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Abstract This article examines the implications of globalization in the teaching of public administration in Nigeria. It explores the teaching of public administration in Nigeria before and after 1986. The study argues that the teaching of public administration in Nigeria followed the British educational pattern before 1986, but changed to the United States model between 1987 and 2002. It also argues that for public administration training to be meaningful in Nigeria, it should be designed...

Abstract The purpose of this study is to delineate the immune injury mechanisms that involved in the autoimmune inner ear disease by introducing plasmid DNA encoding of TH1 cytokines (INF-γ) into the inner ear. β-Tubulin is a microtubular protein which we found as an important autoantigenic in Meniere's Disease as well as other autoimmune hearing loss. Hearing loss was induced in mice and guinea pigs when they are immunized with the tubulin molecules. Autoimmune hearing loss could be the...

Transitioning African American students with learning disabilities from high school to post secondary education requires that school counselors be flexible in their roles and functions. This is critical as school counselors work within personal and sociohistorical prisms that impact counseling programs and services for this population. The authors emphasize points of awareness to which school counselors must attend in their work with African American students with learning disabilities....

Reform in education in a democratic South Africa has inspired commitment to a single, inclusive education system for all. The challenges related to the changing nature of education in South Africa and the relationship of these challenges to the past, and particularly to the legacy of apartheid, have forced educational psychologists to reconsider their roles in order to respond to the needs of their clients. Contextual demands have required a shift from the traditional child-de.cit, medical...

Reform in education in a democratic South Africa has inspired commitment to a single, inclusive education system for all. The challenges related to the changing nature of education in South Africa and the relationship of these challenges to the past, and particularly to the legacy of apartheid, have forced educational psychologists to reconsider their roles in order to respond to the needs of their clients. Contextual demands have required a shift from the traditional child-de.cit, medical...

Reform in education in a democratic South Africa has inspired commitment to a single, inclusive education system for all. The challenges related to the changing nature of education in South Africa and the relationship of these challenges to the past, and particularly to the legacy of apartheid, have forced educational psychologists to reconsider their roles in order to respond to the needs of their clients. Contextual demands have required a shift from the traditional child-de.cit, medical...

Reform in education in a democratic South Africa has inspired commitment to a single, inclusive education system for all. The challenges related to the changing nature of education in South Africa and the relationship of these challenges to the past, and particularly to the legacy of apartheid, have forced educational psychologists to reconsider their roles in order to respond to the needs of their clients. Contextual demands have required a shift from the traditional child-de.cit, medical...

A new genus and species of Nanaloricidae (Loricifera), Phoeniciloricus simplidigitatus, is described inhabiting fine sand covered by a layer of volcanic ash at a water depth of 1,813 m in the New Ireland Basin near the Kilinailau Trench (north of Papua New Guinea). The described specimen is a postlarva enclosed in a larval exuvium. This is the first report of a species belonging to the Nanaloricidae from the deep sea. This occurrence is surprising, because Nanaloricidae are typical...

The attenuation structure around Rabaul volcano, New Britain, Papua New Guinea, is studied using broadband records from a pair of sites, inside and outside of the Rabaul caldera complex, using regional earthquakes. Estimates of attenuation for P and S waves between 0.5 and 5 Hz indicate that near-surface rocks within the caldera complex are significantly more attenuative than outside the caldera. The average strength of this anomaly is defined in terms of t*S∼0.2 s over and above the region...

Vanessa Hart, a teacher at Hazeldown Primary School, Devon, describes some of the pleasures and problems of teaching in a developing country.

Vanessa Hart, a teacher at Hazeldown Primary School, Devon, describes some of the pleasures and problems of teaching in a developing country.

Abstract Much of the dialogue on public administration training in Africa is about how to prepare administrators to cope with pressures global forces exert without considering how to educate individuals to meet also the unique demands of public service. This essay examines the nature of training in Africa, drawing on Ghana's experience with management training programs. It first describes and critiques training based on bureaucratic and managerial perspectives, which emphasize the...

Shallow earthquake swarms of focal depths <10 km and magnitude <4 occurred beneath Aswan Lake in 1987 and 1993. The 1987 events are located along the E-W Kalabsha fault and their focal mechanism solution is strike-slip. Events of the 1993 sequence are distributed along a fault segment trending in the N-S direction and show a strike slip fault plane solution, too. Source parameters of 29 earthquakes from these two sequences are determined using a software developed by the Institute of...

The paper describes the facilitated learning process of farm households and district policy makers in addressing the problem of soil nutrient depletion. The process is applied in a case study in four districts in Kenya and Uganda during the period 1997–1999, where the potentials of low-external input technologies (LEIA) in addressing the soil nutrient depletion problem were assessed. Working through an inclusive process of dialogue, observation, diagnosis, experimentation and exposure to...

Introduction. Maximising the full potential of health and educational interventions in South African schools requires assessment of the current level of mental abilities of the school children as measured by cognitive and scholastic tests and the identification of any barriers to improved performance. Objectives. This study reports on the application and interpretation of a selected battery of mental ability tests among Zulu school children and the methodological and analytical issues that...

Most of the human capital literature pertaining to developing countries focuses on the returns to education in either farm work or wage work; few studies examine how education affects the allocation of time between these activities. This paper estimates the returns to education in farm and off-farm work, and consequently the role of education in determining the allocation of labor. The results from this study show that off-farm work has a much higher return to education than does farm work...

A study by James et al. revealed discrepancies between students' knowledge of sexuality and their behaviour.Preventive programmes should be intensive, comprehensive and preferably school based, involving parents and local communities. To make themselves trustworthy, it may be worthwhile for programmes to acknowledge adolescents' life situation as it is.

This paper reports on a series of studies undertaken at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, in the 1990s. The studies explore how students acquire academic literacy in the home and community, school and at university. The main focus is on the literacy biographies of 36 students who come from a variety of educational, linguistic and socio-economic backgrounds. These biographies are discussed in relation to a set of essays produced by the students. The paper demonstrates the...