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Background:Exposure to wood dust and substances connected to wood processing have been associated with a variety of health hazzards. Both upper and lower respiratory tract diseaes have been noticed and described. Several publications are found in the literature on these but no such report has come from the Savannah belt with its peculiar climatic conditions. Methods: One hundred and forty (140) workers in a wood furniture factory in Kaduna, a city within the Savannah belt of Northern...
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A discussion of teaching on tertiary level will always be controversial. Mention any investigation into teaching - apart possibly from the purely factual or statistical - and the spectres of individual academic freedom, vested interests, and institutional autonomy invariably arise. This is all the more so in a country like South Africa at this point in its development where tertiary education as a whole is undergoing a major 'shake up' both structurally and economically. Academics, already...
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Threatening of the freedom of the student press is not unique to South Africa, but the local situation might have received less attention to date than in the developed world where press freedom has been a constitutional right for much longer. For the purpose of this article, much attention has been given to US case law. Press freedom has been fought for in this country since the First Amendment was written in the eighteenth century. From a legal point of view, this country's case law is also...
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Threatening of the freedom of the student press is not unique to South Africa, but the local situation might have received less attention to date than in the developed world where press freedom has been a constitutional right for much longer. For the purpose of this article, much attention has been given to US case law. Press freedom has been fought for in this country since the First Amendment was written in the eighteenth century. From a legal point of view, this country's case law is also...
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Whilst research on policy implementation concludes that principles of equity and quality have been steadily internalised by institutions (CHE 2003a), there has been a great deal of sometimes passionate dissent about how quality improvement should be implemented. In the South African context, stress and anxiety have developed within the higher education sector since the Higher Education Act of 1997. Quality improvement initiatives, like the adoption of ICTs or other systems, often fail...
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This article is based on qualitative research in South Africa and explores the relationship between indigenous world-views and knowledge systems, education and sustainable development in a South African context. The article briefly discusses some characteristic features of Xhosa (and African) world-views and knowledge systems, stressing the lack of distinction between the spiritual and the temporal, so common in European modernity. The second part of the article analyses the concept of...
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The 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruled against required separation of the races in statesponsored institutions and ended apartheid in American education. That decision also led the way for ending segregation in public facilities and in private institutions not generally covered by the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. This decision did not end de facto racial segregation due to private choice of residential segregation. This special issue, celebrating the...
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The purpose of the present investigation was to describe the experiences of African American women student-athletes and the role that coaches play in those experiences. This study profiles 4 women who participated in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I cross-country, crew, track and field, and volleyball. Using data gathered through the qualitative methods of document analysis, background questionnaires, focus groups, grounded surveys, and in-depth individual interviews, the...