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In developing countries, higher education is a powerful instrument for social mobility and economic prosperity. An in-depth study of the relationship between higher education and certain equity issues has revealed that in Ghana and Tanzania there is inadequate effort to widen higher education participation to include traditionally disadvantaged groups. The article argues that provided they have strong and visionary leadership, universities can spearhead efforts to make higher education...
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This paper investigated the adoption of Course and Learning Management Systems (C/LMS) by lecturers at the four residential universities of South Africa’s Western Cape province. To explain the differences in use patterns, a dedicated analysis framework, ActAD, grounded in activity theory was used. Lecturer interviews pointed to important differences in views – and consequent use patterns – of E-Learning and C/LMS. The key considerations were found to be differences in perceived usefulness,...
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The Central African Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (CAFELTP) is a 2-year public health leadership capacity building training program. It was established in October 2010 to enhance capacity for applied epidemiology and public health laboratory services in three countries: Cameroon, Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The aim of the program is to develop a trained public health workforce to assure that acute public health events are detected,...
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This study aimed at analyzing “Factors Affecting the Implementation of Training Programmes in Parastatal Organizations in Tanzania: A case study of Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited, Dar-es-Salaam and Coastal Zone” A case study approach was selected and used due to the nature of the study. Total sample of 274 which is 25% of the population was picked from TANESCO Dar es Salaam and Coastal Zone by simple random and purposive sampling methods. Data were collected by questionnaires,...
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The Second Southern African Students' Psychology Conference was held on 23 to 24 June 2011 in Sunnyside, Pretoria. A huge success it was! With the theme inviting participants to continue the journey of Re-Imagining Psychology, about 86 creative and thought provoking presentations were delivered.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between knowledge sharing behaviour and the demographic variables gender, age, organisational tenure and professional tenure. Following a correlational survey approach, the study sourced its data from senior secondary school teachers in and around Gaborone, Botswana. Knowledge sharing behaviour was measured using an instrument sourced from the extant literature. No statistically significant relationship was detected between...
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In Sudan, the education of children with special educational needs (SEN) in mainstream schools shows slow progress. The traditional medical approach, whereby the majority of children with SEN are educated in segregated schools or receive no education at all, is still the dominant recourse for educating pupils with all types of disabilities that may require special needs education. This research is the pioneering attempt to explore Sudan's context of special education, and teachers'...
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This study was conducted to determine the nutritional status of children attending urban and rural school girl's children in Khartoum state (Sudan) and compares the results with WHO-NCHS references. A total of 393 children (349 for urban schools &44 for rural schools) aged 5-15 years were studied. Anthropometric measurements (weight, height and skin fold thickness of triceps muscle (SKFT)) were recorded for each child, and converted to nutritional indices (weight for age, height for age,...
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In totalitarian systems, especially that of dogmatic nature, education is often targeted to be devoted for the preparations of young generations and dedicating them to the regimes' structure and principles. However, such method negatively influences the educational system and renders the efficient inputs to students. The results can be manifested in deteriorations of knowledge, human capital development and the future performance per se.
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The number of people, particularly students in U.S. schools, who were born in Africa increased significantly over the past decade. The 2010 U.S. Census report puts the African immigrant population in the U.S. at 2.1 million people. The largest foreign born African populations were from East Africa (Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia) and West Africa (Nigeria and Ghana). The states with the highest concentrations of African populations were New York, Minnesota, Ohio, California and Texas.This guide...
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Financial Accounting is part of the Business Studies Curriculum in the group of Vocational Subjects. According to WAEC (2004), financial accounting is the most popular subject that students offer among the vocational elective subjects. The keeping of Accounting Books is essentially an art and the aims of those who study the subject are essentially utilitarian. This paper therefore, seeks to determine the challenges of teaching financial accounting in Nigerian secondary schools: A case study...