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The Occupational Health and Safely Act (OHSA) 85 of 1993 requires all employers in South Africa to provide and maintain a working environment that is safe and without risk to the health of their employees. Additionally, OHSA requires employers to provide such information, instructions, training and supervision as may be necessary to ensure the health and safely at work of their workers. Several studies have confirmed a well-established link between safely training and the performance of...
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Globalisation poses a challenge to higher education systems internationally, but especially so in developing countries, since institutions of developed countries market seriously amongst students of developing countries. South African higher education institutions have to position themselves for this external "threat", but have to simultaneously deal with an even bigger internal challenge after six years of democracy B the academic staff of a majority of South African higher education...
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Paper presented at understanding private higher education in South Africa: a colloquium (transparancies used), 9-10 April.
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The historiography of educational reform in 19th century Egypt is driven largely by modernization approaches in which reformers are cast as ‘liberals’ and ‘westernizers;’ figures outside these paradigms tend to be overlooked. ‘Abdallah Nadim (1845-1896), a nineteenth century social reformer, experimented throughout his life with ‘educating the nation.’ He founded the first Islamic Benevolent Society school in Egypt and authored some of the most widely circulated articles on education and...
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vii 1 What are the issues? 1 2 Arrangements for managing and financing education 3 3 Assessing public expenditures on education 5
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This study explored differences in the special education programming of African-American and Caucasian students. The school records of 230 3rd- through 5th-grade students identified as having a learning disability from four school districts in Delaware were examined. Data on 102 variables related to special education referral, identification, and placement were coded from the records and analyzed. Analyses of variance were used to identify main effects for each variable and its interaction...
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Attitudes of tunisian pupils to biologigical evolution This paper presents a study of the relation pupils in Tunisia in the fourth year of secondary education (preparation for the baccalaureate) have to biological evolution. The objectives are, on the one hand to improve knowledge of their learning postures towards the theory of evolution, and on the other to analyse the eventual correlations between their attitudes in school and their relation to knowledge. The working hypothesis is that it...
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The study examined the type of feedback provided by teachers of Agriculture, English and Social Studies on students' essays at community junior secondary school level in Botswana. The data was collected through the use of a questionnaire and analysis of comments written on student essays. Results indicated that in most marked essays the teacher only wrote marks or score without commenting on students' work. Where comments were provided they were either critical (judgmental), General or...
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This article investigates the impact of poverty and shocks on adolescents, particularly their role in early school drop-out. Data consisting of 3043 adolescent interviews and 1945 household interviews, from a recent survey entitled Transitions to Adulthood among Adolescents in Durban, South Africa, has been used. While conventional explanations of drop-out acknowledge the role of socio-economic factors, this paper attempts to understand, through an asset-vulnerability framework, the explicit...