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Purpose This paper aims to assess the state of development of entrepreneurship education, determine the importance of entrepreneurship in the South African higher education institutions (HEIs), and offer recommendations for improving preparations for the developing field. Design/methodology/approach An e‐mail survey has been conducted on South African HEIs. The respondents were academic staff members who are involved in teaching and researching entrepreneurship. Findings Results indicate...

Purpose This paper aims to assess the state of development of entrepreneurship education, determine the importance of entrepreneurship in the South African higher education institutions (HEIs), and offer recommendations for improving preparations for the developing field. Design/methodology/approach An e‐mail survey has been conducted on South African HEIs. The respondents were academic staff members who are involved in teaching and researching entrepreneurship. Findings Results indicate...

Purpose This paper aims to assess the state of development of entrepreneurship education, determine the importance of entrepreneurship in the South African higher education institutions (HEIs), and offer recommendations for improving preparations for the developing field. Design/methodology/approach An e‐mail survey has been conducted on South African HEIs. The respondents were academic staff members who are involved in teaching and researching entrepreneurship. Findings Results indicate...

Purpose This paper aims to assess the state of development of entrepreneurship education, determine the importance of entrepreneurship in the South African higher education institutions (HEIs), and offer recommendations for improving preparations for the developing field. Design/methodology/approach An e‐mail survey has been conducted on South African HEIs. The respondents were academic staff members who are involved in teaching and researching entrepreneurship. Findings Results indicate...

Abstract In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries, labor markets are characterized by employment growth and skill shortages. In these, vocational schooling has produced higher wages and returns on investment than general education. Using 1998 Egyptian household survey, the study adds evidence to the debate on relative benefits of vocational education and of general education at the secondary level. The findings suggest that providing general...

Abstract The present paper examines the new language policy of teaching Berber (Tamazight) in Moroccan schools, which came into effect in the fall of 2003 when Tamazight was for the first time introduced in some 300 elementary schools across the country. This study aims primarily at discussing the status of this language policy while it is still in its initial stages of implementation. The findings discussed here are based on a qualitative research conducted in Morocco around the end of 2004...

Al Haruj basalts represent the largest volcanic province in Libya (∼16,000 km2). Field, petrographic and mineral compositional studies of the NW corner of this province have been undertaken in order to better understand their petrogenetic and geotectonic evolution. These basalts have been distinguished into two phases of different field and mineralogical characteristics. Clinopyroxene compositions classified the earlier phase (AHB-I) as subalkaline, tholeiitic basalts and the later, more...

Global Heart is the official and primary publication of the World Heart Federation, offering a platform for the dissemination of knowledge on research, developments, trends, solutions and public health programmes in the area of cardiovascular disease. Global Heart welcomes research results, points of view and educational material on the prevention, treatment and control of cardiovascular disease with a special focus on low and middle-income countries which are facing the brunt of...

The 17 January 2002 fissure eruption of Mount Nyiragongo, Democratic Republic of Congo, produced lava flows which entered and devastated the densely inhabited town of Goma. The 2002 and previous 1977 eruptions demonstrate the high level of volcanic risk in the area. We present an analysis of the susceptibility to lava flow invasion in Goma, by means of computer simulations based on the steepest descent path and probabilistic‐computed flow spreading and obstacle overcoming. The DEM is...

A major task of South Africa's new government in 1994 was to design a more racially equitable education system. This article evaluates progress towards this goal using three concepts of equity: equal treatment by race, equal educational opportunity, and educational adequacy. The authors find that the country moved quickly towards a race-blind system, including race-blind policies for allocating state funds to schools. Progress measured by the other two criteria, however, has been...

Abstract In parts of the world, including many developing countries, climate variability impacts negatively on agricultural production and natural resource management. Workshops in applied climatology were held in Australia, India, Indonesia and Zimbabwe between 1999 and 2002 to provide farmers and agricultural and meteorological staff a better understanding of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation phenomenon, associated climate variability, its forecast potential and its relevance to their local...

By using a consolidated dataset of schools derived from a range of administrative systems, it is shown that overall public spending in the schooling system was close to being equal, though it marginally favoured the rich in 2005. A historical comparison reveals that the 2005 public spending pattern was around 17 times more equal than the apartheid pattern that existed in 1991. The concentration index is used for much of the measurement of spending equity. To better understand the...

America, it would be a fair description of what she has contributed. However, it is impossible to assess, much less appreciate the saliency of that message unless it is unpacked and decoupled from a series of distorted and misleading constructions that begin on the book cover itself. title, White Money/ Black Power is provocative to the point of being salacious, intimating some startling or sensational revelation to come. This notion is reinforced in the subtitle, The Surprising History of...

The Kenya Micro and Small Enterprise Training and Technology Project was one of the first projects financed by the World Bank to use a demand-side subsidy to promote the use of business development services. The key component of the project was a voucher training programme that covered up to 90 per cent of the cost of skills and management training purchased by informal sector microenterprises and small businesses. The World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group conducted an ex post evaluation...

RésuméMort d'un étudiant africain à Moscou : la question raciale et la politique pendant la guerre froideLe 18 décembre 1963, la manifestation organisée sur la place Rouge par des étudiants africains séjournant en Union Soviétique devint un incident international. Déclenchée par la mort mystérieuse d'un étudiant ghanéen, elle se faisait l'écho des inquiétudes des Africains vis-à-vis de leur sécurité en URSS. Ces inquiétudes s'étaient cristallisées au fil des années précédentes, lorsque les...