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Abstract An analysis of the various contraceptive methods practiced by a total of 462 student midwives from the Northern and Southern parts of Nigeria over a 3‐years period is presented. The differences in age distribution, the type of contraceptive agents used, the reasons for using them, and the side effects in the two groups are statistically significant. The need to provide acceptable contraceptive advice to the rural communities by the midwives is discussed.
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The importance of and preference for evaluating learning outcomes, using a wide variety of instruments and containing data from a wide variety of sources, rather than the use of one-shot and one-type examinations, have long been recognised worldwide; hence the Federal Government of Nigeria mandated, in 1982, the use of evaluations of this nature, referred to as continuous assessment, in Nigerian Schools. Several problems confronted its planning, and now its implementation. The authors of...
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It is explained how the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority bears responsibility for the ports of Ghana. The country's two seaports, Tema and Takoradi, are briefly described. The article then goes on to review the situation in Ghana with respect to the registration of seamen; the facilities and curriculum for the training of ships' officers; efforts to develop a ship repair industry; the Black Star Line, which is the national shipping line; ship inspection and detention; charts, notices to...
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Mention South Africa and it always arouses strong emotions and so a phone call from the British Council in 1985 inviting my husband and me to visit that country gave us a great deal to think about. Would we be supporting a detestable régime? Would we be safe? Would we be acceptable to the black community? How could we best help them? What could we hope to achieve? We decided to go and it proved to be the beginning of an interesting association with the British Council and black South African librarianship.
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This paper examines the prospects for achieving universal primary education in the Sub-Saharan African countries. The principal finding is that, under present conditions, a large number of these countries may not achieve universal primary education even by the year 2020. A move towards this goal will call for a level of national effort which some of these countries can ill afford. It also calls for a strong willingness to treat the high levels of recurrent unit costs as a major policy issue....
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Abstract The Visoke complex is one of the main Quaternary volcanic centres of the Virunga Range, located north of lake Kivu. Mineralogical (microprobe) data are given for two representative leucitite lavas; one sample contains a complex coarse-grained xenolith (phlogopite, diopside, leucite, titanomagnetite, perovskite and apatite) and megacrysts of pyroxene, phlogopite and olivine scattered in fine-grained leucite-rich host lava. Compared with the typical leucite-dominated, low-pressure...
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Clay mineralogy and chemistry of seven pedons developed in Quaternary volcanic ashes under different moisture regimes in northern Tanzania have been studied. Total carbon, nitrogen and acid-oxalate soluble aluminum contents of soils increased and pH (H2O, M-KCl), exchangeable basic cations and available phosphorus contents decreased with increasing mean annual rainfall. High contents of clays in soil samples (410–860 g/kg) are believed to indicate advanced stages of weathering. An...
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(1988). Missionary education in colonial Africa: the critique of Mary Kingsley. History of Education: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 283-294.
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On the Munro-Adams Love-Attitude Scale, 25 men and 25 women, enrolled at Makerere University, had nonsignificantly different scores despite their coming from different disciplines and subcultural groups. Scores were more moderate in this endorsement than were the American normative group.
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In 1981, the Egyptian government sought assistance from the World Bank's International Developmental Agency for the Cairo Univesity-IDA Third Education Project. The World Bank loan was designated for training faculty leaders capable of modernizing instruction at Cairo University and for equipping the faculties of agriculture and medicine with up-to-date scientific instruments, laboratory apparatus, and technology for the improvement of instruction. The project also supported a counterpart...