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This study investigated the opportunities for learning afforded by access to mobile phones, and the associated challenges created by their use in a peri-urban private secondary school in Uganda. The study was motivated by availability of phones with facilities to connect to the Internet and to access free open education resources (OERs), which if used appropriately, could support changes in pedagogy required to promote learning in rural schools in Uganda. Information was collected using...
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In this article, an attempt has been made to link our ethical outlook with the current state of the world. The need for the study of morality, which is conscious of the current state of life, is a matter of humanly survival. Since moral values are crucial to define the identity of a given society, they need serious protection. Academic institutions have a high potential to protect these moral values. Especially, Ethics as a common course, which is taught across all fields of studies in...
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L’éducation inclusive émerge dans le champ éducatif comme une panacée, afin d’atteindre l’Éducation Pour Tous. La littérature confère à ce concept une double dimension traduisant l’inclusion au sein des établissements scolaires ordinaires, des élèves vivant avec handicap et, plus généralement, des apprenants présentant un contexte socioéducatif spécifique. Les pratiques d’inclusion développées par l’École spéciale de Brazzaville offrent une vision pluri dimensionnelle de l’éducation...
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This paper reports on a two-tiered experiment designed to separately identify the selection and effort margins of pay-for-performance (P4P). At the recruitment stage, teacher labor markets were randomly assigned to a pay-for-percentile or fixed-wage contract. Once recruits were placed, an unexpected, incentive-compatible, school-level re-randomization was performed, so that some teachers who applied for a fixed-wage contract ended up being paid by P4P, and vice versa. By the second year of...
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The focus of the paper is to assess how far Adult Education has helped to bring about social change or transformation to urban and rural poor in Lesotho, the ‘kingdom in the sky’ in Southern Africa. To pursue this, two contending thoughts are discussed. Some educationists negate the idea that adult education, as a provision of education in general, perpetuates social inequalities that have existed and continue to exist in Lesotho. They assert that education serves as an instrument that...
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Trade, climate change, and the green economy are aspects that converge on the carbon footprint of organisations, products and countries. The carbon footprint is in turn linked directly to the grid emission factors (GEFs) of a country or sub-regions within that country. In an epoch where global citizens are increasingly aware of the adverse impacts of high greenhouse gas emissions leading to global warming, low carbon footprints are likely to attract greater trade opportunities. African and...
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Rural households adopt several measures in order to deal with climate variations and related environmental damages. This paper discusses migration as an adaptation to climate change and the potentials that this could hold for Green Small and Medium Enterprises (G-SMEs) development and rural livelihoods improvement. The research was carried out using the farming and rural systems approach in the rural areas of Nigeria. The results suggest that failing to give attention to the implications of...
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The use of active learning tools such as simulations in accounting education are increasingly stressed by accounting educationalists locally and abroad. This study highlights the benefits of using simulations and how their challenges can be mitigated. The objective was to obtain students’ views on the use of simulations in the field of auditing. A qualitative approach in collecting the data was followed, including focus group discussions with third-year audit students at a SAICA-accredited...
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In this study, the influence of class size on students’ classroom discipline, engagement and communication school teachers from 16 purposely selected secondary schools out of a population of 4529 senior secondary teachers from Ekiti State, Nigeria was used for the study. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The instrument used for data collection was Influence of Class Size on Classroom Discipline, Engagement and Communication Questionnaire (ICSCDECQ) with the 21). Four...
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Noise and climate change in the built environment is fast becoming a plague in Nigeria urban cities. The fast spreading problems calls for urgent attention so as to create a pleasant and comfortable environment that will ensure better standard of living for Nigeria. The study uses secondary sources of data and information gleaned from these sources which centered on noise and climate change enable the researcher to conclude that climate change revolve around flood, increase in temperature...
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The purpose of the study was to investigate the initiatives of the Board of Management that influences the provision of quality education in secondary schools in Kajiado West-sub County, Kajiado County. The study employed a descriptive survey design since the data to be collected required a quantitative and qualitative approach. The study targeted 42 public secondary schools in Kajiado County. Sixteen schools (16) were randomly selected from a pool of 42 schools in Kajiado County. Census...
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Background: The learners’ environment is crucial for development of professionals. In Uganda, there was no studies assessing the learning environment have been found. Objective: This study was performed to assess the undergraduate students’ perceptions of medical education in general and educational environment in a newly established faculty of medicine in Islamic University in Uganda.Materials and Methods: The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM), a validated inventory was...
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Part time Education programmes in Teacher Education Institutions are designed to aid the achievement of Education for All (EFA) goals, especially in giving opportunity to those who experienced delay in enrolling in Tertiary Institutions. Studies have shown that the programmes usually attract more female students, who could not study in the full time mode especially in their earlier years of age. This study assessed the perception of the female students on the impact of their studies in...