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A survey of 240 of the 445 teachers at 12 all-female or coeducational secondary schools in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, revealed both negative attitudes toward contraceptive use on the part of sexually active teenage girls and high levels of misinformation about birth control methods. The mean age of teachers was 33.8 years; 57% were married. 57.9% were aware of cases of adolescent pregnancy in their schools; 55% supported school dismissal in such cases. 29.6% indicated their school had a family...

At the dawn of independence in South Africa, several basic objectives must be met to bring about a new South Africa free of apartheid. There must be a new constitution based on democracy that guarantees one person one vote in a multiracial (nonracial in South African nomenclature) and nonsexist environment in which resources have been redistributed in such a way as to provide an equitable infrastructure in all areas. These changes will necessitate innovative intervention strategies and...

Mothers' beliefs about the role of parents and of teachers in the child's acquisition of knowledge in five domains were investigated in a sample of families from Tanzania and from the United States. Tanzanian and US mothers differed in their views of the importance of parents and teachers in the child's acquisition of language, sociopolitical, and historical knowledge, but not in the domains of science or mathematics knowledge. These differences were linked in predictable ways to the...

Fresh stool specimens, collected at random from 63 medical in-patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), were studied prospectively for Cryptosporidium oocyst. The diagnosis of AIDS was made according to the clinical case definition of the Bangui criteria. These patients presented with profuse watery diarrhoea, significant weight loss and other associated symptoms and signs of clinical manifestations of symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Using the...

In a prospective study of South African Indians with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), the serum insulin response during a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) was examined in 128 subjects who were classified as IGT 1 year previously (year 0) and in 60 matched control subjects. Based on the results at year 1, study subjects were divided into three groups, using World Health Organization criteria for glucose tolerance: IGT ( n = 47), diabetes ( n = 41), and transient IGT (normal glucose...

In Tanzania, teachers in primary schools conduct oral health education as part of the school syllabus, most of them without any training for the task. The participation, willingness and abilities of teachers involved in this duty were studied by means of questionnaire, interviews, oral hygiene examinations and practical exercises. The teachers' knowledge of oral health matters and their skills in toothbrushing were poor. Health lessons in general were not accorded high priority. The teachers...

This study investigated the knowledge, attitudes and personal behaviours of University students on AIDS. Two hundred and fifty students from the University of Ibadan randomly selected from eight faculties were surveyed. Results indicated that 58.7% of the subjects knew that AIDS is caused by a virus but 72.6% thought the disease could be spread through kissing, hugging or shaking hands and 48.0% believe they cannot have AIDS. Most students showed a high degree of aversion to AIDS victims...

The attenuation of catalytic activity that accompanies phosphorylation of Sef171 of Syrian hamster 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase (EC 1.1.1.34)reflects primarily the introduction of negative charge (Omkumar, R. V.,

Landscape dynamics is important in the holistic analysis of environmental degradation in semi-arid regions. Large variations in time and space affecting key parameters, especially precipitation, call for dynamic analytical methods with the emphasis on monitoring change. Based on one example from eastern Niger (Goudoumaria) it is demonstrated how high-resolution satellite images, Landsat TM, can provide information on land use. The study reveals important changes in the relationship between...

Historical development of Tok Pisin language, education and development - from pre-colonial days to post-colonial society methods lexical expansion, borrowing and change phonological expansion in a developing Pidgin/Creole morphological variation and change syntactic change Tok Pisin i go we? (where is Tok Pisin going?).

The political union between the countries of North and South Yemen prompted nurse-midwife educators to re-examine the midwifery curricula of both countries and define the roles midwives play as members of the health team, based on the unique circumstance in which Yemeni midwives operate within the health care system. The faculty of the Health and Manpower Institute (HMI), the main educational institution for the education of midwives, recognised that the delineation of tasks attributed to...

This study attempts to evaluate the pre-college academicperformance of Wondo Genet College of Forestry (WGCF) entrants theselection instrument used for admission of students to the College. The mainpremise of the study is that high attrition rate its adverse effects are the resultof students ill preparedness to follow college education. Primarily, the candidatesof 1992/93 /993/94 years of the College are grouped intowithdrawals, academic dismissals, plus dismissals and survivors based on...

The paper begins with an explanation of the nature and objectives of vocational education and the variations of offerings in the vocatiunal edllcation programs. In connection with this some guiding principles as to what the suI up of vocational education should be are presented. As a prelude to the examining q[ the training and placement of vocational education teachers in the vocational sch()ols. the historical developments of both vocational education programs in the schools and the...

Classroom observation and teacher self-reported data were used to investigate the extent that local and expatriate teachers in the Republic of Yemen differed (1) in their beliefs about what classroom practices lead to higher levels of student achievement and (2) in their actual classroom practices. Findings indicate statistically significant and meaningful differences in both pedagogical beliefs and actual classroom practices. Policy implications for developing countries making heavy use of expatriate teachers are discussed.

This study was conducted to determine the impact of student-faculty informal interpersonal relationships on the intellectual development and personal achievement of students attending the University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria. Specifically, the work of Pascarella and Terenzini was generalized with respect to the positive influence of student-faculty interactions on academic outcomes. Additionally, the work of Pascarella and Terenzini was extended with a sample of students at the University of...

Abortion in Zambia is liberalized. A hospital based study to determine characteristics of women having legal abortion was conducted at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia. A total of 200 participants attending a Gynaecological clinic were interviewed from March to May 1993. The clients' five year age groups between 15 and 45 years were about equally represented in the study and 113 (56.5 pc) clients were of single status, out of which 10 (15.9 pc) were students. The respondents...