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The development strategies of regionalization of education in Africa,such as Second Decade of Education for Africa(2006~2015),Plan of Action and Harmonization of Higher Education Programmes in Africa:A Strategy for the African Union,emerge constantly along with Africa's integration process.These strategies came out of intergovernmental organizations of the whole continent or sub-regions of Africa,and various non-governmental professional organizations.Pan-African University launched by the...

The history of school feeding in Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced tortuous development for more than half a century.There are two development trends in School Feeding Programmes now:national ownership and local procurement.But These programs face such problems as the overall poorly political and economic environment,inadequate government capacity,and low local procurement ratio.However,China's Nutrition Programme can get some inspirations from Sub-Saharan African experience on programme...

In 2 009,Zuma government launched a new round of strategic planning process of national development of South Africa,which placed basic education at the top agenda with the focus on quality enhancement.For the attainment of this national priority,the government envisaged the long term vision of schoolingby2025,and formulated action plan by2014.This paper explains the current strategyofbasic education of South Africa in four aspects,education management,support to teaching and learning,quality...

As one of the great powers' foreign policies,Education Aid is undoubtedly one of the channels through which soft power is amassed.China's assistance tothe construction of primary schools in African countries has effect on its national image and soft power through aid effectiveness and African perception towards China formed in the process of interaction between China and Nigeria.Comparing Japan's model,China's assistance to constructing primary school in Nigeria has some defects including...

Purpose: To determine diagnostic and therapeutic problems of pyogenic liver abscess in our hospital.Method and material: We conducted a retrospective study from January 2006 to December 2010 of all children aged from 0 -15 years admitted and treated for pyogenic liver abscesses.Amoebic liver abscesses and other hepatobiliary disorders were not considered.Results: Pyogenic abscesses accounted for 50 cases.The mean age of patients at presentation was 2.4 ± 0.78 years (range from 6 months to 15...

In 2011 the North Bank Region of The Gambia experienced its most severe drought in 20 years. This article looks at how this drought affected households in the region, the coping measures they adopted, and residual loss and damage. In this study, ‘loss and damage’ is defined as adverse effects of climatic stressors that people have not been able to avoid through coping and adaptation (from Warner et al., 2012). Data were collected through a questionnaire survey (N = 373), 60 focus group...

In 2011 the North Bank Region of The Gambia experienced its most severe drought in 20 years. This article looks at how this drought affected households in the region, the coping measures they adopted, and residual loss and damage. In this study, ‘loss and damage’ is defined as adverse effects of climatic stressors that people have not been able to avoid through coping and adaptation (from Warner et al., 2012). Data were collected through a questionnaire survey (N = 373), 60 focus group...

The importance of emphasis on cultural values in the development and management of higher education in Africa to all educational administrators and planners of all types and levels of African Higher education cannot be over emphasis.This paper provides an eagle's eye view of the topography of culture in Higher education in particular from an insider's perspective in the 21 st century.This paper does not claim to be conclusive but presents important issues for careful reflection, to provoke...

Background: Doppler velocimetry of fetal arterial blood flow in pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH) determines fetal hemodynamic adjustment. Objective: This study was aimed to determine the pattern of fetal arterial blood flow of selected vessels in patients with PIH. Materials and Methods: A total of 34 pregnant women with PIH at a gestational age of 24-37 weeks were prospectively examined with Doppler ultrasound of the fetal middle cerebral artery (MCA), umbilical artery and placental...

This study seeks to examine the relationship between rewards and the performance of teachers in the public schools of Ghana.  Using case study approach, data was collected and analysed in terms of descriptive statistics.  Pearson chi square was used to test the significance of relationship between rewards and performance. The results indicated a high assessment of job performance and also establish a significant relationship between teachers’ rewards and job performance. Other motivational...

As the important base of Chinese teaching in Egypt,since their founding,both the Chinese Language Department and the Confucius Institute at Suez Canal University,with the efforts of Egypt and China,have graduated more than 70 Chinese language major students and over 1400 professionals from all lines.The department has successfully provided urgently needed Chinese personnel for business,tourism,education,architecture,light industry,food industry and so forth,and play more and more important...

This thesis seeks to explore an English School understanding of regional international society and construct a conceptual framework derived from the body of English School literature that can provide significant insights into international society at the regional level. This conceptual framework will be applied to an analysis of three case studies from continental Africa: the Union Government debate, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), and the African Union (AU) position on United...

Climate change is a new area of public policy that is expected will have a significant impact on national economic development and directly on people’s lives and livelihoods. However, at present there is limited understanding of what the cost of responding to climate change will be. An important starting point is to identify the financial resources that are currently being spent by government to fund climate change-related activities. This can provide an indication of how far the...

Since ancient times,China and Africa enjoy traditional friendship,and after the founding of New China,China and Africa got more closely in the political,economic and cultural exchanges and other aspects.In the field of education,China and Africa carried out a series of cooperation and exchanges,such as education visits,exchange students,to send teachers,school cooperation and founder of the African research institutions.In this context,through the perspective of the China and Africa's higher...

The Kenyan government has tried to address the gender imbalance in education by improving girl enrolment and thereby enjoy educational benefits. World Food Programme promotes universal education of people who are socially and economically disadvantaged in ASALs through advocacy, provision of food and basic education. In addition, the government has produced policy guidelines addressing gender differences in enrolment and achievement for example the readmission of adolescent mothers back to...