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This study has two main objectives: to draw a map of the perceptions of Ivoirien students about aspects of U.S. policy towards Africa, and to discover response deviations which coincide with, and hence may be attributable to, (1) school and class attended, (2) sex, age, religion, and ethnic group, and (3) sources of information about world events. Data were gathered during 1976 through a questionnaire administered to 327 Ivoirien students, 245 of whom were at the Université d'Abidjan and 82...
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Summary The problems of 778 boys and girls in Senegal aged from 13 to 22 years were investigated with use of an open-ended questionnaire. These secondary school students mentioned in order of decreasing frequency the following problems: school problems (45.9%), political and social problems (14.0%), lack of self-confidence (12.4%), financial problems (11.3%), and vocational problems (9.4%). Family adjustment (4.0%) and sex problems (1.5%) obtained minor percentages. Students in villages were...
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In the mid 1950s test material developed by the National Institute for Personnel Research in South Africa was adapted for the selection and classification of individuals for trade training in Kenya. The environmental background and problems encountered are summarized and the validation procedure utilized is outlined. In the course of the review the original data are examined.
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Water pollution was monitored in six Gambian village wells over a period of 8 months spanning the 5-month monomodal rains and the pre- and post-rains dry periods. Faecal coliform (FC) and faecal streptococci (FS) counts were high throughout and there was a massive increase associated with the onset of the rains, maximum counts exceeding 5 x 10(5)/100 ml. This pattern was largely sustained throughout the rainy season. Some individual variations in patterns of pollution could be ascribed to...
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A basic oral health survey was carried out on a random sample of first year African student teachers attending four teachers' colleges in Rhodesia. The number examined and interviewed was 309. Methods and criteria used are those described in the second (1977) edition of the World Health Organization manual Oral health surveys - Basic methods. Prevalences of dental caries were 31.0% for the 142 male students and 59.5% for the 167 female students. The difference is statistically significant (P...
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The television education program in the Ivory Coast is part of a large national program of educational reform; the objective is to improve the efficiency of the education system, with the following principles: discover realistic methods of elite selection and staff training, as well as information and broadcasting techniques which allow the whole population to feel integrated and to take an active part in the efforts of the politicians. Education in the Ivory Coast has 4 main...
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In this essay Edward Berman explores the way in which the relationship between United States foreign policy and the major American foundations has helped to shape African educational policy since 1945. Berman contends that the foundations, in particular Ford, Rockefeller, and the Carnegie Corporation, have directed their support at areas of political or economic importance to American corporate interests—to the possible detriment of the needs of the developing nations themselves.
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Since the Arusha Declaration in 1967, Adult Education in Tanzania has become a major instrument in national development. Programs in literacy, health care and hygiene, and in the acquisition of technical competence have been parti cularly successful because adult education has been approached as an intrinsic and meaningful part of the learner's life. The purpose of education has changed from the learning of skills to the learn ing of self-reliance and the improvement of life in both...
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(1978). The Politics of Universal Primary Education in Nigeria, 1955‐1977. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 149-157.
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Results of a paleomagnetic study carried out on the exposed volcanic rocks on the western side of the South Kenya Rift Valley are presented. Nine stratigraphic groups ranging in age from Miocene to Pleistocene were sampled. The rocks consist of basalts, trachytes, nephelinites, melanephelinites, olivine melanephelinites and ignimbrites. Paleomagnetic poles obtained for different age ranges are as follows: Period I (0.64–0.72 Ma), 116°E, 85°N (A95 = 6°); Period II (1.6–6.9 Ma), 297°E, 84°N...