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The University of Ghana is the oldest of the five universities in Ghana. The others are Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, the University of Cape Coast, the University College of Education in Winneba, and the University of Development Studies in Tamale. The last two are only three years old and do not as yet have student exchange programs with North American universities. Kwame Nkrumah University and the University of Cape Coast do have student exchange programs with a few North American universities.
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This paper is based on the Zimbabwean national system of assessment and certification. This system contains aspects of both the comprehensive and modular concepts of vocational education and training (VET). There is an emphasis on educational, as opposed to occupational, standards, with educational planners trying to strike the right balance between this broad based approach and the specific requirements of employment. The trade testing and apprenticeship training assessment systems will, it...
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This special issue of the Journal of Negro Education examines how the current School Reform Movement is meeting and failing to meet the educational needs of African American youth. Such an examination is necessary, we believe, because as a national phenomenon that importantly shapes the lives of Black children, the School Reform Movement itself is being shaped by networks of predominately White business, legislative, and educational elites. And while it is true that, under this leadership,...
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Eighty-five cases of uterine rupture were seen and managed in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Nigeria, within a 5-year period from 1986 to 1990. The total number of deliveries during the period was 10 247 giving an incidence of 0.83% uterine rupture or 1 in 121 deliveries. About 82% of the cases occurred within the age range of 20-30 years. The highest incidence of uterine rupture was seen in Para 5 and four cases of uterine rupture occurred in primigravida. Abdominal tenderness...
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Coastal and marine pollution is of growing concern to environmentalists, governments, inter-governmental organisations (IGO) and non-governmental organisations (NGO). Most coastal areas of the world are contaminated especially with untreated or inadequately treated sewage and sediment from land clearing and erosion. Seas and oceans are polluted with hydrocarbonated effluents and the dumping of industrial wastes. Due to high levels of pollution indicators, oceans and seas take longer time in...
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The major purpose of this research study is contrived to determine and evaluate the historical backgrounds of Nigeria and the United States and its implications in the educational policies and systems of the two nations. Both these countries had their humble beginning under the British colonial administration.
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In South Africa, counselling training poses two related difficulties: working in a situation of ubiquitous, ongoing violence, and offering training to people who have minimal or no qualifications and are often overwhelmed by enormous workload. In this context, there is a temptation either to give up hope in the face of the enormity of the task, or defensively to package counselling as a set of techniques which can be taught without much self-reflection. In this article we discuss, by...
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At the 1998 Book Day Symposium organised by the British Council in Lagos, almost everyone who spoke lamented the near absence of a reading culture in Nigeria. As one of the guest speakers, I tried to highlight and discuss some of the factors that militate against the development of a reading culture in our society. Naturally I also suggested ways by which this anomaly could be remedied. Few or a negligible proportion of people read for pleasure in Nigeria. And among these, students at the...