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One of the world's poorest countries, Sierra Leone, experienced a civil war from 1991 to 2002. The government has since been in the process of rebuilding the nation, including the education sector. Yet, the challenge is that Sierra Leone is a very poor country with about half of its national budget being donor-funded. Sierra Leone's former colonial master and largest aid provider, Britain, is a particularly important development partner. With donor assistance, the government introduced a...
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South African higher education enrolment opportunity is determined by the government recruitment policy. Since 1994,in order to redress the legacy of inequality of apartheid era,democratic government has broken the restriction of race and gender and given opportunity to black students to go to colleges. The recruitment policies in South African higher education have undertaken three distinct periods as follows: during the first period of 1995-2000,the overall policy was that diverse, during...
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Mount Cameroon, a 4095 m high stratovolcano is arguably the most active volcano in Equatorial West Africa, with seven eruptions during the last century. It is the only active member of the 1600 km long volcanic belt – “Cameroon Volcanic Line (CVL)” - with a history going back ~ 80 Ma at the initial opening of the Central Atlantic Ocean during the Cretaceous. In order to decipher recent petrogenetic and geotectonic evolution of the CVL at this volcano, Lava samples of unknown ages but older...
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Purpose: To determine the causes of severe visual impairment and blindness in children attending schools for the blind in Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, and Tanzania and to compare the findings with those of a 1994 study. Methods: Children attending schools for the blind or annexes in 4 eastern African countries were examined. The major anatomical site of and underlying etiology of severe visual impairment and blindness was recorded using the standardized World Health Organization (WHO) reporting...
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In response to the desire to continually enhance quality of medical services and health care delivery using up to date medical technologies, there is increased demand for biomedical engineering professionals and related sciences world wide to effect these technologies. This requires a properly planned manpower development for these professionals.Biomedical engineering education is the development of knowledge of engineering, biology and medicine for use in the integration of the engineering...
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This paper identifies the possibilities of TiE (Theatre in Education) as an interventionist tool for inculcating necessary and crucial citizenship values that emphasise ethnic commonalities and understate differences among students at the earliest school years as a way of ensuring intercultural understanding, and, therefore, integration at the earliest possible developmental stage. Drawing from research and drama projects executed in selected schools, as well as already established theories...