Experience with and treatment of Africans in need of reconstructive surgery, including a number of cases at the Salisbury African hospital in the last two and a half years, indicates the need for Africans generally to be ...

This paper gives a critical analysis of the ‘0’ level mathematics syllabus for Zimbabwe. It argues that the present syllabus does not provide a balance between intuitive thinking and analytical thinking in Mathematics. It ...

The practice of tropical medicine in London tends to pose rather a different proposition from what it is popularly supposed to be. It does not take long for the consultant to recognise that the tropical side is just but ...

The study examined the influence of psychological and societal factors on students ’ performance in mathematics at Senior Secondary School Level in Ilorin metropolis of Kwara state. A simple random sampling technique was ...

The objective of this study was to find out if specializing in science significantly influenced proficiency in process skills approach to teaching of Environmental Science (ES) by trainee primary teachers. The sample ...

Three experiences as a geography student prompted the writing of this paper. The first was exposure to the general debate on the use and misuses of quantitative techniques within the discipline. The second was observing ...

This paper presents evidence obtained from a survey of forms two, three and four about the relationships of attitude towards self family and school with attitude toward science. Among secondary school students in Zimbabwe ...

The 'A' Level biology syllabus used in Zimbabwe has been reviewed at least twice since 1990. It now consists of Core and Option sections. Biodiversity as a concept now constitutes one of the five options. Analysis of option ...

This article reports on the findings of a survey of attitudes towards science of Grade 7, Form 2 and Form 4 pupils preparing to sit the November 1991 national examinations in Zimbabwe. Six hundred and twenty seven pupils ...

This study assessed gender differences of Zimbabwean A-level students’ perceptions about their actual and preferred biology laboratory environments in relation to cohesiveness, openness, integration between theory and ...