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Issue addressed: This paper examines the problems and prospects of implementing the health promoting schools (HPS) concept in government primary schools and Koranic training schools in northern Nigeria. Method: A HPS pilot project, documented as a case study, was initiated in four schools in northern Nigeria in January 1996, but found to be unsustainable by April 1997. An analysis of factors contributing to this unsustainability was then undertaken. Results: This paper highlights the...
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Training of individuals is one of the direct strategies to promote the informal sector which provides employment to the bulk of the urban population and is second only to smallholder agriculture as a rural employer. This paper reviews a wide range of training approaches employed to support new entrants into the informal sector, upgrade existing skills and assist disadvantaged groups. Apart from direct funding, the government is expected to formulate policies that would create a favourable...
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An important issue of contention underlying the contestation of the utility of African Higher education has been an understandable pressure for a firmer relationship between university education and vocational training. It has been asserted that African universities are not sufficiently vocational, in particular that educated university graduates do not fit easily into the developmental activities of state and society. The courses that are taught are not relevant to the requirements of the...
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The University of Ghana is the oldest of the five universities in Ghana. The others are Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, the University of Cape Coast, the University College of Education in Winneba, and the University of Development Studies in Tamale. The last two are only three years old and do not as yet have student exchange programs with North American universities. Kwame Nkrumah University and the University of Cape Coast do have student exchange programs with a few North American universities.
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This paper is based on the Zimbabwean national system of assessment and certification. This system contains aspects of both the comprehensive and modular concepts of vocational education and training (VET). There is an emphasis on educational, as opposed to occupational, standards, with educational planners trying to strike the right balance between this broad based approach and the specific requirements of employment. The trade testing and apprenticeship training assessment systems will, it...
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This special issue of the Journal of Negro Education examines how the current School Reform Movement is meeting and failing to meet the educational needs of African American youth. Such an examination is necessary, we believe, because as a national phenomenon that importantly shapes the lives of Black children, the School Reform Movement itself is being shaped by networks of predominately White business, legislative, and educational elites. And while it is true that, under this leadership,...
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Eighty-five cases of uterine rupture were seen and managed in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Nigeria, within a 5-year period from 1986 to 1990. The total number of deliveries during the period was 10 247 giving an incidence of 0.83% uterine rupture or 1 in 121 deliveries. About 82% of the cases occurred within the age range of 20-30 years. The highest incidence of uterine rupture was seen in Para 5 and four cases of uterine rupture occurred in primigravida. Abdominal tenderness...
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Coastal and marine pollution is of growing concern to environmentalists, governments, inter-governmental organisations (IGO) and non-governmental organisations (NGO). Most coastal areas of the world are contaminated especially with untreated or inadequately treated sewage and sediment from land clearing and erosion. Seas and oceans are polluted with hydrocarbonated effluents and the dumping of industrial wastes. Due to high levels of pollution indicators, oceans and seas take longer time in...