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There is growing interest in this country in developing training programmes suitable for overseas psychiatrists. The motive is partly one of self-interest. The implementation of current Government policy means that many departments will look to overseas visitors to fill their registrar positions in excess of their career registrar allocation.
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The National Disability Survey of Zimbabwe which was conducted by the Department of Social Welfare in conjunction with UNICEF from 19th October to 23rd December, 1981 revealed inter alia that: (a) Zimbabwe has a total of 276 300 people with severe disabilities of various types; (Government Printer, 1982, p.30) (b) Of those disabled people of or above school-going age,, 52% had never attended school; 17% had been to school for less than two years; 28% had been to school for up to seven years...
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The term ‘Ibadan School’ is used here in two senses, locational and generic, and refers to studies on, and students of, federal finance that have employed a distinctive approach. Some of the most dominant figures in this group are (or used to be) on the staff of the University of Ibadan, and when it was decided after independence in 1960 that Nigerians themselves should handle the recurrent problems of federal finance, the task fall on the laps of a number of western-trained, liberal, and orthodox economists.
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The views and knowledge level of 135 randomly selected secondary school teachers in the Abeokuta Local Government Area of Ogun State in Nigeria on drug abuse were sought through a self-report anonymous questionnaire. The respondents were mostly male (59.3%) under the age of thirty years (89.6%). The majority (59.3%) were never exposed to drug education as students while less than 20 percent have been exposed since qualifying as teachers. Although the majority had a good concept of the...
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The Oyo State in Nigeria a researcher collected information on the attitudes of 600 secondary school teachers and 120 administrators about health education in secondary schools. He randomly selected 20 schools each from rural areas medium sized towns and from Ibadan. In 1982 750 high schools operated in Oyo State with 3500 faculty who could teach health education and 1500 administrators. Even though neither the Government of Nigeria nor Oyo State required health instruction all of the...
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Competition is, in fact, so widely used as a motive for effort among children at home, in school and in informal educational groups that we should review any justification for it offered by literature. A number of srudies on the effect of competition with oneself and others as facilitator in the classroom upon effort and learning show that, whether in Nigeria or other countries, among preschool, grade school, secondary school or postsecondary school students competition and rivalry produce...
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Mali was affected by the drought across the Sahel in 1983-1985. The present study describes the demographic and nutritional status in the Timbuktu region in May 1985, and contributes to the little data available for Mali during this period; malnutrition rates are compared to two other drought affected areas in the Sahel. Sixty cluster samples were selected by proportional sampling methodology; thirty children less than 110 cm were selected in each cluster, to approximate children 'under 5...
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To Improve the AcademyVolume 9, Issue 1 p. 177-188 Section V: Diversity: Addressing the “…isms” of the '90s Reaching African-American Students in the Classroom Jonathan Collett, Jonathan Collett State University of New York/College at Old WestburySearch for more papers by this author Jonathan Collett, Jonathan Collett State University of New York/College at Old WestburySearch for more papers by this author First published: June 1990...
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Abstract The value of adult education in leading towards progress in the sub‐Saharan African States is stressed, and the media, as well as the role the media can play is investigated. Adult education can inform, teach, motivate, mobilize and persuade. But there are many obstacles, among which are funding, personnel, illiteracy and the heterogeneous languages in the area. Some strategies are then proposed for overcoming these problems.
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The structural links of non‐formal education to the world of work and graduate unemployment in Nigeria are examined. The role of government′s stop‐gap measures and the inadequacies of the formal educational institution are discussed. These policies resulted in the worsening of graduate unemployment, labour market segmentation and élite class formation, while only marginally increasing employment. Non‐formal education represented a more meaningful approach to solving graduate unemployment,...
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This is a report of the design of an early childhood education demonstration program whose goal is to facilitate the intellectual development and academic achievement and enhance the self-concepts of African-American preschool children. The features of the program are delineated. The research questions and the child development measures that are being used for longitudinal evaluation of the program are listed and described. Baseline data are reported for the first two phases of child testing.
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After yet another period of unrest and spreading resistance among the black majority, the Pretoria régime struck back in February 1988. Seventeen organisations that had manoeuvred precariously on the margins of legal toleration were summarily banned – that is, prohibited from ‘carrying on or performing any activities or act whatever’–many of their leaders were detained, while the survivors were harried underground.