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Public Administration and DevelopmentVolume 13, Issue 3 p. 261-270 Article Learning by doing: Developing a programme planning method in Morocco Marie-Héléne Collion, Marie-Héléne Collion Agriculture Division of the Sahel Department at the World Bank, 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433, USASearch for more papers by this authorAli Kissi, Ali Kissi Head of the Programming Division of INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), PO Box 415, Rabat R.P. MarokkoSearch for more...

Abstract The psychometric properties and correlates of the Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale (RWA Scale; Altemeyer, 1981) were investigated using a sample of White South African students (N = 217). Traditional measures of authoritarianism have performed particularly badly in such settings. The RWA scale was factorially unidimensional and highly reliable, and correlated powerfully with validity criteria of authoritarianism, such as civil liberties stance, anti-Black prejudice and...

Malawi's literacy rate for people aged 15 years and above is estimated at 48,3 percent. The high level of illiteracy impedes the exchange of information and so also socio‐economic development. The government of Malawi launched the functional literacy programme so that those without formal education could achieve numeracy and literacy and also education for socio‐economic development. The programme has failed to attract the youth, whose major concern is getting a job or self‐employment that...

Malawi's literacy rate for people aged 15 years and above is estimated at 48,3 percent. The high level of illiteracy impedes the exchange of information and so also socio‐economic development. The government of Malawi launched the functional literacy programme so that those without formal education could achieve numeracy and literacy and also education for socio‐economic development. The programme has failed to attract the youth, whose major concern is getting a job or self‐employment that...

This study concerns the leadership behavior of the deans of students in the four public universities of Kenya and their constituent colleges. Both the real and ideal versions of the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire and the demographic questionnaire developed under the auspices of faculty advisors were used to collect data from 10 deans of students, 55 student affairs staff members, and 130 student leaders--who constituted the sample of 195 who responded from the chosen population....

A major controversy in education in Papua New Guinea (FNG) has been the.choice of language for initial literacy education. It is now generally accepted by academics, education leaders, and politicians that this should be a language already spoken by the learner. Research suggests that this will contribute to better, not worse skills in English at a later point. However, another issue to be considered is the kind of language (formal or vernacular) to be taught. In early PNG colonial history,...

Digital data from a telemetered, short‐period seismic network in Morocco provide a new perspective for understanding the cause of severe shaking and macroseismic reports in Morocco produced by large, offshore earthquakes located along the Azores‐Gibraltar seismic zone. Even though the earthquake epicenters are 500–1000 km away from the Moroccan coast, historical records show that such events are capable of producing considerable damage in inland areas. We analyze 15 earthquakes that occurred...

This report compares and contrasts special education and least restrictive environment requirements for children with disabilities in Nigeria and the United States. The implementation of special education policies in both countries is discussed, including policies in the following areas: referral and identification, nondiscriminatory assessment, parental consent, procedural safeguards, least restrictive environment, and individualized education programming. Results of the comparison found...

This article presents social and private rates of return to four levels of education — primary, lower and upper secondary and higher education — in Zimbabwe in the late 1980s. The results of this research clearly indicate that rates of return to education in Zimbabwe do not conform to the common ROR patterns that have been widely observed in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world. The principal explanation for this is that labour market conditions for school leavers and university...

Despite the undoubted importance of university educated personnel, relatively little is known about what graduates from UZ have done once they have completed their studies. The university itself conducted a first destination survey of graduates in 1989 (University of Zimbabwe, 1990) but no comprehensive tracer surveys have been undertaken of graduates who have been in the labour market for at least a few years. This article summarises the findings of a tracer survey of two groups of UZ...

Abstract We used the feathers of seven species of birds from New Guinea highland forests to examine concentrations of heavy metals and selenium. We tested the null hypotheses that there were no species, food type, or elevation differences in the concentrations of mercury, lead, cadmium, selenium, chromium, and manganese in the feathers of adults. All species had nondetectable levels of mercury (< 10 ppb). There were significant species differences in cadmium, lead, chromium, selenium, and...

Journal Article THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA Get access TIMOTHY CURTIN TIMOTHY CURTIN Timothy Curtin has since 1988 been Investment Adviser, on secondment from Crown Agents to a World Bank Technical Assistance programme, in the Department of Finance and Planning, Government of Papua New Guinea. The second section of this paper draws on the writer's contribution ‘All Taxation is Graduate Taxation’ to the World Bank's Symposium on Higher Education (see Summaries, IBRD,...

Journal Article Drought-tolerant Cassava for Africa, Asia, and Latin America: Breeding projects work to stabilize productivity without increasing pressures on limited natural resources Get access Mabrouk A. El-Sharkawy Mabrouk A. El-Sharkawy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar BioScience, Volume 43, Issue 7, July/August 1993, Pages 441–451, https://doi.org/10.2307/1311903 Published: 01 August 1993

The present study assessed the growth problems in an indigenous African population of Nigerian urban public school children. The study population consisted of 1390 Nigerian children (predominantly Igbo), 718 boys and 672 girls, ages 4-10 years. Compared to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reference population, the Nigerian children had an excess prevalence of both short stature and underweight. The prevalence of short stature was 14.2% for the boys and 17.4% for the girls....

Ghana, a former British colony, has, since 1987, embarked on a massive programme of educational reform. With regard to music education, there seems to be a conflict of opinions and objectives; between those of the curriculum planners on one hand, and the music teachers on the other. This paper examines recent literature on this topic, together with current debates about how music is to function at the basic level in the new system.

A study of HIV infection among secondary school students was conducted in Djibouti in February 1990 during a national hepatitis survey. Serology was negative for HIV and syphilis among 294 students (ages 14 to 20 years) in spite of a dramatic increase of HIV seropositivity (as high as 41%), and a high level of syphilis positive serology (up to 46%) among adult high-risk groups such as street prostitutes. Results of a face-to-face interview of these pupils indicated that 64% had a basic...

This article describes a school-based support group attempting to meet the needs of African American parents in an urban area that has been depicted by the media and the parents themselves as unsafe. The group, called “Help! My kids are driving me crazy!” is open to parents, grandparents, and relatives with children attending the school being served. Empowerment theory, a key element in working with oppressed populations, is used to guide practice. Group theory and family therapy theory are...