastern Nigeria. Five hypotheses guided the study. The sample consisted of 1991 lecturers and 828 students drawn through proportionate stratified random sampling techniques. Three sets of questionnaires, interviews and document analysis were the main research instruments employed in the study. Mean, mean set, rank order, t-test and ANOVA were employed to find...
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The study examines five critical issues in special education as they relate to visual impairment vis a vis mercy killing (euthanasia), gender, seclusion, castration and genetic engineering.Literature in the five stated issues was reviewed to provide an insight into these areas with particular reference to visual impairment.A sampled group of graduates some of who are post graduate students in special education (visual handicaps) numbering 30 participated in the study.Their opinions on the...
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Modern Kenya has been steadily evolving since 1963 when the country attained independence.It has made remarkable progress in all spheres of national growth and development.It is, however, in the area of literacy and education that the growth is most noticeable.Contemporary educational developments have built on the legacies of the past -refining traditional values and incorporating them in the goals and objectives of Kenya's modern system of education.
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The focus here is on the relevance of philosophy as a discipline to teacher education in Africa.The article admits that all the countries on the continent are developing and have high illiteracy rate and lack scientific and technological culture.The aticle attempts to define and explain the nature, and scope of philosophy of education and its relevance to teacher education.We argue that the theory and practice of education is concerned with ideas about human nature and the nature of reality...
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Violence, rampage, crisis and secret cult practices by students; staff conflict; workers' trade disputes and strike actions are some of the turbulent occurrences are often experienced in university education in Nigeria in recent times. They are anti social and anti productivity because they create an atmosphere of tumult, tension and disruption of smooth and congenial functioning of academic activities in universities. This paper discusses conflict in university education indicating its ill...
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In a prospective 6–month study, chest pain was reviewed in hypertensive man above 40 years and post menopausal women on antihypertensive therapy. The subjects were made up of 230 volunteers made up of 101 males and 129 females. Their mean age was 54.5 + 10 years (males 51.3 + 8.9 years vs. female 53.3 + 9.8 years). Forty seven percent of subjects admitted to pain as being located in the retrosternal area, in 38% it was cited at the precordial area and the remainder (9%) cited the pain on the...
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To determine the impact of urbanisation on the prevalence of asymptomatic malaria in Molyko, a rapidly urbanising area of South West Cameroon.A cross-sectional study.Molyko, South West Province Cameroon.One hundred and sixty six and two hundred and forty four randomly selected children in Molyko in the rainy seasons of 2000 and 2004 respectively.Prevalence and geometric mean parasite density of asymptomatic malaria, measurement of axillary temperatures and haematocrit (PCV) values in 2000...