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The year 1968 was the high-point of student unrest and politics for more than one continent. Despite a few honourable exceptions one of the problems with the huge amount of literature that poured out of the social movements in the late 1960s and 1970s was its significant Eurocentrism. The decade was also, in many ways, as important for student activists in Africa as it was in Europe and North America. Similarly, 1968 was a crucial year for student revolutionaries on the continent. In...
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The year 1968 was the high-point of student unrest and politics for more than one continent. Despite a few honourable exceptions one of the problems with the huge amount of literature that poured out of the social movements in the late 1960s and 1970s was its significant Eurocentrism. The decade was also, in many ways, as important for student activists in Africa as it was in Europe and North America. Similarly, 1968 was a crucial year for student revolutionaries on the continent. In...
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The year 1968 was the high-point of student unrest and politics for more than one continent. Despite a few honourable exceptions one of the problems with the huge amount of literature that poured out of the social movements in the late 1960s and 1970s was its significant Eurocentrism. The decade was also, in many ways, as important for student activists in Africa as it was in Europe and North America. Similarly, 1968 was a crucial year for student revolutionaries on the continent. In...
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This paper introduces The of Revitalizing Technical and Vocational Education and Training(TVET)in Africa.The Strategy is expected to enhance the attractiveness of TVET programs,to integrate the existing resources,and to carry out integrated management,as well as to guarantee the trainees’ employment.The Strategy,however,is not so easy to implement,and the aid to Africa's education from China should be designed in accordance with this strategy.
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This paper is more of a proposal, than an analysis, that calls for research in order to facilitate an informed understanding of the motives for the behaviour demonstrated by the public sector unions during the recent mass action in South Africa. The paper begins by locating the constituencies that make up the public sector unions within the broader union movement in the class struggle, and proceeds to explore the contradictions first in the composition of the trade union movement and...
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Tobacco use is the leading cause of noncommunicable disease morbidity and mortality. Most smokers initiate the smoking habit as adolescents or young adults.Survey data from the 2007 Lusaka (Zambia) Global Youth Tobacco Survey were used to estimate the prevalence of current cigarette smoking and assess whether exposure to pro-tobacco media and perception of the potential harm of secondhand smoke are associated with adolescents' smoking. Logistic regression analysis was used to estimate the...
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Understanding South African financial markets is an introductory text that should serve as a useful reference and guide for commerce students, public servants and members of the business fraternity alike. It gives the reader an overview of how the various institutions in the South African financial system operate, as well as the different financial markets in the South African economy and the instruments traded in those markets. Some of the chapters were written by practitioners from...
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This era of digital technology has evidenced an institutional rush for embracement of e-learning delivery techniques in education. Hence institutions that are digitally disadvantaged are as well wanting in their provision of effective and efficient education to students. The Gambia’s only university that is supposed to train its human capital for national development is still trapped in the traditional face-to-face delivery system. However, the same university has been selected as a pilot...
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Quality assurance and accreditation are the major milestones in the national programme to reform higher education in Egypt. They represent a new paradigm for the Egyptian higher education policy which has recently emerged aiming the development of educational systems and the improvement of quality and academic standards within public and private universities and colleges. In this paper, the researcher mainly seeks to draw up an analysis showing the relationship between the National Authority...