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After the Second World War, school reform became a major issue in French West Africa (FWA). The colonial schools of the Third Republic were called into question at the 1944 Brazzaville Conference and over the following years there were bitter struggles to define the meaning of the school reform. Until now, these struggles, which involved the colonial administration, African elected representatives and the French Ministry of Education, have not been the object of an in-depth study. Amidst...
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Climate change is not a new phenomenon; the only constant about climate throughout Earth’s history is that it has changed (Marchant, 2010). An earlier study in Africa indicated that some Southern African ecosystems are highly sensitive to climate change (e.g., Magadza, 1994). Climate change in Africa is expected to lead to higher occurrence of severe droughts in semiarid and arid ecosystems (Foley et al., 2008). For instance, a severe drought associated with the El Nino-Southern Oscillation...
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This study addresses the impact of drought events on olive production and cereals, particularly durum wheat in Tunisia. In the case of olive production, during three decades since the seventies the frequencies of wet, normal and dry years were calculated for several locations in central and southern Tunisia according to a five levels scale. The same trend was observed for all the studied locations (8) with an increase of dry and particularly extremely dry years. Dry episodes were identified....
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Christian education in Africa is at cross-road. It took its original inception within western models and systems of education. Ministerial formation was done in small biblical colleges operating on a residential model. Because idea of adapting education in general and theological education in particular, to growing needs of a growing church never occurred, Jesus' thought that the harvest is great but harvesters are a few is crucial to mission of church in South. The displacement of Christian...
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Supervision of schools in the UBE programme of the Federal Government of Nigeria is an aspect ofquality control. It is bound with the efficiency of learning and improvement of the teaching/ learningservices. Quality control of Basic Education centers is closely associated with a vital component ofeducation (Monitoring & Evaluation). Today, ‘Quality Control’ is used more or less as a synonym forsupervision or inspection which is within the comprehension of the wider segment of the...
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A teacher’s job satisfaction is one of the most essential issues for educational systems around theworld. Next to pupils, teachers are the largest, most extensive, crucial and key to improving quality inany educational system (Afe, 2001; Stuart, 2002). This paper focuses on the third world country ofGhana where according to Bame 1992 and Akoto -Danso (2006) teachers are often in short supply.Akoto- Danso documented that enrolment into basic schools in Ghana has gone up by 17% from 3.7million to a record of 4.3 million.