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In large parts of the world, a lack of home tap water burdens households as the water must be brought to the house from outside, at great expense in terms of effort and time. This paper studies how such costs affect girls' schooling in Ghana, with an analysis based on four rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys. Using Global Positioning System coordinates, it builds an artificial panel of clusters, identifying the closest neighbors within each round. The results indicate a significant...
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Amalgamation in higher education has been going on in Papua New Guinea since the early 1970s by ad hoc decisions of the Government. The higher education sector was formalized into a coordinated system in the early 1980s by the creation of the Commission for Higher Education. Amalgamation and affiliation were placed on the agenda of the Commission for Higher Education in the mid-1990s. This paper is a contribution to the research literature on amalgamation and affiliation partnerships from...
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Reproductive rights in South Africa continue to be undermined for young women who fall pregnant and become mothers while still at school. Before 1994, exclusionary practices were common and the majority of those who fell pregnant failed to resume their education. With the adoption of new policies in 2007, young pregnant women and mothers are supposed to be supported to complete school successfully. Notwithstanding these new policies, there are incongruities between policy implementation and...
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Descriptive study. The objective of this study was to present anthropometric data from high school students in Cape Metropole area, Western Cape, South Africa that are relevant for chair design and whether the dimensions of computer laboratory chairs currently used in high schools match linear anthropometrics of high-school students. Summary of Background Data. Learner–chair mismatch is proposed as a cause of poor postural alignment and spinal pain in adolescents. A learner–chair mismatch is...
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Purpose: To assess the accessibility of students with physical disability to washrooms in Bungoma main bus terminus.Method: A case study approach was used. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire and an observation schedule. A total of 108 respondents from three schools participated in the study.Results: It was established that washrooms in the area were narrow and full of barriers which hampered access to the facilities. Respondents experienced difficulty in using the...
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Introduction Library instruction can be traced back to the 1800s in American academic institutions and back to the 1600s in Germany. (Salony,1995). This was corroborated by Tiefel (1995), when he stated that the earliest evidence of library instruction was found at Harvard College in the 1820s and that most early academic librarians were professors with part-time library appointments. These professors taught the use of libraries for academic purposes in institutions such as Harvard, Indiana...
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Aim. This pilot study described African American nursing students’ perceptions of mentoring. Background. The number of African American nurses in the United States is far less than desired. Part of the problem is due to attrition of this student group within nursing education programs. Mentoring has been identified as a factor that contributes to academic success, yet questions about the specific characteristics of successful mentoring programs remain. Method. A qualitative approach was used...
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University of Minnesota Ed.D. dissertation. May 2013. Major: Work and Human Resource Education. Advisor: Rosemarie J. Park. 1 computer file (PDF); ix, 193 pages, appendices A-F.
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This study aimed at evaluating the Palestinian 12th grade textbooks in terms of the EFL/ ESL textbook evaluation checklist from the teachers' perspectives in Nablus. The study also examined the role of gender, qualification and experience on the degree of evaluating the chosen textbooks. To accomplish these aims, the researcher used a 39- item questionnaire and then distributed it amongst the sample of the study which was chosen randomly and it consisted of 26 male and female teachers who...
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Monkeypox is an acute viral infection with a clinical course resembling smallpox. It is endemic in northern and central Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but it is reported only sporadically in neighboring Republic of the Congo (ROC). In October 2009, interethnic violence in northwestern DRC precipitated the movement of refugees across the Ubangi River into ROC. The influx of refugees into ROC heightened concerns about monkeypox in the area, because of the possibility that the virus...