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The literature on diversity education in southern Africa to date has not taken account of the changing composition of populations in educational institutions. Migration in the region has led to changes in the demographic profiles of schools, colleges and universities. What impact have these changes had on social relations? How are emerging social relations redefining the meaning of globalisation and regionalisation? This article provides an overview of research literature on diversity...

Background The number of African immigrants from Sub-Saharan countries residing in continental France has been steadily rising from an estimate of 20,000 individuals in 1962 to approximately 570,000 individuals in 2004 (CEPED, 2009). In recent years, a decrease in the flow of entries has been observed with an estimated 83,606 Africans entering France in 2007 (CEPED, 2009). The specific health needs of African immigrants in continental France have been highlighted in several studies (Sargent,...

This article addresses the state of school geography in South Africa as the country celebrates 20 years of democracy. It builds on and expands the narrative contained in two articles (Nel and Binns, 1999; Le Grange and Beets, 2005) published in Geography, which described National Curriculum development at different times during a period of education transformation in post-apartheid South Africa. Our main contention is that while there has been an upward trend in enrolment and learner...

Modern higher education in Ethiopia has a short history of a little over six decades. Over the past two decades there have been tremendous reforms that aimed at expanding and modernizing the higher education subsector so that it would make meaningful contributions for the country’s development. However, despite the rapid expansion of the sector, its process and roles have not become a research agenda to assess whether Ethiopia is following the ‘right path’ of the developmental state model in...

The geological development of the Fogo island volcano commenced in the early Quaternary, and much later during the Last Glacial stage this involved a mega‐scale lateral collapse of the former edifice. This later event created a large caldera‐like landform open to the east, the floor of which is known as the Chã, and subsequently within this a strato‐volcanic cone has grown. The last phase of volcanic activity started in late 2014 and persisted for 77 days. It had a devastating impact on the...

Research into the genetics of congenital hearing impairment in the Syrian population, where cases are noticeably encountered, is still in its infancy.Our goal was to estimate the frequencies of the del(GJB6-D13S1830) and del(GJB6-D13S1854) mutations in a group of Syrians with autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing loss (ARNSHL).Forty-one unrelated Syrian probands, already screened for exon 2, GJB2 gene mutations, were reanalyzed for del(GJB6-D13S1830) and del(GJB6-D13S1854) mutations by...

In Malawi, net enrolment rates at secondary level are less than 30%. Most children do not complete primary school; others are discouraged by the costs of secondary schooling. Most secondary school students go to government schools, but private schools enrol about 20%. These private schools include a range of prices and quality, but all are unaffordable for those outside the wealthiest quintile. This paper explores 15 lower price private secondary schools. It describes the students in the...

This chapter presents Kenya’s taxpayer education programme. It first gives an overview of the whole programme and its objectives, followed by a focus on one specific element, the Schools Outreach Programme. It finally looks at the impacts and lessons learnt of the initiative.

The focus of the present study is to assess the effect of artemether-lumefantrine treatment of falciparum malaria on urogenital schistosomiasis in co-infected individuals. Urine samples were collected from 159 microscopically confirmed malaria patients and diagnosed for urogenital schistosomiasis before treatment. The schistosomiasis cure rate and egg reduction were determined in co-infected patients, who were treated with artemether-lumefantrine. Out of 103 malaria infected children, 56...

The call for re-standardisation of the falling educational standard across all level in Nigeria tags along the obligation to look into the factors responsible. It is an incontestable fact that the menace takes its root from primary level and grows its wing up to tertiary institutions as school-age academic performance calls for redress. Researchers have traced some of the causal factors to too-much exposure of the school-age children to the media most especially television and the new media....

The exponential growth in the volume of data and information lead to problems in management, controlling effective and high costs of storage operation, where organizations are having problems: data retrieval and preparation and backups, and other acts of data.Therefore seeking companies and business organizations at the present time to achieve the highest return on their investments in technology through the planning and implementation of virtualization technologies and cloud computing, in...

Education is a fundamental human right. The UN has also made it as one of the eight Millennium Development Goals. Before the leading nations in the world today have drafted the laws and international treaties on the compulsion for governments to give access to education to every child Islam has already instructed mankind to seek for knowledge. Despite these divine and human encouragements, unfortunately, the world is still habouring about 57 million out-of-school children who are denied...

Nigeria is the single largest producer of cassava in the world with the bulk of the cassava coming out from the Niger Delta region.Human, economic and agricultural activities are currently threatened in the region by vagaries in climatic factors.These vagaries affect the production and profitability of cassava.The study was therefore conducted to assess the effects of climate change on the production and profitability of cassava in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.The study made use of a...

Nigeria is the single largest producer of cassava in the world with the bulk of the cassava coming out from the Niger Delta region. Human, economic and agricultural activities are currently threatened in the region by vagaries in climatic factors. These vagaries affect the production and profitability of cassava. The study was therefore conducted to assess the effects of climate change on the production and profitability of cassava in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The study made use of...

The physicochemical properties with their distribution pattern and sources of sixteen polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) listed as priority pollutants were investigated in underground water, sediment and soil samples around ‘Awosuuru’ dump-site in Osogbo Nigeria. The physicochemical parameters; degree of acidity (pH), total organic carbon (TOC), Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), and chemical oxygen demand (BOD), in the samples were determined using standard methods. The polycyclic...

There are some disagreements between academics and practitioners on how to improve the performance of government officials in Ghana. While academics advocate for reforms in governance through education and training, practitioners may have differing interests and expectations. Such impasse has contributed to the lack of a unified framework of concepts in nation building. Core concepts for training public managers for good governance have fragmented within public administration, public policy,...

This paper titled 'Weeding: A strategy for effective management of library stock at University of Ghana Medical School, Korle-bu' covers the University of Ghana Medical School (UGMS) library and the population for the study consisted of all professional and para-professional staff of the UGMS Library.A survey design making use of structured interviews were used to elicit data.The study showed that there was no weeding policy in the UGMS Library, that lack of funds, fear of creating space...