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This study investigates the use of home brewed alcoholic beverages among adolescents in high schools in a rural community in South Africa. There is much concern about alcohol misuse among young people and very little information exists on alcohol produced by the informal liquor industry in South Africa. A total of 1600 high school students participated in the study. The prevalence rates for past year use of home brewed alcohol was 22.2%. There was association between home brewed alcohol use...
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The water and sanitation sector in Nigeria has many donors as key contributors since water supply has linkages with many other development indicators. The donor funded programmes are usually on a small scale compared to the size of the country; therefore, replicating the tested models while scaling up is key to reaching the unserved populations. In Sokoto State (NorthWestern Nigeria), in an attempt to bridge the gap between girls and boys in primary schools, the 3-year Girl’s Education...
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This is a edited version of the essay. Corrections on spelling mistakes have been made.(January 2008)
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This paper highlights issues on Educational Assessment and Examinations. The summative and formative types of assessment are differentiated. Following a survey of several universities in Uganda, the current assessment and examinations practices are explained in terms of the weighting of the written examination and course work, then the dissertations and viva voce for the graduate awards. The paper exposes several of the examination malpractices and irregularities that are rampant in all...
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This study addresses educational reform in Ghana with reference to one of the most important potential agents of change in any system of schooling—its teachers. The empirical data on secondary teachers and trainee teachers used here is taken from a larger case study of the attitudes and opinions of teachers and parents in the education system of Ghana. Secondary teachers in Ghana are seriously underpaid, but not necessarily undervalued in the community. They take on other jobs to support...
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AbstractEducation is very necessary for man in order to articulate himself and achieve fullness. But the formal system, which is elitist, discriminatory and instalmental, cannot alone provide all education one needs for self-fulfillment. The terminologies, such as, continuing education, recurrent education, education permanente and life-long education, have been used by different bodies to stress that education should be co-terminous with life. Adult education in its complementary and...
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Conventional wisdom would suggest to the fact that relatively poor countries are unlikely to host a “high-technology” sector. This paper examines an unusual phenomenon of industrial organization in an African setting; the emergence of a small and medium enterprise (SMEs) information technology hardware cluster in a very late industrializing country, Nigeria. The evolution of the Otigba Computer Hardware Village (OCV) has proceeded largely without direct support from the state and indeed...
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Conventional wisdom suggests to the fact that poor countries are unlikely to be host to a high-technology sector and doing so within the organization of small and medium enterprises. This paper examines an unusual phenomenon of industrial organization in an African setting; the emergence of a cluster of an information technology hardware cluster in a very late industrializing country, Nigeria. The evolution of the Otigba Computer Hardware Village (OCV) in Lagos, Nigeria has proceeded...
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Conventional wisdom suggests to the fact that poor countries are unlikely to be host to a “high-technology” sector and doing so within the organization of small and medium enterprises. This paper examines an unusual phenomenon of industrial organization in an African setting; the emergence of a cluster of an information technology hardware cluster in a very late industrializing country, Nigeria. The evolution of the Otigba Computer Hardware Village (OCV) in Lagos, Nigeria has proceeded...
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Introduction Institutions and technology in African development Learning knowledge and skills in small and medium enterprises: a theoretical review Learning knowledge and skills in industry: empirical exploration Inter-organizational collaboration in systems of innovation Infrastructure and industry Institutions supporting SMEs in industry Cluster and institutions supporting clustering Conclusions and policy suggestions References Index.
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The study investigated the attitudes and reactions of students in selected Colleges of Education in Oyo, Ekiti and Ondo States of Nigeria to sex and cohabitation with the opposite sex. In all, 300 subjects who volunteered were used from three of such institutions. The data for the study were collected through a questionnaire designed to elicit responses on how students felt about sex and cohabitation with the opposite sex. The percentage mean and standard deviation of the scores were used to...