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Surveying education at South African universities dates back to the early 20th century. The first diploma course in the technical training of surveyors was introduced in 1958 by an institution known as the “Pretoria Technical College”. At Traditional Universities a BSc Degree followed by a MSc and PhD have been offered since the first half of the 20th century. The promulgation of the Advanced Technical Education Act (No. 40 of 1967), provided for the conversion of six technical colleges into...
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This chapter focuses on the implementation of external quality audits in South African higher education during the post-apartheid period. The authors point to the difficulties of establishing direct correlations between external audits and their supposed impacts, both as a general methodological challenge as well as the fact that the introduction of quality assurance was part of wide-ranging reforms that impacted on all aspects of the higher education system in the country. Drawing on...
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Developing countries are currently experiencing unprecedented increases in primary schooling. While there is strong evidence that education increases civic and political participation in developed democracies, such pro-democratic results may not occur in weakly institutionalized countries. Using variation across gender and local governments areas in the intensity of Nigeria’s 1976 Universal Primary Education reform to instrument for primary schooling, we identify large and long-term...
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The purpose of this field study is to gain an increased knowledge and understanding regardinghow Western Cape-based companies work with Employer Branding towards black students bydescribing, analyzing and concluding the included processes.To reach this purpose a qualitative method was used by interviewing three differentrepresentatives from Western Cape companies and one consultant agency working with theconcept of employer branding as well as focus group discussions with students from...
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Under British colonial power, the British higher education system was introduced into both India and Africa; and the legacy continues till today, when India and most of the countries in Africa are independent nations.After national independence in 1947, India, having a better educational infrastructure, started attracting African students to Indian universities for higher education.The movement of African students to India has of late shown a dramatic decline.This raises a concern in India,...
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Higher Education Systems throughout the world are in the process of internationalisation, with institutions wanting to attract increasing number of international students to their campuses. Unfortunately, in India, in spite of our traditional ties with African nations, the African student population coming to India is declining. India needs to be concerned about this development. The article analyses the possible reasons for this decline and recommends measures for attracting more African...
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The funding of academic institutions has always been a problematic issue irrespective of the economic environment within which the institutions operates. For this reason, institutions of higher learning in the developed world and to some extent in developing countries including Nigeria, are constantly exploring ways of achieving financial self-sufficiency. This is supported in the Nigerian National Policy on Education (Section 8:2004, revised) stating “Universities and other tertiary...
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Existing communication infrastructure in the African hinterlands is grossly inadequate, thus there is a need to develop national, regional and sub-regional carrier of carriers and digital links with cross-border inter-connectivity. Although, the continent has adequate capacity on submarine fibre optic cables along the shores of the African coastline, it lacks an adequate infrastructure within African countries including cross-border connectivity. The demand projection suggests that there is...
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The food security situation in drought prone areas of Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara States were assessed in this paper. The primary data obtained from the interviewed households was based on a designed structured questionnaire and random selection of the households. Descriptive statistics was used to analysed the socio-economic and demographic data of the households, while regression analysis was used to determine the food security and insecurity status of the households by using Global and...
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This paper examines the use of reflection as a qualitative research method within the system of legal education in Nigeria. It analyzes the importance of reflection as a way of encouraging participation in professional roles in the legal workplace. The article is based on a research study conducted among graduate law students who were undergoing professional training at the Nigerian Law School. The study employed a case study research design while the methodology involved the administration...
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Education has various definitions. Education is the process of acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, interest, abilities, competence and the cultural norms of a society by people and to transmit this life to the coming generations so as to enhance perpetual development of the society. The Nigerian policy on education had gone through many stages to the extent that, policy incoherence had negatively affected the success of the policies. There had been significant decline in the standard of...
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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Medicine in the branch of Anaesthesia Johannesburg, April 2013
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This study examined family and teachers factors as determinant of career decisions of adolescents with hearing impairment in Ogun State, Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. The participants involved 77 families of adolescents with hearing impairments and 69 teachers of adolescent with hearing impairment selected from three special secondary schools in Ogun State based on purposive sampling. Two self-designed instruments and Test of Student Knowledge on Career Decision...
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There is a growing interest in the debate on aid effectiveness to assess the impact of aid not only on economic growth and poverty reduction, but also on intermediate outcomes such as health and education. This paper reviews evidence from recent in-depth country work on the impact of government policies and service provision in health and basic education in Zambia, and examines to what extent new aid approaches have contributed to the observed outcomes. It finds that lack of coordination and...