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Traditional health practice was recently mainstreamed in South Africa by the promulgation of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act, No. 35 of 2004. Due to the extent of integration of mental health in the legal definition of traditional health practice, promulgation of this Act also has significant implications for mental health care delivery. This paper explored the documented interface of traditional health practice with mental health care in South Africa over the past almost 50 years.A...

The stereotype of gender in performance in certain subjects is not new. Excellent performance in mathematics and the sciences has been long attributed to the male gender while such a performance in English Language and the Arts has also been attributed to the female gender. The use of English language in schools in Anglophone African countries is regarded as highly important if boys and girls are to be able to communicate effectively in the society. However, composition writing for most...

Papua New Guinea is in the process of nation building. Integral to this national development is the building of a successful vernacular-based early years education program for children aged 6 to 8 years. The program is a new initiative in a country which formerly provided schooling only from the primary years and conducted in English. The system is being implemented by village-based elementary teachers supported by district trainers. These trainers require skills in early years education,...

This study analyzes the current educational attainment and school enrollment status of youth, as well as the formal and informal post-secondary educational and training opportunities available to them. The study uses the results of a simulation model that incorporates enrollment in alternative education programs and considers alternative scenarios for developing the post-primary sector. Each scenario is evaluated for the impact on the human capital accumulation of young people and the...

This report, Changing the Trajectory: education and training for young people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, provides an analysis of the current educational attainment and current school enrollment of youth in the 12 to 24 years age group and the educational opportunities and training available to them in the formal and informal sectors. Using the results of a simulation model that incorporates enrollment in alternative education programs and the educational level attained by...

This report, Changing the Trajectory: education and training for young people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, provides an analysis of the current educational attainment and current school enrollment of youth in the 12 to 24 years age group and the educational opportunities and training available to them in the formal and informal sectors. Using the results of a simulation model that incorporates enrollment in alternative education programs and the educational level attained by...

In spite of its high adaptation capacities and also its aptitude to grow in the arid areas, the olive-tree did not escape to the negative effects of the drought resulting usually in a fall of the production, the accentuation of the alternation production cycle and in some ultimate cases by the withering of the olive-tree. This work concerned the study of drought impact on olive-growing plantations in the Tunisian Jeffara (province of Medenine). It aim at characterizing the rainfall deficit...

This paper uses a prospective randomized trial to assess the impact of two school feeding schemes on health and education outcomes for children from low-income households in northern rural Burkina Faso. The two school feeding programs under consideration are, on the one hand, school meals where students are provided with lunch each school day, and, on the other hand, take-home rations that provide girls with 10 kg of cereal flour each month, conditional on 90 percent attendance rate. After...

This study deals with the assessment of the effects of climatic drought and human disturbance on the natural vegetation cover in the arid zone of Tunisia (Matmata Mountains). Plant cover and density were assessed and monitored during two seasons (fall 2005 and spring 2006) using the quadrat-point method in four sites (stations) which differ by their disturbance degree. Main results show that the plant cover is mainly influenced by the human activities. The highest plant density was recorded during the spring.

In northern Nigeria, over 80% of the unskilled and uneducated adolescent street boys, or Almajiris, are from the ethnic Hausa-Fulani tribes. They depend on street begging and menial jobs for daily survival. In dealing with the situation, state vocational centers were established as the Millennium Hope Project (MHP) to provide the boys with trades and skills for self-reliance and socioeconomic transformations. This article presents findings from an educational policy evaluation research study...

The educational system in Nigeria today has been largely imported.This is because no one country is self-reliant without utilizing other countries' technologies and good educational ideals.A consideration of a stable and functional educational system should involve consistent re-training of teachers for efficient implementation of the curriculum for Nigerian schools.Consistent development and re-training of teachers in English language will improve capability of teachers for efficient use of...

The introduction of quantitative topics into the secondary school economics curriculum has attracted the interest of economics educators and researchers.This concern arose from the fact that students' achievements in the Secondary School Certificate Economics have remained poor.It is against this background that this study investigated the relationship between quantitative ability (knowledge of Venn diagram; measures of central tendency; and percentage) and secondary school students'...

The effect of Bonny Light Crude oil pollution of soil and successive plantings in the same soil at 4 -week intervals on the growth of dayflower (Commelina benghalensis L.) was investigated.The factorial sets of treatments were two levels of oil pollution (0 and 50 mg/g) and 5 successive plantings.Characters assessed were mean plant height, leaf area per plant and mean dry matter weight.At each of the 5 croppings mean plant characters assessed were significantly higher (P = 0.05) at 0 mg/g...

This study, conducted at a historically Black university, evaluated the impact of awareness and internalization of the Western thin ideal of beauty on body dissatisfaction, drive for thinness, and bulimia in African-American, African, and Caribbean women. The relationship between internalization of the thin ideal and disordered eating was moderated by ethnicity, with the relationship significant only for the African-American group. Internalization functioned as a mediator between awareness...

This study investigated the effect of linguistic-stylistic technique on the effective teaching and learning of poetry in Nigerian senior secondary school.The sample of the study comprised of 310 senior secondary two (SS II) students from six schools randomly selected from Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Nigerian A non-randomized pre-test post test control group design was used for the study.The reliability co efficient of poetry in English Achievement Test (PEAT) was 0.75 using...