...as for students with disabilities; discuss academic opinions on the successes and challenges in educational language policy application in Namibia; compare current and alternative policy options critically. 6.1 Paraphrase the language policy for schools with specific reference to the medium of instruction, languages as subjects, phase implementation per phase as well as for students with disabilities. 6.1.1 The History of the National Language Policy Read the information out of Toward Education for all: Gamsberg Macmillan MEC, (1993): I. CRITERIA FOR LANGUAGE POLICY FORMULATION Language policy formulation in a multilingual society is a difficult task. What is required is a fair balance between the abilities of individuals to choose their medium of communication and the public interest in a common language to facilitate citizen participation and decision making in a democratic society. The Ministry has been guided by the following understandings to develop a language policy for schools in Namibia: • All national languages are equal regardless of the number of speakers or the level of development of a particular language. All language policies must regard language as a medium of cultural transmission For pedagogical reasons it is ideal for children to study through their own language during the early years of schooling when basic skills of reading, writing, and concept formation are developed. Proficiency in the official language at the end of the 7-year primary cycle should...
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...INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MANAGEMEMENT ASSIGNMENT 2 Question 1 When the Mexico’s currency is pegged to the United States dollar, it means that the exchange rate is set and artificially maintained by the government. The rate will not fluctuate from day to day. The pegged exchange rate is usually used to stabilize the value of a currency against the currency it is pegged to which makes trade and investments between the two currency areas easier and more predictable. Pegged exchange rate system can also be used as a means to control inflation. The difference between a free/clean float, a managed float and fixed exchange rate systems of exchange rate is that: Clean/free float In the clean/free float also known as a pure exchange rate the value of a currency, which is the exchange rate is determined purely by market forces of supply and demand. Clean floats can only exist where there is no government interference, as would be the case in a purely capitalistic economy. Therefore, clean floats are a result of Laissez-Faire or free market economies. Managed float In a managed float also known as “dirty float” the government or the country's central bank occasionally intervenes to change the direction of the value of the country's currency. In most instances, the intervention aspect of a dirty float system is meant to act as a buffer against an external economic shock before its effects become truly disruptive to the domestic economy. Therefore, with a managed or dirty float the government...
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...Phase 2 Research Country Selection Matrix: A Tool to Prioritize Geographic Focus IKATU is GUARANI for “Yes I Can ” Ikatu International is attempting to create employment opportunities for the world’s youth population. We are identifying gaps within current youth employment efforts, strategically modeling and implementing solutions that leverage our blended value experience (economic, social, and environmental), and creating significant impact measurements that drive dialogue on transparency and accountability. Ikatu International aspires to enable self sufficiency, teach life and social skills, and create building blocks for future generations by connecting youth to economic opportunity. Ikatu is Guarani for “Yes I Can”, a translation that speaks to both our organization and the belief systems we hope to cultivate. We would like to inspire personal dignity, realized opportunity, and leadership within young adults who have been underexposed by circumstance. Giving back to the community through smart business can stimulate positive change regardless of economic, political, religious and social context. At Ikatu International, we believe in endless possibilities and the power of “Yes I Can”. Country Selection Matrix: A Tool to Prioritize Geographic Focus Revised Report August 2010 Ikatu International The original report was authored by Meghan Corroon and Elizabeth Stewart from Causemopolis in January, 2009. INTRODUCTION The Country Matrix analysis is a reference document...
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...Copyright Copyright© 2013 University of Namibia. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publishers. Edited and Published by the Unit for Professional Development University of Namibia, Windhoek Date next revision: 2018 Unit for Continuing Professional Development University of Namibia Private Bag 13245 Pioneers Park Windhoek Namibia Tel: +264 61 206 4671 Fax: +264 61 206 3521 E-mail: cpd@unam.na Website: www.unam.cpd.na Acknowledgements The Unit for Continuing Professional Development wishes to thank those below for their contribution to this support guide: Ms Alina Hambelela Angula Mr Simson Shaakumeni Ms. Laetitia Willemse Ms. Agatha Lewin Mr Simson Shaakumeni Author Content Editor(s) Instructional Designer Technical Care of Template Quality Controller Water Contents About this support guide 1 How this support guide is structured ................................................................................. 1 Course overview 3 Welcome to Water (Natural Science and Health Education) ............................................ 3 Water (Natural Science and Health Education)—is this course for you? ......................... 3 Study skills ........................................................................................................................
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...500 employees, whereas some use this word for those businesses that have more than 500 workforces. However, some use the word “Big Businesses” for the organizations that have more than 500 employees. If we look at the middle east, it can be easy to see that there are numerous differences in which a regional can be taken into an account. It is also widely understood that the SMEs are the very important part of the economic fabric and they also play a major role in the growth of the economy. In most of the economies the SMEs represents an employment of around 60% to 70% and the GDP of more than 50%. In Abu Dhabi they represent almost 25% of all the private organizations. 1.2 DUBAI SME: Founded In 2002, the department of economic Development (DED) was being created as an combined...
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...Case study De Beers- An Ethical Idealism “At De Beers there has always been a clear recognition that, while our primary purpose as a business shapes what it is that we do, it is how we work that defines who we are.” -Nicky Oppenheimer Executive Chairman, De Beers Introduction For generations, diamonds have been marketed as tokens of power and love. For some however, diamonds have a more utilitarian appeal. Easily concealed, immensely valuable and largely untraceable, stones from rebel-held mines have raised billions of dollars on world markets to finance revolution in Angola, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). For years these "conflict diamonds" have encourage rebel leaders to arm and equip their armies in violation of UN weapons and financial sanctions. Diamond monopoly De Beers is notable for its monopolistic practices throughout the 20th century, whereby it used its dominant position to control the international diamond market. The company used several techniques to exercise this manipulation over the market: Firstly, it persuade independent producers to join its single channel monopoly, it flooded the market with diamonds similar to those of producers who refused to join the cartel, and lastly, it purchased and stockpiled diamonds produced by other manufacturers in order to price control through supply. In 2000, the De Beers forced to change the model, due to certain unavoidable factors such as the decision by producers in Russia,...
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...Question no 02: Examine the national achievements of Bangladesh by contributing peacekeeping operation across the world. Course name: UNO and World Peace Course code: 223 Student’s details: Bayjid Mahmud Sagar 7th batch & 6th semester Class roll: AF 103 CGPA 3.55 Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Dhaka. Introduction Forty three years after independence, Bangladesh has been identified as one of the next 11 emerging economies. In this financial year alone, its economy is expected to grow by six percent. Not only in economies it has established as well reputed in many sector. Now Bangladesh people working in united peace with dignity. Bangladesh is devoted and focused on the standards cherished in the UN Charter, the peaceful settlement of global debate. Bangladesh Forces have been joining in the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO) around the globe for over two decades. At this time activities of Bangladeshi peacekeepers are apparent in all the troubled ranges of the world, beginning from Haiti to East Timor from Lebanon to DR Congo. They had been all over the place and are resolved to remain so in the days to come and gained the certifications of a ‘Role Model’ in worldwide. About Peacekeeping Generally Peacekeeping refers to the active maintenance of a truce between nations or communities, especially by an international military force. Broadly refers to the deployment of national or, more commonly, multinational forces for the purpose...
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...Economic Commission for Africa The Millennium Development Goals in Africa: Progress and Challenges Economic Commission for Africa The Millennium Development Goals in Africa: Progress and Challenges August 2005 © 2005. Economic Commission for Africa Material from this publication may be freely quoted or reprinted. Acknowledgment is requested, together with a copy of the publication. The views expressed are those of the original authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the United Nations. Project coordinator: Adrian Gauci Editorial coordination: Cristina Müller Team: Abebe Shimeles, Workie Mitiku, Vanessa Steinmayer, Reto Thoenen This report was produced with guidance and input from Augustin Fosu, Director of the Economic and Social Policy Division of the ECA. It benefited greatly from the revisions of Bartholomew Armah and Kwabia Boateng. Special thanks to Lorna Davidson for the final editing, to Akwe Amosu for her valuable input, and to Seifu Dagnachew and Teshome Yohannes for creative and efficient lay-out and production. The report was designed by the ECA Communication Team and printed by the Documents Reproduction and Distribution Unit, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo credits (left to right): Front cover- R. Zurba/USAID, J. Dunlop/USAID, R. Zurba/USAID, M. Crozet/ILO. Back cover- J. Maillard/ILO, T. Brunette/USAID, I. Getachew/UNICEF. Table of Contents Acronyms .....................................................................
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...LANGUAGE CENTRE UNIVERSITY OF NAMIBIA 2012 - 2016 COURSE TITLE: ENGLISH FOR GENERAL COMMUNICATION CURSE CODE: ULEG 2410 NQF LEVEL: 4 NOTIONAL HOURS: 160 CONTACT HOURS: 112 CREDITS: 16 PRE-REQUISITE: D IN ENGLISH AT NSSC/Equivalent OPTIONS: COMPULSORY SEMESTER OFFERED: FIRST AND SECOND (YEAR COURSE) Course Aims: This course aims to: * Cater for the language needs of the students, who are enrolled for Diploma programmes, and those who are deemed academically fit to enroll for Degree course but have obtained a D in English. * Emphasis on both grammatical rules and the four communicative skills, namely reading, writing, listening and speaking. The students will be faced with the task of studying in a new academic environment and in a language, which may not be their first language or language of instruction. * Serve as an introduction to university, where styles of teaching and learning differ from those at secondary schools as they place more responsibility on the student. * Focus on the skills which the students might need throughout their academic career and beyond. Exit learning outcomes By the end of this course, students should have developed the ability to express themselves fluently and accurately in spoken and written English in the context of university studies and the work environment, by: * Demonstrating understanding of language in print * Knowing how to use a dictionary for vocabulary...
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...Nigora Raufova Psych 150 “Babies” Reaction Paper The film is showing four beautiful babies: Ponijao from Namibia, Mari from Tokyo, Bayar from Mongolia and Hattie from San Francisco. All four babies are surrounded by different macrosystems but display similar developmental patterns regardless of their upbringing. All these children still must go through the same developmental milestones. In the first year of life babies undergo dramatic changes, many of these are observed in this film. All four babies are living in their own microsystems, each very different from one another. Ponijao has a big family consisting of several siblings, Bayar lives with his parents and a brother, and Mari and Hattie are the only children for their parents, which is a typical situation in developed countries. We see the babies going through the Sensorimotor Stages as soon as they were born, they all were breastfed, which is a sign that they had sucking reflexes that are connected with rooting reflex and breastfeeding. There was an episode where Babinski reflex shown: Mari was sitting in her highchair and a family cat playing with baby’s feet. I noticed that Mari had all possible toys to help her to develop mentally and physically, but she also can be seen playing with CDs and cellphones. On the other hand Ponijao was happy to play with sticks, stones beads and a plastic bottle. I saw Bayar unrolling toilet paper and feeling very happy when he finally got to its base, which he immediately put...
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...CHALLENGES OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT IN NURSING INTRODUCTION An effective employee is a combination of a good skill set and a productive work environment. Many factors affect employee performance that managers need to be aware of and should work to improve at all times. These include a lack of recognition of employees who are performing well, quality performance outcomes and an absence of a formal performance management system and poor working conditions (Awases, Bezuidenhout & Roos, 2013). Over the last 20 years, a number of strategies aimed at improving the job performance of health workers have been implemented in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) (Marchal et al. 2012). Each strategy has had its specific perspective and focused on one particular issue: quality improvement, performance management, building learning organisations, innovation diffusion, to mention but a few (Chopra et al. 2008). While success has been reported in some cases, there is increasing acknowledgement that to improve performance of health workers especially nurses and health care organisations in general, approaches that deal with one problem, mostly fall short or obtain only short-term results (Marchal et al. 2010). The concern about shortage of nurses and it potential effect on quality of nursing care rendered as well as the mounted public urge on quality and excellent performance in the health sector mandates the Human Resource Management as part of their core function to ensure that an...
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...differences in each of their living conditions whether in a big house in the city to small hut in the desert I believe both a culture and economic state because home is where the heart is and it not based on what society depicts is the correct way of what home is. Culture plays a part on what life a child will have and grow up to be based on the beliefs and morals of any particular surrounding. Each country depicted in the film has an economic built on what is expected of parents who bring children into this world; In Tokyo and San Francisco because they live in a city where their governments are thriving the parents are expected to raise their child with a better quality of life based on their resources. But based on the economic state of Namibia, one of the poorest country’s in the world, they find a way to make due...
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...2014 Young Freight Forwarder of the Year Award Competition Multimodal Transport Operations in Practice: Radioactives and Abnormals From and to South Africa Submitted 29th April 2014 | Page | 1 TABLE OF CONTENT 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................................................................. 4 2 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................................ 5 3 INTERNATIONAL TRADE CYCLE – RADIOACTIVE EXPORTS TO NAMIBIA ........................................................................ 7 3.1 3.2 SELLER CONFIRMS ORDER.................................................................................................................................................. 7 3.3 BUYER ARRANGES FINANCE ............................................................................................................................................... 7 3.4 BUYER INFORMS FORWARDER OF ORDER.............................................................................................................................. 7 3.5 FORWARDER LIAISES WITH SUPPLIER FOR SHIPMENT ARRANGEMENTS ........................................................................................ 8 3.6 ORIGIN INLAND....................................................................
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...CAREER GUIDE TO THE LEGAL PROFESSION INDEX Page 1 THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN SOUTH AFRICA.......................2 2 THE LEGAL PROFESSION ...............................................................................5 3 THE ATTORNEYS’ PROFESSION...................................................................7 4 ADMISSION OF ATTORNEYS / SOLICITORS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES ...........................................................................15 5 THE ADVOCATES' PROFESSION .................................................................19 6 THE LEGAL ADVISER ....................................................................................21 7 CAREERS OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ...................22 8. ANNEXURE ‘A’ ................................................................................................29 1. THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN SOUTH AFRICA The legal administration, i.e. those persons and institutions involved in the application and execution of the law and the judgments of the Court, is no less essential to the administration of justice than is the law, and is as much part of our legal heritage as the law itself.1 The legal administration in South Africa is comprised of: 1.1. The Courts: i) ii) iii) iv) v) vi) vii) viii) ix) x) xi) xii) xiii) xiv) Constitutional Court; Supreme Court of Appeal; High Court; Labour Appeal Court; Labour Court; Land Claims Court; Special...
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...Urban Upbringing Social themes can differ greatly between culture, ways of communication, social status and even geographical locations. Behaviors amongst human beings can be influenced based upon their surroundings, financial statuses and cultural practices. In the movie “BABIES” directed by Thomas Balms (2009), the examination of child upbringing is perceived through the viewer’s eyes, as the program depicts how children develop based on their different social themes and financial classes. Depending on your geographical location and your financial class, a parent’s view on the “norm” of child upbringing can differ dramatically. This movie introduces a baby girl named Panijeo, and her mother in the village of Opuwo, located in the city Namibia, Africa. In this village where urban resources are nowhere to be found, mothers spend their days with their children making paint, jewelry and cooking. This village lives in huts made of sticks with mud roofs, and men ride donkeys as means of transportation. Panijeo is shown, living in her normal environment, playing with big stones and smashing a chalk-like substance into powder. This is just another way Panijeo is learning to imitate her mother, who also smashes a red chalk like substance to create red skin paint. In a life away from an urban environment, Panijeo is learning through playing, what she will be responsible for when she reaches a mature age. Panijeo is breastfed, while she straddles her mother’s leg. Flys touch down onto...
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