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Problem-based, student-centred learning at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Unilorin, Nigeria were incorporated in the overall objectives of producing students with a sense of service and a strong inclination toward broad community care and preventive medicine. The educational programme reflecting this concept was called COBES (community-based experience and service). Twice a year groups of between seven and fourteen students, each accompanied by two to three staff members, settled in a...
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This paper explores the relationship between formal western style education and developing patterns of social stratification in a community of northern Zambia. It examines the manner in which a capitalist productive mode has affected indigenous occupational structures transforming millet cultivators into peasants and wage earners.
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As part of their programme of educational reform, the several governments of Nigeria, federal and state, are advocating the introduction of continuous assessment in primary education. The study reported here finds that experienced and senior primary school teachers do indeed agree that a reform of current practices in assessment is needed. However, they appear unwilling to accept the extra work involved in continuous assessment. Dans le cadre de leur programme de réforme pédagogique,...
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Data on age at menarche for 348 schoolgirls in Benin City Nigeria are analyzed. It is shown that mean menarcheal age is 12.3 years for those from higher-income groups and 13 years for those from low-income groups. (ANNOTATION)
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Water pollution control in South Africa is discussed from the point of view of cost and available sources of revenue. It is shown how state interests in water are generated and how the present system of water pollution control is derived from this. An example concerning the mineralisation of the water resources of the central Transvaal industrial area is used to illustrate social cost. The position of local authorities with regard to income and expenditure on water-based services is examined...
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Past damaging earthquakes in southern Ghana have been studied by means of available intensity and instrumental data. The results indicate that intensity attenuation in southern Ghana is generally low. The trend of the isoseismals seem to be related to the geology of the area. Results of the relocation of the earthquakes suggest that those located solely by teleseismically recorded arrival times may be in error by several tens of kilometres. Estimates of expected maximum accelerations at...
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Four cases of fluctuating hearing loss in West African and West Indian racial groups are presented. Two are Menière's disease, and the authors are unaware of any report in English publications describing Menière's disease in these racial groups. One is late syphilitic hearing loss and the other is idiopathic. The possible role of yaws is presented and long-held beliefs questioned.
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This paper examines the role of the primary school teacher within the setting of a community in western Ghana. It explores the types of problems that teachers confront as the consequence of the conflicts that arise between national institutions and local community expectations.
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This paper examines the role of the primary school teacher within the setting of a community in western Ghana. It explores the types of problems that teachers confront as the consequence of the conflicts that arise between national institutions and local community expectations.
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This paper examines the role of the primary school teacher within the setting of a community in western Ghana. It explores the types of problems that teachers confront as the consequence of the conflicts that arise between national institutions and local community expectations.
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Strontium isotope data are presented from 28 rock samples representing four distinct episodes of late Cenozoic volcanism in southeastern Papua. Eocene tholeiitic basalts have initial 87Sr/86Sr ratios (0.7037) which are higher than those in chemically comparable basalts and are thought to have been enhanced by rock-sea water interaction. Late Cenozoic are trench type volcanoes in the Papuan islands have initial 87Sr/86Sr ratios which show little variation (0.7041±2) in contrast to those from...