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A field study of students' and teachers' thermal comfort in a school building (St. Andrews Junior High School) was carried out at Madina, Accra. The building was chosen due to the sustainable design principles (e.g. form, orientation and ventilation) employed in the design and construction of the school. The aim of the study was to investigate peoples' perception of comfort as well as examine the prevailing thermal conditions in the classrooms. Moreover, a comparative analysis of the results...

This paper focuses on the causes of infrastructural decay in public secondary schools in Ondo State, Nigeria and the impact on quality education delivery. The study is a descriptive survey. Twenty secondary schools were randomly sampled from two local governments. Ten subject teachers from each of the 20 schools responded to a 20-item structured questionnaire. The second instrument was a checklist administered on one Head of Department or a Vice Principal in each of the 20 schools to take...

Northern Ghana is noted for perennial low and varying agricultural production and this is manifest by persistent vulnerability of inhabitants (mostly farmers) to food insecurity. The low agricultural production has been linked to effects of climate change. New technologies and cultivation practices aimed at enabling farmers to maximise their production to reduce risks associated with changes in climatic conditions in agriculture have been introduced in Northern Ghana. The nagging question is...

To describe the epidemiology and public health response to H1N1 outbreak and make recommendations to prevent future outbreaks.A descriptive study of an outbreak investigation.A secondary school in Asante Akim South District.Influenza A H1N1 2009 infection was laboratory-confirmed by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in clinically ill students after collecting throat swabs. Sixty students of the school had presented with fever, cough, headache and sore throat. The students' dormitories were...

To describe the epidemiology and public health response to H1N1 outbreak and make recommendations to prevent future outbreaks.A descriptive study of an outbreak investigation.A secondary school in Asante Akim South District.Influenza A H1N1 2009 infection was laboratory-confirmed by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in clinically ill students after collecting throat swabs. Sixty students of the school had presented with fever, cough, headache and sore throat. The students' dormitories were...

This paper analyses the impact of climate change on Nigeria’s cereal grain yields, variance and covariance.Maize and rice were selected based on their distinct production in almost all the States in Nigeria. A paneldata stochastic production model with heteroscedasticity was employed in analysing the data. The dataconsists of a panel of eight States and 18 time periods. The eight states spans across the six geopoliticalzones. The cereal grains considered are rice and maize. The simulation...

More often than not, hearing impaired individuals strive to adjust to varying challenges in the society, which could have negative effects on their psychological wellbeing. Studies on the psychological well-being of adolescents with hearing impairment are generally scanty and have not sufficiently addressed causal interactions of variables of interest on the psychological well-being of such adolescents. This study, therefore, investigated through a path analysis, the most meaningful causal...

The Life Drama program is a theatre-based experiential learning program developed in Papua New Guinea over the past seven years. The Life Drama team recognises that a significant proportion of “education” for learners of all ages takes place outside formal education systems, particularly in developing nations such as Papua New Guinea. If arts education principles and practices are to contribute meaningfully and powerfully to resolving social and cultural challenges, it is important to...

CURRENT CONDITIONS Burundi is a small, landlocked country of which only 36 percent is arable. The country has two rainy seasons, which run from February to May and from September to November, as well as a short rain period for two weeks in January. The rainfall varies from 2,000 mm in higher altitudes to 1,000 mm in low-lying areas. The main staple crops are bananas, cassava, sweet potatoes, and beans. Bananas alone accounted for 29 percent of total cultivated area and 44 percent of the...

Among the various challenges that the Ugandan government is facing to improve educational outcomes and achieve Universal Primary Education (UPE) in the country, is the necessity to improve the “quality of education”. Service delivery in education in Uganda has been proven to suffer, in great part, from the “weakness of accountability mechanisms between school administrators, teachers and the communities”. In order to assist national decision-makers in solving these issues, a team of local...

The country’s population grew by 3.7 percent between 2009 and 2010 (to a total of 32 million people). The population is expected to reach 103.2 million in 2050, assuming growth declines to 2.9 percent per annum between 2040 and 2050. The population remains predominantly rural (85 percent in 2010). At 50 years, life expectancy remains low. Malaria is the most prevalent fatal illness. The poverty rate is down from 31 percent in 2006 but, at 24.5 percent, remains high.

Background: Little is known about the combined effects of iron and n-3 (omega-3) fatty acid (FA) supplementation on cognitive performance. The provision of either DHA/EPA or iron alone in rats with combined iron and n-3 FA deficiency has been reported to exacerbate cognitive deficits associated with deficiency.Objective: We investigated the effects of iron and DHA/EPA supplementation, alone and in combination, in children with poor iron and n-3 FA status.Design: In a 2-by-2 factorial trial,...

African American students are overrepresented in special education. Ecological systems theory, social cognitive theory, and a literature review demonstrate that children's environments, particularly school, and self-efficacy impact the educational outcomes of African American children. Interventions have aimed to improve children's environmental resources and efficacy. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of environment, efficacy beliefs, and the Nurse–Family Partnership...

Abstract Access to information and knowledge has always been a challenge for illiterate or low literate learners in developing nations. As a consequence, pedagogical advances, for low literate learners, have lagged behind, as compared to educational strategies for literate or highly literate learners. The technological revolution based on access to Internet and cell‐phones has brought new opportunities to one billion low literate learners in the planet. There is evidence that cell‐phones are...

Abstract This paper focuses on the concept of quality of education. The issue of quality of education has become important in many countries that are interested in expanding enrollments in order to achieve Education for All by 2015. The main objective of this paper is to provide an economic analysis of the concept of quality of education by clarifying the determinants of educational quality and to specify the earnings and the demand functions for schooling in Egypt. The methodology of this...

Introduction. This study investigates the information needs and information-seeking patterns of secondary level geography teachers in Lesotho to guide the design and implementation of an information service for these teachers. Leckie, Pettigrew and Sylvain's model of professionals' information-seeking served as a theoretical framework but was overlaid with other models such as that of Savolainen and Wilson. Method. Data were collected from in-service teachers through focus group discussions,...