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One of the most distressing problems confronting South Africa is a structural shortage of core managerial competencies on the one hand, and an increasing oversupply of unskilled and semi-ckilled human resources on the other hand. It is often asserted that needs/requirements of business practice are totally at variance with the nature and content of Business Management syllabi. This assertion leads to the question of which subject disciplines, skills and characteristics graduates should...
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ABSTRACT Of the 528 nonvirgin students, 61.5% had sexual partners at the time of the study. However, only 21.5% of the nonvirgins reported use of condoms at their most recent sexual experience. Those who perceived themselves vulnerable to HIV/AIDS and the females were unlikely to have restrained from sexual relationship. Brief periods of dating before intercourse and early sexual debut were not associated with increased condom use. Overall, involvement in sexual behaviour was linked to...
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Health education programmes need to address local understandings of HIV/AIDS within the broader context of sexual behaviour. We report on a locally derived and community orientated questionnaire survey of HIV/AIDS and sexually related behaviour among 756 pupils from two government secondary schools in Malawi. On average, pupils gave the correct answers to more than 70% of the items on the survey. Seventy-two pupils from one of the schools subsequently participated in playing an educational...
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The authors investigated the prevalence and risk factors of childhood incestuous abuse in the Northern Province (South Africa). High School students in Standard 9 and 10 in representative High Schools in the province filled in a retrospective self-rating questionnaire in a classroom setting. Result shows that the overall prevalence is 15.2%. The risk factors are 'dwelling in a village', 'parents are unemployed or labourers', 'highest education of the father is below standard 6', 'natural...
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In both precolonial and Westerm forms of schooling, education was a crucial medium of construction and articulation of ideas concerning the role and behaviour of women. Precolonial education reproduced and maintained sharp differentiation in the division of labour. Socialisation and women's own internalisation of their role and position in society, upheld dominant male ideology and subordination of women. Under colonialism, missionary and colonial education renegotiated but did not...
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Controlling for access to services, education is a powerful predictor of both fertility and contraceptive use, particularly among younger women, who have benefited from the large increase in education opportunities since independence.
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A thesis Submitted in Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education Kenyatta University, 1997. LB 1731.M35
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For sustainable development to be effective there must be appropriate environmental education strategies which provide people with the necessary knowledge and attitudes and skills. This paper is based on exploratory research to establish the level of environmental knowledge, attitudes towards environmental issues, environmental activities and problem-solving skills of secondary school pupils in determining appropriate strategies for sustainable development. The methods used to obtain...