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( 'This article, by a former member of the staff of King Edward V I I I Hospital, Durban, gives a background to the recent boycott of lectures and threatened boycott of examinations, by the students of the Durban Medical School. The boycott was in response to the announcement that no further f irst year African students were to be admitted to the school f rom next year. After a three-week boycott by the students and representations by the university authorities it was announced that new...
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SUMMARY The need for careful selection of candidates for training in forestry as a first step in that training, is accented. The perhaps unique selection process followed in Lesotho is described.
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Reluctantly and sporadically college and university instructors of African history surveys are discovering that effective teaching is not guaranteed solely by the excellence of our research. Like historians in other specialties we are also discovering that student and administrator evaluation of our teaching, particularly at the lower division survey level, is growing more critical. Unfortunately few of us are prepared to bridge the gap between the specialized approach engendered by our...
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New BlackfriarsVolume 58, Issue 688 p. 419-427 Schooling or Education?: Africa Tony Visocchi, Tony VisocchiSearch for more papers by this author Tony Visocchi, Tony VisocchiSearch for more papers by this author First published: September 1977 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-2005.1977.tb02365.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of...
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Studies on Folic Acid in Nigerian Infants and Pre-school Children Get access F. I. AKINSETE, M.D.(ABERDEEN), F. I. AKINSETE, M.D.(ABERDEEN) Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of LagosPrivate Mail Bag 12003, Lagos, Nigeria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar A. E. BOYO, M.D.(Cantab.), D.Phil.(Oxon), M.R.C.Path A. E. BOYO, M.D.(Cantab.), D.Phil.(Oxon), M.R.C.Path Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of...
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The author investigates the question whether South African universities particularly the universities for blacks, can learn anything from legal training elsewhere in Africa. He surveys the need for legally qualified Africans, localization, admission to the legal profession, practical training in lieu of articles of clerkship, crash programmes, indigenous law, the construction of a curriculum, teaching materials, the language requirements, law teaching and politics and law teachers. He...
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Ideas about infant capabilities and toilet training practice have changed in the United States following cultural trends and the advice of child care experts. Anthropologists have shown that a society's specific infant training practices are adaptive to survival and cultural values. The different expectations of infant behavior of the East African Digo produces a markedly different toilet training approach than the current maturational readiness method recommended in America. The Digo...
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Major, rare earth and transition elements, have been determined on a selection of volcanic rocks from greenstone belts in Rhodesia (∼2.6 by) and South Africa (∼3.4 by). In Rhodesia two distinct series can be recognized: a komatite-tholeiite series which occurs early in the greenstone belt evolution and apparently grades into a second, calc-alkaline, series at higher structural levels. Peridotitic komatites reflect higher degrees of partial melting than any Phanerozoic rocks so far observed...
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By combining intensive ethnographic work with formal experiments, it is possible to demonstrate that a traditional form of education—apprenticeship training—does teach general problem‐solving skills. An arithmetic test, anchored with problems drawn directly from tribal tailors' apprenticeship training, was administered to a sample of Vai and Gola tailors in Liberia. The tailors differ on tailoring experience and formal schooling characteristics. Both tailoring experience and schooling...
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Summary One section of South Africa's Black population long said to exhibit lowered self-esteem is the mixed-blood South African Coloreds. At present in South Africa influences are operating similar to those said to have facilitated the upsurge in self-esteem of American Blacks. From this it was argued that a comparison of Colored and White self-esteem would now reveal a parity. Four hundred and twenty-six Ss were tested on Coopersmith's Self-Esteem Inventory in six groups—English,...
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Summary During a nine-month period (1974–75), 1,050 students (846 male, 204 female) at Ain Shams University, Cairo, attended the Student Health Centre. Fifty-two per cent were referred there by their general practitioners, 5 per cent by their families and 3 per cent through their faculties; the remainder (41 per cent) were self-referred. Male patients represented 2·8 per cent of the male students, but female patients only 0·9 per cent of the female students. In faculties dealing with...
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Abstract The western part of the Shuqra volcanic field consists of a wide area of geologically recent alkali basalt flows and numerous cinder cones, overlying a faulted monoclinal sequence of Jurassic limetones dipping towards the Gulf of Aden and themselves overlying Precambrian basement. The volcanic activity is substantially younger than the series of central vent volcanoes forming the Aden line somewhat to the west along the coast, and the volcanic products are more uniformly basaltic...
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I use the example of the 2000 US Presidential election to show that political controversies with technical underpinnings are not resolved by technical means. Then, drawing from examples such as climate change, genetically modified foods, and nuclear waste disposal, I explore the idea that scientific inquiry is inherently and unavoidably subject to becoming politicized in environmental controversies. I discuss three reasons for this. First, science supplies contesting parties with their own...
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The report focuses on the concept of mental illness among Nigerian medical students. It also deals with their attitudes toward patients who might share a magicoreligious orientation in the etiology of illness as well as their reaction to the interplay between traditional and modern medicine. To this end, students in the penultimate and final years at four medical schools were surveyed (such students would have been sufficiently exposed to various specialties in the field of medicine,...