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Over the past fifty years, studies in developing coxntries have attempted to document the loss of literacy and numeracy skills suffered by dropouts from primary schools. These studies all have employed a crosssectional sample design and have affirmed that dropouts suffer a rapid and substantial loss of basic skills during the first few years from school. A related hypothesis suggests the existence of a permanency for basic skills within the range of primary grades. Once the threshold level...
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This paper surveys the literature on the returns to education in Sub-Saharan Africa. Income and/or output differentials in the urban formal and informal sectors and in agriculture are first described and the implications for rate of return patterns discussed. This is followed by a discussion of aspects of education-migration relationships. Next, survey results of the effects of education on fertility, infant mortality and nutrition are presented and competing sets of implications...
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Special education is a new phenomenon in the Nigerian education system; and the federal, state and local governments have made efforts to educate the handicapped Lnd the gifted in the society. However, there are short and long term changes that are pragmatically needed to bring the efforts into reality. This paper focuses briefly on the present state of education in Nigeria, and vividly describes the cultural, socio-economi_ and political influences on special education. Appropriate...
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The inshore areas of Tabarka and Bizerte are not submitted to the bacterian pollution. The "Old Port" of Bizerte is mainly contaminated all the year round and sometimes polluted the neighbouring urban beach. The lagoon of Bizerte presents any bacterian pollution and could be adapted to the conchyliculture and to the stabulation of Bivalves, with before some important precautions.
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WABBED SPECIMENS from the following ana tomical sites - skin, nasal, oral, rectal and vaginal were examined for their concentration of Candida albicans and the relationship of each count to the anatomical sites, microscopy results, Polymorphonuclear leukocytes concentrations and candidiasis. A total of 1,000 specimens were analysed by wet mount, microscopy, and culture from undergraduate female students whose ages ranged between 18 and 30 years. It was observed that 45.5% of the total...
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It is an article of faith in many African countries that education is not only a principle motor for development, but also an important instrument in assuring a more equitable distribution of wealth. In the eyes of policy-makers and the public at large, education and training permit a new generation to develop its talents and acquire the characteristics with which to find a well-deserved niche in the employment structure and thus contribute to the country's development. A central focus is on...
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Late Pleistocene to Recent potassic, silica-undersaturated volcanics from the Karisimbi volcano (Virunga region, Western African Rift Valley, Rwanda and Zaire), have been analyzed for major and trace elements and Sr and Nd isotopic composition. The most primitive mafic lavas show considerable isotopic heterogeneity. Two different parental magmas can be recognized: a first one represented by ankaramitic and picritic K-basanites, a second one represented by K-basanites from which the Karisimbi...
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The problem with which this study is concerned is the teacher evaluation system in the state of Anambra, Nigeria. The purposes of this study are (a) to provide objective information concerning the perceptions of school administrators and teachers toward the teacher evaluation system in the State of Anambra, Nigeria, (b) to determine whether agreements or differences exist between teachers' and administrators' perceptions of the teacher evaluation system, and (c) to draw conclusions and make...
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Singapore Journal of Tropical GeographyVolume 7, Issue 2 p. 108-127 THE 1981–1983 DROUGHT IN GHANA E. Ofori-Sarpong B.A., M.A., Ph.D., M. Phil., E. Ofori-Sarpong B.A., M.A., Ph.D., M. Phil. University of SokotoSearch for more papers by this author E. Ofori-Sarpong B.A., M.A., Ph.D., M. Phil., E. Ofori-Sarpong B.A., M.A., Ph.D., M. Phil. University of SokotoSearch for more papers by this author First published: December 1986 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9493.1986.tb00176.xCitations:...