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Chaos and violence prompted MSF to pull out of Somalia. With no signs of improvement, and a weak health infrastructure, what next for the country? Talha Khan Burki reports.On Aug 14, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced that it would be withdrawing from Somalia. Since the country descended into chaos in the early 1990s after the overthrow of President Siad Barre, 16 MSF workers have been killed in Somalia and there have been numerous attacks on the agency's medical facilities and...

The concept of the professional in the context of a rapidly expanding higher education sector in a developing country offers interesting insights into the values, attitudes and motivations of lecturers. The article charts the expansion of higher education and summarises the challenges that it faces. It goes on to examine through interviews with faculty (staff) in one private university in Kenya what they understand by professionalism, what constitutes professional (and less than...

This study explored ethnic awareness, self-identification, and ethnic attitudes in 104 Italian, Chinese, and African pupils aged 4- 5, attending to ethnically homogeneous and heterogeneous kindergarten schools. Hypotheses: Pupils will be able to show ethnic awareness and self-identification, and pupils attending heterogeneous schools will express positive attitudes toward outgroup more than the others according to the “contact hypothesis” (Sagone, 2003). Measures: Clark & Clark's Doll...

Abstract The author explores the challenges of teaching and learning African American history, a history fraught with uncomfortable implications about contemporary race relations and race-based inequalities. Drawing on various theories of anti-oppressive education, and using data from an ethnographic study conducted in one history classroom, the author explores possibilities and limitations in that realm. With its focus on a racial minority group whose history is not fully explored in...

Background: Strokes are a vital emergency and functional. Their frequency increases with the aging population so that the senior pays a heavy price for this condition.

The study sought to establish the status of peer counselling in some Zimbabwean secondary schools as perceived by school teachers. A qualitative design was used. An open-ended questionnaire was completed by 26 secondary school teachers who were then enrolled for a Bachelor’s degree in secondary education at a state university in Zimbabwe. Data were thematically analysed. The results revealed that most of the secondary schools from which the respondents came from, did not have peer...

Peer Assessment is the systematic process of peers assessing each other's work using instructional rubrics for grading. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of peer assessment on performance in mathematics among Senior Secondary School Students in Delta State. It is envisage that this study would benefit students to promote creativity in solving problems, evaluate new ideas, select the best ones and or modify them. Policy makers and curriculum developer in the education sector...

Higher education is understood to play a critical role in ongoing processes of social transformation in post-apartheid South Africa through the production of graduates who are critical and engaged citizens. A key challenge is that institutions of higher education are themselves implicated in reproducing the very hierarchies they hope to transform. In this paper, I reflect critically on my experiences of a course aimed at transforming teaching through transforming teachers. In this paper, I...

Background and purpose: Stroke is a real health problem with a high morbidity and/INS; mortality in developing countries. This figure is increasing and worsening because of a problem of management. Nevertheless, the organization of care in the acute phase significantly reduces the cost, morbidity and mortality of stroke. Among these treatments, thrombolysis is the most effective therapeutic means to prevent lasting disability. However neurological clinics exist in Africa, thrombolysis in...

The natural environment of the 21 st century is facing the threat of global warming and climate change due to human interaction with the environment. This paper focused on environmental challenges in the Niger Delta and the impact of oil spillage on the Biodiversity of the wetland area of the zone. Appropriate Conservation and Sustainable approach were recommended, which include: Enforcement of environmental laws, cleansing of oil spill, restricting access to environmental resources and...

A 31 year old Libyan lady presented with left lower limb cramps & sole numbness 6 years ago which spontaneously cured within 1 week./INS; 4 months later she had the same symptoms & rece/INS;ived IV steroids, then she was put on injectable Interferon-beta. She was stable & relapse free till Jan 2010 when she had left lower limb weakness & rece/INS;ived IV steroids./INS; 10 months later she had left side body numbness & left lower limb weakness & rece/INS;ived IV steroids./INS; 3 months later...

A sensitive and reliable rapid diagnostic test (RDT) which should have comparable diagnostic performance against reference host serological methods is urgently needed for use in point-of-care (POC) diagnosis of intestinal schistosomiasis in pre school-aged children.The diagnostic accuracy of a RDT incorporating Schistosoma mansoni cercarial transformation fluid (SmCTF) for anti-schistosome antibody detection was evaluated with serum samples from a cohort of children from Uganda: 42 children...

This paper analyses the outcomes and challenges of the Community Education Teaching Assistants (CETAs) module, one of the modules of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) which the Government of Ghana (GoG) started implementing nationwide in 2006 as part of its poverty reduction programme. The paper draws on the livelihood framework for analysing how far the module provides a meaningful and or sustainable means of living, the very core objective of every livelihood. It draws on...

Clinician-performed point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is ideal for diagnostic use in resource-limited environments, but its use is often limited by lack of expertise among local physicians. A number of physician groups have established training courses aimed at bridging this knowledge gap, but little is known about the efficacy of these courses or about the long-term knowledge retention. This study evaluated the effectiveness and sustainability of a six-month POCUS training program coupled...

Globalization of science education in practice advances a narrow, Euro-American, positivist version of school science. From an educational perspective, culture plays a crucial role in pedagogical values, learning styles, and cognitive processing. One can recognize a strong desire to preserve diversity in response to the threat of loss of cultural identity in the face of globalization. In Finland and South Africa written essays were collected from 9th graders in comprehensive school. Students...

This article is based on the study that was conducted among tertiary teachers' colleges in Masvingo province in Zimbabwe to examine the challenges of integrating computer as an instructional teaching strategy. The study employed qualitative research methodology with in-depth interviews and observations providing the data elicited from respondents. The key findings of the study showed that lecturers and students held views that computers were not supposed to change everything in the education...

E-waste contains hazardous chemicals and materials that threaten the environment and human health, when improperly disposed. This study examined levels of awareness of e-waste disposal among university students in Ghana, and their proenvironmental decision-making using two outcome variables: knowledge on environmental impact and policy issues (EIPI) and environmental behavior and sustainability (EBS). Reliability estimates (Cronbach's alpha) for the two outcomes variables were 0.91 and 0.72,...