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The Serghaya fault, located approximately along the Syrian—Lebanese border, is a prominent structure within the 200 km restraining bend in the left-lateral Dead Sea fault system. This study documents palaeoseismic and geomorphic expressions of Holocene movements on the Serghaya fault based on trench excavations and radiocarbon dates. Trenches were excavated across and parallel to a 4.5 m fault scarp where Late Pleistocene sediments are faulted against Holocene alluvium and colluvium. Locally...

A research project investigating some of the key characteristics of effective schools in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa, made use of 2,400 structured questionnaires to obtain data from a random sample of schools in each of the 10 districts within the province. Using two consecutive factor analytic procedures, the 105 items in the questionnaires were reduced to three second order factors with high (>0,7) Cronbach-Alpha reliability coefficients. These factors were dubbed: ○...

The High 5, Low Fat Program (H5LF) for African American parents was developed in partnership with the Parents As Teachers program, and was designed to test a dietary intervention appropriate for national adoption. H5LF used a group randomized, nested cohort design with 738 parents. Consistent with organizational goals and methods, parent educators delivered a dietary change program via personal visits, newsletters, and group meetings. Primary outcomes were reducing percentage calories from...

Ahfad University for Women is an amazing place! Located in Omdurman (across the Nile from the capital of Khartoum) this womens university where I was recently a consultant is a bastion of feminist activity and independent thinking in the midst of one of the darkest political periods in Sudans history. There are probably many reasons why Ahfad has prevailed not the least of which is its historical place in the history of Sudanese education. Ahfad established as an elementary school in 1907 by...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision is the removal of variable amounts of tissue from the female external genitalia. It is practised all over the world on very young girls. This study was conducted in Sudan where FGM is a criminal offence and not a religious dictate. We assessed the knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions of this practice among Khartoum university students and compared the differences between male and female student responses.An anonymised detailed...

African American students score lower than European Americans on standardized measures of achievement (Trent, 1998, Jencks and Phillips, 1998). According to Jencks and Phillips (1998), this gap between the two groups begins before children enter kindergarten and continues into adulthood. Data from the Center for Educational Statistics Report (1997) indicate that during the 1970's approximately 25 percent of European American children, age three and four attended preschool. This same...

The small island nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG) in the South Pacific offers a little-known practical example of how a small, multilingual country with limited resources has developed a package of strategies for dealing with the challenges posted by multilingualism and using its multiplicity of languages in education as a tool for improving teaching and learning, saving resources, and moving towards Education for All. This paper is based on knowledge the author gained from working on...

Based on interviews with teachers and students, the paper looks at some of the ways in which teachers' use of English as a medium of instruction sometimes frustrates the students' learning efforts instead of facilitating them. While options for change may include adopting mother tongue as an alternative medium, there are theoretical reasons for believing that it would not necessarily lead to a great improvement, since the problem is not just one of linguistic competence but has deeper roots...

Abstract The attitudes of faculty members from four universities toward teaching, research and the associated reward system were studied through questionnaires. The survey generated 302 responses (i.e. 76.8% response rate) from two agricultural universities as well as two faculties of agriculture. Principal component analysis shows that attitudes toward teaching and research are multifaceted. Faculty members believe that teaching and research are mutually supportive, and represent the basic...

A study of the foundation and early history of colonial universities in West Africa. With comparative treatment of Francophone material, it also details African student experiences in the European capitals and the influence of metropolitan anti-communist policy on African higher education.

Incidences of prescribed textbook usage in science classrooms in Namibia have been analysed using an approach adapted from linguistic analysis. Aspects of pedagogic purpose, text genre, and the social interactions between teachers and learners were used to characterise teacher and learner engagement with textbooks, and thus categorise their usage in relation to a national policy of learner-centred education. Results indicate a teacher dominated textbook use and a low frequency and restricted...

African Journal of EcologyVolume 41, Issue 2 p. 194-196 Localized tree mortality following the drought of 1999 at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda Jeremiah S. Lwanga, Jeremiah S. Lwanga Makerere University Biological Field Station, PO Box 409, Fort Portal, UgandaSearch for more papers by this author Jeremiah S. Lwanga, Jeremiah S. Lwanga Makerere University Biological Field Station, PO Box 409, Fort Portal, UgandaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 02 June 2003...

Several longitudinal studies have examined declines in health of caregivers, but few have explored the health-promoting behavior Because caregivers neglect their health, they are at risk for developing a number of physical and psychological problems. What is not well known are the factors that contribute to increased health-promoting behavior ultimately preventing poor health and premature death. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the predictors and the change in predictors...

This paper considers the potential impact of future climate change on the nature and extent of land degradation in South Africa. The basis of the assessment is the comprehensive review published by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEA&T) as a contribution to the South African effort in respect of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. The DEA&T report is founded on information collated from 34 workshops, one in each of the agricultural regions of...

This paper considers the potential impact of future climate change on the nature and extent of land degradation in South Africa. The basis of the assessment is the comprehensive review published by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEA&T) as a contribution to the South African effort in respect of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. The DEA&T report is founded on information collated from 34 workshops, one in each of the agricultural regions of...

This paper considers the potential impact of future climate change on the nature and extent of land degradation in South Africa. The basis of the assessment is the comprehensive review published by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEA&T) as a contribution to the South African effort in respect of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. The DEA&T report is founded on information collated from 34 workshops, one in each of the agricultural regions of...

This paper considers the potential impact of future climate change on the nature and extent of land degradation in South Africa. The basis of the assessment is the comprehensive review published by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEA&T) as a contribution to the South African effort in respect of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. The DEA&T report is founded on information collated from 34 workshops, one in each of the agricultural regions of...