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Succession planning has become increasingly important because of the shortage of headship applicants in England, and in many other countries. Leadership development is a central part of any succession planning strategy. This article compares the findings from two longitudinal studies, in England and South Africa, where the governments are seeking to improve the supply and quality of school principals, and links them to the literature. The article concludes that ensuring a good supply of able...
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In 1973 the economist E.F Schumacher wrote ‘Small is Beautiful’. In this he created the vision of a concept known as ‘intermediate technology’. Directly from this grew the popular ‘appropriate technology’ movement. An appropriate technology, in the ideal sense, is designed with special consideration of the environmental, ethical, cultural, social, political, and economical aspects of the community it is intended for. The term ‘appropriate technology’ is continually used when referring to...
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Much research has suggested that focusing on the determinants of female enrolment and dropout tells us little about girls’ experiences of schooling in developing countries and cannot explain variation in their educational trajectories. This paper draws on quantitative (n = 1177) and qualitative data (n = 15) collected by Young Lives in Ethiopia to explore the educational experiences of girls aged 11–15 living in five rural and urban communities. It focuses on the diversity in girls’...
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The Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) was originally introduced as a standardised, practice-based evidence tool for generating effectiveness data by practitioners within the context of routine clinical practice in the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) settings. Following wide application across UK NHS sites the CORE-OM has proven to be a pragmatic measure of both a) gross psychological distress and b) the effectiveness of psychotherapy...
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The purpose of this study was to determine the quality, effectiveness and sustainable use of teacher-made tests among rural secondary school pupils. A cost-benefit analysis on the quality of teacher-made tests will be explored assessing whether their administration is of quality or a mere formality in the classroom setting in Zimbabwe. Teacher-made tests are highly vulnerable to misuse by teachers who adopt a haphazard approach to test planning, administration and scoring. The qualitative...
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Objective: To assess the feasibility of Power-Up, an after-school program to decrease obesity risk among African American children, using community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles.
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Power-Up:A Collaborative After-School Program to Prevent Obesity in African American Children Shahid Choudhry, MPH, Lori McClinton-Powell, BS, Marla Solomon, RD, CDE, Dawnavan Davis, PhD, Rebecca Lipton, PhD, Amy Darukhanavala, MD, Althera Steenes, Kavitha Selvaraj, BS, Katherine Gielissen, BS, Lorne Love, Renee Salahuddin, MA, Frank K. Embil, MA, Dezheng Huo, PhD, Marshall H. Chin, MD, MPH, Michael T. Quinn, PhD, and Deborah L. Burnet, MD, MA1 What Is the Purpose of the Study? • To assess...
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The primary objective of environmental education is believed to be developing environmental literacy. The environmentally literate person is described as a person who possesses the values, attitudes and skills that enable knowledge to be converted into action. This study was aimed at assessing the level of climate change literacy among graduate students in four programmes at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. To this end, a questionnaire was developed and administered to a total of 91...
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Although levels of heavy drinking and alcohol-related problems are high in college students, there is significant variability in the number and type of problems experienced, even among students who drink heavily. African American students drink less and experience fewer alcohol-related problems than European American students, but are still at risk, and little research has investigated the potentially unique patterns and predictors of problems among these students. Depression, distress...
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With the termination of the apartheid education system, Physical Education (PE) a stand-alone school subject was reduced to a learning outcome of Life Orientation (LO). The process had a political, as well as an educational undercurrent. Early childhood is a very important phase for motor development. Notwithstanding contemporary societal factors that impede on the development of fundamental motor skills, the South African educational system is another major factor that impedes on the...
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This article examines the representation of female education in Qur’anic schools in a selection of West African francophone novels. I argue that in being the earliest form of education for most Muslim women and also a neglected topic of scholarly interest, the Qur’anic school shapes their feminisms in more significant ways than has been acknowledged since scholarly attention to Islamic education in West Africa has mostly focused on the experience of boys in Qur’anic schools, and since...
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Postural deviation is more than an aesthetic problem, which progresses beyond the boundary of physical appearance. Two hundred and four University of Kwa-Zulu Natal students studying at the Westville campus participated in the study through voluntary informed consent. Subjects' underwent postural analyses, according to the Kendall et al (2005) postural analyses protocol which identified the presence of scoliosis in the frontal plane and kyphosis and lordosis in the sagittal plane. In...
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Research from other sporting codes highlighted the importance of taking positional differences into consideration when developing mental skills training (MST) programmes, due to the different requirements of each playing position. The purpose of this study was to determine the possible positional differences in mental skill levels among 91 tertiary institution male field hockey players. The participants competed in the University Sport of South Africa (USSA) tournament and were categorised...