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In spite of numerous strategic interventions by the department of basic education to retain educators in the profession, there continues to be a high number of educators leaving the profession. This attrition of skilled personnel has had an adverse effect on the capacity of the state to realize its millennium development goals. These goals include achieving universal primary education by 2014. A key focus of the South African government strategic objective is to ensure the country has...
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Sixth Book in the Series Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East
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It has been ascertained that the school environment in Africa and most other developing countries are deficient of /and lack basic necessities and only a handful of schools located in urban centers are connected internationally via the Internet. The classrooms are mostly deficient and impoverished in terms of basic facilities and amenities required for effective teaching and learning. There is also a high pupil-teacher ratio in the urban classroom in our school systems. Based on these, this...
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High blood pressure (HBP) is a health problem world-wide.In Togo, that affection constitutes a more and more preoccupying cause of morbidity and mortality.This study is a prospective one which intended to identify the antihypertensive regimens prescribed and evaluate their effect on patients' blood pressure (BP) control.Out of the 204 patients enrolled (mean: 55.01 12.55 years; sex ratio: 1.3), 112/176 placed on antihypertensive therapy have controlled their BP (38.39% outpatients vs...
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In this study taxation students’ perceptions of open-book assessment, prior to their exposure to open-book assessment in the qualifying examination of South African chartered accountants, is explored. A focus group was conducted using the Interactive Qualitative Analysis methodology. In this focus group, taxation students without prior exposure to open-book assessment identified their perception themes (also referred to as affinities) on open-book assessment. These affinities were grouped...
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In economies characterized by low labor demand and high rates of youth unemployment, entrepreneurship training has the potential to enable youth to gain skills and create their own jobs. This paper presents experimental evidence on a new entrepreneurship track that provides business training and personalized coaching to university students in Tunisia. Undergraduates in the final year of licence appliquée were given the opportunity to graduate with a business plan instead of following the...
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Cuba’s first African mission set parameters integrating military and human development, in particular training, education, and health, that became typical of Cuban international interventions over the next 25 years. The paragraphs below draw on published histories to synthesize tangled experiences from Algeria in 1962 to the end of the Angolan civil war in 1988 and Namibian independence two years later. Focusing on Cuban support for Namibians in exile, they track Cuba’s role in Angola and...
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This chapter explores how left-wing liberation movements in Southern Africa in the 1970s and 1980s engaged with alternative concepts of education, which included elements of socialist and indigenous knowledge, in liberation schools. It traces how these same liberation movements, with a particular focus on the African National Congress in South Africa, shed the cloak of transformation contained within these alternative education and schooling models and perpetuated the salient features of the...
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PhD%%%%%%%%Chapter 1. Introduction – Chapter 2. Modelling the Self-Teaching Hypothesis with a Learning Dual-Route Cascaded Model of Reading Aloud – Chapter 3. Nonword Reading: Comparing Dual-Route Cascaded and Connectionist Dual-Process Models with Human Data – Chapter 4. Modelling the Acquisition of Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences – Chapter 5. Discussion – Ethics Approval for Experimental Work.%%%%The dual-route cascaded (DRC) model of reading aloud and word recognition has achieved...
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Response to Intervention (RtI) consists of multi-tiered instructional delivery systems in which educators provide research-based interventions to students that increase in intensity depending on students' instructional response. RtI is currently being implemented in schools across the United States. RtI's shift away from standardized testing offers new opportunities to consider the ways in which African American students are serviced within the general education setting, the assessment...
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Men who have sex with men (MSM) present specific diagnostic and management challenges to counselors and health-care providers. High prevalence of HIV infection has been reported among MSM in Nigeria, driven partly by stigma, discrimination, lack of appropriate prevention strategies, limited research evidence, little recognition by policymakers, and inadequate knowledge and skills in dealing with MSM clients. In Nigeria, where homosexuality is illegal, the risk embodied in same-sex activities...
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Efforts to increase girls‘ access to quality education focus mostly on removing obstacles linked to poverty and discrimination, and often fail to acknowledge the violence many of them suffer in, around, and on the way to and from school. The objective of the present research is to examine the barriers to combating male sexual and gender-based violence in schools at the community level, and to consider community and expert-issued suggestions on removing these obstacles in the Ghanaian...