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Available in print form, East Africana Collection, Dr.Wilbert Chagula Library, (THS EAF LB1513.T34M92)
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Seventy-five geothermal professionals from ten African countries have been trained in the UNU/GTP in Iceland since the programme started in 1979. Five of these UNU/GTP Fellows hold MSc degrees. This is about 25% of all the beneficiaries of this training world-wide. Kenya has benefited the most with 33 people, followed by Ethiopia with 20. About 32% of the trainees from Africa have left the industry. Kenya has retained the highest number of its professionals and has equally achieved the most...
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Writing has been described as the generation of consensual symbolsl/Ig containing agreed-upon conventions. In Higher Education (HE), these conventions are affected by personal symbolsl/Ig such as cultural and institutional factors that may impact negatively on postgraduate learners. Although the primary function of a postgraduate promoter is to support candidates' content knowledge, seldom is attention given to discourse knowledge and to novice researchers' writing ability. A programme of...
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The A. discusses how competition is instrumental in the redefinition of baakisimba, a music and dance genre performed in schools, as well as music and dance festivals. School competitions promote innovative approaches to music and dance performances, and form a site for the formation of new baakisimba music and dance styles. Since performance exists within a particular social, political, and cultural structure, competition in performance has implications for social relations. Competitions...
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At the time of independence most African countries, including Zimbabwe, came out of a period plagued by serious colonial neglect in the provision of social service facilities. So, for example, in the case of formal schooling, factors such as racial segregation, low enrolment rates and quality problems were common. Consequently, in drawing up the guidelines for an educational policy, the quantitative expansion of education for integration of the majority of the population, was a main priority...
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Abstract In Kenya, performance in science subjects has often been dismal. This poor performance is partly blamed on the increasing school enrolment, without a corresponding increase in teaching resources. The introduction of cost sharing in secondary schools has limited the government’s role to paying teachers’ salaries only. Capital development and purchase of teaching materials has been left to parents. Parents have been unable to carry out this role effectively because of increasing...
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A dissertation submitted to the School of Education. Faculty of Humanities. University of the Witwatersrand. Johannesburg, in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Masters in Education” Johannesburg. 2()03.