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South Africans students infected with and who are unaware of their status and who practise unsafe sex are major drivers of new infections. By not testing for HIV, they deprive themselves of the opportunity to utilise the available care and support systems that will help them cope with the negative physical, psychological, social and economic consequences of the disease should they test positive. Consequently, a number of mass media campaigns have been launched to persuade at-risk students to...
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Malawi has experienced several catastrophic droughts over the past few decades. The impact of these shocks has been far reaching, and the resulting macroeconomic instability has been a major constraint to growth and poverty reduction in Malawi. This paper describes a weather risk management tool that has been developed to help the government manage the financial impact of drought-related national maize production shortfalls. The instrument is an index-based weather derivative contract...
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The purpose of this research was to examine teacher students’ learning style preferences and to examine the extent gender, seniority and academic major affect the students’ preferences.
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Learning is essential in human’s life as it is evidenced by the transformation of biological being to a knowledgeable being via learning process. It is now a global concern to device an educational pedagogy that can support long life learning that can enhance the productivity and creativity of the learner. This led to the adoption of the Student-Centered Learning (SCL)curriculum which has contributed immensely in this regard. Nigerian educational system is characterized with the passive...
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Background : A mother’s knowledge and perception of fever may determine the degree of her anxiety and fear, and reflect on the way the fever is managed at home. This study was carried out to determine the knowledge, perception and practice towards childhood fevers among mothers at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu. Methods : A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out over a 6 week period. Data were collected from 179 mothers using a semi structured interviewer...
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Planning and planning education in the Western Cape, South AfricaTapela, N. - 2010 - 17(3), 111–127
This paper presents an assessment of the experience of planning education programmes at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in relation to the urban and regional context, and of how they respond to the emerging development challenges. The paper assesses the changing tertiary education landscape and the existing and potential complementarities that exist and/or may be forged in planning programmes offered in three of the tertiary institutions in the Cape Town region with the...
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The increase in the numbers of African immigrants t o the U.S. has raised more questions than answers not only wit hin government authorities but among the immigrants themselves. Al though these questions abound, immigrants are more interested in developing ways of adapting in their host countries instead of wasting precious time to think on how to fix the already dilapidated conditions in their countries of origin. Although intending immigrants have the dist orted mentality of how things...
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This paper investigates the various reasons influencing the lack of African-American doctorate degree seekers and holders. The rationale will be varied in nature, and in an effort to highlight the issue without overwhelming the presentation, the opinions represented will be those offered from Political Science professors within the state of Virginia. As the incorporation of diversity into the curriculum of Political Science is an ongoing issue on college campuses, the American Political...
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While the numbers with completed tertiary level education are low in Africa, both relative to other countries and in absolute terms, they have been growing very rapidly. Three questions are addressed in this paper. The first is how higher education links to other forms of capital accumulation in a process that leads to economic growth. The second is how higher education links to job outcomes in particular the role of the public sector and self-employment as outcomes for graduates. The third...