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There have been substantial changes in the provision of surgical services and in surgical training over the last twenty years. Consultants now have a much greater role in delivery of care, but concerns have been raised over surgical trainees' lack of experience, particularly with trauma and emergency cases.The logbooks of surgical trainees undertaking 6 month posts during 1992-3 and 2009-12 in both the United Kingdom (UK) and South Africa (RSA) were analysed.There was a 50% reduction in...
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The defining factor of the National Diploma (Mine Surveying qualification) is considered to be the experiential learning component of one year. It has long been considered that this compulsory one year exposure to the working environment enables the newly qualified Mine Survey diplomat to be of immediate use within the mining industry with very little site induction required to make the student a fully functional member of a production crew. With the introduction of a new Bachelor degree in...
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In theorizing how we should pedagogically approach African American literature, especially in courses for undergraduates, I argue that we have to move away from questions of what was or even what is African American literature and, instead, find ways to teach African American literature in both its historical contexts—artistic and political—and its contemporary resonances. We can embrace the ways the field and each piece of literature simultaneously was and is. Importantly, we can think...
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Higher education in Kenya is characterized by students' preference for public universities due to government financial support associated with such an admission.This demand for university education has significantly increased and continues to swell against a backdrop of decreasing ratio of financial allocation to universities from the Government.Since 2000/1 academic year, only about 6% of registered Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education candidates, which is an equivalent of 25% of...
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2 Abstract: The study was premised on the influence of perceptions on the participa- tion of Ordinary Level rural African Zimbabwean female students in mathematics. Qualitative research design grounded in the interpretive paradigm was employed. Eighteen Ordinary Level female students and six teachers purposively selected from three rural co-educational secondary schools participated in the study. Data were generated through lesson observations and semi-structured question type inter- view...
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Rigorous control of the microbiological quality of water in hemodialysis services is important because the immune system of patients with chronic renal failure is weakened.The objective of this study was to determine the microbiological quality of water for hemodialysis in the hemodialysis department of the University Teaching Hospital of Yaoundé in order to improve the disinfection strategy.Twelve water samples were collected each month at different sites of the hemodialysis circuits A...
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This thesis is a descriptive study that is aided by the theories of representation and post colonialism, which aims to compare how different the colonial legacies of British and French eurocentrism ...
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Contextualization concerns have dominated the conversation concerning the development of African theological education in recent years. However, as the core of the Christian Church continues to shift to the global South and the discussion of contextualization advances, the need remains for developing methodologies which diligently preserve biblical-theological understandings of church leadership and Christian formation. This article contends that Hae-Won Kim’s pedagogical model of...
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The Common Swift Apus apus, a species that has undergone major range expansion within South Africa in the past few decades, provides an opportunity to determine whether this change in range was indeed driven by changes in climate.This question was explored using species distribution modelling, combining predictive and retrodictive approaches.Using distribution and climate in the 1960s as the baseline, climate models were used to predict range changes of the swifts at decadal intervals into...
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The paper addresses policy questions in South Africa’s education system using a newly merged 1999 to 2013 panel of data that includes school enrolments by grade, staff details from the payroll system, examination and test results and the geo-coordinates of schools. This combination of data, which is seldom used, at least in developing countries, permits new and important knowledge about a schooling system to be uncovered. Whilst policy conclusions are South Africa-specific, the methods would...
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School examination results are far from ideal measures of progress in schooling systems, yet if analysed with sufficient care these data, which are common in education systems, can serve this purpose. The paper partly deals with how various student selection and year-on-year comparability issues in examinations data can be dealt with. This is demonstrated using South African student-level results, aggregated to the school level, for Grade 12 mathematics in the years 2005 to 2013. This was a...