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A retrospective study was conducted on all patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Ilorin, Nigeria, over a 10—year period (October 1991—Sept. 2001). This period marks the first decade of the establishment of our ICU. The purpose of this study is to describe the pattern of admission of patients into the ICU, highlighting the variety of cases, indications for admission, outcome and causes of death, and the problems of medical and...

Within-group variation is an important yet under-studied component of cross-cultural neuropsychology. The current study explored this potential source of variation in a neurologically healthy African American elderly sample by comparing the neuropsychological test performance of nondemented groups of Caribbean-born and U.S.-born African American elders who live in New York City. Caribbean-born elders resided in the U.S. for a mean of 41.5 years (SD = 17.0). Results indicate that in general,...

The objective of this paper is to establish to what extent owners / managers of small businesses in a typical South African setting, experience selected problems or issues with a negative impact on the success of the small business. Problems encountered are numerous, and mostly related to, amongst others, environmental, financial, marketing, human resource, social or managerial issues. The aim is also to investigate whether these problem categories are related to the possession of management...

This article asks educational leaders to imagine schools from a postmodern perspective in order to address the issues specifically germane to black children in public schools. In fact, this article challenges current as well as prospective school leaders to adopt a radical approach to perceiving schools so that the inequities and undemocratic practices in these institutions may be uncovered and dealt with. All of this is initiated through a spirit of resistance and radical reconstruction...

In the Gambia, West Africa, Malaria is a major cause of death among children in rural areas. It has been estimated that in one division in the country malaria accounts for 40% of all deaths in children aged between one and 4 years. Most malaria cases are managed at home assisted by primary healthcare workers. The strategic plan of Gambia's National Malaria Control Programme includes improved training and supervision of all health care providers, at all levels, and increased community...

While youth issues are subject of growing attention in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region, data for indicators relating specifically to youth employment remain scarce in most SSA countries. There is therefore limited empirical basis for formulating policies and programmes promoting youth employment and successful school to work transitions. The study is aimed at beginning to fill this gap by generating and analyzing a set of youth education and employment indicators based on World Bank...

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsDouglas GuiffridaDouglas Guiffrida is Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development, Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, University of Rochester.

Consent was obtained from all relevant authorities to undertake an epidemiological survey to determine the occlusal status of a sample of 12-year-old Black school children in Mankweng Circuit, Limpopo Province. The examination was carried out using the Dental Aesthetic Index (DAI) criteria, under conditions prescribed by the WHO in 1987. The results were analysed using the Kotmogorov-Smirnov Test. The results of the study showed that forty seven percent (47%) of the subjects required...

Abstract The authors compared the performance of 78 African American 5th-grade students who studied a math-estimation task in one of two learning contexts. Learning contexts differed in the degree to which they afforded the expression of communalism. ANCOVA confirmed that posttest performance was best for students who studied in the high communal-learning context. The findings support A. W. Boykin's (1994) contention that the cultural context of learning can be a critical mediator of...

Abstract This paper explores how an aid-funded Ph.D.-programme in mathematics education instituted in some Southern African Development Community countries measures up to issues related to research capacity development projects. The research capacity development programme is described and reflected against mutual benefit, relevance, sustainability and prioritization of the location of project funding expenditure—some of the constructs in the discourse on research capacity development...

Adult education is gradually receiving priority in the Sierra Leone government's goal as an essential service to national development. This article discusses the role libraries are to play as repositories of the traditional print media and non-print materials in attaining this goal

Abstract This paper reports the results of a study of primary school mathematics teaching in northern Botswana in order to highlight the strategies teachers use in bi/multilingual classrooms. Questionnaire and interview data collection procedures were used. The findings, which are based on responses of randomly selected primary school teachers, confirmed that monolingual classes were fewer than bilingual and multilingual classes in those parts of Botswana. Furthermore, syllabus analysis...

Given the burden of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, there is a need to introduce students to the issues health professionals face about the disease. We developed an introductory peer-led workshop on HIV/AIDS for first year students covering a range of biomedical and social issues. To evaluate the workshops, volunteer students were randomly allocated to participate in one of the workshops or not. At follow-up, students who participated in the workshops showed positive changes in their attitudes and...

The SPLM’s Secretariat of Education (SoE) has explicitly linked gender education and peace within the Directorate of Gender Equity and Social Change. This forward-looking move recognises the potential of education to enhance a gender-just peace. The SoE now has the challenge of addressing very high expectations for education in ways which are regionally ethnically and gender equitable. Regional disparities are significant: girls in Bahr El Ghazal Upper Nile Nuba Mountains and Southern Blue...

This article proposes a curriculum outline for the training of subtitlers in South Africa by integrating domestic user-based parameters (user group profiles, reading speed, non-linguistic audio elements, language structures, phoneme-grapheme correlation, standard of translation, vocabulary) and the aspects that shape existing courses in other countries (national context of subtitling, training aims, academic level, duration, content, equipment and software used, on-the-job training or...

In much of the literature on the privatisation of higher education, it appears as both a relatively recent phenomenon, and one that is homogenous in its causes, forms and effects. Drawing on the case of South Africa, this study challenges these assumptions, suggesting that without a sense of the long history of private provision and its interwoven relationship with public higher education in that country, it is difficult to appreciate fully the effects of global and local dynamics. The paper...