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L'A. presente l'education des jeunes enfants en Israel et etudie les differents facteurs (externes et internes au pays) qui ont favorise son developpement

Abstract Ninety-two Nigerian students and 114 Australian students completed Tempter's (1970) Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) and Feifel and Nagy's (1981) death fantasy measure of positive and negative death metaphors. They were each also asked to write his or her own metaphor of personal death. Results of the DAS showed that the two groups did not differ significantly on the level of conscious death anxiety, but Nigerian students' scores were significantly higher on both positive and negative...

The relationship between teacher competence and learner progress has been a subject of lively debate for several decades, particularly in the first world countries. This subject has also attracted widespread attention in Namibia, especially after independence because it has been suggested that teacher competence, particularly in former black schools is ineffective and encourages rote learning and little thinking. The national examination low pass rates continue to be an area of great...

The University Centre for Health Sciences (UCHS) or as it is referred to in French 'Centre Universitaire des Sciences de la Santé' (CUSS), became functional in 1969 with the enrollment of the first group of students. The objective of this training programme was to produce a scientifically sound, multipurpose doctor who would be fully operational in a rural setting with minimal equipment and supplies (Monekosso 1970, 1972). The graduate had to be able to adapt readily to new situations and...

This report presents the findings of a questionnaire survey carried out among a group of primary school senior teachers with at least 10 years teaching experience who attended an in-service course at Masvingo Teachers’ college in 1992. The survey sought their views about the effects of the drought on the demeanor, behavior and performance of pupils in their schools, and the measures, if any, which they had taken and would want Central Government to take to alleviate the problems their...

Summary Data from a study of teenage sexual activity among secondary school girls show the need for a sex education policy as a first step in controlling teenage fertility in Zambia. A large proportion of teenage females enter into close relationships with males at young ages and a high proportion of young females have engaged in sexual intercourse. Most of these sexually active females do not use family planning methods even though a large proportion of them have heard of modern methods....

In the midst of a massive expansion of the Botswana Education system at junior secondary level, the Integrated Science curriculum is seen as successful by senior Ministry officials and is in operation in the schools. A classroom observation study of the implementation of this science curriculum has, however, revealed large discrepancies from Ministry intentions. Teaching and learning in the schools is in a second language, English, which means the exchange of ideas is problematic for many...

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The effects of piperine, a major ingredient of black pepper, on UDP-glucose dehydrogenase (UDP-GDH) and glucuronidation potentials of rat and guinea pig liver and intestine were studied. Piperine caused a concentration-related strong inhibition of UDP-GDH (50% at 10 microM) reversibly and equipotently, in both tissues. Partially purified rat liver UDP-GDH was used to obtain the kinetic values at pH optima of 9.4 and 8.6. At pH 9.4: KmUDP-glucose = 15 microM, Vmax = 5.2 nmol NADH/min/mg...

Abstract This paper analyses the effects of family background on the academic achievement of secondary school pupils in Mozambique and uses measures of family background that are broader than some previous studies. Data on family background and academic achievement were collected from 829 Grade 6–11 pupils in six secondary schools in 1986. The findings suggest that class-based subcultures were becoming established in Mozambique and that family lifestyles, especially the use of Portuguese in...

An ophthalmic assessment survey of 430 students in Zimbabwe's two schools for the blind was conducted in 1988. Bilateral corneal opacity was found to be responsible for 75% of all blindness among institutionalised blind students. Thirteen per cent of the study patients could gain improved vision through either ocular surgical intervention or spectacle correction. Findings in this survey are similar to those from other schools for the blind elsewhere in Africa.

This paper examines contemporary thinking and understanding of the nature of science and science learning and attempts to show how this understanding can help African systems achieve their modem science and technology (S & T) education goals. A brief survey of traditional western science is given as a prelude to a discussion of current notions on the nature of science particularly aspects related to the relationship between observation and theory, methods of science and school practical...

A South African odyssey in community health: a memoir of the impact of the teachings of Sidney Kark. M SusserCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.83.7.1039 Published Online: October 07, 2011

The water level in an observation well in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) in a granite environment has been monitored for 13 years. The water level has been analyzed with a lumped-parameter rainfall-level hydrological model. The model simulates the aquifer level through a daily balance between the observed rainfall data and the estimated potential evapotranspiration and is calibrated by comparison with the observed levels. In 1988 the model was calibrated on the eight years data, when the...

The authors compare Black and White college student alcohol and other drug use. Significant differences were noted showing alcohol abuse to be less of a problem for Black students.

Discrete ash horizons in Holocene sediments from northern Lake Malawi provide evidence of six eruptive episodes within the nearby Rungwe Volcanic Field between c.9000-360 BP. Rare earth element (REE) analyses show the ash layers to be strongly enriched in La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Tb, Dy, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu, with low Eu/Eu∗ and high LaN/SmN values, relative to the surrounding muds. Mixing calculations suggest possible affinities between the Rungwe ash emissions and silicic volcanics from other...

Given the significance of female education for development, there is an enormous need for data across countries that can be used to inform policy discussions within and among individual countries. Nowhere, perhaps is this need greater than in sub - Saharan Africa (SSA) where female participation in education is inordinately low, and where disparities between females and males vary greatly among countries. This report responds in two ways to the need for statistics on female education. First,...