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Purpose – Developed countries have established elaborate quality assurance systems and increasingly developing countries like Mauritius is adopting such procedures for assuring the quality of its higher education. Globalization, diversity of educational programmes, and the powerful role of higher education in economic development are major drivers for quality and accountability in higher education. Design/methodology/approach – A list of criteria was drawn for the quality audit for each...
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This bibliography is intended for people who are involved in fisheries, aquaculture, climate change, disaster management and policy development in West Africa or interested in one or more of these issues. The literature in this bibliography includes peer-reviewed journals, books and book chapters, grey reports and institutional technical papers, but is restricted to literature in English. They were gathered through an extensive web search using fisheries, fish, coastal, inland, aquaculture...
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The work assessed the relative importance of production and consumption attributes of different wealth groups of households and tested the effect of attribute preference and that of other factors on common bean variety demand in the drought areas of Eastern Kenya. Variety demand was conceptualized within the agricultural household framework and attributes incorporated in the model according to the Lancaster (1966) consumer theory. Empirical analysis was based on primary data collected from...
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The extraordinary success of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the North during the closing years of the last century directly led to the United Nations' resolutions in 2000, about universal access to HIV treatment, and to the inclusion of this target among the Millenium Development Goals [1]. A previous AIDS supplement, supported by the French Agency for AIDS Research (ANRS) and published as early as 2003, presented the evaluation of the first national pilot programs for access to...
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Assessment of clinical learning is imperative in order to ensure that those who become registered nurses are safe and competent practitioners. Literature however reveals that the measurement of clinical skills performance continues to pose a challenge for nurse educators. There is an ongoing debate around the best assessment method in clinical learning, as well as, validity and reliability in assessing clinical learning. Hence, this study aimed at exploring and describing current practices...
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The status of the Nigerian educational system at the moment is unenviable. It is low in quality and standard, limited in its reach and disturbing in its future. There have been some deliberate attempt/efforts by government to redress the declining fortune of the educational system. Some International donor agencies, like UNICEF, the World Bank, UNESCO, and DFID are also collaborating with government at all levels with a view to coming up with a holistic approach in addressing educational...
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Damages from two major earthquakes are identified in medieval Al-Marqab citadel (Latin: Margat) in coastal Syria. Built by the Order of St. John (Hospitallers) in the twelfth–thirteenth centuries, the hilltop fortification has masonry walls made with and without mortar, using the opus caementum technology (Roman concrete). V-shaped and U-shaped failures, single-corner and symmetrical corner collapses, and in-plane shifts of ashlar masonry walls are identified and dated by historical and...