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The demise of apartheid in 1994 introduced many changes to the social, political, and economic sectors of South Africa with similar changes in the higher education sector. This article offers an integrative review and analysis of higher education policies implemented and legislation passed that significantly impacted the nature of the South African system of higher education. While the primary interest is on policies implemented since South Africa’s transition to democracy in 1994, the...
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Continuous training courses for the teachers in ICT are essential to integrate it in the practical of teaching. However, teachers in Morocco rarely benefit from continuous training courses, especially in ICT. In this paper, we propose distance learning in ICT based on e-Learning platform. The objective of this distance learning is to generalize the ICT continuous training courses for all the Moroccan teachers of physics sciences. This Training combines by the elements of efficiency...
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The development of primary school teachers is an important aspect of a country's economic, social, and political well-being.The use of particular pedagogies in teacher education may greatly influence how teachers perform in their classrooms after completing their training programs.This micro-ethnography investigated the extent to which teacher educators in Botswana's College of Education used problem-based learning (PBL) approaches in the development of preservice primary teachers.While the...
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The case study in this paper examines the contribution of scholarship programmes provided by the Chinese government in improving human capital in the fields of science, technology, and innovation in Tanzania. The case study constitutes a survey of 85 Tanzanians who have received training in China, and interviews with 13 individuals including some of the surveyed trainees, scholarship administrators, and other stakeholders. While critical comments were raised, the trainees in our sample were...
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The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) prohibited deprivation legal capacity of persons with disability based on assessment of mental capacity. The assertion is that, persons with disabilities shall exercise their legal capacity in all aspects of life without any restrictions that are based on mental incapacity (such as, unsoundness of mind, deficit in mental capacity, dotage, etc. This approach signifies a shift from substituted decision making, where another...
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This study aimed at Investigating Head teachers' Managerial Behaviour and Teachers' Task Performance in Public Primary Schools in Calabar-South L.G.A. of Cross River State.Three (3) hypotheses were formulated and tested in the study.The survey research design was adopted for the study.The study population comprised all the head teachers and deputy head teachers in the twenty one ( 21) public primary schools in Calabar-South L.G.A.The twenty one (21) head teachers and twenty one (21) deputy...
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Realisation of multilingual education as a right has remained a controversial issue in South Africa. This is despite the Constitutional and legislative frameworks that support multilingual education. While the controversy undermines linguistic diversity in educational institutions in general, as suggested by the exclusion of African languages in the curriculum in some primary schools, it is in the curriculum of most institutions of higher learning where this linguistic diversity is...
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CHALLENGES FACING AFRICAN LEARNERS WHO LEARN IN ENGLISH IN BLACK TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS OF MELODING, VIRGINIA. A SOUTH AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF A MASTERS’ DEGREE IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND PLANNING DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS AND CURRICULUM, FACULTY OF EDUCATION AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, NIGERIA NOVEMBER,
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Social support, as a crucial resource for parents of children with disabilities, is defined as assistance in form of human endeavour such as material gain, emotional maturity, specialized trends, and access to information and pieces of advice that parents of children with disabilities obtain from different institutions, associations or organizations. Researchers have mostly focused on educational needs of children with disabilities by partly ignoring parents’ needs. Therefore the purpose of...
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Children and youth including those with impaired body function or structure, in under resourced areas, can be disadvantaged in terms of education and health care, and can experience social hardship. Within South Africa, personal, health and education support to individual children and their families in under-resourced areas is provided by care workers from the National Association of Child Care Workers. This organisation also provides training and support to their care workers to take on the...
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A thesis submitted to school of education (special needs) in partial fulfilment for the degree of master of education of Kenyatta University. November, 2017
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MAPPING OUT KEY PRESSING CURRENT ISSUES AND KNOWLEDGE GAPS IN ACCESS, PARTICIPATION AND CHALLENGES OF GENDER AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN MULTIPLE AFRICAN CONTEXTS
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Evidence shows that iron deficiency in adulthood may affect cognitive performance, possibly by disrupting neurotransmitter regulation or brain energy metabolism. Women of reproductive age (WRA) are among those who are most vulnerable to iron deficiency; however, they have been largely ignored in the literature relating iron status to cognition. Our aim was to determine the efficacy of iron-biofortified beans in improving cognition in WRA compared with control beans. A double-blind,...
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A Research Project Submitted to the Department of Educational Management, Policy and Curriculum Studies in Partial Fulfilment for the Requirements of the Degree of Master of Education of Kenyatta University