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Blood safety remains a challenge to many countries in sub-Saharan Africa including Ghana due to poorly planned blood donation exercises in the various communities. Blood and its products usual-ly come from two main sources; voluntary non-remunerated donors (VNRD) and family replace-ment donors (FRD). In Ghana, and in many developing countries, FRDs seem to be the major source of blood supply whilst in developed countries VNRDs are the major source. This study de-termined and compared the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyze the determinants of arable crop farmers’ awareness to causes and effects of climate change in south western Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – Using primary data, 150 arable crop farmers in Ogun State were selected through a multi stage sampling technique. Survey method was used to elicit information on farmers’ socioeconomic, production characteristics, and their level of awareness to causes and effects of climate change. The...

The objectives of this article were to examine some of the policies that the Sierra Leone government has set on the achievement of education at the basic education level; present information on trends, issues and challenges being faced in providing basic education; assess whether the government has been able to achieve its policies and come up with recommendations on the way forward. This study was a desk research that relied on consulting secondary data, using various documents pertinent to...

Students' poor performance in national examination remains a major concern worldwide and Kenya in particular. Teachers, students, parents, curriculum developers and the public have tended to blame one another for the poor performance in Mathematics at secondary school level. In an attempt to respond to this problem, the Kenyan Mathematics scholars have carried out many studies in Mathematics education. Despite these studies, students' performance remained poor. This means that the main...

Background. School children living in the tropics are often concurrently infected with plasmodium and helminth parasites. It has been hypothesized that immune responses evoked by helminths may modify malaria-specific immune responses and increase the risk of malaria.

What is quality assurance? What is the purpose of higher education and how does it affect the way quality assurance is carried out? What value can be placed on quality assurance and could it enhance a student’s learning outcome? This research takes a reflective and critical look at these questions amidst the disparagement of quality assurance and problems issuing from practice. Aside from definitional issues, quality assurance has not fulfilled its expected purpose, which for all intents...

No AccessJul 2015Current Textbook (and Other Teaching and Learning Materials) Availability, Costs, and Financing in Sub-Saharan AfricaAuthors/Editors: Tony ReadTony ReadSearch for more papers by this authorhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-0572-1_ch3AboutView ChaptersFull TextPDF (0.8 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract: Shows that textbook manufacturing cost or even textbook retail prices do not alone determine the system costs...

No AccessJul 2015Current Trends in National Teaching and Learning Materials Policies in Sub-Saharan AfricaAuthors/Editors: Tony ReadTony ReadSearch for more papers by this authorhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-0572-1_ch2AboutView ChaptersFull TextPDF (0.7 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract: Asserts that as primary and secondary enrollments have continued to increase in most Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries in the past two...

This World Bank report is a rich compilation of information on teaching learning materials (TLM) in Africa based on the extensive and multi-faceted experience of the author's work in the education sector in Africa. The study examines a wide range of issues around TLM provision including curriculum, literacy and numeracy, language of instruction policy, procurement and distribution challenges, TLM development and production and their availability, management and usage in schools. It also...

Resilience of crops to climate change is extremely critical for global food security in coming decades. Decrease in productivity of certain crops as a consequence of changing climate has already been observed. In West Africa, a region extremely vulnerable to climate change, various studies predicted significant reduction in productivity of the major crops because of future warming and shift in precipitation patterns. However, most studies either follow statistical approaches or involve only...

Research regarding executive functioning (EF) in children rarely focuses on populations in African or Middle-Eastern Arabic-speaking countries. The current study used a cross-sectional design to examine the developmental trajectories of school-age Tunisian children in three domains of executive control (inhibition of prepotent responses, cognitive flexibility, and working memory) as well as their mutual interactions and the effects of gender and parents’ education level. Inhibitory...

<p>In this study, we examined the technical efficiency of private teaching hospitals in Tanzania. We employed a widely used non-parametric approach (Data Envelopment Analysis) in a sample of 18 teaching hospitals. The study period covered 2009 – 2013. The result from this study is expected to be useful to the owners and administrators of teaching hospitals, giving them justification for effective planning and implementation of the strategies that will avoid abuse of the available...

This paper investigated the industrial conflict in Oyo State Teaching Service of Nigeria. It identified causes of industrial conflict between teachers and the state government and the effects on secondary schools in the state.

The paper analyses factors enhancing pitfall in research and teaching in the Nigerian university system.Using data generated from secondary sources, it was found that so many factors are responsible for the constant decay in teaching and research in the Nigerian universities.The paper however found from literature that the high rate of pitfalls in the university education in Nigeria can be significantly attributed to lack of infrastructural facilities, poor staffing and inadequate...

Many countries suffer from a bad informatics syllabus in their educational systems, which leaves the students with no skills in computer programming or algorithms.This fact imposes a big challenge to the process of selecting the best secondary school students for the informatics Olympiad; it also makes training them a harder process.In this paper, we present our vision to tackle this issue in Syria, where the educational system lacks the principles of computer algorithms; moreover, the...

A Thesis submitted to the Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In Climate Change and Land Use. MAY 2015