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The debate about which language is best suited to take on the role of the first foreign language and language of education in Morocco is in full force these days. The policy of Arabization, which many blame for the current education crisis in Morocco, has failed to replace French as the linguistic medium of science and technology in tertiary education and as a result has produced high school students who are unable to function in any foreign language upon graduation. The 1999 National...

In this chapter, we provide an overview of Syria’s overall social, political and ethnic background. Syria, located in a geographically critical location, is home to people different ethnic background such as Arabic, Kurdish, and Turkmen. Having gone through political instability, Syria was under the influences of colonial forces. With the rise of Arab Spring in 2010, civil unrest began in Syria in 2011 and Syria has been in a civil war since then. We, then describe specific approaches to...

English has been taught in Egyptian schools since the 1860s. For about a hundred and fifty years, the status of English in Egyptian schools has changed from an optional subject to a compulsory one. This chapter highlights the English education policy at the pre-university stages in Egypt. The chapter starts with providing an overview of the historical place of English education in Egyptian schools. It also reviews the policy reforms of English education in Egypt in the last few decades,...

The human harmful impact on the environment has been made to focus on the release of chemical substances to the environment from industries with little or no recognition to the procedures of resources distribution via market situations. The study seeks to examine sociological factors associated with periodic street markets as predictive of environmental pollution in Yenagoa. The study was anchored on Weberian Social Action Theory. A survey research design was adopted to sample 372 sellers in...

This article reports a review of research in mathematics education in South Africa published in local and international journals in the period 2007–2015. The purpose of the review was to describe the landscape of mathematics education research in the country over the past (almost) decade. Findings indicate that the mathematics education research community has become more established, expanding quantitatively, with the number of articles identified being nearly double, in absolute terms, that...

This study explores this issue of exclusion of girls in Ghana, with reference to the problem of low completion rates and high dropout rates among girls in basic education. Education of children most especially the girls is of primary concern in contemporary Ghana, a concern shared among the highest government levels, district-level assemblies, and parents. As a result, significant financial resources are annually allocated for educational development. Reggardless of this, many young...

The involvements of children with disabilities (CWDs) in street beggary is an under-studied phenomenon and little-understood due to the complex nature of the activity. CWDs who are begging for alms in the streets are often approached as part of the ordinary street working street children. They are not in schools, care or protection schemas and/or out of the policy web in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Employing a qualitative methodology of exploration, this paper considers both the narratives of...

The paper analyzes the conception and practice of women’s empowerment in relation to education in Ethiopia and argues that the spirit and understanding of the notion of empowerment is still marred with the social construction of women as caregiver. Education is taken as the main pointer to women’s empowerment that promotes women’s participation in formal jobs and decision making organs. The legal frameworks dealing with the education of women are mainly concerned with access to...

This study aims to investigate the relationship between some educational variables and unemployment in Egypt and determine the most important educational variables influencing the high rates of unemployment during the period (2002-2012). Thus it can determine the priorities of the Egyptian government when dealing seriously in order to solve the unemployment problem appropriately, with regard to the reduction of unemployment rates in the near future. More importantly, the results has shown...

Despite a strong global and national legal framework to protect their rights on paper, girls with disabilities in Sierra Leone face social exclusion, limited educational and economic opportunities and extreme levels of discrimination in all realms of public life, including within their own families and communities. This study analyses a case study of disability mainstreaming in the advocacy activities of a grassroots NGO, One Family People, as part of the international Girl Power...

The aim of this paper is to explore the accounting educa- tion in Libyan universities after Libyan revolution of 2011

In this paper, the PLS-PM model has been estimated as to directly and indirectly identify factors that influence academic performance of the first year students at NUL. Sample used to utilise the task was 46. The estimated PLS-PM model was found stable and satisfying the SEM conditions. Several measure were established and found that 63% of variation of OWM is been explained by all those factors that are found to be significant. Also, seven factors were retained with factor loadings in the...

The violent clashes between Fulani herdsmen and sedentary farmers in Nigeria do not constitute an alien phenomenon in Nigeria; it is a phenomenon that has been in existence for decades which have resulted in the extensive loss of lives and property. The constant clashes have threatened the security of the State, reduced its economic productivity, and deepened food crisis. While there have been several clashes between the Fulani herdsmen and the farming communities for more than two decades,...

In contexts where inclusive education is nascent, teacher educators face the challenge of preparing pre-service teachers for a system that does not yet exist. While this might be possible through university-based coursework, difficulties arise when so few sites that model inclusive pedagogies are available for practicum placements. This article investigates whether practicum placements in contrasting contexts may prepare pre-service teachers for teaching in an envisaged inclusive education...

This paper examines the Zimbabwean educators’ perceptions about e-learning systems in pedagogy. We use the term “educators” to refer to the teaching staff at a university context. The paper sought to present the views of the educators about e-learning. It is our assumption that these views could assist in explaining the existent second order digital divide currently persisting in higher education institutions in African developing nations such as Zimbabwe. The digital divide has resulted in...

Background and Objective: Agricultural activities in the tropic is already experiencing low crop yields and altered animal compositions as a result of devastating effects of climate change.This has necessitated informed decisions by farmers to cope with the challenges of climate change.This study aimed to investigate the factors influencing farmerʼs contributions to climate change adaptation decisions in Southwest Nigeria using ordered probit model approach.Materials and Methods: Three...

Early numeracy skills are highly relevant for children’s mathematics learning at school, especially in the initial years when much mathematics learning relies on early numeracy competence. The aim of this study was to investigate the level of early numeracy skills in a sample of South African children in the first months of formal schooling. In this cross- sectional study, there were 443 first graders (206 girls and 237 boys) from Gauteng Province schools. The mean age of the children was...