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Recent reports suggest that the burden of maternal mortality remains heavy in Sub-Saharan Africa; and that the fifth millennium development goal might not be achieved. As the target date 2015 draws near, we carried out a review of maternal mortality in a Teaching Hospital unitto assess the current situation.To determine the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR), the clinical causes of maternal deaths and the numerical and etiological trends in maternal mortality at the Lagos University Teaching...
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This brief educational update examines the key recommendations in the new report of the World Health Organisation on newborn and infant hearing screening within the Nigerian context. While acknowledging the goal of universal newborn hearing screening as desirable, the authors highlight the need for all tertiary hospitals in the country to be appropriately equipped to provide at the minimum early hearing detection services for all high-risk newborns including those delivered by consanguineous...
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This paper was designed to be an empirical study, looking at the disparity between quantity and quality in higher education in Kenya.To enable a systematic look at quality and quantity within context, a combination of approaches: case study, delphi technique, observation and interviews were adopted for the purpose of this study.The research validated the common perception of massification and corresponding poor quality in the higher education sector in Kenya; reflected by the poor measures...
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South African National Language Education policy (South Africa, DoE 2002) enshrines multilingualism (ML) as one of its major goals. The implementation of such a policy is a slow process, however, particularly in the educational domain, where parents, teachers and students favour the dominant, ex-colonial language (English) for both historic and instrumental reasons (Dalvit & de Klerk 2005). However, results of the National Benchmarking Test (NBMT Report 2009) conducted at selected South...
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The use of the Internet and the web as well as the emerging of different communication channels have brought the world closer and contributed to the concepts of globalization and the extended enterprise also, the information society demands a workforce that can use technology as a tool to increase productivity and creativity. The educational sector at large has been one of the beneficiaries of the use of different information and communication technology tools and techniques. Information is...
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edited by A. Tayob, I. Niehaus and W. Weisse, Munster, Waxmann, 2011, 200 pp., €24.90 (paperback), ISBN 978-3-8309-2554-5 This informative book is volume 5 in the series, ‘Religions in Dialogue’ ed...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the variables that influence career choice among secondary school students in Kenya. The study was guided by two objectives: to determine the influence of peer groups on students’ career choice at secondary school level and to determine the impact of career guidance and information on students’ career choice. The study adopted a survey design. Purposive and random sampling techniques were used to select the sample of the study. The sample of the...
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Estudantes negros, como grupo, recebem um tratamento inferior tanto pelas políticas neoliberais quanto por escolas urbanas desprovidas de recursos; nas penitenciárias privadas, americanos negros são o grupo majoritário. O presente artigo contesta o pensamento e a teorização do modelo de Déficit Cultural, sobre a linguagem e a cultura das crianças negras, que têm sido tão prevalentes nos EUA. A pesquisa discutida nesse artigo interrompe este discurso da inferioridade negra e põe em evidência...
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Abstract Background Despite marked decreases in its incidence, particularly in developed countries, gastric cancer is still the second most common tumor worldwide. There is a paucity of information regarding gastric cancer in northwestern Tanzania. This study was undertaken to describe our experience, in our local setting, on the management of gastric cancer, outlining the clinicopathological and treatment outcome of these patients and suggesting ways to improve the treatment outcome....
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The study sought to assess the attitudes, knowledge and perceptions of social work students at the University of Zimbabwe, School of Social Work about homosexuality. A sample of 60 students was drawn from a frame of 142 students. The study also targeted lecturers as key informants. It was found that the students are homophobic and lack knowledge concerning the etymology, etiology and factors surrounding homosexuality. This is despite the fact that the lecturers have a positive attitude...
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Disabled people have lived on the edge of most economies for a very long time. They have been despised and looked down upon. They have lived “…on the mercy of the general community” (male, 56, Bikita), especially through begging. Such choruses and pronouncements as “…ndinokumbirawo rubatsiro vanhu vaMwari or raramo yangu, chekudya nechekupfeka changu zvinobva parudo rwenyu or ndibatsireiwo vanhu vashe ndirarame handisini ndakazvida” (Iam asking for help, I live off your mercy, my food and...
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Little is known in developing country environments about how a child's cognitive skills manifested in the first years of schooling are related to later educational success, because the panel data needed to analyze this question have been lacking. This study takes advantage of a unique data set from Senegal that combines test score data for children from the second grade with information on their subsequent school progression from a follow-up survey conducted seven years later. Measures of...
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The impact of specific actions designed to streamline and tighten the workflow processes of key actors in Madagascar's primary education sector are evaluated. To inform the strategy for scaling up, a randomized experiment was carried out over two school years. The results show that interventions at the school level, reinforced by interventions at the subdistrict and district levels, succeeded in changing the behavior of the actors toward better management of key pedagogical functions. In...
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This article is concerned with the role of formal education in the upward social mobility of women in the Sirwa, a marginal Berber region of southern M orocco where carpets are produced by women, and marketed by men. To explore why girls' education in weaving takes precedence over formal education, the article considers the place of women's education in the livelihood strategies of the household and the significance of marriage in women's social mobility.