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ABSTRACT This paper reports on a study in which teacher assessments were a central part of a methodology for collecting literacy profiles of primary aged children in South Africa. The main focus of the study was to ascertain whether teachers could collect evidence of, and record, significant achievements in the literacy development of primary aged children. The study set out to address a number of important questions. First, whether the Profiles of Learning framework could be used to profile...

Abstract> Abstract> This article investigates the issue of the governance of higher education institutions and argues that governance by Senates is more appropriate than governance by stakeholders for such institutions. It discusses the ambiguous democratic credentials of stakeholder politics and argues against this mode of politics in the governance of higher education institutions, especially in respect to their ‘transformation’. In terms of distinctions between convergent and shared...

A research survey to gauge the attitude of parents on educational changes made to the curriculum since independence and ascertain whether they feel some important aspects should be included.

Abstract> This article identifies the three discursive forces of ‘equity and redress’, ‘development’ and ‘academic standards’ in the structuring of access and admission policies in South Africa. It is argued that these forces undergo a process of complex repositioning within the policy making arena of the National Commission on Higher Education. The discourse of ‘development’, couched in neo‐classical economic terms, emerges as a dominant discourse in this process and shapes the discourses...

Higher rates of exercise induced bronchospasm (EIB) have been reported for urban than for rural African schoolchildren. The change from a traditional to a westernized lifestyle has been implicated. This study was undertaken to examine the impact of various features of urban living on the prevalence of EIB in Kenyan school children.A total of 1226 children aged 8-17 years attending grade 4 at five randomly selected schools in Nairobi (urban) and five in Muranga district (rural) underwent an...

A very crucial aspect in the head:, administration of a school is his financial management.sound financial management results in efficient utilization of resources and succeeds in raising the development of the school. Many of the heads of schools in Ghana do not, unfortunately, have the opportunity to pursue a basic course in financial administration prior to their appointment as heads. This paper attempts to discuss certain fundamental principles and practices in financial management,...

Traumatized and nontraumatized subjects were compared on post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, depression and anxiety. In addition, gender differences, socio-economic and family background were studied.Cross sectional.University of the North.All first year African psychology students comprising of 82 (31%) male and 180 (69%) females in the age range 17 to 25 years (mean age 20.7 years, SD = 2.3).The Impact of Event Scale (IES), the 35 item civilian version of the Mississippi Scale...

Abstract> South Africa's most urgent and difficult project is to reconstruct all spheres of public life so as to establish enabling conditions for a flourishing and peaceful democracy. A viable education system with committed, competent and confident teachers is a primary condition for accomplishing these ends. This article offers a critical account of current attempts to transform teacher education and development. Against a sketch of inherited ways of using time and space in teacher...

This qualitative study aims to assess health education practice in sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinics in South Africa with a view to develop improved health education programs in such clinics. Health workers' knowledge of and attitudes towards health education practice, their perceived health education skills, the content of health education in STI clinics and the organizational structure as context for health education were investigated. In-depth interviews were conducted with 18...

Frequently voiced complaints about gaps between different stages of education systems are seldom thoroughly explored and explained. This paper develops a model to provide a holistic analysis of educational gaps. It does so by first differentiating two aspects of a gap — a momentary and longitudinal aspect and then examining data about the system at both the macro and micro level. A Swazi case study on a perceived gap between the junior and senior secondary stage is used to illustrate the use...

This paper gives a brief historical overview of adult education in Nigeria and suggests that although educational guidance and counselling are only just beginning in Nigeria, there is a need to understand fully their implications and potentials in adult education in Nigeria.

The concept of joint implementation as a way to implement climate change mitigation projects in another country has been controversial ever since its inception. Developing countries have raised numerous issues at the project-specific technical level, and broader concerns having to do with equity and burden sharing. This paper summarizes the findings of studies for Brazil, India, Mexico and South Africa, four countries that have large greenhouse gas emissions and are heavily engaged in the...

Recently, modern dem ocratic governm ents have been facing religious and other minorities demanding state funding of separate schools.A system of completely equal treatm ent of both state and denom inational schools has existed in the N etherlands since 1920 and is ® rmly rooted in the D utch history of the previous centuries.It may be of interest to know how this pluralistic system of `pillars' Ð as it has been called in Dutch historiographyÐ cam e into being and how it has functioned ever...

Measurement of samples from 154 sites in the continental sector of the Cameroon Volcanic Line yielded six palaeomagnetic poles, at 243.6°E, 84.6°N, α95 = 6.8°; 224.3°E, 81.2°N, α95 = 8.4°; 176.1°E, 82.0°N, α95 = 8.5°; 164.3°E, 86.4°N, α95 = 3.4°; 169.4°E, 82.6°N, α95 = 4.6° and 174.7°E, 72.8°N, α95 = 9.5°, belonging to rocks which have been dated by the K-Ar method at 0.4–0.9 Ma, 2.6Ma, 6.5–11 Ma, 12–17 Ma, 20–24 Ma and 28–31 Ma, respectively. The results are in general agreement with other...

Previous studies have found that chronic illness in children influences the temperament of the child and the parents perception of the childs behavior. However, it remains unclear how specific illnesses may be related to temperamental characteristics. The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in temperament characteristics for three types of chronic illnesses (leukemia, congenital heart disease, and asthma) in a sample of 75 Egyptian children. Temperament of chronically...