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This study examined the sexual behaviour of the university undergraduate students in Southwestern Nigeria. It investigated the influence of demograhic variables such as age, gender, religion and family background on the student sexual behaviour. The study is a survey. The population comprised the undergraduate students of three purposively selected universities in Southwestern Nigeria. From this a sample of 2106 students was selected by stratified random sampling technique. Sexual Behaviour...

AbstarctThe paper examines the concept of Vocationalism in Nigerian Education. In pursuance of this objective, the author takes a look at the historical background of vocational education in Nigeria, student enrolments, staff, and financial problems in vocational institutions in the country. The paper concludes with suggestions on how Nigeria can create technological value that will reflect on the concept of voationalism in Nigerian Education.

Extracted from text ... Perspectives in Education, Volume 24(1), March 2006 106 The psychology of adult learning in Africa: African perspectives on adult learning Thomas Fasokun, Anne Katahoire and Akpovire Oduaraan, 2005 Cape Town: Unesco and Pearson Education ISBN 92 820 1117 8 172pp REVIEWED BY RUKSANA OSMAN This co-authored book intends to provide adult educators in Africa with useful guidelines for implementing adult education programmes in a wide variety of organisational...

This paper uses OLS regression analysis to examine the effect of student characteristics on performance in Introductory Microeconomics at five South African universities. No consistent race-effects were found, but Indian students performed significantly worse than Whites at historically-White universities. Male students outperformed females in general. Older students did better at the historically-White institutions only. At one university, Black students who speak English as their home...

This paper demonstrates the importance of improving access to and equity in the provision of essential services such as education and health for enhancing human development. A major constraint to accelerating and sustaining economic growth in South Africa is the shortage of skilled human resources. Human capital formation (through appropriate education, training and health) is vital for growth. However, for sustained growth to reduce poverty and unemployment, human capital of a ‘higher...

Children are dropping out of school in large numbers in communities affected by HIV/AIDS, despite policies and programmes that are designed to support their continued attendance. Research carried out by Save the Children in South Africa and Swaziland concludes that factors influencing drop-out are poverty related, exacerbated by HIV/AIDS. These factors also play out in gendered ways. Interventions aimed at supporting the enrolment, participation and achievement of vulnerable children at...

This article explores some of the issues underpinning the development of a British Council funded Higher Education Link between the University of the Western Cape, South Africa and University College Chichester, England. The Link began in 1999 and finished in 2005. The focus of the Link was child protection. The initial emphasis was on developing national multidisciplinary child protection training programmes within South Africa. Latterly this has expanded to encompass the broader concept of...

Planum with measured shield volcano and lava flow locations. ERUPTION STYLES OF SMALL MARTIAN SHIELD VOLCANOES AND INDICATIONS OF POSTFLOW TECTONIC DEFORMATION ON SYRIA PLANUM, FROM MOLA, TES, AND THEMIS DATA. B. B. Schupack, S. E. H. Sakimoto, Department of Geology, Whitman College, 345 Boyer Ave., Walla Walla, WA 99362, schupabb@whitman.edu, Department of Civil Engineering and Geologic Sciences, University of Notre Dame, 156 Fitzpatrick Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, ssakimot@nd.edu.

Abstract This article explores colonial education as a site of interaction between French colonisers and elite Moroccan Muslims, from the beginning of the protectorate to the early 1930s. The French administration wished to implement an anti-assimilationist educational policy that would keep Moroccans rooted in traditional culture. However, this policy was challenged by Moroccan elites who hoped to minimise French influence over the traditional institutions of Moroccan society while...

Current debates on internationalisation are couched in relation to globalisation, and gives the impression that this phenomenon is new. There is also a tendency to discuss internationalisation in relation to various rationales, with economic rationales being dominant. This article challenges the assumption that internationalisation is something new and the notion that it is mainly driven by economic rationales. It argues that in colonial contexts, international education is as old as...

Using the principles of good practice in undergraduate education defined by Chickering and Gamson (1987, 1991), this study examined the role of institutional type in African-American students' experiences. Controlling for confounding influences, students attending historically Black colleges reported significantly greater levels of good practices in and out of the classroom with faculty and peers than did their counterparts at both research and regional institutions. Only one difference was...

The paper provides a comprehensive review of the major obstacles that hinder the participation of girls and women in higher education in Kenya. This is on the basis that their low participation in this level of education is a key constraint to the development of the country. While it is reckoned that girls' and women's education is inextricably linked with other facets of human development, the focus in the paper is on educational issues. Among the major obstacles identified include policy...

Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88), path analytic procedures were performed to test an ecological model of the effects of family- and individual-level characteristics on the academic achievement of African American students. The study results show that several of the family influence variables directly or indirectly affected 12th-grade academic achievement. Furthermore, most of the individual influence variables were directly related to 12th-grade...

We investigated the food consumption patterns of adolescent students at schools. Our findings are intended to reveal the overall nutritional quality of foods eaten by students at school, including foods brought to school and foods purchased at school. A questionnaire was completed by 476 students, mostly from grades 7 and 10, from 14 schools in Cape Town, South Africa. The schools were representative of the various ethnic groups and socioeconomic strata of the population. The questionnaire...

SUMMARY It is widely acknowledged that support for classical forestry education worldwide is declining and that new forestry-related programmes are developing. It is difficult to be precise about the fundamental causes of this situation as there are no direct cause-effect relationships, but it appears that there is a complex interplay of forces at global and local scales that make classical forestry education appear obsolete. Classical forestry education treated forests as distinct entities...

Abstract Recent observations show that human‐induced climate change (CC) and land transformation (LT) are threatening wildlife globally. Thus, there is a need to assess the sensitivity of wildlife on large spatial scales and evaluate whether national parks (NPs), a key conservation tools used to protect species, will meet their mandate under future CC and LT conditions. Here, we assess the sensitivity of 277 mammals at African scale to CC at 10′ resolution, using static LT assumptions in a...