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In this case study the authors examined the functioning of the community-based rehabilitation (CBR) program for people with disabilities in 3 pilot districts after the conclusion of donor support in Ghana. Questionnaire and interview data from 42 people with disabilities, 8 local supervisors, and 3 social workers about program structures, support for people with disabilities, and challenges were analyzed using descriptive statistics and qualitative procedures, involving the use of Leximancer...
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Purpose Sexual assault on adolescent females is a major public health concern. The purposes of this study were to examine: (1) whether alcohol use mediates the relationship between forced sexual intercourse and suicidality in high-school girls, and (2) whether this mediation differs by ethnicity. Methods Using cross-sectional data from the 2009 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (n = 6,294), we used logistic regression and simple mediation using the Sobel test for indirect effect for our analyses....
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Historically disadvantaged schools, which are mostly located in townships, experience a critical scarcity of educational resources, decreasing learner enrolment and diminished relevance to societal needs. It would appear that the implementation of new initiatives, flexibility and self-renewal on the part of these schools is the basic prerequisite in preventing the creation of gaps between societal-environmental demands and the function of schools. It is the contention of this paper that,...
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There is a considerable lack of literature on international student athletes despite the extent to which colleges and universities are increasingly relying on them to heighten the winning reputation of their sports programs. This research focuses on international student athletes from Africa. Based on interviews of 16 student athletes from seven different African countries, the range of their experiences upon entering universities in the United States, particularly their challenges, were...
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This article explores parent involvement in decision making in the United States and in postapartheid South Africa and highlights similarities and differences in how parents in these two countries participate in public school governance and decision making. Parents’ role in public school governance in South Africa is significant and entrenched in the country’s South African Schools Act of 1996. In contrast, parent participation in U.S. school governance and meaningful school-level decision...
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Africa was a key tectonic unit in the geologic evolution of the Tethyan realm in the Middle–Late Cretaceous during the rifting of the South-Equatorial Atlantic Ocean. This research sheds light on the tectonic evolution of Africa during the Albian–Campanian time. The two end members of the Wadi Natash alkaline volcanic province [WNAVP] (104–78 Ma) in the South Eastern Desert of Egypt were studied paleomagnetically. The WNAVP (24.5° N–34.25° E) is made up of a thick succession of...
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Purpose Adolescent medicine is not a recognized specialty in most African countries and African healthcare providers receive little adolescent-specific training. We explored the association between training, self-reported competence, and clinical practice related to adolescent health in an African setting. Methods A total of 119 healthcare providers of various disciplines who work with adolescent patients in Francistown, Botswana were surveyed regarding their adolescent-specific training,...
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Stakeholders’ involvement in the success of strategy implementation among public secondary schools in Nairobi, Kenya
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The article under the title 'Power Struggle between the Government and the Teacher Unions in South Africa' in the 2007 and 2010 Salary Negotiations sets out to show, inter alia, that there can be no doubt that the intention of the legislators and the policy makers was that the laws governing labour relationships between employers and employees should be harmonious so that conflict can be minimized in the places of work. After 17 years of freedom South African schools are still experiencing...
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The study is part of a larger study on the management of learner indiscipline in South African schools. This study sought to establish learners’ views on the possible approaches that could be employed to curb indiscipline in schools. The study adopted a descriptive survey approach encompassing quantitative and qualitative approaches. It sought the insights of 280 learners selected form 15 independent schools in Mthatha district in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Data were...
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In societies marred by conflict, the propensity of populations to be harmed by climate hazards is likely to be increased by their exposure to violence and other coercive practices. Stakeholder assessments of climate vulnerability, as reported here for the Gaza Strip, can capture the qualitative experience of harm caused by conflict-related practices as these relate to, and interact with, forecasted climatic risks. The key pathways of climate vulnerability identified by stakeholders in Gaza...
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Study-abroad has become a popular method for promoting international education in university curricula. Yet, with today’s growing non-traditional student who is older, working, and increasingly a member of a racial/ethnic minority group, traditional study-abroad programmes of a semester or year abroad have become more problematic, if not impossible. The paradigm of short-term study-abroad, combined with a service-learning pedagogy, expands the opportunities for non-traditional students to...
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The challenges of facing the ever changing frontiers of knowledge in various fields in the society and the task of helping individuals to adjust to these changes, call for proper implementation of guidance and counseling services in schools. This paper examined the need and concepts of guidance and counseling in schools. It also suggested what roles stakeholders should play for proper implementation of guidance and counseling services. It recommended among others that guidance services be...
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AbstractAbstractSchool mapping consists of the building of geospatial databases of educational, demographic and socioeconomic data for educational institutions in order to support educational planning and decision making. Such databases contain data such as the geographic location of schools, the numbers of existing schools of different levels in the public and private sectors, their capacities, physical condition and facilities, enrolment and the number of teachers and their attributes....