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Ann Arbor, of Michigan, USA, working for Mission Opportunities Short Term (MOST), organised a multidisciplinary team of eight palliative care (PC) specialists from the USA and one from Latvia to provide educational work in PC at Kisumu, Kenya, 18–23 September, 2007. Recruitment of the team and preparation of the educational programme, including writing the syllabus, started 6 months prior to the above date. All …

Southern African institutions involved in disaster management face two major new threats: the HIV/AIDS pandemic (eroding organizational capacity and increasing vulnerability of the population), and climate change (higher risk of extreme events and disasters). Analyzing the combined effects of these two threats on six disaster-related institutions in Malawi, the authors find evidence of a growing gap between demand for their services and capacity to satisfy that demand. HIV/AIDS leads to...

To better understand the impact of gender change in medical practice on health care in Tunisia, we conducted a cross-sectional study on the attitudes of 512 medical students (40% female) to medicine and medical practice in the Faculty of Medicine, Sousse. Female students attached more value than males to the intrinsic aspects of a physician's job, such as the desire to help others and to work with people. Regarding the dimensions of comprehensive care (psychosociological aspects of care,...

The ethical behavior of the business community has been the subject of much debate and the reputation of the business schools has been noticeably tarnished because of the unethical business practices that resulted in recent corporate disgrace as well as the current global financial crisis. Although the ethical behavior of people is shaped by a plethora of personal and environmental factors, business schools are responsible for developing acceptable behavior among their students. This paper...

A Draw an Engineer Test was used to capture the perceptions of engineering held by two similar groups of 6th grade African‐American students. Forty‐four students who had graduate level engineers in their classrooms during a prior school year as part of a GK‐12 project were matched to 44 students who had not. Matching criteria included race, gender, and academic standing. Using perceptions of common engineering artifacts, fields, tasks and processes as measures, student perceptions were...

This is an exploratory study on the nature and extent of racial integration in South African schools in the post-apartheid period. While there is vigilant media attention to occasional, dramatic incidents of racial conflict in white schools, there is very little research on the ways in which student identities are framed, challenged, asserted and negotiated within the dominant institutional cultures of former white schools. The research findings suggest that student identities are shaped and...

Purpose. This study describes the specific type and extent of social support provided by family members to older African-American women managing chronic disease. Design. Qualitative study with multiple in-depth interviews conducted over a 2-year time period. Setting. Participants were interviewed in their homes in a large Midwestern city. Participants. This was a purposeful study group of 12 middle-aged and older African-American women with diagnosed early-stage heart disease and other...

Technology now offers us a plethora of tools, resources (including Open Educational Resources) and structures to support educational activities. But the value of the technologies to enhance these activities depends on our ability, as educators, to identify the tools and structures which best support our purposes and the needs of learners. The issues facing teacher educators across Sub Saharan Africa are highly challenging: an additional four million teachers are required to meet the EFA...

Despite various HIV and AIDS training programmes offered for educators by the South African Department of Education, little has been achieved at the level of management in terms of creating a wider understanding of the social and cultural complexities of the condition and its impact on the quality of teaching and learning. Specifically, there is a lack of developmental programmes to help school principals provide leadership that can ensure that teachers and children who live in a context...

Gap detection has been used as an evaluation tool for temporal processing in subjects with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). However, the results from other reports are varied making it difficult to clearly define the impact of SNHL on the temporal processing ability of the auditory system. Specifically, we do not know if and how a high-frequency hearing loss impacts, presumably through off-channel interaction, the temporal processing in low-frequency channels where hearing sensitivity is...

Peer education programs in West Africa are a common method of dispersing health information into isolated communities. PURPOSE: The study purpose was to explore current sexual health messages presented to Gambian youth and to implement these messages within a peer health education program. METHODS: A two-day focus group was held with Nova Scotia-Gambia Association (NSGA) health educators. Day one was spent examining current NSGA key messages, and discussing sexual health behaviours and...

This study examines how the performance of the maize seed system in Ethiopia affects small-scale farmers’ access to and use of improved maize varieties. Particular emphasis is given to the droughtprone agro-ecologies of the Rift Valley region and the specific maize varieties developed for and disseminated in this area. Data for this study were gathered in 2005 from focus group discussions with maize farmers across three districts in the Rift Valley; household surveys of a random sample of 60...

This paper analyses aspects of the educational system of Burkina Faso in an attempt to envisage how it will be like at horizon 2025. The authors take a retrospective look at the achievements, the opportunities, and also the constraints and risks characterizing education in the country. Key aspects are examined, among which the organization and administration of the system, the curriculum, the infrastructures and human resources, attitudes towards learning and the relationships between the...

When Universal Primary Education (UPE) was launched in Uganda, school enrolments increased from 2.7 pupils in 1996 to 5.3 in 1997, and to 7.2 million in 2007. Even though this was followed by an increase in the number of teachers and classrooms, large classes of 70+ learners are not uncommon. Whereas UPE is viewed as a strong tool in redressing inequality and reducing poverty levels, it could negatively impact on economic growth if the quality provided is lacking. Realising that it would be...

Contents of the report are as follows: East Asia education study tour: an overview of key insights by Birger Fredriksen, and Tan Jee Peng. Education in Africa: knowledge makes the difference by Mamadou Ndoye. Education in Singapore: developments since 1965 by Goh Chor Boon, and S. Gopinathan. Education in Vietnam: development history, challenges, and solutions by Nguyen Quang Kinh, and Nguyen Quoc Chi. Education in the Republic of Korea: approaches, achievements, and current challenges by...

Abstract The Plio-Quaternary Euphrates volcanic field of NE Syria includes large discontinuous exposures of basanitic and basaltic lava flows (1200 km 2 in area). It represents the northern segment of the Cenozoic volcanic province of the Middle East and is located near the Bitlis collision suture. The rocks consist of olivine (15–20%), clinopyroxene (30–35%), plagioclase (45–55%) and opaque phases. Chemically, the rocks are largely ultrabasic (SiO 2 38.2–45.5 wt%, MgO 8.7–13.0 wt% and...