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This report provides a summary of a symposium held in Zanzibar in March 2000. It was the third of four meetings planned for each of the four developing geographical regions to identify the range of technologies available in the region and to outline the barriers to their use by women as distance learners and distance educators. The summary report provides synopses of the 13 African countries involved, outlines the process of the meeting, and provides the recommendations of the participants.
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Since the installation of the first democratically elected government in 1994, South African higher education has been facing the daunting task of addressing substantial social transformation. The restructuring of higher education creates a number of new opportunities for researchers to contribute to social, political and economic development in the country (Segal 1998). However, the South African higher education research community is still trying to overcome the heritage of the previous...
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This paper analyzes the links between child labour and poor school performance, using data gathered in Ghana in recent years. Author Christopher Heady moves away from conventional studies on child labour and education, which tend to focus on low school enrolment and attendance. He goes further, to examine the day to day impact of child labour on those in school, finding that, as well as leaving children too tired to learn, child labour robs them of their interest in learning. Children who...
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The election of the first democratic government in 1994 produced great social changes in South Africa. The new government introduced new inclusive policies and legislation and created new institutions, including new labour laws, the desegration of educational institutions, the development of a single integrated national qualification system and the introduction of industry supply side measures and regional strategic development initiatives. This paper describes the re-engineering of the...
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In most African countries, deep changes are occurring in the organisation of national veterinary services, and in the relationships between farmers, private veterinarians and veterinary services. Moreover, the epidemiological situation of rinderpest and contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, and the increasing importance of emerging diseases such as Rift valley fever gives a growing importance to valuable epidemiological information. Consequently, implementation of efficient disease surveillance...
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South African higher education is currently in some form of competitive chaos, in which every institution is planning to be as innovative as the next. A prominent tendency is to implement the latest technology in order to enhance communication with more and more students as some form of distance education. Meanwhile the traditional distance education institutions experience a decline in student numbers.
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This discussion aims to compare the Remote Classroom (RC) approach and the Guided Independent Study (GIS) approach using the University of South Africa (Unisa), its systems, target audience, teaching philosophy, teaching perspective and course content as the teaching and learning context. The two approaches are defined, their weaknesses and strengths are outlined, they are then applied to a specific learning context and one approach is recommended. The argument that Unisa's institutional...
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Air pollution is an increasingly important environmental problem in developing country regions, particularly in parts of Asia. Projections indicate that potentially large increases in emissions may occur during the next 20-50 years if current development patterns persist. This chapter focuses on the regions of East, South East and South Asia, southern Africa and the MERCOSUR countries of Latin America. The status and development of regional policy initiatives on air pollution vary from...
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African philosophy and educational discourse the influence of African philosophy on educational discourse the influence of African philosophy on thematic issues of concern in educational discourse