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The challenges of education development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) at the beginning of the 21st century are urgent and unprecedented. Faced with persistent gaps in the coverage of primary schooling, almost all countries have launched major efforts to ensure that all children will have the opportunity to complete primary education of acceptable quality. Concurrently, accelerating economic growth and social change are creating an urgent imperative to expand access to further learning to...
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This study investigated whether a selected group of South African teachers could be trained to use the Science Notebooks approach successfully in their classrooms and whether the approach had an effect on the way their learners engaged in scientific investigations. The Science Notebooks approach is a formalised writing-to-learn science approach which closely models what scientists do in ‘real life’. The study is based on the comparison of three Grade 6 township school teachers who...
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1 Faculty Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa Email: [email protected] Faculty Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, PO Box 19063, Tygerberg, 7505, South Africa
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During the last two decades state funding of higher education in South Africa has decreased substantially (especially if public expenditure of HE as a percentage of GDP is used as a yardstick). HE institutions were forced to increase tuition fees and rely more on the third income stream to balance their books. In the process increases in instruction/research staff did not keep up with the increase in student numbers. During the period 1986-2003 qualifications awarded to students per...
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In this paper the author present evidence on the impact of distance to school and school availability on households' decisions concern primary age children's time allocation between work, schooling and household chores activities using data from the Ghana Living Standard Survey 1998-99 (GLSS) and the Guatemalan Living Standards Measurement Survey 2000 (ENCOVI). Overall, the results indicate that the increased and eased access to school has a well-defined impact on children's time use with...
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In this paper we present evidence on the impact of distance to school and school availability on households’ decisions concerning primary age children’s time allocation between work, schooling and household chores activities using data from the Ghana Living Standard Survey 1998-99 (GLSS) and the Guatemalan Living Standards Measurement Survey 2000 (ENCOVI). Overall, our results indicate that the increased and eased access to school has a well-defined impact on children’s time use, with both...
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To assess the effect of sanitary provision and hygiene practices on intestinal helminth burden of primary school children.The cross sectional descriptive study was undertaken in Egor Area of Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. Using a calculated sample size of 384, participants were selected from primary schools in the study area, using a multi stage sampling method. Although, 384 pupils were expected to participate in the study only 365 provided faecal samples for examination giving a response...
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To assess the effect of sanitary provision and hygiene practices on intestinal helminth burden of primary school children.The cross sectional descriptive study was undertaken in Egor Area of Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. Using a calculated sample size of 384, participants were selected from primary schools in the study area, using a multi stage sampling method. Although, 384 pupils were expected to participate in the study only 365 provided faecal samples for examination giving a response...
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This manuscript briefly examines minority participation within the school population that is eligible for special education services – namely, African Americans in the United States and the Roma population in Romania. A large percentage of students from both minorities come to school unprepared to learn and they remain behind because of the simultaneous action of several factors, such as family values, material support for child education, evaluation team members' and teachers' perceptions...
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Abstract Before the First World War, the provision and management of African education was almost entirely in the hands of the missionaries. After the war, the government enacted a series of laws that were designed to improve the quality of education. However, the new policies placed a heavy financial burden on the missions, which found it difficult to function without government grants. This paper analyzes the effects of government education policies on the fluctuating fortunes of the...