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The latest evaluation of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the health situation in Africa recognizes that District Health Management Teams (DHMT) are not as efficient and effective at delivering primary healthcare as they could be. The ‘weakness of information support is acknowledged by most member states as a persistent obstacle to vigorous and objective management’ [1]. A shift towards decentralization in many low-income countries has meant that more skills are demanded of primary...

This month our guest columnist is Bruce Hecker, who writes about his experiences teaching English in Morocco. His goal in the piece is to evoke the joys and frustrations of establishing relationships between teacher and student, mixing vignettes with direct commentary to render personal experience in the indirect way he has learned so much about from experiencing Moroccan ways of communication. Through his writing, he hopes to inspire high school English teachers in the United States to be...

For the past two decades, Syrio-Palestine/biblical archaeology is known to have gradually disappeared from American colleges. Nonetheless, this issue has rarely been studied and addressed using quantitative and empirical data. In this paper, the past and present of Syrio-Palestine/biblical archaeology in American colleges are diagnosed by examining the archaeology curricula in American colleges. This study indicates that although it may not be moribund, Syrio-Palestine/biblical archaeology...

As Bill Bradley recently observed, A pair of strong hands are not what they used to be. Now those hands have to be able to use a keyboard. In 1997, over half of all workers directly used a computer keyboard on the job. Workers who use a computer at work are paid more than those who do not, and are more highly sought after by employers. The Commerce Department's 1999 report, Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide, highlighted that African-American workers are less likely than...

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The purpose of this study was to determine African American teachers’ perceptions and experiences in schools where European American teachers and students are the majority. Five female African American teachers were interviewed for the purpose of understanding their perceptions and relationships with students and colleagues in this type of school setting. Data were compared to Cose’s “dozen demons” themes to support consistency in interpreting the participants’ responses to predominantly...

This is a hospital based retrospective histopathological study of urological tumours in 10 years. Specimens consisted of all surgical excisions, trucut and fine needle biopsies of kidney, prostate, urinary bladder, testis and penis. Urological tumours accounted for 11.45% of all malignant tumours during the period of study. Prostate cancer accounted for 44.1%, urinary bladder 31.7%, kidney 17.3%, testis 5.8% and penis 1%. The study also showed that urinary bladder tumour and malignant...

Development Policy ReviewVolume 18, Issue 1 p. 85-106 Meeting the International Poverty Targets in Uganda: Halving Poverty and Achieving Universal Primary Education Rosemary McGee, Rosemary McGee Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, BrightonSearch for more papers by this author Rosemary McGee, Rosemary McGee Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, BrightonSearch for more papers by this author First published: 16 December 2002...

As South Africa enters the Mbeki Presidency so the fortunes of the country are thrown into sharp relief. One of the central elements determining South Africa's short- to medium-term future will be the success of educational transformation, particularly when it is directed to addressing issues of equity and economic development. This paper explores the 1998 reforms of the further education and training system in the context of broader questions of educational and economic transformation in South Africa.

Abstract The adoption of school-based models of teacher preparation in recent years also triggered the rise of mentoring, both as a practice and a research area in teacher education. Most of the attention, however, has been given to generic mentoring concerns in initial teacher preparation and, often, for primary school. This article takes the discussion into the subject specific area of mathematics teaching at the secondary level. In particular, the authors highlight the problematic aspects...

A comparison of manpower development and training for library and information services by the Departments of Library and Information Studies (LIS) in Africa is reviewed. The curricula, programmes, accreditation, resources, fieldwork, continuing educa

Sedimentation rates along the Syrian coast were determined by the 210Pb dating method to a total of nine cores taken in 1993; rates were found to vary between 0.11 and 0.87 cm year−1. These rates were used to provide historical records of the total organic content, major elements such as Al, Ca, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Na, Ba and Br and some trace metals (As, Cr, Pb, Zn and Cu) concentrations along the Syrian coast. High total organic content up to 52% was found near Banias City; the Banise oil...

The histories of pre-colonial states in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa have engaged scholars for more than a century. First encountered by Europeans in the 1860s during the search for the source of the Nile, these states and their rulers inspired both admiration and frustration in their visitors. On the one hand, explorers were impressed by the power of the rulers and the complexities of their bureaucracies, but on the other, they were annoyed by the apparent vacillation of the...

Having had the opportunity to observe in classrooms throughout Zimbabwe as an external examiner about ten years ago and having spent time in other African countries since then, I found myself closely connecting to Fast's stories of living and teaching in Zimbabwe. If readers have not had the opportunity to immerse themselves in a foreign culture, Fast's stories may, on the surface, appear intriguing but distant from their own lives and ways of functioning. From these appealing stories,...

In 1989 the Nigerian Government issued a major sports policy document, ostensibly representing an unprecedented initiative to maximise the effectiveness of national sports agencies. This policy anticipates a key role for the higher education sector in sports programme reform. The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent to which the Nigerian university sector has adjusted its sports ethos in line with the national sports policy objectives and to review the implications of the current...