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A journal article on the shortcomings of Religious Education in Zimbabwe's secondary schools curriculum.
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Since 1993, Tanzania has been pursuing a programme of civil service reform which has emphasized job reduction. In local government the importance of reform and the lack of previous training for the manpower management officers (MMOs) responsible for job reduction are an argument for training, while the complex institutional arrangements of local government and the difficult circumstances in which the MMOs work are a potential constraint on its effectiveness. A programme of training for the...
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L'ecole communautaire a deux avantages : elle permet d'augmenter les populations touchees par l'enseignement primaire malgre les restrictions budgetaires gouvernementales ; le transfert des responsabilites a un niveau local est un facteur de democratisation. Dans le cas du Mali, l'ecole gouvernementale se trouvant souvent en ville, les parents habitant les villages hesitent a y envoyer leurs enfants, les ecoles communautaires se sont donc developpees grâce a des fonds prives internationaux...
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L'ecole communautaire a deux avantages : elle permet d'augmenter les populations touchees par l'enseignement primaire malgre les restrictions budgetaires gouvernementales ; le transfert des responsabilites a un niveau local est un facteur de democratisation. Dans le cas du Mali, l'ecole gouvernementale se trouvant souvent en ville, les parents habitant les villages hesitent a y envoyer leurs enfants, les ecoles communautaires se sont donc developpees grâce a des fonds prives internationaux...
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In Zambia, a competence-based primary Teacher Education Reform Programme (acronymed ZATERP) is being piloted, starting January 1998, with the assistance of the Danish International Development Agency (Danida), in three of the Country’s ten primary teacher training colleges. In this article, based on interviews and discussions with teacher educators in one of the pilot colleges, the Teacher Training Inspectorate (TTI) and the officers in the committee responsible for the development and...
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This paper reports the demographic and summative annual data for presenting concerns of students seeking counseling at a Black South African university. Rankings of the major presenting concerns identified by the clients are presented.
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A journal review of education in Zimbabwe since black independence in 1980 and the contribution made by distant education to the Human Resources capacity of the country.
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There has heen a growing increase of the phenomenon of child abuse and neglect in this country as shown by the media and concerned Non-Governmental Organisations (N G 0.s) in recent times. As a way of curtailing this, the study was thus conceived. Using eighty four female teachers and thirty six male teachers who are currently working in 6 out of the 27 secondary schools in Enugu, capital city of Enugu State, the researchers found that a significant difference existed between the perception...
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This preliminary study was designed to test the hypothesis that African Americans would be more likely to use relative or flexible time than would European Americans. Despite the formulations by many Afrocentric scholars of differences in time orientations, there has been relatively little empirical work on this topic. Data were collected from 55 African American and European American students attending a mid-sized private university on the East Coast. Participants responded to relative or...
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Humanitarian plastic surgery missions are often a substitute, as plastic surgery training missions are essential for the development of plastic surgery in developing countries. This training must be progressive and adapted to the country's needs. Several simple plastic surgery techniques are sufficient to treat a large number of patients: split-skin grafts, full-thickness skin grafts, Z-plasties, latissimus dorsi myocutaneous pedicle flap.
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ABSTRACT: South African schools were segregated by years of discriminatory practices. Apartheid policies adversely affected the health and social status of children in South Africa. The conceptual framework suggested by the health promoting schools movement was adopted in South Africa to address school health comprehensively. This approach provides a useful framework because it focuses not on the curriculum but on the school environment, community involvement, policy development, and...
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This article reports on an attempt by DfID to support wider political reform in Tanzania by supporting a pilot programme of training for locally elected councillors in an urban local authority, Dodoma. As well as hoping to deliver specific skills development for these councillors, it was also intended to influence attitudes in an emergent multiparty democracy and develop a political culture appropriate to liberal democracy rather than one-party rule. The programme was designed locally with...
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This article reports on an attempt by DfID to support wider political reform in Tanzania by supporting a pilot programme of training for locally elected councillors in an urban local authority, Dodoma. As well as hoping to deliver specific skills development for these councillors, it was also intended to influence attitudes in an emergent multiparty democracy and develop a political culture appropriate to liberal democracy rather than one-party rule. The programme was designed locally with...
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Rounds up the literature on the continuing discrimination of African Americans in US businesses, particularly with regard to salary and promotion into senior management levels, and suggests that years of anti‐discrimination legislation have led to a change from overt exclusion to “covert subrogation”; considers the changing demographics of the US labour force which should allow ample opportunities for African Americans to fulfil career aspirations and seeks to identify the artificial...