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A new school curriculum, with substantial statistics content at all levels, is currently being phased in throughout South Africa. This paper focuses on a government roll-out plan that aims to upgrade the knowledge of in-service teachers in order to empower them to successfully engage with the statistics content of the new school syllabus.

Delegation is the process of entrusting authority and responsibility to others. The support worliforce across the whole health care sector in some countries is growing in terms of number and developing in relation to its scope of activity but it appears as if Nigerian physiotherapists are divided in opinion on utilization ofmiddle level workers and there is still dearth ofempirical data to establish this. The primary aim ofthis study was to determine the opinions of physiotherapists on the...

This paper describes the current state of teaching statistics in Ugandan schools at different levels. Different emphasis is placed on teaching statistics at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. Official documents on curricula and examination make explicit statements on what statistical ideas and techniques are to be taught in schools and suggest useful skills and capabilities that school graduates should acquire, but little of the qualities are visible on the ground. There is little...

Kenya has targeted universal primary education since its independence. In achieving such a goal the country introduced free primary education in 2003 and enrolments dramatically increased. However, in terms of quality, the education provided is not satisfactory. This paper examines the challenges in financing the implementation of free primary education and verifies the actual learning conditions at the school level with particular reference to the transition from primary to secondary...

In this paper the status, content and assessment of statistics in South African primary and secondary school curricula are discussed. With the new school curriculum, fully implemented in 2005, the scope of statistics has been broadened considerably; teacher training has however not yet caught up with the requirements for the teaching of the subject. A survey of teacher training programmes presented at the universities in South Africa was done to determine the status and content of statistics...

This study on the effects of massification on higher education in Africa is a follow-up to a study on higher education innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa undertaken by the WGHE in 2004. That study revealed that there were very few innovations reported by African higher education institutions on issues concerning optimal utilization of space, student accommodation, maintenance of physical facilities, etc., all of which relate directly to the massive increase of student enrolment, or...

Background: There are few psychometric instruments whose properties have been studied in a developing country's context. Aim: To determine the psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC) in Nairobi public secondary school children, Kenya. Method: Concurrent self-administration of the MASC and Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) to students in Nairobi public secondary schools. Results: The MASC had a high overall internal consistency alpha co-efficient...

Background: There are few psychometric instruments whose properties have been studied in a developing country's context. Aim: To determine the psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC) in Nairobi public secondary school children, Kenya. Method: Concurrent self-administration of the MASC and Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) to students in Nairobi public secondary schools. Results: The MASC had a high overall internal consistency alpha co-efficient...

Objective: The objective of the study is to determine the prevalence and factors associated with depression in HIV/AIDS patients aged 15–25 years in Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria. Method: The study is descriptive and cross-sectional, and was carried out over a period of 16 weeks at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. The study population included HIV/AIDS patients in the age bracket admitted into the hospital's medical wards, and those attending the HIV/AIDS clinic. The...

Higher education has been viewed as a potential instrument of national economic development. Human resource development in Eritrea is important for making the nation self-reliant thus the efforts are exerted to achieve this objective. However, Eritrea has been facing so many challenges in its way to develop its own human resources. The objective of this paper is to delve the current changes in higher education in the country. An attempt is made to highlight what may be termed as tentative...

A substantial body of international research exists dealing with the experiences of unemployment. However, there is relatively little research focusing on unemployed people with postgraduate degrees and no research on qualified unemployed teachers in South Africa. Against this background, this research explored the experiences of eight unemployed Black African teachers in a rural village in the Limpopo province, South Africa by means of face-to-face, in-depth interviews. The study found that...

According to BBC English Dictionary quality means degree of excellence, and of a high standard (Harper Collins; 1992). It is the combination of all the attributes and peculiar features that make one or an object fit for a purpose. In the simplest definition, quality is fitness for (Ramon-Yusuf, 2005). Quality assurance is the process of maintaining standards in products or services through inspection or testing of samples. Quality in Nigerian University Education is a multidimensional...

In realization of the role which education plays in national development, the government of Nigeria has ventured into various educational policies and programmes with the great expectation that, the felt socio-economic and political needs of the citizenry would be met. For instance, the Universal Primary Education (UPE) was introduced nation-wide by the federal government of Nigerian in September 1976, with the major intention of taking care of the educational demands of Nigerians. Fafunwa...

Summary Farm Practical programme addresses the short comings in curricular of agricultural graduates enabling them to acquire knowledge and practical skills needed to become profi cient in agriculture. Th e study contributes in providing insights into perceptions of level 400 agricultural students regarding the Farm Practical Year (FPY) programme at the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria. A total of 261 sample students were selected through stratifi ed sampling procedure from 11...

Education policy in Uganda has evolved over time from elitism to inclusiveness and is now at the center of the country's Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP). This paper uses the 1992 and 2005 nationally representative household surveys to assess the impact of the 1997 Universal Primary Education (UPE) and the 2007 Universal Secondary Education (USE) policies. Both policies entail the abolition of school fees for these two levels of education. We find that UPE did reduce school fees paid...