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The use of information and communication technology has become an integral component and a vital tool in teaching accounting. Over the last few decades, the blend of using state-of-the-art technologies has improved the effectiveness and efficiency of the learning process. Respectively, some predict that physical campuses will decay and crumble in the near future with the continuous growth of borderless societies and the diffusion of extended enterprises leading to a hybrid model for...
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Increasingly, consensus on the importance of higher education and research for development has occurred among the broad range of stakeholders in the ‘development’ arena, whether donor governments and organisations or recipient governments, organisations and institutions. Similarly, there is consensus that innovation, especially in the areas of science, engineering and technology are of crucial importance in this endeavour. This recognition should, however, go hand in hand with the...
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Increasingly, consensus on the importance of higher education and research for development has occurred among the broad range of stakeholders in the ‘development’ arena, whether donor governments and organisations or recipient governments, organisations and institutions. Similarly, there is consensus that innovation, especially in the areas of science, engineering and technology are of crucial importance in this endeavour. This recognition should, however, go hand in hand with the...
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In this paper, we describe initial ideas for the creation of a knowledge-driven learning platform through a system comprising of three components, a telephone system, an information kiosk and a Website. Working within the higher education HIV and AIDS (HEAIDS) programme funded by the European Union, we intend to provide relevant local HIV and AIDS information at a South African tertiary institution and the surrounding community. This paper will focus on the use of ontology for processing and retrieval of data.
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In this study, the nature and consequences of the sexual victimisation of female students at a South African tertiary institution were explored with specific reference to sexual harassment and rape. Ten research participants who met the requirements of the study were selected by means of purposive theoretical sampling. Two victims of sexual harassment and eight female students, who were subjected to rape on campus, participated in the study. To obtain in-depth qualitative information on the...
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In 2002 Tanzania initiated the implementation of the Primary Education Development Plan (PEDP), in which a substantial capacity expansion and quality improvement of primary education was outlined. ...
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The Austrian geomorphologist Eduard Suess was the first to recognize the importance of the African rift valleys. However, Suess never visited Africa, and he would never have been able to make his perceptive recognition of this aspect of the geomorphology of the African continent had it not been for earlier field explorers. The discovery of the African rift valleys can be traced back to the middle part of the nineteenth century. At the time, little was known about the interior of much of...
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Dedication Foreword Executive Summary Recommendations of the Symposium Opening of the Symposium: Background and Introduction Session 1. Teacher Mobility, Gender and Status, I Session 2. Teacher Mobility, Gender and Status, II Session 3. The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Education and the Teaching Profession, I Session 4. The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Education and the Teaching Profession, II Session 5. Panel Discussion: Strategies for Using Research to Improve Education Policies and Programmes Summary,...
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Abstract Even if the Roman Catholic Church does not have a very long history in Ethiopia and constitutes a small minority of the society, her social significance is great in part due to the structural development programs she runs through out the country. The main aim of this paper is to identify how much the Church has made use of traditional systems and values in reflecting and communicating pastorally particularly in regard the Social of the Church (henceforth CST). By analyzing four...