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This study is part of a series of education country status reports (CSRs) that are being prepared by Bank staff in collaboration with national teams from various Sub-Saharan countries. The immediate objective is to enhance the knowledge base for policy development in the education sector. More broadly, CSRs create a basis for engaging a diverse audience in dialogue on education sector policies, and for developing a shared vision for the future. In Mozambique, two specific goals in education...

The relationship between perceived parental physical availability and child sexual, physical and emotional abuse was investigated. The sample comprised 722 undergraduate students of psychology at the University of the North, South Africa. Participants filled in a retrospective self-rated questionnaire in a classroom setting. The questionnaire asked about perceived parental physical availability during childhood, and childhood sexual, physical and emotional abuse. Logistic regression analysis...

This study describes the emerging consensus about training finance largely on the basis of experiences in Latin America and Asia. The paper tests this consensus against findings from Sub-Saharan Africa. It then sets out the theoretical basis for different financing mechanisms, including the rationale for state intervention in training markets. The study explores the effects of various types of training levies, different forms of training funds, and the implications of various transfer...

We evaluated the awareness of and knowledge about intestinal schistosomiasis in a highly infected rural community of northern Senegal where a variety of health information and education activities had taken place for 7 years as a component of different research and control programmes. As the infection had been introduced only recently, an initial 'zero' knowledge can be assumed. Most of the health education activities had been performed with adapted messages through local health and...

The prevalence of overweight and obesity among African American women is a problem of significance, and one, which demands investigation through scientific research. The purpose of this study was to determine the weight management; behaviors among African American female college students. A descriptive correlational study was conducted to answer this question. The results revealed that at least fifty percent (50%) of these students exhibited behavior that could lead to obesity.

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ABSTRACT The competition among the quick service restaurants (QSRs) continues to be intense, and college students have a variety of food choices to select. This study investigated the African American students' demographics, food habits, food preferences, and importance of image attributes in selecting and patronizing a QSR. The findings reveal that the four most important image attributes to this group of students seems to be: cleanliness, quality and taste of food/beverage, price/value,...

- The objective of this study was to assess the perceptions of secondary school sports' coaches about oro-facial injuries and mouth protector usage in sports by the adolescent athletes. A 10-item, self-completion questionnaire was distributed to 42 coaches from 23 secondary schools randomly selected from different parts of Ibadan city in Nigeria between May and June, 2002. The questionnaire sought information on why a mouth protector (mouthguard) is used, when it is required; the types of...

This article discusses a pilot investigation conducted between February and May 2002. The aim of this investigation was to assess the efficacy of the Supplemental Instruction (SI) program — which has a proven track record elsewhere — at an historically black university in South Africa. SI is an academic assistance program which was developed at the University of Missouri- Kansas City in 1973 by Deanna C. Martin and subsequently adopted countrywide and in other parts of the world. The pilot...

List of tables List of figures Abbreviations Foreword Preface Section A. Setting the Scene 1. The Changing Context of Education Management in South Africa by Michael Thurlow 2. Drawing on Personnel Management and Human Resource Management Approaches by Jacky Lumby 3. Managing People and Performance by Michael Thurlow Section B. Managing Individuals and Groups 4. Recruitment and Selection by Michael Thurlow 5. Managing Induction by David Middlewood 6. The Industrial Relations and Professional...

Adolescents in secondary schools in Ibadan were involved in the design and utilization of their own story-flipchart for the teaching of reproductive health. Full participation of the students ranged from message development in the form of a story line picture conceptualization to conducting teaching sessions with the resulting materials. Discussion groups among high school students helped identify a priority concern of inappropriate sexual interaction. Subsequently, three groups of...

Information education and communication (IEC) is a collection of techniques for exchanging and sharing of information attitudes ideas or emotions with the goal of promoting the adoption of a new behavior by members of a specific target group (Centre for Health Promotion 1996; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1996; Rogers & Storey 1987). IEC gives people the power to choose for themselves. If the IEC package is effective members of the target group can begin to take control of their...

Abstract The interactions between climatic and volcanic forcing on diatom communities contained in a 50,000-year sedimentary sequence from Lake Massoko, Tanzania, were examined. At the century scale, 19 discrete tephra inputs to the lake isolated the sedimentary nutrient supply and shifted the diatom communities to those tolerant of low phosphorus levels, whereas at the millennial scale, diatom-inferred shifts in precipitation–evaporation based on conductivity optima and diatom life-form...

In the light of fresh international initiatives to achieve Universal Basic Education and gender equality in education by 2015, this paper examines factors affecting its realisation in the context of Somaliland. In a ‘country’ where over 80% of the school age population are receiving little meaningful education, the paper reflects on more flexible approaches to education to enable sustainable education for children and disadvantaged adults. The paper draws on fieldwork data from a DfID-funded...

At 18:44 UTC on 8 September 2002 (04:44 on 9 September, local time), a strong earthquake ( mb 6.5 , MS 7.8; hereafter “PNG02”) occurred off the northern coast of the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea (“PNG”; see Figure 1) and triggered a moderate tsunami that was observed along 300 km of the northern PNG coast. This event is of particular interest since it occurred only 120 km east-southeast of the earthquake of 17 July 1998 ( mb 5.9, MS 7.0; hereafter “PNG98”), which triggered a...

Studying the cognitive and immunological changes that occur in old age as well as genetic function have been considered an important subject to differentiate between normal brain aging and early dementia especially Alzheimer's disease. The aim of this study is to stress on age-related neuropsychological and electrophysiological (P300) changes in normal Egyptian subjects, to throw light on the value of genetic (Apo-E4 genotype) and immunological markers {interleukin-6 (IL-6) and intercellular...