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The implementation of affirmative action is an important consideration in organizational dynamics and a strategic priority in South Africa. Training and developing blacks to fill managerial positions is also fraught with the concern to avoid tokenism and is compounded by the shortage of skilled black managers. Some organizations have adopted a proactive stance to accelerate the advancement of blacks into supervisory and managerial roles. Companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange...

In this study, the haematological parameters (Red blood cells, haemoglobin, mean celllular haemoglobin content, mean cellular volume, mean cellular haemoglobin concentration, platelet) of Gobius niger collected from several selected stations in Foca and Aliaga Bays, where a petroleum refinery is located, have been measured. The statistically important differences were found between the measured red blood cells haemoglobin, haematocrit, mean cell volume, mean cell haemoglobin, and mean...

This article attempts to make sense of the clinical psychology training experience, as a negotiation of personal and professional identity. It suggests that the training, particularly in the first year, is a rite of passage, in many respects similar to an initiation process. Rites of passage can be seen as processes marking shifts in status and social identity. In the case of training to be a psychologist this change involves the movement from lay to professional status. There are three...

This article describes a study using the Internet to teach African American consumers about quality of health care. By reading information on quality of care, consumers can learn ways to assess the care they are receiving, develop strategies needed to participate effectively in communicating with their health care providers, and make informed decisions in their own best interests. We developed an educational intervention using 5 Internet documents on quality of care and evaluated its...

As Uganda continues to work towards universal primary education (UPE)-and increasing secondary education coverage-it is expanding the pool of educated youth who will soon make unprecedented demands for higher education opportunities. In order to meet this challenge, it is critical to understand the status of higher education-its governance, financing, and the quality and quantity of its inputs and outputs. This sector report pulls together all the background studies on tertiary education,...

Abstract This article analyses the progress made in transforming the public further education and training college system in South Africa in the first decade of democracy. It charts the evolution of policy for the sector and how it relates to broader policy development in South Africa. It examines the extent to which policy has been implemented and highlights a series of remaining challenges for the sector. The article concludes that much has been done in transforming the college sector,...

Role models have long been considered important in training medical students in the professional and ethical values of medicine. This report discusses role models identified by South African medical students in Years 1–5 of their study in a traditional programme. Most students considering having a role model important. As students progressed, faculty role models were more likely to be selected. A parent (the mother, in particular) or parents were, however, most frequently identified as role...

This study investigates whether the Disruptive Behaviour Disorders (DBDs) rating scale measures the same constructs in South African as in Western cultures, and explores the differences in scale scores as a function of language, gender and age. Teacher ratings between 1997 and 1999 of the 18 DSM-IV symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in 6 094 primary school children of six language groups in the Limpopo Province of South Africa were collected and analysed. For all...

We conducted a survey among female sex workers in Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea to evaluate the frequency of sexually transmitted disease (STD) symptoms they suffered, their STD and HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) transmission knowledge and health-seeking behaviours, the forms that their HIV risk perception took, and the types and quantities of educational resources to which they had access and in fact used. This survey was a part of a larger study of sex workers...

Abstract The paper reports the results of a survey of parents (n = 12), teachers (n = 8) and pupils (n = 20) in primary schools in rural Kenya. The sample was divided equally between multilingual and monolingual schools, the former using English or Kiswahili only, right through primary school, the latter using the mother tongue (in this case, Kalenjin) Kalenjin in primary classes 1–3, and English or Kiswahili from primary class 4 on, where the children are on average 9 years old. Virtually...

Presents the findings and recommendations of a study commissioned by Botswana Training Authority (BOTA) in 2002 to determine the information needs and extent of the Vocational Education and Training (VET) information infrastructure in Botswana. The results showed that the information infrastructure in the sector is undeveloped with most institutions lacking information resource centres. Stakeholders’ information needs were varied and included information on: training standards, best...

Abstract This article examines the problems that African law schools face in responding to the internationalisation of legal education in the context of globalisation. Specifically, African law schools lack the resources that are necessary to implement necessary changes in their curricula to meet the needs of a globalised legal practice. African law schools also have to deal with the problem of retaining highly trained law teachers. The article considers these challenges and examines ways of...

A peer group HIV prevention intervention based on social-cognitive learning theory, gender inequality, and the primary health care model for community-based health promotion was developed for more than 300 urban employed women in Botswana. All women volunteered to participate in the intervention. To control for self-selection, matched workplaces were assigned to the intervention group or to the delayed control group. Compared with women in the delayed control group, women in the intervention...

Trends suggest that business practices and private sector ideas and values are increasingly permeating public funded higher education institutions world-wide. The impact of business practices and values on higher education policy and practice is discernible in the growing dominance of global privatisation, quasi-marketisation and new managerialism in the higher education sector. However, reactions of different role players and responses of higher learning institutions to these external...