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Children exposed to violent war-like and repeated political violence often experience a continued threat to life and their sense of safety, as well as a disruption of daily functioning. The purpose of the study was to examine the psychological impact of exposure to Israeli occupation on Palestinian school children in the West Bank and Gaza, Palestine. We assessed the association between exposure to occupation and the severity of posttraumatic symptoms and the inter-relationship between...

The paper examines three issues relating to university education in Nigeria. The first is the provision of the National Policy on Education, enacted in 1977, which specifies 60:40 science/arts ratio in student admission and enrolment. The second is the student/teacher ratios recommended for the exiting universities by the National Universities Commission. The last is the issue of access to university education which has always attracted global attention. The paper assesses the extent to...

Intestinal parasitic infections (IPI), especially helminths, represent a major public health problem that increase iron deficiency anaemia in developing countries. This study investigated the prevalence, risk factors and nutritional consequences of IPIs in 180 adolescent girls aged 12–17 years living in two boarding schools in southern Benin. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire and laboratory analysis of blood and faecal samples. The relationships between socioeconomic...

Iron deficiency (ID) is the most prevalent micronutrient deficiency in the world, particularly in developing countries. Blood samples and a qualitative FFQ on Fe- and vitamin C-rich foods were obtained in 180 adolescent girls aged 12 to 17 years living in two boarding schools from south Benin. ID, defined as serum ferritin either 73 micromol/l or transferrin saturation<20%, was found in 32% of subjects. Anaemia (Hb<120 g/l) was found in 51% of adolescents, while 24% suffered from...

The process of education and learning from experience is a whole-life process. Nwagwu 1976 sees education as a powerful instrument designed for human improvement and to prepare people for work and life. Fafunwa 1982 believes that African education is traditionally multilateral and that the end objective is to produce an individual who is honest, responsible, skilled, cooperative, and self-reliant. This is only achievable if the universities are properly equipped and adequately funded. In...

In Suthers, L. (Ed) Proceedings of the 13th International ISME Early Childhood Music Education Commission Seminar , July 14-19, Frascati, Rome, Italy

Agriculture in southern Africa is predicted to be particularly severely affected by climate change, and hence is considered a priority area for creating an enabling environment for adaptation. The study presented here, based in the arid Suid Bokkeveld region of South Africa, aims to increase the resilience of small-scale tea farmers in responding to climate change, using as a starting point existing local adaptive capacity, while recognising the utility of external knowledge such as climate...

An earthquake swarm struck the North Tanzania Divergence, East African Rift over a 2 month period between July and September 2007. It produced approximately 70 M > 4 earthquakes (peak magnitude Mw 5.9), and extensive surface deformation, concurrent with eruptions at the nearby Oldoinyo Lengai volcano. The spatial and temporal evolution of the entire deformation event was resolved by Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) observations, owing to a particularly favorable acquisition...

Cognitive Impairment No Dementia (CIND) is a transitional stage between normal functioning in the elderly and dementia. Patients diagnosed CIND are at high risk of progressing to dementia. The study population consists of Yoruba age 65 and older at study baseline enrolled in the Indianapolis-Ibadan Dementia Project. At each wave, subjects were diagnosed as CIND, Demented, or Normal. For this analysis, subjects were included if diagnosed CIND for the first time at any wave and were again...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. Major: Education, Curriculum, and Instruction. Advisor: Martha Bigelow. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 196 pages.

Among those concerned with fighting AIDS worldwide, it is agreed that the best weapon to change people's behavior is education. In this educational effort, all available channels have to be explored. In Ghana, the Health Education Division (HED) of the Ministry of Health set up three drama troupes to carry out AIDS education on a pilot basis. This study evaluates the impact of one of the troupes on AIDS knowledge, attitude and behavior using the focus group research approach. The findings...

Since 1994, higher education policy has been committed to equity of access for all, irrespective of race and gender.We investigated progress towards these goals in the education of medical doctors, with an emphasis on gender.Databases from the Department of Education (DoE), Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) and University of Cape Town (UCT) Faculty of Health Sciences were used to explore undergraduate (MB ChB) trends at all eight medical schools and postgraduate (MMed)...

Although there is evidence of parental participation in school governance in South Africa, the question of how these parents manage their participation in these affairs is largely unanswered. This question represents one of the major exclusions in the existing reflections on the school governance debate in the country. Using a qualitative approach, this study investigated the underlying dynamics of social identity as a factor in parents’ engagement in school governance in 10 schools in the...

Traditionally seen as an environmental and an energy issue, climate change is now also being cast as a threat to international peace and security. Africa, though the least responsible for greenhouse gas emissions, is seen as the continent most likely to suffer its worst consequences -a function of the continents reliance on climate-dependent sectors (such as rain-fed agriculture) and its history of resource, ethnic and political conflict. There have been some attempts to construct scenarios...

This article describes the recruitment, training and career paths of women judges and public prosecutors in Syria over a period of 30 years (1975–2005). It analyses both quantitative and qualitative data drawn from official statistics and interviews conducted with 67 women judges and public prosecutors in Syria's largest cities, Damascus and Aleppo. The paper focuses on how training of the judiciary has changed since the founding of the new Institute of Judicial Studies and the effect this...

This paper investigates the factors that affect the use of mobile internet among the South African students. This is done by using the uses and gratifications (U&G) framework to understand the motivations and extract the intrinsic needs of mobile phone users. Drawing on previous studies on the mobile phone and traditional internet, a model has been developed highlighting the proposed U&Gs. This model was then validated with data gathered through interviews conducted with university students....