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There is a growing realization of the interrelation between immobility and poverty. In the least developed countries, enhanced personal mobility necessarily implies the greater use of nonmotorized means of transportation, including the freedom to walk in safety. Motorized transportation is too scarce, expensive, and--in urban areas--polluting to provide a universal means of movement for the masses. This is especially the case in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which is dependent on vehicular...
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This paper describes a distance learning project which was conducted by COMSAT World Systems (CWS) using compressed digital video and C-band very small aperture terminal (VSAT) technology. The purpose of this project was to promote distance learning in Africa. The University of Nairobi College of Education and External Studies in Kikuyu, Kenya, and the University of Zimbabwe near Harare, Zimbabwe, were linked with Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, via the INTELSAT 603 satellite...
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The Meyerhoff Program is an intensive, multicomponent program focused on enhancing the success of talented African‐American students in science and engineering at a predominantly white, medium‐sized university. The program components, taken together, address the four primary factors emphasized in the research literature as limiting minority student performance and persistence in science: knowledge and skills, motivation and support, monitoring and advising, and academic and social...
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Abstract Technical and vocational education in developing countries has expanded rapidly during the last 20 to 30 years, often with the help of international donor agencies. There are now growing doubts about the effectiveness of this investment. As resources have become less plentiful and student numbers have increased, quality has deteriorated. This paper examines one particular aspect of the problem and the way in which, with external support, one particular country, Egypt, has sought to...
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A central issue in nutrition and health of children is maternal education. In Nigeria, as in many other African countries, the state ofeducaiton of women is very deplorable. In the rural areas, where traditonal values and norms are very strict, women feel relatively disenfranchised and powerless in pursuing their educational and other personal needs and goals. In addition to traditional restrictions, they suffer from religious moratorium of some sort, in their efforts to meet their social...
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Le riz cultive en altitude et en conditions hydromorphiques en Afrique de l'Ouest est soumis a diverses periodes et intensites de secheresse, responsable de perte de rendement. Une strategie d'amelioration varietale pour la resistance a la secheresse est developpee par l'Association pour le Developpement du Riz en Afrique de l'Ouest. La selection recurrente est utilisee pour elever le niveau de resistance dans le germplasm de Oryza sativa et de O. glaberrima identifie comme tolerant. Des...
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Summary During the past two or three years, due to a multitude of factors, education in Southern Africa has come to an almost standstill. In terms of education, there is talk of a lost generation and almost all educational structures are, in effect, inoperable waiting for a political settlement in South Africa. Probably the majority of the population have the perception that a new constitution is a prerequisite for an effective educational system and that it will indeed bring about an...
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Summary Open and distance education strategies in Africa must focus on mitigating/alleviating major problems confronting policy‐makers and education administrators and deal with fundamental issues of access, mass education, relevance, quality, equity and cost effectiveness. Over the last few years, there have been some positive initiatives and developments at the tertiary level, but the picture is not so encouraging as far as general and basic education is concerned.