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Salaries and the teaching profession in Zimbabwe: importance, desire and reality
(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC), University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1989-07)This article is based on a major research concerned with the recruitment and training of non-graduate secondary student teachers in 1985. Since that study, the author collected more information on the 'gjiobal perspectives’ ... -
SAPES Trust Research: Peace and Security in Post-Apartheid Southern Africa
(Institute of Development Studies Zimbabwe (ZIDS)., 1992)Currently, there are two schools of thought about the region in the post-apartheid era. The first one is an old thesis. It suggests that although SA would no longer pose a military threat as it did before De Klerk came to ... -
Savings Groups, Community Resilience Building and Social Protection in Hatcliffe, Harare
(University of Zimbabwe, 2019)The prevailing economic environment in Zimbabwe has given rise to intricate vagaries of an economic nature that have worsened the plight of poor households. It creates a need for appropriate social protection mechanisms ... -
School Counsellors’ Perceptions Of Headmasters’ Attitudes Towards Guidance And Counselling In Zimbabwe Secondary Schools
(Human Resources Research Centre (HRRC); University of Zimbabwe, 2005-03)The study sought to find out school counsellors’ perceptions of headmasters’ attitudes towards the guidance and counselling programme in Zimbabwe Secondary schools. Two hundred and six (N=206) school counsellors participated ... -
Schooling And The Drought In Zimbabwe: The Views And Reactions Of Primary School Senior Teachers
(Human Resources Research Centre (HRRC); University of Zimbabwe, 1993-07)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’ ... -
Science Assisted Medicine And The Future Of General Practice And Public Health
(Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University of Zimbabwe (formerly University College of Rhodesia), 1970-02)Our profession has been slow to recognize disease in society as a whole in contrast to its skill in caring for individual sickness. The cost of medical I and surgical treatment has risen from year to year and there is an ... -
Science Teachers' Cultural Beliefs And Conceptions Of the Nature of Science And Instruction
(Department of Teacher Education (DTE), University of Zimbabwe, 1997-09)This paper summarizes findings of a study which explored the relationship between science teachers’ orientation to traditional culture and their conceptions of the nature of science, science-technology related societal ... -
Secondary School Pupils’ And Teachers’ Perceptions Of Context-Led Teaching And Learning Of Science
(Department of Teacher Education (DTE), University of Zimbabwe, 2000-03)The study looked at some Zimbabwean students and teachers’ perceptions about the use of context based teaching / leaming. Questionnaires, teacher reflections and interviews were used to collect data from ten teachers and ... -
Secondary School Teachers' and Pupils' Views on the use of Mathematics Textbooks with Answers in Mazowe District
(Human Resources Research Centre (HRRC); University of Zimbabwe (UZ)., 2012-07)This study sought secondary school teachers'and pupils'views on the use of mathematics textbooks with answers. It was motivated by the observation that the majority of secondary school pupils in Mazowe district are not ... -
Secondary School Wood Technology Graduates: What have Industrialists to Say? : A Case Study of Furniture Manufacturing Industries in Southerton Heavy Industrial Area in Harare
(Human Resources Research Centre (HRRC); University of Zimbabwe (UZ)., 2011-07)This article describes the experiences of the researcher in a research conducted at three (3) Furniture Manufacturing companies in Harare. The research questions were: / • What skills do industrialists expect from secondary ... -
Security of Employment in the Public Service in Botswana: A Synopsis
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1996)The State has often been looked upon by individuals, private sector employers and employees alike as a model employer. The Employment Act governs employment relationships in Botswana yet the State is excluded from the ... -
Security sector reform: State security and human security relations in Zimbabwe - the case of Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) 1980-2008
(2017-03)This thesis examined the origins, concepts and practices of the security sector reform (SSR), as the independent variable, using state security (SS) and human security (SS) as the dependent variables for analysis. The ... -
Selected aims in teaching Geography at the Junior Secondary Level in Zimbabwe
(Geographical Association of Zimbabwe (GAZ), 1984-09)There are various factors that influence one’s thinking when it comes to the description of aims in teaching geography at school level. Firstly, there are changes in the curriculum at the secondary school level. These ... -
Selective Impairment in First Language with Preserved Second Language Articulation: A Case Study
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2001)In this article, we report the case of patient KK who, following cerebral infection, appears to have lost communicative ability in her first language but can communicate effectively in a second language. In experiments ... -
Self - And Supervisor-Appraisals Of Job Performance And Their Relationship With Role Clarity And Job Satisfaction.
(Human Resource Research Centre, (HRRC), University of Zimbabwe., 1992-07)This article reports on the findings of a study which investigated the nature of the relationships between various indices of job satisfaction, role clarity and job performance using the perceptions of a sample of teacher ... -
The self-image of adolescent street children in Harare.
(2012-09-14)The present study sought to explore the relationship between street childhood and adolescent self-image. In Zimbabwe, there has been a rise in street children population in the urban centres. The current study investigated ... -
Sentencing FIrst Offenders in Botswana
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1995)It is intended by this paper to explore among other things, the objectives of sentencing, the types of sentences, the determination of these types of sentences and what factors to consider in sentencing a first offender. ... -
Serum IgG Subclasses Levels In Paediatric Patients With Pneumonia
(Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University of Zimbabwe, 2001-06)Bacterial pneumonia is the commonest cause of morbidity and mortality in Zimbabwe.1 The children most at risk are those infected with HIV 2-4 We reported, in a recent study 2 that the great majority of children admitted ... -
Service Centres And Service Regions In The Magisterial Districts Of Inanda And Lower Tugela, Natal
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Setting the cat amongst the pigeons: jurisdiction of the Labour Court under the new Labour Act
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 2004)It was a great honour for me, to be invited, to give the inaugural lecture for the Kempton Makamure Labour Law Lecture Series. There is no doubt that the late Kempton Makamure touched in an irreversible manner, all those ...
