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Declines in wildlife populations represent a serious environmental threat. One cause of declines has been climate change, which has led to increased aridity and droughts in some systems, such as the savannah ecosystems of sub-Saharan Africa. Climate change is expected to result in more frequent and intense droughts and the effects on wildlife populations are largely unknown. I examined impacts of droughts on wildlife in Manyara Ranch, a community-run conservation area in Tanzania, by...
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INTRODUCTIONFifty years ago, sociologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan sparked a national debate with his notorious Moynihan Report (1965), which argued that the fundamental problem of the Negro was not systemic inequalities, but, rather, the Black family structure that continued to produce a tangle of pathologies within the Black community (The authors use the terms, Black and African American interchangeably). While Moynihan briefly touched on issues of the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow Laws, and...
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The chapter seeks to explore the various roles played by higher education stakeholders during the different phases in the transformation of higher education in South Africa since the onset of the new democracy. These stakeholders can be divided into internal and external stakeholders as their role and impact on the system is different. In examining the role played by stakeholders in South African higher education, the approach used here is that of a chronological account, starting with the...
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Based on theoretical overviews covering feedback and partners in teaching practice, this paper reports on a cohort of South African third year B.Ed. student teachers’ impressions of feedback during a specific period of teaching practice by means of a quantitative study. By focusing on feedback on lesson presentations, 82 randomly sampled student teachers shared their impressions of feedback provided by supervisor teachers and university lecturers. Although the findings suggest that student...
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Background: The University of Lurio, School of Optometry in Mozambique is a new program in Africa. The school, the first to serve Portuguese-speaking Africa, can act as a template for such initiatives in other African countries and other limited-resource settings around the world. A major challenge facing such programs is the lack of knowledge about the profession, which impacts the recruitment of students and their expectations of the program. This study was conducted to understand...
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Unethical business practices in South Africa, as in many other countries, is at the order of the day. As a result there is increasing pressure on the auditing and accounting professions to devote sufficient attention to business education during the training of prospective auditors and accountants. This is the first in a series of two articles regarding topics that should be included in a meaningful and informative business ethics course for undergraduate students in the fields of accounting and auditing.
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Unethical business practices in South Africa, as in many other countries, is at the order of the day. As a result there is increasing pressure on the auditing and accounting professions to devote sufficient attention to business education during the training of prospective auditors and accountants. This is the second in a series of two articles regarding topics that should be included in a meaningful and informative business ethics course for undergraduate students in the fields of accounting and auditing.
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The African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) is a public health network established in 2005 as a non-profit networking alliance of Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programs (FELTPs) and Field Epidemiology Training Programs (FETPs) in Africa. AFENET is dedicated to supporting Ministries of Health in Africa build strong, effective and sustainable programs and capacity to improve public health systems by partnering with global public health experts. The Network's goal is to...