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The role of speech-language therapists (SLTs) in schools in South Africa needs to be revisited based on the changing educational needs in the country. This article builds on a paper by Kathard et al. (2011), which discussed the changing needs of the country with regard to the role of SLTs working in schools. South African policy changes indicated a shift from supporting the child to supporting the teacher, but also place more emphasis on the support of all learners in literacy in an effort...

Entrepreneurship education is widely promoted as an approach to addressing youth unemployment. Contrasting neoliberal and human capabilities frameworks, this article draws attention to the problematic way in which much of the discourse surrounding entrepreneurship conflates programmes designed to spur economic development through business and job creation with those designed to alleviate poverty. Providing examples from the case of one NGO implementing a youth livelihood programme in...

The problem of visual impairment among school children is so prevalent that it greatly reduces children's ability to study and attend classes finally leading to a grave socio economic burden to the society. The study determined the prevalence of refractive error among school children of Meseret General Primary School, Gondar, Ethiopia. A cross sectional study of 313 children aged 7-16 years was done. It was found that none of the children has done eye examination before and wore glasses...

To illustrate the male reproductive hormone profile, a study was conducted among healthy male university students living at Butare, Rwanda (altitude: 1 768 m, barometric pressure: 629 mm Hg). Venous blood was collected in the morning, after overnight fasting. Hormonal assays were performed by classical sandwich ELISA technique. Mean values (±standard deviation SD) were follicle-stimulating hormone FSH: 3.7 ± 1.6 IU l(-1) ; luteinising hormone LH: 3.6 ± 2.2 IU l(-1) ; and total testosterone:...

This paper examined the predictive validity to determine the relationship and effects of Continuous Assessment Scores (CA) on the performance of students who sat for the Senior School Certificate Examination conducted by National Examinations Council (NECO) using June/July 2010 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) as case study. Scores which were obtained from NECO had been transformed and trial-tested for psychometric properties. Six research questions were generated giving rise to...

Declaration of education for all and universal primary education is meant to ensure that every child’s right to education is protected and respected. School and practices and classroom are a key determinant to participation and achievement of girls and boys. The study aimed at investigating on the influence of school and classroom practices on girls’ participation and achievement in education. The sample comprised of Two hundred and sixty six (256) girls in class seven and eight, five head...

This research work examined the relationship between staff training and job satisfaction among Nigerian banks employees with special reference to the selected banks in Osogbo metropolis. Structured questionnaire was used to collect data from eighty (80) respondents through simple random sampling method. Pearson product moment correlation coefficient was employed to know the relationship between staff training and job satisfaction, while multiple regression was used to determine the effect....

This study explored the effectiveness of video training delivered by portable battery-operated projectors to narrow the gap in agricultural knowledge between men and women in rural Uganda. Through the pre-post quasi-experiments, this study found that both video and traditional lecture-demonstration training approaches could significantly improve knowledge scores for both men and women. The method that combined video and lecture demonstration was significantly more effective in narrowing the...

Approaches to improve the governance of social–ecological systems are difficult to define in situations where governance is weak, that is, involving limited interactions between the actors and weak management of natural resources. This article analyzes an action research process implemented in the Chaouia coastal region of Morocco, where weak governance of the social–ecological system led to a groundwater and agricultural crisis. A dialogue between local actors was set up with the aim of...

We present the case of a 12-year-old girl referred to Kigali University Teaching Hospital (KUTH) for persistent cough, fever and haemoptysis. Respiratory symptoms started acutely with a stridor at age 4. Thereafter she developed a chronic cough with intermittent fever. She was treated ambulatory in the health care centre with oral antibiotics and finally referred to the district hospital at age 7. The chest X-ray then suggested tuberculosis for which a 6 month treatment was given with no...

The uptake of mobile phones has been especially remarkable in the developing world. For the first time in history people at the bottom of the income pyramid can also take part in the telecommunication society. Mobile phones can play a unique role in reaching those who are outside the scope of formal or institutionalized schooling and open doors to out-of-school learning practices. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Wesbank, an impoverished community in Cape Town, we look at the (informal)...

A lot of studies published on the ten last years showed a decrease of fertility among HIV positive women. The present research aims to see if this decrease is linked to an ovarian failure, using AMH as principal marker of ovarian function. In this pilot study, 54 HIV-positive and 39 HIV-negative women were compared on the basis of their ovarian function, fecundity and possible ovarian failure. A blood sample was taken for hormonal titrations, HIV seropositivity, viral load and CD4 T cell...

This paper makes a case for a revalorization of all indigenous knowledges in general and African indigenous knowledges in particular.It invites African policy makers and intellectuals to do a little more to bring indigenous knowledges within African educational stream with the view to increasing the potentials of development in Africa.Since there exists a variety of educational theories, including the functionalist, the conflict, the critical, the pragmatic and the afrocentric educational...

Kenya’s ‘Turkana-Pokot Drought Management Initiative (DMI)’ was a three-year programme implemented by a consortium of NGOs which aimed to mitigate the effects of climatic shocks among pastoralist communities in north-western Kenya.  Oxfam GB was responsible for implementing the livestock component of this programme in three of the most remote pastoralist communities in the northern part of Turkana County. These full and summary reports document the findings of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation carried out in July 2012.