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The World Bank is one of the most dominant influences in higher education policy in Sub Saharan Africa. Throughout the 1990s, the Bank consistently asserted that a reduced role of the state in providing and organising educational services, and a greater reliance on pricing systems in the allocation of those services would have a positive effect on both equity and efficiency in higher education. Critics of this approach countered that the Bank's neo-liberal framework was inappropriate to the...
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Abstract To date, the possibilities for African countries to use information and communication technologies to respond to the challenges and the demand of higher education have been limited. An assessment and analysis of the development, state, and usage of telecommunications in Africa constitute in fact an indication of Africa's overall marginalization in the global system. Communication technologies do not operate independently of the global economic system, which is characterized by...
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T waves recorded at hydrophone and seismic stations following the Papua New Guinea earthquake of 17 July 1998 and its aftershocks show that a small event at 09:02 GMT featured source properties incompatible with an elastic dislocation of appropriate body-wave magnitude (m b = 4.4). These include an exceptional duration (47 s at the Wake Island hydrophone station WK31), a spectrum rich in high frequencies (7 to 12 Hz), and a generally low spectral amplitude. These characteristics can be...
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Throughout history and the significant part of the world, education is highly placed on the social basis as a means to reasonable life. The esteem of the education however reduces when it is the special learners being considered, especially so the mentally retarded learners. This paper is a discussion of research findings for a case study that was conducted in a certain school of the mentally retarded In Kenya (Referred to as special school for the mentally handicapped in this paper). Data...
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The present study seeks to examine attitudes to teaching and learning among jalis in the Gambia. Although this is the main focus, the horizon of which the study is carried out, analysed and discussed, is the development of music teacher education in Sweden during the last three decades, and of which I have been a participant. The intention of the study is to expand current views on music teaching and learning so that teachers will be better equipped to work and function in a multicultural...
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Teaching online internationally can be an exciting and frustrating experience. This paper reports on a trans-Atlantic experience between a lecturer at the University of Georgia and her students at the University of Botswana. The author uses an auto-ethnographic method to discuss her classroom teaching experiences in Botswana and how they influenced her course design, teaching style, and types of student learning experiences she wanted for her students. She also discusses student expectations...
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The efforts of Konkomba western-educated leaders, beginning in the 1950s, to establish political unity and development among Konkombas in order to achieve greater political autonomy and viability were a continuation of the more disparate Konkomba challenges to Dagomba authority during the 1930s and 40s.1 This small but growing group of teachers and government clerks helped to establish self-help initiatives within Konkomba communities that included farming cooperatives, ending inter-clan...
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Private outlets are the main suppliers of uncomplicated malaria treatment in Africa. However, they are so numerous that they are difficult for governments to influence and regulate. This study's objective was to evaluate a low-cost outreach education (vendor-to-vendor) programme to improve the private sector's compliance with malaria guidelines in Bungoma district, Kenya. The cornerstone of the programme was the district's training of 73 wholesalers who were equipped with customized job aids...
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Background: Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a serious problem affecting a woman's health. It affects educated women more that non-educated women. Although it has been widely studied in many countries, little, if any, is known about PMS in Ethiopia. Objective: the main aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of PMS and its effect on the academic and social performances of students of Jimma University (JU). Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 242 randomly selected...
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This study examines irrigation practices, state intervention and the responses of farmers in the Tigray region of Ethiopia . Although governments have been involved in the construction of irrigation infrastructures since the mid-1980s to mitigate drought and famine in many parts of Ethiopia , the responses of irrigators to such interventions have never been studied. The main concern of this study therefore is to document how irrigation intervention interfaces with the life-worlds of...
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Autonomy involves more or less the right of the responsible administrative officers, management and presidents to govern the institutes free of outside control. The concept of autonomy implies, in addition to the latitude required for administrative action required by executives, the freedom of the academic departments of the colleges and the research institutes within the institutions to make most of the decisions of academic and professional management. Recent developments in Lesotho...