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Africa is relying on graduate research and education initiatives to produce the new crop of young scientists the continent needs to build its technical base.

Findings of this study conducted in 2007 revealed that the Botswana Institute of Administration and Commerce (BIAC) was not ready to train public officers on e-government due to a number of factors. These included leadership, technology, facilities and personnel. The researcher viewed the above factors as independent variables as they were appropriate at organisational level. Political will and policy issues were beyond the scope of the study as they were perceived to be national issues to be dealt with at government level.

The 12S rRNA gene was shown to be a hot spot for aminoglycoside-induced and non-syndromic hearing loss since several deafness-associated mtDNA mutations were identified in this gene. Among them, we distinguished the A1555G, the C1494T and the T1095C mutations and C-insertion or deletion at position 961. One hundred Tunisian patients with non-syndromic hearing loss and 100 hearing individuals were analysed in this study. A PCR-RFLP analysis with HaeIII restriction enzyme showed the presence...

Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education is one way Namibia combats HIV/AIDS. This exploratory study had two objectives: to investigate attitudes and perceptions towards sex education, and to see what purpose sex education serves in Namibia. To what extent do stakeholders support sex education in Namibia? What kind of obstacles exists to SRH education in Namibia? We believe that knowing how people perceive sex education is necessary for implementing and fine‐tuning SRH programmes....

The Band Aid Trust and Oxfam GB supported a basic education project in the Red Sea State of Sudan from October 2005 to September 2008. The project aimed to increase access to quality education for internally displaced and urban poor children, in eight slum areas in three administrative units. The main objective of this Final Evaluation is to assess the project's impact on beneficiaries and potential sustainability, to determine whether donors' requirements have been met, and to make recommendations.

Africa remains the world's poorest continent, with a majority of its about 900 million people living in abject poverty and misery. Several reasons account for this reality. Isaac N. Mazonde notes that one of the key ones is that education has not been relevant to the needs of the society. Since independence from colonialism,many African countries including Zambia have tried to expand education and to reform school curricula to foster national development. They have failed to achieve this...

Purpose To assess undergraduate radiography student perception of clinical placements and to evaluate their clinical learning experiences. Methods To evaluate student perception of clinical placements, a Likert-scale questionnaire was used to assess clinical practice, the practice-learning environment. One hundred and seventy-eight undergraduate [student] radiographers participated in the study. Results The students indicated they had adequate and enjoyed their time on the clinical...

The literature on service learning in geography courses has established and substantiated the importance and usefulness of such projects for student learning. In this paper the assumption is questioned that similar sets of benefits accrue to ‘community’ participants, those involved who are located outside the university context. The research undertaken demonstrates that projects, and the research or ‘service’ that they produce, are embedded in more complicated sociopolitical terrain that...

The study investigates the effect of propagation impairments such as rain, cloud, gases and tropospheric scintillation on fixed satellite communication link on earth-space path for frequencies between 10 and 50 GHz at Ku, Ka and V bands for 37 locations in Nigeria. Two standard elevation angles of 50, 550 as well as some elevation angles for links to recently launched Nigeria Communication Satellite, (NigComsat-1) were used in the computation of the propagation impairments for the 37...

The investigation was set out to study effective cultism management technique as perceived by academic staff, non-academic staff and students in higher education in Nigeria a case study of federal colleges of education in Nigeria. Five hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study made use of a an instrument known as the effective cultism management technique questionnaire (ECMTQ). The instrument had a reliability coefficient of 0.78. The instrument was administered on a total of...

The search for Nigerian-based content and methodology for music education has been one of the primary concerns of music educators in contemporary Nigeria. Debates and criticisms surrounding the existing curriculum are ongoing. A natural response to these criticisms is the suggestion of alternative solutions that aim to develop a Nigerian-based approach to music education. Such an approach places an acknowledgement of the cultural background of the learner as a necessary basis for music...

South Africa is not short of world-class policies and projects - the challenge is to effectively translate many more of them into reality. Our public institutions need to be strengthened and made to perform. This means better functioning state departments - including local authorities. We need to recognise the reality of a desperate skills shortage as well as the lack of organisational experience - and adapt our policy thinking and strategic planning accordingly. If we are looking for a role...

In 1998 the Government of Uganda (GoU) began implementing an ambitious reform programme called the Education Strategic Investment Plan (ESIP) in order to effect Universal Primary Education (UPE). This paper offers a perspective on how the GoU has met the challenge of financing education reform, addressed the need to improve the quality of basic education and increased access and equity while improving efficiency at primary and post-primary levels of education. The development model described...

This study examined the association between unwanted early sexual experiences (UESE) and sexual adjustment among 2,608 Belgian students (men = 1,017; women = 1,587) and 1,081 South African students (men = 335; women = 739) and the severity of the experience in its bothersomeness. Of Belgian women, 14.2% (226) reported UESE compared to 31.3% (231) of South African women; and of Belgian men 12.3% (125) indicated that they had an UESE compared to 56.4% (189) of South African men. Against...

Aims:To determine the prevalence of dental caries among intermediate and secondary school students 13-16 years old to determine the age and sex difference and to obtain data that can help in planning preventive dental health programs for school students in Yemen.Materials and Methods: A random sample of 512 intermediate school students,449 secondary school students were examined.Intermediate school student sample was divided into 3 age groups namely 13,14,15 and secondary school student...

This paper develops a Structural Ricardian model to measure climate change impacts that explicitly models the choice of farm type in African agriculture. This two stage model first estimates the type of farm chosen and then the conditional incomes of each farm type after removing selection biases. The results indicate that increases in temperature encourage farmers to adopt mixed farming and avoid specialized farms such as crop-only or livestock-only farms. Increases in precipitation...