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The security establishment constitutes the defensive shield of the state, provided that it is built on sound scientific and national foundations. This can only come through a number of factors, the most important of which are neutrality of the establishment and comprehensive security training. This is the problem of Palestinian security services which suffer from weakness of neutrality and security training due to political, administrative and professional reasons. Therefore, the study's...
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Background. There is a dire need for medical schools in South Africa to train medical doctors who have the capacity and willingness to work in primary healthcare facilities, particularly in rural areas. Objectives. To assess the effect of students’ gender, race, place of birth and place of high school completion on their choice of training site location and to assess the extent to which the training programme enhanced students’ learning experiences relevant to primary care across training...
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Background. There is a shortage of biostatistics expertise at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban, South Africa and in the African region.This constrains the ability to carry out high-quality health research in the region. Objectives. To quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate a programme designed to improve the conceptual and critical understanding of biostatistical concepts of UKZN health researchers. Methods. A 40-hour workshop in biostatistical reasoning was conducted...
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Integrity in academic work is a critical benchmark of every profession. For this reason, special attention should be devoted to addressing academic dishonesty (AD) in higher education to prevent the potential transfer of these practices to the workplace. In order to effectively address AD in Africa, further information about correlates of, and barriers to, the effectiveness of existing AD-controlling measures is needed. In Ghana, little is known about AD from the perspective of students....
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Globally, water resources are being over-utilised; a situation exacerbated by degenerating water quality of rivers. To achieve sustainable management of water resources, uncertainty under climate change and development must be considered. A companion study was the first to incorporate uncertainty within water resources development scenario modelling for a catchment in South Africa using the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) model. That study is extended in the current study by considering...
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What rules, norms and ideas of schooling influence approaches to inclusive education in Nigeria? This paper applies the model of institutional pillars (regulative, normative, cultural-cognitive, see Scott 2008, Powell 2011) to discuss dimensions of schooling that contextualise approaches to inclusive education. The analysis underscores the vital role poverty and disability that restrict access to regular schools for a vast number of children and youth. Approaches to inclusive education take...
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BackgroundMisunderstandings of the role of genetics in disease development are associated with stigmatizing behaviors and fatalistic attitudes about prevention. This report describes an evaluation of community understanding of an educational module about genetic and environmental influences on the development of podoconiosis, a neglected tropical disease endemic in highland Ethiopia.
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Background: In Nursing Field competence is crucial to ensuring secure, moral and legal nursing performance. A variety of instruction approaches' are used in nursing instruction to improve graduate proficiency. The Problem Based Learning approach to learning in medical education can be considered as the mainly significant educational advance in the previous 35 years. Problem-based learning is promoted as a mean to facilitate critical thinking and self-directed learning among nursing students....
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The essence of this paper is to identify the current situation of music education in Ghana at the basic, secondary and tertiary level of education and the extent to which Information and Communication Technology has been integrated to the demands of the modern music student in Ghana. After studying the programmes of tertiary music institutions and syllabuses of examinations for basic and secondary schools it was revealed that there has been little emphasis as regards Information and...
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The purpose of this paper was to investigate to what extent the diversity dimensions are addressed in the current Education and Training Policy.To that end, document analysis was employed.The major diversity dimensions were analyzed based on their cardinal features.The study demonstrated that there is an ambitious need to address issues of diversity into the Ethiopian Education and Training Policy.Nevertheless, there are missing dimensions in the document.Moreover, the specific elements of...
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This study examined the pedagogic practices of primary teachers in Ghana. The major goal was to identify innovative pedagogic practices, as well as to understand why the transmission practices continue to prevail in a majority of Ghanaian primary classrooms. Using a qualitative approach, the study tried to probe deeply into how and why teachers in Ghana engage with their practices, at the same time, how and where teachers manage to better support their learners in the face of their...
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<p><strong><em>Background:</em></strong><em> The Government of Botswana has since attaining independence from Britain in 1966 demonstrated a lot of interest in the improvement of primary education by adopting two policies; the Education for kagisano of 1977 and the Revised National Policy on Education of 1994 to guide the development of education in the country. Other efforts include partnering with organizations from countries such as the USA and Britain...