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Last month the Australian Government announced that it will open the door to 12,000 refugees fleeing Iraq and Syria, focusing its resettlement efforts on women and children. 7000 people will be settled in New South Wales alone, with a great number of these likely to join the existing Syrian community in Southwest Sydney. This will pose a huge challenge for schools and social services. Around half of displaced Syrian children have been unable to continue their education. Young men express...
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Previous studies on Candida species in a clinical setting in Ghana have shown a prevalence of Candida albicans. Despite this, very little is known about the various strain types and their population genetic structure. In this study three microsatellite loci, CAI, CAIII and CAVI, were used to investigate the population genetic structure of C. albicans from clinical isolates in Ghana. In all, 240 clinically unrelated C. albicans isolates were recovered from patients reporting at three teaching...
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Functional writing skills are important for effective communication. However, the development of functional writing skills among learners depends on the teacher factors (teachers’ performance, experience and qualification). Current survey of functional writing competence among students’ shows that majority of them cannot write competently. This has raised concern regarding teacher factors in teaching and learning of the functional writing. Low levels of achievement in functional writing...
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The necessity of advancing international competence for Africa’s higher education students is becoming more apparent as the international community becomes more interdependent and connected. We are all aware today that we live in a global community with forces that directly affect our lives being shaped by persons and events far away from us in places we have never seen or visited. Internationalisation of education is now very high on the agendas of national governments, international bodies...
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The need to develop entrepreneurial skills among NCE chemistry graduates of Colleges of Education has become imperative due to the growing graduate unemployment and world economic recession. Chemistry in schools were taught using inappropriate methods which have failed to expose students to the economic relevance of chemistry and to develop in the student the skills inherent in chemistry education. This paper tried to look at entrepreneurship education, the need to develop entrepreneurial...
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The paper identified classroom management styles in relation to students’ performance in Basic technology. Five junior secondary schools in Bariga metropolis, Lagos state, Nigeria were used for the study. Two research questions were formulated to guide the study. Two hundred and fifty three (253) respondents were used for the study i.e. 16 teachers and 246 junior secondary school students. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The data were analyzed using percentage, mean and...
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Suggested titles for the autoethnography assignment for Dr. New. African; African American titles
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The purpose of the study was to establish the contributions of teacher characteristics to academic achievement of the 2010 public day secondary school cohort. The study was guided by Education Production Function. The production function is used to explain the relationship between inputs and outputs of a firm. Education Production Function (EPF) indicates that educational outcomes are a function of various variables that are employed into the education process. The study was conducted in...
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Introduction Schistosomiasis remains a public health major problem and little is known in many areas, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa Objectives To assess the burden and risk factors of schistosomiasis and intestinal parasitic helminthes in the children of Cubal, Angola, and to compare different diagnostic approaches for urinary schistosomiasis under field conditions. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted. Urine and faeces samples of school children were microscopically studied. A...
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This study presents evidence for rapid climate change in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. Analyses of data for temperature and rainfall from 1970 to 2014 show a clear tendency towards decreasing rainfall and increasing average temperatures. This trend caused severe droughts for many years that were suddenly interrupted by high and unpredictable rainfall that fluctuated heavily in space and time. If this tendency continues, the population dynamics of many plant and animal species will be...
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Inclusive education as a global movement emerged over the past 30 years to ensure quality mainstream education for all learners. Since 1994 the newly democratic South Africa also had expectations as well as the political will to change education by adjusting legislation and policies. However, the vision of a truly inclusive education system in South Africa has been difficult to achieve and results regarding the implementation of inclusive education remain questionable. There has been a...
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Inclusive education as a global movement emerged over the past 30 years to ensure quality mainstream education for all learners. Since 1994 the newly democratic South Africa also had expectations as well as the political will to change education by adjusting legislation and policies. However, the vision of a truly inclusive education system in South Africa has been difficult to achieve and results regarding the implementation of inclusive education remain questionable. There has been a...
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Inclusive education as a global movement emerged over the past 30 years to ensure quality mainstream education for all learners. Since 1994 the newly democratic South Africa also had expectations as well as the political will to change education by adjusting legislation and policies. However, the vision of a truly inclusive education system in South Africa has been difficult to achieve and results regarding the implementation of inclusive education remain questionable. There has been a...