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Previous articleNext article No AccessBook Review Building a People’s University in South Africa: Race, Compensatory Education, and the Limits of Democratic Reform by Gregory M. Anderson. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 244 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 0‐8204‐4954‐7.Reitumetse Obakeng MabokelaReitumetse Obakeng MabokelaMichigan State University Search for more articles by this author Michigan State UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints...
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This is a resettlement policy framework for the Malawi Education Sector support Project, which improves educational quality by increasing the quantity and quality of teachers and strengthening government capacity to manage the system and financial resources. Social impacts are likely to occur during the construction and rehabilitation of educational facilities. When rehabilitating community day secondary schools, the Polytechnic Institute, and the Chancellor College, take care during the...
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The objective of the study was to assess the extent and severity of heavy metal contamination of arable soils of the Damascus Ghouta, an area with intensive agricultural production. We examined the present degree and spatial distribution of heavy metal concentrations in 51 soil profiles and in 22 topsoil samples in the Damascus Ghouta. The soils were digested with aqua regia for heavy metal analysis. Pb, Cu and Zn concentrations in the topsoils exhibited anthropogenic increased values. The...
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Limited data are available on the concentration of metals in sediments in the Western Harbour of Alexandria. The most comprehensive record is from a survey conducted more than a decade ago. Industrial and human activities in and around this area have increased dramatically in the last 20 years. The purpose of this study was to determine the concentrations of heavy metals in surfacial bottom sediments of the harbor, to assess their potential biological effects and to identify their possible...
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The economic and sociopolitical context for implementing education for all (EFA) policy in Kenya is examined. The policy absolving households from the responsibility of paying user fees for primary education leads to a focus on the capacity of the government to fully fund universal primary education. Funding constraints are identified as the primary limitation to the realization of universal access. A proposal on projection for funding level required for the realization of universal access...
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This study describes a model for public-private partnership used in a women's literacy project, or Projet d'Alphabetisation Priorite Femme (PAPF), in Senegal. The focus is on practical experience, and lessons learned with regard to outsourcing literacy courses to the private sector. The government's literacy department, the Departement d'Alphabetisation et de l'Education de Base (DAEB), maintained responsibility for policy formulation, monitoring and evaluation; and private providers...
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Retirement is viewed as a passage that can result in psychological, physiological, and economic problems among some retirees. Adequate preparation for retirement through preretirement education, as practiced in the Western-European societies, has been found to ease transition into retirement and adjustment in retirement. Preretirement education is a relatively new practice in some organizations in Nigeria; hence, little investigation has been conducted to examine the attitudes of Nigerians...
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(2004). Correlates of School Counsellor Effectiveness in South Western Nigeria. Journal of Social Sciences: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 237-243.
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Few studies have investigated the ability of national conservation networks to adapt to changes in underlying environmental drivers (such as precipitation) and their consequences for factors such as human density and species richness patterns. In this article, the South African avifauna is used as the basis for such analysis to ascertain the likely extent of current, and future, anthropogenic impacts on priority conservation areas. We show that human population pressure is high in or around...
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Egypt's education system is the largest in the Middle East and North Africa and among the largest in the world, with about 16 million students enrolled for the 1999.2000 school year. More than 90 percent of students, from primary through tertiary levels, are in public institutions. The government has declared the development of Egypt's human resources a top national priority, part of a national effort to improve competitiveness and achieve greater integration with the global economy. Egypt's...
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This article reports the findings of a study that examined the role of mentoring in thecareers of African American women in the administration of social work education.A focus of the study was the ways in which race and gender influence mentoringexperiences. The findings suggest that although the participants were successful intheir careers, mentoring opportunities were not a part of their early careerexperiences. They also indicate that race and gender play important roles in the type...
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Examination of 1829 children from 6 primary schools in coastal Tanzania revealed overall Wuchereria bancrofti microfilaria (mf) and circulating filarial antigen (CFA) prevalences of 17.3% and 43.7%, respectively. A randomized double-blind field trial with a single dose of ivermectin (150–200 μg/kg body weight) alone or in combination with albendazole (400 mg) was subsequently carried out among these children. Both treatment regimens resulted in a considerable decrease in mean mf intensities,...
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Our models indicate that in the next 30–40 years, the effects of climate change on stable falciparum malaria zones in Africa are probably complex and spatially heterogeneous, and that range contractions are more likely than expansions. Notably, we did not find evidence that the highlands are particularly vulnerable to change in this period. It is only by the second half of this century that increases in the potential for stable transmission in the highlands due to climate change were...
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1747 The Syrian Golden hamster is commonly used as a model of dietary induced insulin resistance. Fat metabolism in hamsters closely resembles that in humans and this animal is known to exercise voluntarily. PURPOSE: To explore the metabolic effects of volitional training on young, healthy Syrian hamsters. METHODS: Male, 24- day old, hamsters with initial weight of 46.6 ± 0.83g (mean ± SEM), were randomly divided into sedentary (n = 8) and trained (n = 8) groups. The training group had...