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Benchmarking curricula, learning programmes and research designs in our globalising, knowledge-intensive and technology-driven society remains a major challenge for higher learning institutions (HLIs). The prevailing trend is to benchmark curricula, learning programmes and research in higher education (HE) in terms of single disciplines, subjects and courses. This has led to the division of academia into separate faculties, departments and units. This article contests the conventional view...
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Review: Schweisfurth, Michele (2002). “Teachers, Democratisation and Educational Reform in Russia and South Africa”. Monographs in International Education. Series Editors: Colin Brock & Rosarii Griffin. Oxford: Symposium Books.
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Abstract This study sheds light on how a rich legacy of intergenerational, contextual knowing (indigenous environmental knowledge) was successively overlooked and marginalised, or was appropriated and re-orientated in developing scientific institutions, in eastern southern Africa. The Nguni case evidence reviewed, uncovers a somewhat blind appropriation and reorientation of environmental knowledge in the colonial administration and within emerging scientific institutions. It examines how...
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A Study to Identify the Factors that Inhibit High School Principals and Teachers from Pursuing Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Busia District in Kenya by Samuel O. Obaki This study sought to examine the factors that inhibited principals and teachers from pursuing bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Busia District in Kenya. Up to the mid1990s, teachers of all professional grades studied for National Examinations as private candidates. Those who met university admission requirements were...
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An audit of environmental education policies in southern Africa was carried out to determine the status of environmental education policy processes.This paper presents a summary of the results and considers some of the emergent issues for environmental education policy in the region. The audit was conducted under the auspices of the Southern African Development Community Regional Environmental Education Programme (SADC REEP) between October 2002 and March 2003. The research attempted to...
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The paper is a response to Persons with Disabilities Bill 2000 which is an attempt by the Kenyan Government top provide disabled people with enabling environment to achieve their full potential and protect them from undue discrimination. The term disability as used in the context of the bill is defined. Specific provisions in the bill that may have effect on the provision of library and information services to disabled students in Kenya are identified and interpretations given where...
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The paper looks at a prevailing problem in providing water and sanitation in developing countries. The number of people in developing countries relying upon untreated groundwater supplies for drinking purposes is rising. Increasing concurrently with the development of groundwater resources is the provision of on -site sanitation facilities. The study assessed the pollution levels of contamination associated with on-site sanitation in forty-five groundwater supplies. Seven hand-dug wells...
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This study focuses on computer-integrated education in public secondary schools in the Nyanza Province, Kenya with the aim to investigate how computers are used in schools and to provide evidence on the obstacles that inhibit effective implementation of computers in instruction and learning. It examines different government and school policies regarding the use of computers in the classroom against the background of the use of computers in teaching and learning in developed and developing...
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The Role of Higher Education Loans Board in pro-poor management approaches to enhancing access to University Education in Kenya