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Leadership development in higher education is of vital importance to South Africa's future. We present a case study that focuses on a leadership development programme (LDP) through action learning and action research (ALAR) for women academics in South Africa during 2000 and 2001. It identifies the effects of the LDP on participants five years after the programme. The evaluation process encouraged participants to reflect on their own learning, research growth and leadership capabilities, and...

Latex sensitisation is recognised as a health problem among health care workers (HCWs) using latex products. The aim of this study was to quantify specific latex allergens in latex devices used in South African academic dental schools. The current study also compared the total protein content and the levels of specific allergens in these products.Fourteen latex examination gloves (powdered and non-powdered) and five dental rubber dams, representing 6 brands, from five dental academic...

The study examines the extent to which disaggregated training variables are related to technological upgrading, in the context of a middle-income developing country trying to manage its integration into the global economy. For a developing country, successful integration into the global economy requires that local manufacturing firms are able to competitively restructure, as a precondition for survival and long-term growth. Consequently, skills and technological upgrading are crucial in...

The data discussed in this paper is drawn from research conducted in a multilingual urban primary school in Johannesburg, South Africa, where the official language of instruction is English and the majority of learners are African language speakers, frequently with very limited English proficiency. The paper presents a case study of one child who uses her own multilingual resources in order to draw her peers into the routines and meaning-making processes of classroom life. It explores the...

Globalisation has allowed people with scarce skills to cross national borders with ease. Given their specific skills base professionals are prone to trans-national migration. The trend is for professionals from developing countries, such as South Africa, to fill gaps in the labour market in developed countries such as the United Kingdom. The literature on migration focuses on the impact of teacher loss on source countries and the consequences for receiving societies. A limited number of...

Globalisation has allowed people with scarce skills to cross national borders with ease. Given their specific skills base professionals are prone to trans-national migration. The trend is for professionals from developing countries, such as South Africa, to fill gaps in the labour market in developed countries such as the United Kingdom. The literature on migration focuses on the impact of teacher loss on source countries and the consequences for receiving societies. A limited number of...

Climate change is arguably the most important public health issue of the next decade. The impact of climate change should be understood in the broader context of population growth, degradation of ecosystems, inequality, food insecurity, urbanisation, slums and peak oil. Climate change is the result of deforestation and excess greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels. Environmental consequences include rising global temperatures, melting of sea ice and glaciers, rising sea levels,...

Learners preferentially take in and process information in diverse ways whilst teaching methods also vary presenting the possibility for mismatching teaching methods with learners’ preferences leading to disengagement, ineffective learning and potential underperformance. Different research instruments have been used in the past to assess the learning styles of accounting students such as Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory and Honey and Mumford’s Learning Style Questionnaire. The...

The eighth in a new impact series summarizes the results of an evaluation that didn't go as planned. Nevertheless, the author believe there are lessons to be had from this experience for Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC) finance and private sector work in other countries, and that it is important to not lose the information generated.

Bagamoyo Research and Training Centre (BRTC), a branch of the Ifakara Health Institute (IHI), established in late 2004, has evolved into a leading site in performing high-quality Phase II and Phase III malaria vaccine and drug trials according to ICH/GCP standards. Several Phase II and III trials and assessments of interventions focused on better diagnosis, treatment and prevention of malaria have been completed successfully. Expansion into the areas of TB, with the set up of a new BSL-3,...

Outcomes-Based Education(OBE)is a learner-centered approach to education that focuses on achievement of outcomes.The approach requires teachers to move from a traditional teacher-centered to a learner-centered classroom practices.Therefore，this study investigated the impact of the OBE curriculum on classroom practices in grade five English classrooms in primary schools in Zomba district，Malawi.In essence，the study focused on teachers instructional and assessment practices in grade five...

The purpose of this study was to examine the teachers' attitudes towards using sponsored instructional materials provided by the Aga Khan Education Service (AES) to primary schools in Uganda. The objectives of the study were: to establish teachers' attitudes towards the AES materials in relation to the level of class taught, size of classes and the nature of subject (s) taught. Data was gathered from twenty five class teachers, using interview schedules. Majority of the teachers (93%)...

Anthropology & Education QuarterlyVolume 40, Issue 3 p. 325-326 All American Yemeni Girls: Being Muslim in a Public School – By Loukia K. Sarroub Monica Vasquez Neshyba, Monica Vasquez Neshyba University of Texas at AustinSearch for more papers by this author Monica Vasquez Neshyba, Monica Vasquez Neshyba University of Texas at AustinSearch for more papers by this author First published: 09 September 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1492.2009.01052.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsExport...

Purpose of review To establish the nature of publications emanating from or relating to intellectual disability in Africa in the previous 12–18 months, and to critically analyse the nature and content of any new knowledge arising from them. Recent findings Three papers satisfied the criteria set, one from Nigeria on epilepsy and intellectual disability, the other two were from South Africa. Kromberg's paper puts intellectual disability in context for South Africa, emphasizing the role...

Due to resource constraints and a developing legal profession, Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from a legal aid shortage, particularly for indigent criminal representation. A number of African countries, led by the example of South Africa, have experimented with training non-lawyers to provide some degree of legal services as a means of filling the legal aid gap. Law school legal clinics are major providers of legal services throughout common law Africa, but law students are prevented from...