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Every human society has an educational program, i.e., a system of training the young to become responsible citizens. The education includes the transmission of cultural values, morals, kinship systems, inheritance procedures, specialized skills needed for survival, religious beliefs, legends and history of the community, customs and traditions pertaining to various aspects of life and living (including dying), rites of passage, duties and responsibilities associated with age as well as sex and gender etc.
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People with intellectual disability (ID) are defined as a group by their need for lifelong support. For the most part, it falls to family caregivers to provide this support. This paper begins with a critique of a human rights perspective in dealing with family care and argues for an ethics of care in understanding the support needs for families and adults with ID. This perspective is then applied to a study that was undertaken in 2013 in the Cape Town metropole in the Western Cape Province...
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Raising employment and improving the quality of education, are the two most critical and interrelated challenges, for eliminating poverty and reducing inequality in South Africa. To improve the quality of education, role-players need seamless access to critical information to guide planning and determine progress in different parts of the education system. Shortcomings in the current information infrastructure, especially at the nexus of the basic education and higher education systems,...
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This qualitative case study explores the career and educational aspirations, college choice process, and college barriers and opportunities of 26 rural, African American high school students. Data included interviews with 26 students and 11 school staff members. Findings suggest that the students’ rural context shapes aspirations. In addition, students have emotional support and motivation to attend college from their family members and schools, but the students did not always have the “know...
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This paper examines the relationship between economic growth, higher education, unemployment and poverty using properties of time series variables while applying the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method. Our study thus contributes to the existing literature by giving the first integrated approach to examine the four way linkages in the Tunisian background over the period 1990-2013. This paper holds that higher education can impact unemployment and graduate unemployment causes poverty which...
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The intervention of the context, which represents the situation where the speech is delivered, upsets the logic so that the semiotic meaning produced by the situation of enunciation takes precedence over that of departure.This difference in meaning between "what is said" and "what is covered" was taken by the "pragmatic discourse" which focuses on the elements of language in context and in co-text.Austin (1970) distinguishes three speech acts: the elocutionary act, the illocutionary act and...
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Climate change have different impacts on many sectors among those impacts of climate change on water resources, especially on flood frequency of Bilate Watershed were discussed. The study was conducted to asses climate change impact on flood frequency of Bilate River basin. The input data such as (DEM-90m), soil, land use, meteorological data (precipitation, maximum and minimum temperature, wind speed, sunshine), Hydrological data (stream flow) were obtained from ministry of Water resource,...
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A research report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master’s Degree in Development Theory and Policy University of the Witwatersrand 31 March 2015
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The Eastern Europe countries have been an ancient and rather particular component of the Moroccan foreign training system. Since early 1960s, the Moroccan students have found in the university system of Eastern Europe countries an excellent opportunity to study abroad. Nowadays many graduates and managerial staff, who were trained in those countries, work in administrations, enterprises, and liberal professions. However the graduates from the Eastern Europe countries have encountered...
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Financing of higher education in Tanzania is considered a crucial factor in realizing the country’s development vision. It is for these reasons that Tanzania has been financing its higher education since its inception. Diminishing resource capacity and competing interests for government finance plunged the higher education into financial doldrums. As a result, the higher education sector was compelled to manouvre through various sources of financing in order to remain relevant to its role...
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This study was undertaken in southern Ethiopia to evaluate impacts of drought and pastoral’s coping strategies in southern Ethiopia. With multi-stage sampling method, 199 respondents’ households were selected. The survey results show that drought has severely affecting the livestock resource basis of the pastoralists. Especially, the water sources for livestock; pond and deep well; dried out during pick drought season besides the degradation of rangeland resources. Beyond pastoral focus...
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This article reports on a research that was conducted in some rural schools in Swaziland in order to understand how much teachers benefit from the leadership of the Heads of Departments (HoDs) in the implementation of changes in the curriculum. Research was conducted in English departments of eight senior secondary schools in the district of Shiselweni. Classroom performances by different teachers were observed. The HoDs were drawn in during the presentations by the teachers to allow them...
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Early Childhood Education is a key element for the growth and development of every country. This paper, provides a summary of reviewing the impact of early childhood special educational assessment on children to be ‘at risk’ of developing special educational needs. It was identified mainly that early identification of at risk factors for disabilities was ignored and there is minimal or no collaboration in the assessment procedures for learners. This has an adverse effect on the cognitive...