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This paper argues that language and assessment are closely linked and that the Language-in-Education policy and other additive bilingual initiatives have failed to address educational equity in South African schools. Despite the aspirations of politicians to move towards a policy of multiculturalism through the additive approach to bilingualism in education, it is the opinion of this study, that this policy essentially remains a symbolic gesture. (Journal for Language Teching: 2002 36(1-2): 105-117)
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Social scientists have long noted the effects of the images of the African-American male brought forth in popular culture. In fact, popular culture and organized sports have been credited as major contributors to many of the social problems that exist among African-American males. Those social problems are characterized in the oppositional relationship that has formed between athletic and academic achievement, and the high aspirations and expectations that African-American student athletes...
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Since independence in 1963, Kenya has invested substantial resources in the education sector. For almost twenty-five years, these investments and other government policies led to impressive gains in educational access at all levels. However, since the mid- to late 1980s there appears to have been an erosion in educational participation and a reversal of the gains achieved in previous decades. Motivated by this trend, this paper uses temporal, cross-section and pseudo-panel data to assess the...
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Whether talking to local farmers or studying academic papers there is general agreement that environmental degradation is impacting upon agricultural productivity in Ethiopia. In a country, where around 90% of the population are dependent on agriculture for subsistence requirements and a similar fraction of the country's export income is generated from the agriculture sector, environmental degradation with subsequent decline in agricultural productivity has serious repercussions on household...
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In South Africa during the 1980s and 1990s socially conscious librarians took steps to transform librarianship. This inevitably led to the democratisation of library and information science (LIS) education. This process was inextricably linked to the social, political and economic events in the country as it prepared for its first democratic elections in 1994. From the traditional approach to library and information work prevalent in the apartheid era emerged an alternative approach. This...
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Research Article| October 01, 2002 Gas hydrate and mud volcanoes on the southwest African continental margin off South Africa Zvi Ben-Avraham; Zvi Ben-Avraham 1Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel, and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar George Smith; George Smith 2Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town,...
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This paper is taken from the eighth group session on Wednesday 24 July 2002 at the International Vocational Education and Training Organisation (IVETA) Conference. The author provides socio-economic background information about Mauritius and outlines the nation’s training and education situation in context. Education fundamentally contributes to a country’s progress towards competitive participation in a globalised knowledge society. Major changes in the country’s education system are needed...
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The main goal of emergency medicine training is to teach the wide range of sciences and skills necessary to recognize and stabilize emergency situations. Emergency medicine training has proven highly effective in developed countries especially with regard to organization of survival medicine. This type of training is especially important in sub-Saharan Africa where there is a severe shortage of intensive care specialists and an almost total lack of other personnel qualified to manage...