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Spatial and temporal variability in global, diffuse, and horizontal direct irradiance and sunshine duration has been evaluated at eight stations in South Africa and two stations in Namibia where the time series range between 21 and 41 years. Global and direct irradiance and sunshine duration decrease from northwest to southeast; diffuse irradiance increases toward the east. Annually averaged global irradiance Ga decreased between 1.3% (2.8 W m−2) and 1.7% (4.4 W m−2) per decade at...
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Previous articleNext article No AccessCombating AIDS in South Africa and Mozambique: The Role of Open, Distance, and Flexible Learning (ODFL)Pat Pridmore and Chris YatesPat Pridmore and Chris YatesPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Comparative Education Review Volume 49, Number 4November 2005Special Issue on Education and Public Health: Mutual...
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After 1994, South Africa passed several pieces of legislation protecting the rights and safety of learners in South African schools. These Acts are all (to a larger or smaller extent) concerned with protecting the physical and psychological integrity of learners in schools. Some shocking reports have indicated that children's rights are neither promoted nor protected in certain schools. The purpose in this study was to determine the relevant legal framework and the current situation with regard to school safety.
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Only a small fraction of the emigration of Tanzania heads towards Europe, but the wish to migrate there permanently or temporarily is quite popular among Tanzanians. This wish stems from an image of Europe that convinces the potential migrants that it would be sensible to undergo a migration process in order to achieve a higher social status. The images of Europe and the migration process derive from and are perpetuated by information from various sources, some of which the potential...
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A cross-sectional study of children and adolescents from Maputo, Mozambique, was carried out in order to (1) describe the current growth status of children and adolescents from Maputo, (2) evaluate the relative status of the growth and development of youth from Maputo compared to WHO international standards, (3) assess the relationship between socioeconomic status and growth and development, and (4) assess the impact that the civil war (1980-1992) had on the health status of children and...
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Strong tertiary education is seen as a critical success factor in the development of society at large in the developing world, of which most nations of Africa feature prominently. Although several countries embark on educational reforms and promise access to higher education for all, various problems, including distance, lack of resources and the complexity of delivery, are major hindrances to the process itself. The lack of enabling technologies has denied the potential fruits of higher...
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The literature of the early 1990s observed a general lack of differentiation and specialisation at the basic qualification level in library and/or information science education and training in South Africa. This paper draws from an empirical study on first level LIS qualifications at South African universities and technikons to examine developments in specialisation in LIS education and training. This is particularly relevant in the context of the government's current drive toward...
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The article aims to provide a more complete historical review of LIS education and training in South Africa, particularly the involvement of technikons as well as how changes in the post-1990 era in South African society generally and in the higher education sector specifically, have impacted on LIS education and training.
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Previous articleNext article No Access"We Will Be Ready Whenever They Are": African American Teachers' Responses to the Brown Decision and Public School Integration in Nashville, Tennessee, 1954-1966Sonya RamseySonya Ramsey Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of African American History Volume 90, Number...
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The construct has become sufficiently sophisticated for it to be used as the theoretical base for an empirical survey. A survey of teacher efficacy in a number of selected schools in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa revealed that teachers perceived school context effects as preventing them from functioning efficaciously, that although the general teaching efficacy (GTE) beliefs of the teachers in the sample were strong, they were mostly negative, in the sense that the respondents...
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The Population Council is an international, non-profit, nongovernmental institution that seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between
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Delivering water and sanitation services requires the inputs of many resources; natural, social, political, financial, physical and human. The human resource needs to be of the correct quantity (sufficient staff) and the right quality (qualified and motivated). Capacity building aims to improve the quality of the human resource, but this can be piecemeal, uncoordinated and unsustainable. A sector wide scoping study was made into capacity building needs in Uganda, to see why...
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Education is an important pillar in the national economic development. It contributes to economic growth in varied forms. The educational system in Eritrea shows all the symptoms of prolonged neglect under colonialism and war. But education plays a key role in the development after independence. This paper discusses educational growth and development in post-independent Eritrea. It also analyses educational finances, and challenges for development in the country and thus provides some implications.