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I explore the role and value of African music in education, by drawing from a study of Grade 5 learners at a school in the Eastern Cape, which was designed to answer the question: Could Xhosa children in South Africa sing Xhosa indigenous songs significantly better than European folk songs? The experimental group received instruction in Xhosa indigenous songs accompanied by indigenous instruments. Instruction included traditional dancing, antiphonal singing technique and improvisation. The...
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The problems that plagues the school system are so numerous that those who are within the educational system are so overwhelmed not to talk of outsiders who are poised to ask such a pertinent question like “are the principals leading the schools well?”. This paper examined the quality valuation among the male and female principals in their choice of leadership styles. The principals, the teachers and the student were all required to make their contributions to ascertain what style of...
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This paper examines the rate of return to education in Sudan. One advantage and interesting element in our analysis in this paper is that we explain three stylised facts on the rate of return to education using new primary data in Sudan: first, positive but low rate of return to education and correlations between education, experience, its square and wages for men and women defined by gender, second, positive and significant rate of return to education and correlations between education,...
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3 Abstract: Rainfall is a fundamental component of climate. Its importance is such that the different climate classifications are based on the average annual or monthly rainfall, combined with the medium and / or temperature extremes. In Algeria, water resources, which depend for largely to a very irregular rainfall and unevenly distribution in space, remain modest relative to the deficit and means of retention (dams, withholding water, etc.). Climate change and especially the drought in...
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Developing countries are undergoing an epidemiological transition, from Communicable or Infectious to 'Non-Communicable' diseases (NCDs), such that cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases, cancer, and diabetes were responsible for 60% of all deaths globally in 2005, with more than 75% of these deaths occurring in developing countries. A survey was conducted to determine among other objectives the prevalence of diabetes and its association with physical fitness and biological...
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Foreign investment can play an imperative role in education. As part of the research in understanding foreign investment in education in Africa and to demonstrate the inequalities that persist in the developing countries, the paper closely examined the model adopted by Oprah Winfrey at her Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls (OWLAG) in South Africa. The research on OWLAG directed us to examine private school versus public schools models in an African context. Both models in this paper...
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The thrust of this article is on the issues of who pays, who should pay and who benefits from open distance higher education in the current context of global competition, on the one hand, and the widening of participation, social equity and redress, on the other, in South Africa. The discussions emphasise the public-private good dichotomy, as well as social and private returns and how open and distance higher education promotes social equity and efficiency. The article explores the extent to...
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Entrepreneurship education provides the foundation for wealth creation largely through self-help process. Sustainable development could be achieved by empowering the populace with entrepreneurial skills that could make them venture into viable businesses. Communication is crucial to the achievement of entrepreneurship education in any society. This paper examines the place of the community theatre and indigenous communication channels in achieving entrepreneurship education goals in Nigeria....
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An information literacy skill enables undergraduate students to be life-long learners since the skill assists them to identify, evaluate, retrieve and use information effectively. This paper, therefore, evaluated and assessed the level of information literacy skills of undergraduate students in federal universities in Nigeria with a view to determining how to increase effective library use by the undergraduate students. The study population was 1,453 and the study adopted the survey research...
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The paper investigated the access to knowledge for disabled students at University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The paper adopted a descriptive survey design to explore the ways of enhancing access to knowledge for people with disability in the information age. The population of the study was made up of fifty disabled students made up of 26 visually impaired, 10 physically impaired, 11 hearing impaired and 3 language impaired students. 36 are male and 14 are females. The instrument for data...