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Available in print form, East Africana Collection, Dr.Wilbert Chagula Library, (THS EAF QE533.T34H38)
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Landraces are generally expected to possess specific mechanisms of adaptation to their growing environments. In West and Central Africa (WCA), growing conditions of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) are characterized, among other hazards, by highly variable beginnings and endings of the rainy season, and unpredictable drought stress at any time during the growing season. Adaptation to such unpredictable variable environment can be due to individual and/or populational buffering...
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The announcement by the National Ministry of Health on the 17th August 2007 (South African Government 2007), officially recognizing family medicine as a speciality in its own right is an indication of just how far 'general practice' has developed in South Africa. From January 2008 there is to be a compulsory, full-time four- year training programme for registrars in Family Medicine which should result in a well trained cohort of Family Physicians suitable to staff Community Health Centres...
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This chapter follows a funnel-like approach to the vexed questions of social policy, education, employment and development in Southern Africa. Starting with broad conceptual questions, the chapter ends with country case studies on the experience of implementing various policies on education in relation to the labour market. The chapter is divided into three sections. It starts with a conceptual discussion of the role of social policy in the development process by assessing the impact of...
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During the 1980s and early 1990s, the funding of higher education in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) steadily declined as investment emphasis shifted from higher education to basic education. By the second half of the 1990s, a more balanced view had developed of the relationship among primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of education. Unfortunately, there has been no way to quickly fix the deteriorated higher education infrastructure. Alternative systems of providing higher education have had to...
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With growing use of Community Health Workers (CHWs) to reach underserved populations, there is a need for more information on training methods to prepare CHWs, particularly in a health educator role.To describe procedures used to recruit, train, and evaluate CHWs in Project Sugar 2, a randomized controlled trial of a nurse case manager and CHW team intervention designed to improve diabetes care and control in a sample of 542 urban African Americans with type 2 diabetes.CHWs received a Core...
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The use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in education is being seen as a way of widening access to education, particularly in developing countries. This paper addresses the issue of ICT implementation in secondary schools and focuses specifically on the practices that enable or constrain the successful implementation of ICT for teaching and learning activities. It reflects upon the lessons learned from a collective case study undertaken in 12 of the 13 secondary schools in...
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During apartheid and due to the cultural and academic boycott, relations between South Africa and the Netherlands in the fields of research and higher education were restricted to contacts between individuals and a small number of institutions. How have relationships in research and higher education recovered from the apartheid era? Which institutions are most active and most deeply involved in cooperation between the two countries? In which fields of science do researchers cooperate most...
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The technology of change is rapid, it is all encompassing, and it is inescapable. The question emerges in this swift acquisition of new technology – what is lost and what is gained? Traits such as social introversion and defensiveness can inhibit traditional styles of communication. It is believed that electronic communication tools can facilitate communication with certain personality traits and cultural groups and remove some communication barriers across cultures. For this exploratory...