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Developing pre-service teacher education in times of constraints. The case of the Eritrean elementary school
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(2005). Self-taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 141-141.
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In many universities, economics teachers now face the challenge of dealing with large, diverse classes, especially at undergraduate level. A common concern is the non-attendance at lectures of unmotivated (conscript) students. This paper presents the results of a student assessment of a macroeconomics 1 course, coupled with a self-assessment of their own input into the course. The results obtained, using an econometric model, suggest that what students do outside of lectures is equally, or...
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The everyday practice of making colonies is as 'fractured and erratic ' as the various personalities of the colonisers and colonised brought together in the process. Drawing on the journals of Dr Carleton Gajdusek, who worked as a medical researcher on kuru among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea in the 1950s and 1960s, Gajduseks approach to the Fore peoples ' response to sickness is analysed. Providing evidence of an individual western medical practitioner who valued and...
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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Education in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Degree of Master of Education
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Our NGO, Uconnect1, is distributing hundreds of refurbished computers to dozens of mostly rural primary and secondary schools in Uganda, training teachers and students to set up their own computer labs, assisting them in getting connected to the Internet and guiding them to open their schools’ labs to the parents and local community after hours on a fee-paying basis. We have attempted to develop each aspect of the project’s operations in such a way that it is sustainable, scalable and...
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Jongbloed (2004) perceives of public funding of higher education (HE) as falling into two categories, namely, the funding base, on the one hand, and the degree of market orientation, on the other. The funding base determines whether the funding allocations are tied to educational outputs of performance or to educational inputs. The degree of market orientation is determined by the degree to which publicly funded students or funded programmes are regulated by central authorities or by the...
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The study assessed the effectiveness of the Zimbabwe School Examination Council (ZIMSEC) in managing examinations in rural day secondary schools. Quantitative and qualitative techniques were used in the study. Examination results from a purposive sample of 97 rural day secondary schools, focus groups with 30 purposively selected heads of departments, and personal interviews with five purposively selected heads of departments were analysed. The analysis pays attention to the achievements of...
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Low external input farmers in Africa suffer from various wind problems. In the research education capacity building project “Traditional Techniques of Microclimate Improvement (TTMI)” carried out at Universities in Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania between 1985 and 2002, several such problems were tackled using simple wind equipment to quantify wind speeds in the agricultural environment concerned. The research of the authors and their teams proved that appropriate design rules for wind...
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Health should be seen as a resource in daily life so people can feel satisfaction and social support network has been shown to have a significant impact on health. Another important determinant on ...