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Disability mainstreaming: The Namibian legal framework and skills training.Manombe-Ncube, A. - 2012
Presentation by Hon. Alexcia Manombe-Ncube, Member of Parliament, Founding Chairperson of the Disability Council and Patron of the NDCN Strategic Plan, at the Occasion of the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Poltechnic of Namibia and the National Disability Council (2012 May 15 : Polytechnic of Namibia, Hotel School)
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The teaching of religious studies in the higher education sector is a dynamic subject area marked by both expansion and diversification. Its vigor and sumptuousness reflects its significance in the context of a world coming to terms with its cultural and religious diversity. However, the teaching of religious and theological courses in academic institutions has sometimes been marred with controversy especially in cases where some religions are treated as normative and prejudices towards some...
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This study investigated perceptions of students and lecturers on the teaching of National And Strategic Studies [NASS] in six Teachers’ Training Colleges in Zimbabwe. The descriptive survey design was used to gather data from two secondary school teachers’ training colleges and four primary school teachers’ training colleges. The participants were 15 lecturers, 144 students and a retired policy maker who played a critical role in the introduction of NASS. Data was through questionnaires...
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The study sought to examine the Zimbabwe Open University’s (ZOU) Bachelor of Educational Management Students’ attitudes on the use of ICT in their studies. Qualitative research paradigm anchored the study because of its usefulness of facilitating data gathering from human subjects. It was a case study of five regional centers of the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU). This case study called for a high level of commitment with research participants whose experiences researchers were trying to...
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This case study qualitatively examined dilemmas that female school leaders in 18 predominantly female headed primary schools in Kambuzuma, Warren Park and Kuwadzana areas of Harare Province face. It used a purposive sample of 54 research participants comprising 12 female and six male heads, 14 female and four female deputy heads, and 18 female teachers-in-charge (TICs). The study found out that Zimbabwean women have been socially, politically, economically and culturally marginalised for a...
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The qualitative case study investigated the Regional Programme Coordinators’ (RPCs’) perceptions of the role of Programme Leaders on the management of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) Programmes in the Department of Education at the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU). Quester-views with open-ended questions were responded to by 20 out of 30 RPCs who were conveniently sampled. The study found out that Programme Leaders initiate, develop and design new programmes. They also review and evaluate...
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Few studies have directly examined the effectiveness of a school vision and mission in aiding the prevention of conflict in the primary school settings. In this study, 50 Zimbabwean primary school teachers from five schools in the City of Bindura in Mashonaland Central Province of Zimbabwe were conveniently sampled and surveyed. They responded to a questionnaire based on Likert’s measurement scales to explore and describe how a school vision and mission could aid conflict prevention. The...
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This article represents an attempt at a general history of African education from ancient times to the modern day efforts made at institutionalizing 'Pan-African' education (Marah 1989). As all general history, emphasis is placed on sweeping, Pan-African experiences of African people in Africa and the United States of America; such an effort necessarily leaves out parochial or particularized interests or subsets of African people's education. This general historical treatment of African...
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This paper examines the role of education and family background on age at marriage, age at first birth, and age at labor market entry for young Senegalese women. We use a multiple-equation framework that allows us to account for the endogeneity that arises from the simultaneity of the four decisions that we model. Our results highlight the importance of a woman’s own education in delaying marriage, and that the relationship between her education and the timing of childbearing and of entering...
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Madagascar wrote a fundamentally new Water Code in 1998.It focused on maximizing the number of people with access to clean water through a process of decentralized water management and cost recovery.This paper is concerned with the policy problem this presents at the community level-is Malagasy water law the best possible for the country?Combining community-level focus group studies and policy analysis, this study examines Malagasy water policy shifts focusing on localization of water...
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In South Africa, as in many other countries, concern is growing about rising unemployment. The impact is felt not only on the lives of millions of people but also on the national economy where the required six per cent economic growth rate has not been achieved. A review of the literature on the South African tertiary training system reveals that inadequate career counselling tends to reinforce the low social and economic position of poor and marginalised people in South Africa. Very few...