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Since the early 1960s, the structure of Uganda‟s current education system has been in force consisting of seven years of primary education, four years of lower secondary cycle, two years of upper secondary cycle and three to five years of university studies. In January 1997, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) introduced Universal Primary Education (UPE) with a main goal of providing the minimum necessary facilities and resources to enable Ugandan children of school-going age to join,...
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Contradictions and contestations seem to plague the notion of community engagement in South African higher education.This is surprising in view of its overt links to Utopian ideals espoused by policy directives for higher education transformation in a democratic South Africa.This situation has an impact on the knowledge enablement potential in the interaction between higher education and the third sector.In this chapter I propose a perspective on this state of affairs that is influenced by...
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This paper aimed at contributing for the understanding of factors determining child health by investigating the effect of maternal education on occurrence of under-five mortality. The objectives of the study were to determine the effect of formal mater-nal schooling on under-five mortality and identifying channels through which maternal education may affect under-five mortality for the period between 2000 and 2011. The data was obtained from the 2000, 2005, and 2011 EDHS. The total number...
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The negative outcome of the Zambian Social Security Pension System which, impacts the livelihoods of retirees, has been shaped by shifting state approaches guided by manifestations of a transition from one phase of Globalization (i.e. Colonialism) to another (i.e. Modern trade and aid ). Employing the Sustainable Livelihood approach as tool of analysis, a case of retired civil service teachers in the Zambian Kapiri-Mposhi district was used to illustrate these challenges, their impacts and...
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The crisis in Zimbabwe manifested itself in serious challenges in the education sector as a whole. However, rural schools have been the worst affected. Political intimidation and persecution of teachers resulted in mass exodus of teachers and closure of schools in 2008. Hyperinflation rendered the teachers’ salaries worthless. Since then, the crisis is far from being over although there is now political stability. Rural teachers have been demoralised by poor remuneration and lack of...
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The success of the proposed HIV testing and counselling (HTC) initiative among learners at high school in South Africa depends on their acceptability of the service, which may be influenced by their HIV/AIDSknowledge, perceptions, and attitudes. The study assessed high school learners’ HIV knowledge and attitudes towards learners infected with HIV. The survey was part of formative evaluation with grade 10-12 learners in order to assess the acceptability of HTC at schools. The study consisted...
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The success of the proposed HIV testing and counselling (HTC) initiative among learners at high school in South Africa depends on their acceptability of the service, which may be influenced by their HIV/AIDSknowledge, perceptions, and attitudes. The study assessed high school learners’ HIV knowledge and attitudes towards learners infected with HIV. The survey was part of formative evaluation with grade 10-12 learners in order to assess the acceptability of HTC at schools. The study consisted...
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This paper explores the complex issue of integration and belonging of Migrants and Refugees in Higher Education. The aim is to discover more about the challenges and opportunities of integration and belonging of Migrants and Refugees pursuing Higher Education in Cavendish, a Ugandan University. Through a mainly qualitative approach, the paper suggests that knowledge of English as a dominant language used at the University, the self-belief of an individual, individual and effort to adapt into...
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Group identities are not sacred glue- nor are they corrosive to it. Instead, they are some of the material affording people a sense of self and purpose in and out of the process of shaping a collective future (Minow, 1997:146) This qualitative study with an ethnographic orientation examines the discourses of disability in the context of albinism in Kenya by foregrounding children’s voices in a highly politicised debate. By applying the concept of agency, the study considers how lived...
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The purpose of this paper is to explore how civic organizations in Egypt after the revolution prepare students to be active citizens with a solid understanding of what their roles and duties are in an emergent democratic system. Through examining the curriculum of the summer school of one of the civic organizations in Cairo, I first look at the kind of themes or issues that are presented to the students. I then align the activities used at the school with research-based practices in...
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The study has further examined rural perception to the effects of climate change. The study used rural settlements in Otukpo, Nigeria as a case study. Primary and secondary data were utilised for the study. Data collection was done through the use of a questionnaire with open-ended questions and questions with multiple answers. A total of 100 questionnaires were randomly distributed among household heads in 10 settlements selected from 58 rural settlements for the study. Spatial distribution...