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Addressing the issue of the extent to which the government of a country poor in economic and human resources for development can put into practice pluralist language policies for education. The discussion is limited to policy and practice in post-revolution Ethiopia, drawing on data collected in the mid-1980s (McNab, 1989). It is also limited to the literacy campaigns which, carried out in fifteen languages, have become a regular feature of the education system since their inauguration in...

Incidence rates of teenage pregnancies in South Africa--especially among the black population--poses definite reason for concern. The adverse physical, psychological, social and demographic consequences do not only put the lives of the mother and infant at risk, but also threatens the quality of their lifestyle. Sexuality education is not a panacea for preventing teenage pregnancy, but within a multi-disciplinary approach evidence indicates that it has an important and ameliorative role to...

Journal of Fish BiologyVolume 37, Issue sA p. 203-205 The impact of damming, drought and over-exploitation on the conservation of marketable fish stocks of the River Benue, Nigeria A. E. Neiland, A. E. Neiland Centre for Marine Resource Economics (CEMARE), Portsmouth Polytechnic, PortsmouthSearch for more papers by this authorJ. P. Goddard, J. P. Goddard Pollution Control Office, National Rivers Authority (NRA), GuildfordSearch for more papers by this authorG. McGregor Reid, G. McGregor Reid...

A CROSS-SECTIONAL survey was done in the puerperium of 320 mothers who delivered at Ogun State University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Nigeria over a period of three months. The patients were stratified according to their parities in relation to their levels of formal education. The results showed that those with the least formal education were the most parous (p<0.005) and had the highest perinatal deaths. The difference between perinatal deaths suffered by mothers with no formal education...

The Sahelian droughts of 1968–73 and 1982–84 and their disastrous consequences compelled the people of Africa to focus on the problem of drought menace. Drought cannot be prevented, but there are possibilities of predicting it to provide the necessary information for early warning and prepardness. Individual countries also need a drought policy which expresses the criteria forming the foundation of governmental actions in drought mitigation and relief. As an offshoot of policy objectives,...

Abstract Enduser computing is rapidly growing in the Kenya Government due to the large number of microcomputers provided by donor organizations. In 1986, the Kenya Institute of Administration (KIA) established a microcomputer training program for government officers and secretaries to develop skills in wordprocessing, spreadsheets, database management, and statistics. This article analyzes prospects for institutionalizing KIA's microcomputer training program by reviewing its initial...

A survey of the prevalence and appearance of tinea infections and associated dermatophytes in schools in Harare is reported. Of 704 children examined, 29% showed clinical evidence of tinea capitis; of these, 86% had mycological evidence of infection. Dermatophytes were isolated from 69% of all the specimens. The most common was Trichophyton violaceum (78% of the isolates), 9% of the dermatophytes were Microsporum audouinii, and other isolates were T. mentagrophytes, T. yaoundei, M. gypseum and M. canis.

Although educational reforms in 1962 have played a positive role in the socioeconomic and cultural development of Mali, the most recent analyses of the educational system have shown it to be in crisis for reasons both endogenous and exogenous. Huge class sizes, lack of teaching materials, and insufficient training of teachers have affected the quality of education. 80% of Mali's population is illiterate but the rate of school attendance is under 30%. Financial resources devoted to education...

Out of 2,353 primary school children aged 4-16 years in Cross River State of Nigeria examined, 88 (3.7%) showed lesions mycologically proven to be pityriasis versicolor. Incidence was highest (6.3%) in children aged 12-16. Lesions were much more common on the face than on other sites.

Two stepwise multiple regression analyses were performed on the African self-consciousness (ASC) Scale scores of 219 African-American male and female college students utilizing 36 background and 20 Africentric activity factors as the predictor variables. The results revealed that only a very small number of the two sets of predictors were significantly related to the ASC scores. The background factors of parental membership in predominantly Black organizations, exposure to Black studies...

At the ENT clinic in Luanda, Angola, 110 consecutive cases of children with chronic otitis media (COM) were studied to find out some clinical characteristics regarding age of onset and duration of otorrhea as well as the general state of health of the children. Eighty-five percent of the children had had longstanding otorrhea. In 75% of all the cases ear discharge had started during early childhood. It was possible to institute a simple conservative treatment of COM. Fifty percent returned...

This is a study of attitudes towards Technical Drawing and the state of Technical Drawing in Zimbabwean Secondary Schools (Form I to Form VI) conducted in November 1988. The purpose of this study was to find out headmasters’, teachers’ (teachers of technical subjects in secondary schools) and secondary school students’ attitudes towards Technical Drawing and to compare them to the state of Technical Drawing in the country. Data was collected through questionnaires and interviews. The...

This study sought to investigate the self-concept and career aspirations held by eleventh grade Greek children who were living in France, Germany and Egypt; the attitudes of these children were compared with those held by their counterparts living on the mainland of Greece. No statistical significance was found on self-concept scores among students living on the mainland of Greece and those living in France and Egypt; statistical significance was found, however, among students who lived in...

A thesis submitted to the department of physical education and games, faculty of education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Education of Kenyatta University

Many of the problems of comprehension experienced by students in physics classes arise not from the technical words used but from the non-technical words used. This paper discusses some of the results of a study conducted in Papua New Guinea on students' comprehension of forty-five non-technical words used in science classes.

This study investigated the prevalence of problem solving and design approaches in the teaching of Woodwork at Secondary School level. A case study of one secondary school was conducted in 1988, involving over 200 pupils in Forms one and three, and five teachers in the Woodwork department. Questionnaires were the main means of collecting data. Informal methods, which included: interviews, document analysis and observations were also used. It was found that pupils had limited autonomy in...