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This study sought to find out the university students` motivations for enrolling for academic literacy courses at the University of Dar es Salaam. First year undergraduate students were taken as target population from which a sample of 567 students was picked. This report begins with the notion of motivation for learning a language, the it introduces the study in terms of respondents` profile after which it presents the students` option for Communication skills course, known as CL 106 (which...
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Objectives: To give information about hypertension prevalence and set cut-off points for anthropometric measures namely Body Mass Index(BMI),Waist Circumference(WC),Waist to hip ratio(WHR) and Waist to Height ratio(WtHR) and their relationship with blood pressure levels in students at National University of Rwanda(NUR). Methodology: This is cross-sectional study of the 118 students at NUR who participated voluntarily in 2008 hypertension study in Huye district.Height,weight,WC,hip...
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Emerging trends in reforms of education-sector plans indicate a shift not only in how foreign aid is disbursed, but also in how civil-society actors engage in new policy and advocacy roles. This contribution examines these changing civil-society roles in four countries: Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania. While sector-wide approaches have created new opportunities for civil-society participation at the national level, this research suggests that sector reforms have also presented...
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I employ the theories of Vygotsky and Piaget in analysing the modes of experimental task performance in order to elaborate on the role that cultural content plays in the development and functioning of the notions of possibility and necessity. I challenge the notion of cognitive lag that has hitherto pervaded explanations of the development of subjects from non-industrialised, diverse socio-cultural settings. A Piagetian experimental task, comprising half circles of contrasting colours, is...
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This paper provides an analysis of the extent of integration at a historically advantaged school. A qualitative multi-method case study allowed for in-depth analysis of integration in the school. Bernstein's theory of code, classification, boundary and power framed the study. Data analysis showed that : racial desegregation was achieved at student and level one staff level and lacking at management and administrative staff level; staffing integration was minimal; institutional culture...
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The purpose for this study was to examine the usefulness of Human Resource Management in the administration of secondary schools in Nigeria. To guide the investigation the researcher raised research question and formulated one hypothesis in the study. A sample of fifty-six schools was selected from a total population of 278 schools in the Delta North Senatorial District through the stratified random sampling technique. In these fifty – six schools, there was a total of 5,315 staff from which...
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This study investigated the extent to which pupils have access to academic advising and counselling in South East public primary schools in Nigeria.The subjects for the study comprise 1768 counsellors drawn from all the Public Primary Schools in the five states that constituted the South East, Nigeria.The instrument was validated by two experts in Guidance and Counselling one from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka and another one from Ebonyi State University, Abakiliki all in Nigeria.A...
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Stress levels of residency are under-reported in Nigeria despite the importance of well-being during residency training. We investigated the level of perceived stress, intimidation/harassment, mental health and well being among resident doctors.This was a cross sectional questionnaire survey of all residents in training in a Nigerian teaching hospital located in south western part ofNigeria.The response rate was 80.6% (58 out of 72). Forty three (74.1%) of the respondents were males. The...
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The Kenyan government introduced free primary education in 2003 in order to universalise access to primary education. Although the policy allows universal coverage, it ought to benefit the poor most as they are the ones who were excluded from the education sector before the policy was introduced. Using household-survey data collected in Nairobi, this contribution assesses the impact of the policy on schooling outcomes of the poor. The findings reveal that the free primary-education policy in...
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Confl icts in Africa bear certain unique characteristics predominantly embedded in their root causes, intensity, duration (often too long), escalation and their propensity to spill over to neighboring states. Although the recent creation of the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) led to concerted efforts by African states to search for peace on the continent, the commitment of African people to mitigate their own confl icts is not a recent endeavour: the continent has been...