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Few research papers have been written specifically about women refugees learning English language skills in Australia. The chance to work with a group of Sudanese women (with limited English language skills), endeavouring to settle in an Australian regional city, afforded us the opportunity to use electronic puzzles to enhance their language learning. These women had spent many years in refugee camps in Africa with basically no formal education in their first language, or in any other...
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The Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge teaches students from a wide range of countries predominantly using problem based learning methods. The methods include short term industrial assignments and classroom activities that require a high level of engagement and active participation. While there are many benefits to this system there was also a concern that the methods might disadvantage students from countries where the teaching and learning were based on more...
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The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of selected personality factors on career choice among secondary school students in Chuka sub-county of Tharaka Nthi County in Kenya. The descriptive survey research design was adapted for the study whose population was 941 students from the 12 secondary schools in Chuka Sub-County. Stratified sampling technique was used to obtain a sample size of 260 form three students. A set of questionnaires was employed for data collection. A...
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The ETV+CPC technique has permeated from CURE Hospital in Uganda to North America and neurosurgeons have travelled to Uganda to learn the nuisances of this technique. The goal of this study was to determine current attitudes of North American pediatric neurosurgeons towards ETV+CPC and the effects of training at CURE on attitude and clinical practice.
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Internationalization of education has to do with the imparting of knowledge, skills and values associated with universal appeal and application. It is a strong instrument for diversification of goals and objectives of tertiary institutions. Presently, there is competition among tertiary institutions to internationalize. Nigeria should not be left behind. This paper reviewed recent literatures on the rationales and modes of university internationalization. Using Knights four generic...
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While education is expected to change the behaviour of learners positively by moulding them into self respecting and self- reliant individuals, discipline related issues have been at the fore of educational debates as students encounter challenges associated with adolescence. Cases of truancy, drug abuse, immorality, destruction of property and loss of life, are however, indicators of the existence of a conflict between educational aims and discipline among secondary school students. This is...
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The Maghreb Review, Vol. 40, 1, 2015 © The Maghreb Review 2015 This publication is printed on longlife paper MICHAEL BRETT AT THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES Michael and I were colleagues in the History Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was there when I arrived in 1971; he was still there when I took early retirement in 1998. For the first few years, I saw little of him, except at the weekly African History seminars. My concerns...
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The paper will assess certain outcomes in the implementation of competition policy in South Africa to address the exertion of market power unilaterally by large firms or through collusive arrangements. Through reviewing the theoretical framework and literature linking competition policy and barriers to entry with economic participation, the paper develops a framework for understanding the centrality of competition legislation as a microeconomic tool towards achieving more inclusive outcomes...
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The apparent mismatch between countries receiving Adaptation-related Climate Change Financing (ACCF) and those most vulnerable to climate change is a concern which is the motivation for this research. This paper examines the determining factors of receiving ACCF for sub-Saharan African countries and finds that the recipient policy and an existing aid relationship are significant determinants of funding. ACCF therefore appears to be contingent on democratic characteristics of the recipient...