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ABSTRACT. This article is based on doctoral study of educational change in the School of Education (SOE) of the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa. It is an exploration of a moment in that bore witness to institutional and human transformation in South African higher education. This transformation involved development from the late nineteenth century colonization by Britain, through the Apartheid era, and finally to the time of the historic democratic election in 1994. The...
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ABSTRACT At the University of the North, a formative exercise tested students' familiarity with the relative locations of the provinces of South Africa. The results indicated that these students were indeed strangers in their own country. Students at all levels had an unacceptable level of ignorance of the locations of the provinces of South Africa, with the first years exhibiting the highest level of this ignorance. Students with school geography performed better than those without. It is...
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This paper analyses and suggests possible technological innovation strategies in higher educational institutions in Africa. The paper describes management issues in the implementation of eLearning with particular reference to its usage in higher education abroad and in Africa, and also suggests appropriate approaches for technological innovation of higher education in Africa. The major findings of the paper, which are based on three case studies, suggest that eLearning needs to be...
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In semiarid parts of Africa animal traction is still one of the most reliable sources for rural work power. However, draught animals have to produce most of their work power at an unfavourable moment of the year that is at the end of the dry season when feedlot is scare. To improve their condition prior to the planting season, a short training could help. The effect of training can be expressed by the changes in contents of Na(+), K(+)-pumps in the muscle cell membrane. After a training...
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Cet article pose la question du Malam et du commerce de la lettre, c’est-a-dire du savoir et du marche. Le detour sera une reflexion critique sur l’essor, dans le Nord-Est du Ghana, d’institutions scolaires d’un nouveau type : les ecoles Anglo-Arabes (English-Arabic Schools). Celles-ci repondent a une demande scolaire jusque-la inassouvie. Elles attirent de nombreux enfants musulmans. L’engagement de l’Etat reste minimal. Mais elles se multiplient et prosperent. Un tel phenomene conduit tout...
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This ethnographic history offers insight into the political consciousness of students attending St. Therese, a Catholic secondary school in southern Namibia, during the mid-1970s. Although scholars have indicated events and trends that influenced the politicisation of students in Namibia at this time, local circumstance and perspectives are virtually unconsidered. This text offers such vantage points, illuminating how students, who were largely unaware of national politics in 1973, grew...
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Abstract An operational plan for monitoring and evaluation with a detailed budget is an essential step in moving from an indicator set to a functioning monitoring and evaluation system. Experience suggests that this will happen only with appropriate funding incentives.
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Although there has been research focused on the disabling consequences of HIV/AIDS, there has been very little documented information about HIV/AIDS for individuals with disability prior to infection. There is evidence to suggest that people with disabilities face inequalities in accessing health information and services. The aim of this study was to explore whether disabled and non-disabled young adults in Swaziland perceive HIV/AIDS similarly. A qualitative study using focus-group...
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This study seeks to determine if the students' expectations, aspirations, perceived and envisaged needs or gains are addressed by institutions of higher education setting up any new devolution degree universities. A randomly selected sample of 116 students who enrolled at Masvingo University College to study a Bachelor of Education (Primary Education) degree was used to determine if students' expectations, aspirations, and needs or gains were addressed by the programme. Of the 116 randomly...
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The study describes normal labor practices in an Egyptian teaching hospital for the first time, where postpartum hemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal mortality. Third-stage management patterns are described and compared to evidence-based medicine. Reasons for third-stage practices observed are explored.176 normal births were directly observed. Women were interviewed postpartum and study findings were shared with providers.Third-stage active management was correctly done for 15% of...
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Language is a powerful mediator of learning. It is the dominant medium through which communication occurs, and it provides humans with symbolic resources through which to manipulate ideas and solve problems. The study of literature is directly situated on the plains of language use. Literary texts are themselves multilayered. Readers stand in dialogic relationship to the multiple layers of potential meaning that the language of literature conveys. In this chapter, I describe an...
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Mozambique, a country under economic recovering efforts after long civil conflicts has been hit several times by natural disasters such as floods, droughts and tropical depressions. The historical floods of 2000 are not the only event that is still surprising the world about the uncertainty within the country, but also paradoxically the 2003 and 2004 s droughts that affected the whole Southern African region together with tropical depressions. Looking at the recent events it is quite clear...
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Objectives: To determine the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) carrier rate among mothers, and to determine if selected sociodemographic characteristics are associated with HCV seropositivity. Design: Maternity Unit of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH). Setting: A cross-sectional serological survey of mothers delivering at the KBTH. Methods: Women who had singleton live births and fresh stillbirths in the two labour wards of the KBTH were randomly selected for screening from 1st March to 30th...
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This paper reviews what has happened in the field of assessment since then. It deals with public examinations, but differs from the 1992 report in that, other than in regard to a few minor details, no new data were specifically collected for it. The paper revisits many of the issues that were raised in the earlier report, particularly in relation to the role that assessment can play in improving the quality of students' learning. It also differs from the earlier report in that its...