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The lack of traditional employment opportunities for many students and the oft-repeated cry for South Africa to invest in developing black entrepreneurs prompted the University of Western Cape's Department of Management to introduce an Enterprise Management stream at graduate level and Entrepreneurship as a subject at 2nd and 3rd year levels in recent years. All these initiatives are based on a strong capability in entrepreneurship and small business that has been developed in the department...

Background: Due to difficulty in confirming clinical suspicions of malignancy in patients presenting with bone tumours, the cost of surgical biopsies where hospital charges are borne almost entirely by patients, competition with bone setters and healing homes with high rate of loss to follow up; we set out to find if sufficient material could be obtained to arrive at reliable tissue diagnosis in patients with clinical and radiological evidence of bone tumours in our hospitals. Methods: After...

The internationalisation of university education globally has coincided with the opening up of post-apartheid South Africa to the world market, and the number of foreign students (along with other visitors to South Africa) has shot up very rapidly since 1994. As a member of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), South Africa has an agreement (the Education Protocol) with its partners to cooper- ate in the area of education and training. In the absence of a similar spirit of coop-...

The performance of Ultrasound (US) among patients presenting with signs and symptoms of malignancy was studied in comparison to surgical pathological findings. 310 patients who presented to the surgical out-patients of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital with signs and symptoms of breast cancer, between 2002 and 2003 were sonographically evaluated. US was performed with Sonoline SL-I (Siemens AG Germany) using a 7.5 MHz linear array transducers. The sonographic appearances were...

In the West African Region of Africa, the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) is the first full fledged university that operates in an exclusively open and distance learning (ODL) mode of education. NOUN focuses mainly on open and distance teaching and learning system, and delivers its courses materials via print in conjunction with information and communication technology (ICT), when applicable. This 'single mode' of open education is different from the integration of distance...

Abstract The paper appraises the phenomenon of campus secret cults in Nigeria. Specifically, the paper sets off by exploring various definitions of secret cults before tracing the history of campus cults in Nigerian higher institutions. The paper identifies various reasons for the emergence of secret cults and discusses the consequences of cult activities on the Nigerian educational system. For a lasting solution to the problem, the paper recommends the establishment of a structure which...

The available photographs of the Classes of 1928 and 1929 are confusing because they not only bear the same date (1929) but are also composed of individual shots of the graduates rather than the customary group photograph. An answer to the riddle was provided by the presence of J A Thorburn (a member of the Class of 1927) who was a 'super' and qualified in 1928, in the one photograph, together with M C Robinson who also graduated in 1928. The photograph dated 1929 on which 4 graduates and...

African American male students have traditionally received the most negative treatment by public educators. This study seeks to assess whether a school known to help disadvantaged students to become successful students will include African American males. The study used Henderson and Milstein's Six Trait Resiliency Model (2003): increase pro-social bonding, set clear and consistent boundaries, teach life skills, provide caring and support, set and communicate high expectations and provide...

A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted on a random sample of 523 households having at least one child attending primary school in 3 villages in Buchosa Division, Sengerema District, Tanzania. The aim was to determine the community's willingness to pay (WTP) for a school-based chemotherapy programme to control morbidity due to schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) in schoolchildren and identify socio-economic and cultural factors influencing community's WTP....

1996).Thus interventions aimed at school-aged childrenfocusing on delivery through schools are stronglyencouraged (WHO, 1993). School-basedprogrammes provide an infrastructure for deliveringtreatment against geohelminths and schistosomiasis(PCD, 1999). Such programmes have been shown toimprove health and well-being of schoolchildren inTanzania (Guyatt

A survey of 84 participants at the Cataloguing, Classification and Indexing Group of the Nigeria Library Association Workshop in 2004 was carried out with a view to determining the impact of the annual workshop on the application of information and communications technologies (ICT) to cataloguing and classification in Nigerian libraries. The work covered 43–libraries universities, polytechnics, colleges of education, research institutes and ministries/parastatals /agencies which cut across...

The study aimed at investigating the barriers to the successful practice of exclusive breastfeeding among rural and urban nursing mothers in Edo State of Nigeria. The population of this study constitutes all nursing mothers in the rural and urban areas of the state. The study adopted structured and in-depth interview. Four hundred and ninety six (496) urban and rural nursing mothers constitute the sample of the structured interview, while 40 nursing mothers: 20 urban and 20 rural nursing...

Following on from the Up in Smoke? report, this booklet uses pictures, graphics, and case studies to detail the impact that climate change is already having on Africa and the threat this poses to human development. This Report finds that concerns about the effects of climate change on rural African societies are more than justified. Climate change is happening, and it is affecting livelihoods that depend on the natural environment, which, in Africa, means nearly everyone. However, even...

Context: Violence against women (VAW) is the commonest form of violence existing in human race and is a major reproductive health issue of our time because of its many negative reproductive health consequences. Health care providers have important roles to play to build capacity of their employees to meet the challenges of diagnosing, managing and preventing this societal problem. This can be started by assessing their training needs. Objective: To determine the extent to which Health...

Institutions of Higher Education in South Africa are increasingly opting for education through the medium of English only. Teaching and learning through the medium of English in Higher Education is also prevalent in many countries in Africa, despite the fact that this is the second or third language of most of the learners on this continent. The arguments in favour of teaching and learning through the medium of only English, especially with regards to speakers of the African languages, rely...

Context: HIV seropositivity in pregnancy has been an issue of major concern worldwide. This is because of the risk of mother to child transmission which is associated with adverse perinatal/neonatal outcome. Objective: To determine the maternal HIV seropositivity and perinatal/neonatal outcome. Study Design, Setting and Subjects: A retrospective audit of all cases of HIV seropositivity among the antenatal mothers seen at the Ebonyi State University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, over a...