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The new South Africa has formally embraced the concept of ‘lifelong learning’ in its education and training policies. But what is the concept of ‘lifelong learning’ that has informed these policies and what progress has there been in implementing them? Have these new policies brought significant changes to education and training for adults?

Researchers claim that children growing up away from their biological parents may be at a disadvantage and have lower human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and child fixed effects regressions to address the endogeneity of fostering. Data collection by the author involved tracking and interviewing the sending and receiving household participating in each fostering exchange, allowing a comparison of foster children...

To determine the mortality rate and causes of death of all infants admitted to the Special Care Nursery (SCN) of a tertiary referral hospital in rural Kenya.Prospective and Cross-sectional studySpecial Care Nursery, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Eldoret, Kenya.All infants admitted to the Special Care Nursing (SCN).Survival status at seven postnatal days; major causes of mortality and morbidity.Three hundred and thirty five babies were studied between February and September 1999. Out of...

This paper explores some of the indigenous sources available in Ethiopia as a resource for philosophy and philosophy of education. In the process it makes a small contribution to the ongoing debate among philosophers as to whether there is a distinctive African philosophy. The paper illustrates, first, what is sometimes referred to as the 'deep knowledge' underlying more day-to-day beliefs in Ethiopia (or more specifically in this case those of the Amhara-Tigre cultural complex) and their...

This is a personal report of a volunteer engineer who worked as a civil engineering lecturer in Ethiopia for two years on a placement with Voluntary Service Overseas. In addition to his main teaching role, most of which was blackboard-based, he was able to make a major contribution to improving the way the technology faculty operated. He also became involved in road safety and HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns. In return he and his wife gained a significantly broader view of the world and its...

This is a personal report of a volunteer engineer who worked as a civil engineering lecturer in Ethiopia for two years on a placement with Voluntary Service Overseas. In addition to his main teaching role, most of which was blackboard-based, he was able to make a major contribution to improving the way the technology faculty operated. He also became involved in road safety and HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns. In return he and his wife gained a significantly broader view of the world and its...

Divine Word University’s (DWU) vision is challenged by the current reality of higher education in Papua New Guinea and the relationship between the university and its sponsoring religious community. The higher education environment is very diverse, unsustainable and subject to unpredictable decisions of the government. Government policy and legislation of higher education have grown without any proper strategic planning or coordination with the providers. Another challenge, common to the...

A high proportion (see tables in appendix A) of those teaching in Libyan Higher Education institutions are expatriates. The current study looks at the human environment surrounding Expatriate Teachers (ETs) in Higher Education Institutions in Libya and probes the extent to which relationships with people around them enable ETs to maximise their contribution to the education system in Libya. Various fields in the literature on socio-cultural context, help in social relationships and...

Some proponents of Africanism argue that African traditional education and the principles of ubuntu should provide the framework for citizenship education. While conceding that understandable concerns lie behind defences of ubuntu as underpinning African democracy, we argue that the Africanist perspective faces various problems and makes substantial errors: political, moral, epistemic and educational. While democracy and democratic citizenship necessarily involve sensitivity to local...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which student involvement experiences impacted educational outcomes for African Americans in college. Overall, the results of the study indicated that in-class and out-of-class experiences positively impacted student development for a nationally representative sample of African American students who completed the College Student Experiences Questionnaire. Implications for student affairs professionals were discussed.

T raining and development for public officials have been changed from being action-orientated to being results orientated. The focus of training and devel- opment has shifted from merely designing, developing and conducting train- ing programmes to a process where not only the needs of the organization is taken into account but also the needs and desires of the individual. It became necessary to introduce a process of needs analysis to enable organizations to identify specif- ic training...

"Opening up the debate on medical education in South Africa." South African Family Practice, 46(10), p. 3

Extracted from text ... Editorial Gentlemen - it may not have escaped your professional observation that there are only two classes of mankind in the world - doctors and patients. Speaking as a patient I should say the average patient looks at the average doctor very much as a non- combatant (in war time) looks upon the troops fighting on his behalf. The more trained men there are between his body and the enemy the better. But what sort of education and training do these men...

Abstract Mt. Cameroon (4075 m) is a large volcanic horst and is presently the only active volcano on the Cameroon Volcanic Line (eight eruptions during the last century). This location belongs to the famous Bangui magnetic anomaly and is thus of particular interest for the investigation of the persistence and the evolution of the anomaly with time. We have conducted a paleomagnetic study of 94 samples drilled from 13 lavas flow on Mount Cameroon (0.0–0.25 Ma). Low-field susceptibility versus...

This study examined the production of African-American English (AAE) forms produced by 69 school-aged African-American children from middle socio-economic status (SES) communities to determine if age would influence: (a) the number of different types of AAE tokens and (b) the rate of dialect. Descriptive data revealed that there were more than 20 AAE morpho-syntactic forms collectively used by the children. The findings also indicated that factors of age, gender, and sampling context...

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Abstract This case study is a presentation of systematic development of an awareness and communication multimedia package in solid waste management that was produced for Egyptian technical secondary schools. Representative teachers were very much involved in the design and pretesting of the technical content of the package. They even suggested and influenced the format of the produced materials. The awareness and education materials, to be included in the package, were classified into four...