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This paper analyses the gap in educational access according to parental education over 10 year period using evidence from the Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) in six African countries (Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia). Each country contains two DHS datasets, separated by at least a decade. The study uses the model of “zones of exclusion” developed by the Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity to operationalised educational access for...
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The National Policy on Education and the Minimum standards for School Library Services in Nigeria emphasized the need for functional school libraries and school' library services. For this to be achieved, school libraries should be adequately funded and should operate a separate budget. The budgeting systems proposed in this article include programme planning based budgeting, formula budgeting, incremental and line-item budgeting systems. Varioussources of generating income for school...
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The introduction of the e-learning, both multimedia and conventional, has resulted in drastic and inevitable improvements in the learning environment for both learners and tutors. This has been facilitated by the use of internet and has attracted more organizations and among them, academic institutions for communication as well as to share crucial information, such as research works and new knowledge discovered. All these efforts created the learning environment for students favorable, as...
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The aim of the present study was to investigate teachers' perceptions of obstacles to implement Geography education standards in Egypt. The researcher developed a questionnaire that services this purposes and then administered it to sample of 108 Geography teachers in Egypt. The questionnaire tapped six categories of obstacles to implement Geography education standards in Egypt: teachers, curriculum, students, school administration, community participation, and education guidance and...
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The investigation aimed at identifying the factors that accounted for the teacher trainees’ low understanding of basic scientific concepts and the appropriate strategies needed to rectify these obstacles. In this investigation thirty open ended questions were administered to test three hundred teacher trainees’ understanding of science concepts. Also, observations were conducted during science lessons to monitor the participation of trainees. The teacher trainees’ poor background in science...
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This article critically reflects upon the ‘divides’ among actors within two currently popular education policies in low‐income countries: decentralisation and Universal Primary Education (UPE). Current literatures suggest that the existing decentralisation framework tends to overlook the ‘divides’ among actors that often impede the implementation of educational decentralisation. Furthermore, in East Africa, UPE policy characterised by centralised political power coexists with...
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Education and Healthcare Possibilities for Street Children in Babati Town,TanzaniaSayeed, S. - 2010
Street children are the most vulnerable group in any society. It is estimated that 150 millions children lives on the street in the world. Most of these children lack all basic needs. This study is ...
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[Extract] When I began working in Africa in the late 1960s the continent had a population of about 250 million. Since then the population has quadrupled and there are now over a billion Africans. During the intervening years agricultural yields per capita and per hectare stagnated and in many cases declined although the past ten years have seen promising signs of progress and the economies of the continent are now growing at around 3% per annum. Nonetheless the continent has the highest...
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We studied the faulted Al Harif Roman aqueduct, located on the north–trending, ~90-km-long Missyaf segment of the Dead Sea fault, using four archaeological excavations, three paleoseismic trenches, and the analysis of six tufa cores. Damage to the aqueduct wall exhibits successive left-lateral fault offsets that amount to 13.6 ± 0.2 m since the aqueduct construction, which is dated younger than 65 B.C. Radiocarbon dating of sedimentary units in trenches, building cement of the aqueduct wall,...
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For centuries, Arab nomads and African villagers alternately skirmished and supported each other as they raised livestock and tended fields under resource-constrained conditions. The delicate balance has been upset by drought, desertification, crop failure and wide-spread food insecurity. While the interactions are not sufficiently understood, there are growing indications that warming in Africa could become a significant factor of violent conflicts in the coming decades. To test such...