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South Africa's institutions of higher education have been accorded the responsibility of serving as catalyst in the process of knowledge production that is central to a country's success in the evolution towards globalisation. The need for increased numbers of skilled professionals in technology and business is one that ideally can be addressed within the technikon structure which allows for experiential learning to supplement the process of knowledge acquisition. Many institutions in South...
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South Africa is undergoing a number of changes, which has an effect on every aspect of society from the workplace to everyday life. South Africans need to reflect on this situation and determine how to proceed. The purpose of this article is to consider the development and implementation of information technology, one particular problem area, in this broader context. The article draws an analogy between the trade unionist systems development tradition in Scandinavia and the possible...
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This chapter reports on the results of the pilot project Water Pollution Control and Biodiversity Conservation in the Gulf of Guinea Large Marine Ecosystem (LME), funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). It is divided into three sections. The first section gives the results of an assessment of the socio-economic circumstances that are the root causes of the environmental pollution problems. The second section presents the results of the assessment of the state of pollution in the...
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FRICAN-AMERICAN and other minority students face negative cultural stereotypes that portray members of their ethnic groups as less intelligent than European-American students. These stereotypes are compounded by statistics suggesting that, on average, members of these ethnic minority groups score lower on achievement tests, have lower grade point averages, and attain lower levels of education than their European-American peers. Although one might anticipate that these negative stereotypes...
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The dawn of democracy in South Africa in 1994 necessitated innovations in education. An educational approach known as Outcomes-based Education (OBE) was introduced in 1998. Many changes will eventually also have to be made in the History classroom, as the new approach is characterised by a competency-based, interactive and learner-centred methodology. Closer scrutiny of the above educational innovation reveals the existence of a number of problems.The aim of this article is: Firstly, to...
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Imfundo was set up in May to consider ways in which ICT could be used in education, particularly teacher education, in developing countries with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. It has three objectives. First, the establishment of pilot initiatives to find out what the main issues are in using ICT for teacher training in the developing world. Then development of a ResourceBank, a repository for private sector commitment of project management skills and resources in kind or at cost; and the...