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DETA CONFERENCE 2009 PROCEEDINGS Foreword The Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA) Conference is a biennial conference that was initiated to provide a platform for educationists in Africa to meet and deliberate on educational issues in Africa. Since its inception, it has enabled educationists to exchange knowledge and enhance their capacity to engage with opportunities and challenges in education on the continent. DETA’s major objectives are to contribute to the...
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According to Martin, Benjamin, Prosser, and Trigwell (1999), the scholarship associated with teaching consists of three related activities which integrate the key functions of higher education, namely engagement with the existing knowledge on teaching and learning; self-reflection on teaching and learning in one's discipline; and the public sharing of ideas about teaching and learning within the discipline. This article attempts to address these three aspects. In this account I reflect...
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Assessment defines what students regard as important, how they spend their time, and how they come to see themselves as students and then as graduates.It follows, then, that it is not the curriculum which shapes assessment, but assessment which shapes the curriculum and embodies the purposes of higher education.
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Many higher education systems are undergoing transformations in the face of today‟s highly changing environment. One such change has to do with the establishment of external quality assurance systems. In Ethiopia, the number of private higher education institutions (HEIs) has increased significantly over the past decade. The government of Ethiopia has set up, as the main mechanism of overseeing the performance of private HEIs, an accreditation system. Higher education relevance and quality...
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The history of medical education in Libya spans over a period of 40 years. Medical schools had a good and promising start in the 1970s. The graduates of the first few classes had a good impact on the health services in Libya. However, the medical schools did not embrace the immense changes that medical education experienced over the last two decades. This article aims to give a background on the medical education in Libya and explore the challenges facing it, which may help in gaining the initial momentum that seems to have been lost.
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The Bill of Rights expressly prohibits unfair discrimination on the basis of disability, however the Constitutional Court has not yet addressed the meaning or scope of disability equality. This article seeks to develop an indigenous model of conceptualising and interpreting equality for people with disabilities in South Africa. It draws from scholarship that has emerged from the global disability studies movement, and incorporates contemporary thinking about disability rights as a core...
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The Bill of Rights expressly prohibits unfair discrimination on the basis of disability; however the Constitutional Court has not yet addressed the meaning or scope of disability equality. This article seeks to develop an indigenous model of conceptualizing and interpreting equality for people with disabilities in South Africa. It draws form scholarship that has emerged from the global disability studies movement, and incorporates contemporary thinking about disability rights as a core...
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There recently has been legitimate criticism, by especially the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, that the research output of the Onderstepoort Faculty of Veterinary Science of the University of Pretoria is inadequate and that there is overtraining of aspiring veterinarians. The inverse relationship between these deficiencies is obvious. A quantum curricular leap is essential if any serious attempt is to be made to address them. This leap firstly should entail much more teaching of basic...