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The mandatory requirement for admission into the first year degree programmes for all Nigeria universities and tertiary institutions are the combination of: Secondary School Certificate (SSCE) or equivalentand Universal tertiary matriculation examination (UTME). The validity of these examinations have been subjected to scrutiny because of the poor performance of many of the students at their final year examinations. Hence most universitieshad introduced the Post UTME examinations to further assess their prospective students.Afe Babalola is one of them. There exist varied findings on the relationship of the various entry qualifications in the universities with students' final year performances. This work examined the academic admission scores of; SSCE, UTME, PUTME and WAITAV as predictors for the performance of the pioneer graduating students. Descriptive statistics, scatter plot, bi-variate correlation matrix and regression analysis were employed using the SPSS V 16 software. The SSCE, PUTME, WGHT and gender had positive significant correlation values of 0.183, 0.132 0.115 and 0.10 respectively with performance. The female performed better. Age and UTME had negative correlation. Since UTME is a bad predictor, yet a government compulsory requirement for admission, universities should continue to combine the UTME and PUTME but assign less weight to the UTME value in the computation WGHTAV. The managers of the UTME must reevaluate the reliability and integrity of the examination.

China has been at the forefront of the recent global expansion of renewable energy (RE) activity. This study examines how the country has achieved its position as the world's largest producer and exporter of RE products, and biggest power generator from renewables. More specifically, it explores the main motives driving RE development in China, how this is embedded in broader new development thinking on realising 'ecological civilization' goals, evolving government policies on strategic planning on renewables and the complex multi-layered landscape of China's RE business where various types of state-owned enterprises collaborate and compete among each other alongside a now large number of private companies, especially in equipment manufacturing.

Risk is big business. It has assumed almost universal acceptance as an ever-present reality of life, something out there waiting to cause harm (most notably to political, economic and health systems). It commands vast resources to develop preventative measures that are the preserve of experts issuing often contradictory advice and warnings. Children's play is caught up in this account. No longer something that children just do, it is subject to adult scrutiny that simultaneously and paradoxically attempts to manage risk and promote "risk-taking" for its perceived instrumental benefits, primarily the development of risk assessing skills. Adults thus guide children's play, rendering children passive and needy recipients of expertise. This article takes a broader perspective to consider how this contemporary understanding of risk plays out in material discursive practices in relation to childhood, play, health and wellbeing. It then draws on conceptual tools of relationality, materiality and performativity to reconfigure playing as an emergent co-production of entangled bodies, affects, objects, space and histories in ways that make life better for the time of playing. Such moments produce health-affirming potential as an intra-dependent phenomenon rather than an individual achievement. Finally, it considers implications for "health promotion" and health enabling environments.

Im Mai 2014 wurde die Staatspräsidentin Malawis, Joyce Banda, abgewählt; die Wahlen verliefen friedlich. In ihrer Amtszeit engagierte sie sich für mehr Transparenz und gegen Korruption, war aber auch selbst von Skandalen betroffen. Die Unzufriedenheit in der Bevölkerung wuchs, es gab immer wieder massive Proteste. Dennoch kam es nie zu einem gewaltsamen Konflikt. Analyse Subsahara-Afrika ist der Kontinent mit den meisten inner- und nichtstaatlichen Kriegen. Gleichwohl gibt es einige Länder, für die dieser allgemeine Trend nicht gilt und die trotz ähnlicher politischer, wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Ausgangsbedingungen nicht von organisierter Gewalt betroffen sind, die sogenannten "Friedensinseln". Dabei kommt es in diesen Ländern durchaus zu politischen Protesten, doch ein großflächiger Ausbruch von Gewalt konnte bislang verhindert werden. In den Friedensinseln Subsahara-Afrikas (Äquatorialguinea, Gabun, Swasiland, Benin und Malawi) bestätigen sich die Annahmen der statistischen Friedensforschung: Sowohl demokratische Regime wie Malawi und Benin als auch autokratische Regime wie Äquatorialguinea, Gabun und Swasiland sind tendenziell eher friedlich. Staaten im Wandel oder mit politischen Mischformen hingegen sind anfälliger für großflächige Gewalt und Krieg. Dabei spielt die langfristige Stabilität der Regime eine große Rolle: Sind Regierungen bereits lange an der Macht oder ist ein System über längere Zeit stabil, ist der Erhalt von Frieden wahrscheinlicher. Demgegenüber bietet die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung der fünf Länder keine ausreichende Erklärung für ihre friedliche Entwicklung: Ein Großteil der Bevölkerung dieser Länder lebt in Armut. Die vorliegende Analyse geht von einem negativen Friedensbegriff aus: Die Friedensinseln werden als frei von organisierter, direkter Gewalt, die eine gewisse Schwelle von Todesopfern überschreitet, gekennzeichnet. Die Definition eines konsolidierten, langfristigen Friedens sollte über einen eingeschränkten Friedensbegriff hinausgehen und positive Aspekte, wie die Anerkennung von Minderheitenrechten und demokratische Teilhabe, einbeziehen.

The descendants of immigrants comprise nearly a third of the West German population under the age of 25 years and will soon become a substantial proportion of the native born labor force. Owing to the young age of this group, and a lack of governmental data on parental place of birth, there is currently little research that compares the labor market outcomes of the second generation of different origins. Exploiting the first data set to allow the disaggregation of all immigrant groups in Germany, this article draws on the concepts of context of reception and boundary crossing to explain variation in the labor market performance of different immigrant origin groups. Positively received ethnic Germans consistently perform better than negatively received guest worker origin groups. Labor market inequality is greatest among men and in obtaining employment. Ethnic differences are more compressed among women and for occupational attainment among the employed. The boundary crossing mechanisms of naturalization and intermarriage have modest association with labor market success. Findings suggest that successful integration in Germany is influenced by labor market institutions, which encourage inequality in unemployment while diminishing inequality amongst the employed. © 2012 The Author.

Following renewed interest in Marx?s political economy in the wake of the financial crisis, the paper aims to make a contribution to debates re-evaluating Marx?s theory of capitalism and his conceptualisation of the relationship between the polity and economy. We bring together our approaches from political philosophy, economic sociology, and political economy, making the case for a renewal of historical materialism. We develop a perspective of a radically politicised economy, rather than treating polity and economy as separate spheres. The political implications of this perspective involve an insistence on political and economic democratisation and human rights as an integral part of any socially egalitarian alternatives to capitalist political economies. The paper, written without the full academic paraphernalia, engages with current defences of the classical Marxist understanding of exploitation, especially the labour theory of value, and presents an alternative, neo-Polanyian analysis

If you type in the word 'revolution' in the Google search engine the top result that comes up is a chain of bars called Revolution. Other results on the first page of the search engine include a commercial radio station, clothing, a skate park and a software company. A Wikipedia page and the website of the Revolutionary Socialist Youth are the only non-commercial results Google provides us on its first page. This says as much about the business model of Google than it does about the changes at the level of meanings attributed to revolution. Revolution, it will be argued here, is a political signifier emptied of its radical connotations and currently used graciously as a brand or as a buzzword to mean change in whatever direction. As a result, revolution has been firmly incorporated into the neoliberal discourse and value system.

The enhancing information and communication technology drives government to implement e-government. Many government bodies deliver their services through internet / online and many e-government websites are built during the late of 2000s. It consists of information about the government services, city agendas, city news and history, and many more. The purpose of the erection of e-government website is to support the society with valid and transparent information. This paper evaluates the provincial capital e-government websites in Indonesia. There are 33 provinces, so there will be 33 e-government websites that will be evaluated. The evaluation method is using egWet (e-government website evaluation) instruments. There are six categories that will be used to evaluate the government websites, (1) security/privacy, (2) usability, (3) content, (4) services, (5) citizen participant, (6) features. The paper outputs are, first to provide data and information about the development of egovernment in Indonesia, second, to give recommendation for the e-government website improvement.

The EU Kids Online network was funded by the European Commission's (EC) Safer Internet programme since 2006 as a 'knowledge enhancement' project 'to make a better internet for children'. This chapter discusses how the network - a multinational and multidisciplinary group of researchers approached the task of enhancing knowledge so as to underpin European policy development in this important area. It is argued that research cannot be conducted in isolation if it is to inform stakeholders but, rather, depends on researchers engaging in expert and public debates, contributing to the deliberative process by which policy unfolds while, simultaneously retaining academic values of rigour, contextualisation and independence. In the case of EU Kids Online, the chapter discusses how this proved a learning process for both the research and stakeholder communities, all complicated by the media panics and public anxieties surrounding children's online risk and safety matters.

England has been described as 'the dirty man of Europe'. However, the country's household recycling rate has been steadily increasing in the last decade, achieving a recycling rate of 42 per cent in 2011/12 compared to just 12 per cent in 2001/2 (DEFRA, 2012). This paper explores the combination of factors that have led to the growth of interest and participation in recycling activities by households, businesses, governments and the third sector. It charts the development of waste management policy and practice in England in order highlight how and why recycling has become incorporated into consumer?s everyday household routines. This paper has been developed as part of an ERC-funded project, 'Consumption Work and Societal Divisions of Labour', whose key aim is to demonstrate the role that consumers play in the labour process, using comparative methods. In the case of recycling, by sorting their waste, consumers play an integral role in the division of labour within waste management in England and their role differs substantially to the role of consumers in Sweden (the other country in which recycling consumption work has been explored, see Wheeler, 2013). This paper illustrates how the consumer is encouraged to perform this work, drawing attention to what the work actually comprises and the implications of its successful accomplishment for the labour processes that follow.

This study aims to describe 1) the role of government and public relations strategy in providing quality public information, 2) the quality of public information services, 3) the role and influence of public relations strategy on the quality of public information services in Sidoarjo. This explanatory study used a sample of 103 people with staff of Sidoarjo government as respondents. Analyzing technique used is multiple regressions. The results showed that public relations as an ex-officio of Records and Information Management Officer(PPID) have a role and a good strategy, amounting to 79.18% and 80.3%. The available and informed public information are not optimal, i.e. 1) regular information 35.8%; 2) immediate information 39.8%; 3) anytime information 39.6%, and 4) requested information of 41.3 %. The quality of information disseminated to the public is categorized as fairly good (65.5%). The role and strategy used by public relations as ex-officio PPID affect the quality of public information by 71%. The influence either simultaneously or partial, shows significant value. Keywords: ex-officio PPID, role and strategy, the quality of public information.

This study aims to describe 1) the role of government and public relations strategy in providing quality public information, 2) the quality of public information services, 3) the role and influence of public relations strategy on the quality of public information services in Sidoarjo. This explanatory study used a sample of 103 people with staff of Sidoarjo government as respondents. Analyzing technique used is multiple regressions. The results showed that public relations as an ex-officio of Records and Information Management Officer(PPID) have a role and a good strategy, amounting to 79.18% and 80.3%. The available and informed public information are not optimal, i.e. 1) regular information 35.8%; 2) immediate information 39.8%; 3) anytime information 39.6%, and 4) requested information of 41.3 %. The quality of information disseminated to the public is categorized as fairly good (65.5%). The role and strategy used by public relations as ex-officio PPID affect the quality of public information by 71%. The influence either simultaneously or partial, shows significant value. Keywords: ex-officio PPID, role and strategy, the quality of public information.

Background Podoconiosis is a lymphoedema of non-infectious cause which results in long-term ill health in affected individuals. Simple, effective treatment is available in certain parts of Ethiopia, but evidence indicates that not all patients continue collecting treatment supplies from clinic sites once started. We used qualitative techniques to explore factors related to discontinued attendance at outreach clinics of a non-government organization in southern Ethiopia. Methods A cross-sectional qualitative study was conducted in four clinic sites through unstructured in-depth interviews, key informant interviews and focus group discussions with the involvement of 88 study subjects. Results Discontinuation of clinic visits is common among podoconiosis patients. The reasons were: remoteness from the clinic sites, unrealistic expectation of 'special' aid, worry about increasing stigma, illness and misconceptions about treatment. Conclusions Several of these factors are remediable through community and individual information and education. Appropriate routes to deliver this information must be identified. Certain factors (such as distance to clinic sites and stigma) require substantial expansion of services or liaison with village-level government health services.

Tim Luckhurst argues that the main question facing British policymakers is not how to prevent the hacking of telephones - or even how to limit the political influence of an octogenarian media magnate who has already lost the confidence of several major shareholders. It is how to finance an ethical future.

The civil war in the Sudan's Darfur region has been on the world's agenda for quite sometime now. But the solutions to the conflict are far from sight due to the multiplicity of actors and multiple competing interests that are involve. Compounding the volatile military-political situation and its accompanied complex emergencies is that the responses of the international community have been vague and not encourage enough. Additionally, Darfur is not assisted by the "rushed and ungrounded suggestions on how to best support on-going work for peace and how to reach long lasting political solutions" (Norberg and Brune, 2007: 5). The Darfurian crisis, opposing the Government of the Sudan (GoS) and its proxy militia force (the Janjaweed) on the one hand, and the different regional rebel movements championed by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A), and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) on another hand1, has resulted in the stupendous loss of lives and property. Between February 2003 when the war started and 2009, the conflict had produced hundreds of thousands of deaths, more than 2 million displaced (Liegeois, 2009), while mass raping, gangsterism, etc, are now the 'normal' ways of life in this 'highly unfortunate' region