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Published reports of haematological reference values for pre-primary and primary school aged residents of Port Harcourt, Nigeria are relatively scanty.To determine the reference ranges of some haematological parameters for pre-primary and primary school aged children resident in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.A total of 250 pre-primary school subjects consisting of 124 males and 126 females aged between 1 to 5 years and 536 primary school children consisting of 262 males and 274 females aged between...

To eradicate the inequalities of the apartheid education system the outcomes-based education (OBE) master plan, Curriculum 2005 (C2005), was launched in 1997 and implemented in 1998. In 2000, C2005 was revised and renamed the Revised National Curriculum Statement (RNCS) which gradually became known as the National Curriculum Statement (NCS). Within the new education system, a new Learning Area called Life Orientation (LO) was introduced. Life Orientation presents five learning outcomes of...

E-learning and e-training have enabled the inclusion of all members of society into the development scheme. Higher education and IT skills are believed to be the corner stone for wealthy society and sustainable development. This chapter surveys e-learning services and the use of ICT to improve education quality for citizens in Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, and Algeria. It also analyses the bottlenecks that faces e-learning and e-training. Finally, it reports guidelines and recommendations to overcome those obstacles.

Morocco is located at the extreme north-west of Africa between 20 and 37° N. According to the aridity index of De Martonne classification, Moroccan climate varies from sub-humid in the north to arid in the south. The country has experienced several drought events which have had marked impacts on socio-economic sectors and national economy (1940-1945, 1980-1985, 1994-1995 . . . ). During a dry year, the deficit of rainfall can exceed 60% of the climatological value.

A Research Project Submitted to the Institute of Open and Distance Learning in Partial Fulfillment of the Award of A Bachelor of Education of Kampala International University.

The reduction of illiteracy to the barest minimum by 2015 by world nations and the achievement of item two of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) prompt the introduction of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme in Nigeria by the Obasanjo’s led government in 2000. This paper was motivated by the need to investigate the challenges affecting the implementation of the UBE programme in Delta state. The paper examines the UBE and past educational policies in Nigeria aimed at reducing...

Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Hard Rock Safe Safety Conference 2009. Sun City, South Africa, 28-30 September, 2009

To address the needs of young people in Lagos State, Nigeria, for information about family life and HIV, the Lagos State Ministry of Education, in collaboration with Action Health Incorporated, began to offer the Family Life and HIV Education Curriculum in government junior secondary schools in 2003. Knowledge and attitudes were measured in a sample of 1,366 students in Lagos State, Nigeria, in November 2004, at the beginning of the school year, and again in July 2005 after receiving a year...

To evaluate impact and sustainable features on knowledge, perceptions and reported practices from a skills-building intervention supporting communication of nutrition messages to communities of southern Malawi.

Although the number of urban Catholic schools has declined in recent years, Nativity model middle schools, fi rst developed by the Jesuits over 35 years ago, have appeared throughout the nation to address the need for effective alternative education for urban children placed at risk.The present study compares the effectiveness of two types of high-poverty Catholic schools for 322 African American middle school students.Results show that Nativity schools are more successful than traditional...

The authors report that quantity surveying education in Africa has come of age and is comparable with quantity surveying education anywhere else in the world.

Seismic hazard is associated with recent and present fault activity in mountain ranges. In the Betic-Rif alpine mountain chain, tectonic activity started in the Cretaceous, and topographic uplift continues since Tortonian times as a consequence of the NW–SE oblique convergence between Africa and Eurasia. The deformation is active and produces seismicity that sometimes has catastrophic consequences. The Al Hoceima earthquake (February 24, 2004), considered one of the largest earthquakes ever...

In the context of globalisation, European languages, especially English, continue to be the favoured medium of official communication and are valued and promoted as the dominant languages of commerce, international communication, education and scientific knowledge. In this paper, I argue that European educational language medium policies perpetuate the hegemonic influence of western languages and their corresponding forms of knowledge. I further argue that these policies have also devalued...

South Africa's disability grant is critical for the survival of many disabled people and their families, and is especially important to disabled women, who face further disadvantage because of their family responsibilities, their generally deeper poverty and their greater vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and other illnesses. Valuable engagement between feminism and disability theory offers a useful framework for understanding the needs of disabled women in South Africa's social assistance system....

The results of previous studies in Nigeria indicate that 81% of the villages in Plateau and Nasarawa states probably qualify for the mass administration of praziquantel (PZQ) because of Schistosoma haematobium (SH) and/or S. mansoni (SM) infection. To determine the best strategy, relative costs were modelled for four different programmatic approaches to mass drug administration (MDA) at village level. The approaches considered were (1) village-by-village screening for SH (using dipsticks to...

Drawing on global value chain analysis, this article discusses the possibilities for upgrading in a domestically oriented import-dependent industry. The pharmaceutical industry in Uganda consists of a large number of importers, nine of which have upgraded into assembly and four a step further into manufacturing. The industry upgrades by a process of ‘learning by importing’. Although not engaged with global buyers, pharmaceutical producers in Uganda are tied into the global pharmaceutical...

Bir Sahara, situated in northeast Africa, contains a set of sedimentary sequences that imply episodic changes in climate and environment during the Middle and Late Pleistocene. Some of the stratigraphic contexts are associated with Middle Paleolithic artifact assemblages. The artifact assemblages are typically in sands that underlie deposits composed of high amounts of carbonate or fine clastics (muds) indicative of expanding lakes and wetter climates. The wetter climates may have provided...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the school crises encountered by governmental secondary schools principals in the Northern Directories of Education in the West Bank/ Palestine. Furthermore, its purpose was to determine the differences in school crises level in accordance with the variables of school's gender, years of experience, academic degree, and the Directory. To achieve the research objectives, a questionnaire was developed and applied to a sample of (132) male and female...