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ABSTRACT Despite almost 50 years of independence and millions of dollars of aid funds designed to improve education, the situation in the schools in Ghana today has major problems. Over these 50 years there has been a succession of reform efforts aimed at developing and improving the education system in the country. However, it appears that these reforms have not succeeded in achieving hoped for results, particularly in the rural and disadvantaged schools in the country. This thesis...
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A paper presented at the 2nd East Africa regional pre-games scientific conference on sport and physical education for greater cooperation in Eastern Africa held on 18th - 19th November 2004 at Kenyatta University
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The study investigated the information needs and seeking behavior of undergraduate students of Makerere University. A cross–sectional survey was carried out, with samples of respondents from the Department of Biochemistry in the Faculty of Science and the Department of History in the Faculty of Arts. The sample consisted of 104 undergraduate students selected from their first, second, and third year of study. Ellis’ six generic information–seeking activities were tested to establish how...
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This paper examines the experiences of the Kenyan women academics as they struggle to develop their careers. The data I present is part of a large study that I conducted for period of eight months in Kenyan. I conducted in-depth interviews, and participant observations with twenty-four academic women in 1994. I revisited the field to update my data in 2002. The data indicates that although academic women are considered a privileged tiny elite in comparison with the rest of the Kenyan...
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Constitutive traits of 12 landraces of Bamabra groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L) Verdc) were studied during the 1999/2000 and 2000/2001 at the Botswana College of Agriculture, for traits which relate to the crop’s adaptation to drought. The objective was to estimate the degree of phenotypic and genotypic variation of traits whose selection would lead to earliness in maturity and drought tolerance through drought escape. The landraces showed significant diversity. Low environmental variability...
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The North West University is one of the few universities in South Africa to have established an indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) learning and research programme. The paper describes the successes, achievements and challenges, including the prospects of the programme since its inception. These experiences could help other institutions within and outside South Africa that intend to establish a similar programme.
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Trabajo de campo fue realizado para estudiar las estrategias para enfrentar la sequia por comunidades pastoriles de Afar y Borana, Etiopia. La informacion fue recabada mediante entrevistas individuales y discusiones semiestructuradas grupales con gente local en ambas areas de estudio. La gente de Afar sostiene su produccion mediante instituciones indigenas llamadas Medaa y Adaa. Medaa es el nivel comunitario de mayor jerarquia para la toma de decisiones que aborda los aspectos de resolucion...
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In Ethiopia, it is generally unknown what proportion of the amoebic infections commonly found, by microscopy, in humans are caused by non-invasive Entamoeba dispar rather than the potentially invasive E. histolytica. Faecal samples were therefore collected from 363 primary-school students and 409 prisoners from various regions of Ethiopia. Each of these samples was checked for Entamoeba infection by the microscopical examination of formol-ether concentrates. DNA was then extracted from the...
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This paper reviews what has happened in the field of assessment since then. It deals with public examinations, but differs from the 1992 report in that, other than in regard to a few minor details, no new data were specifically collected for it. The paper revisits many of the issues that were raised in the earlier report, particularly in relation to the role that assessment can play in improving the quality of students' learning. It also differs from the earlier report in that its...