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This study was designed to determine students’ enrolment trends in School of Education, College of Education University of Rwanda. Four research questions were raised in the study. Studied population were students’ enrolled into School of Education. Sample consisted of matriculated students in the school. Data were analyzed using frequency count and simple percentage. Analysed data showed, students’ enrolment trend increasing over the years. A wide gap was noted in enrolment trend based on...

Fish make an important contribution to micronutrient intake, long-chained polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids (n-3 LC-PUFAS), and animal protein, as well as ensuring food and nutrition security and livelihoods for fishing communities. Micronutrient deficiencies are persistent in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), contributing to public health issues not only in the first 1000 days but throughout adolescence and into adulthood. School feeding programs (SFPs) and home-grown school feeding programs...

Aims: The study examined perceived strategies for curbing examination malpractice among secondary school students in Nigeria.
 Study Design: The design adopted for this study is descriptive survey design.
 Place and Duration of Study: The target population are 1182 junior secondary students identified to be verbally victimized. The duration is between June 2021 and August 2021.
 Methodology: The target population for the study comprised 398,275 senior secondary school teachers...

This paper explores South African experiences in using formal credentials in worker education. In specific, it analyses the value and use of the outcomes-based, unit standards-based qualifications registered on the South African national qualifications framework for “trade union practice.” Creating formal qualifications for worker education programmes was hotly debated for many years in the labour movement. The paper finds little evidence of positive achievement of the creation of a formal...

This section of the special edition offers unique insight into the history and current state of a significant educational tradition in South Africa: that of an emancipatory tradition of workers’ ed...

The study focused Effective teaching of Social Studies Concepts in Basic Schools in Ghana. The study adopted the descriptive survey design using quantitative approach. The population for the study consisted of all Social Studies teachers in the Junior High Schools (JHS) in the Tano South District. There were fifty-two Social Studies teachers at the JHS level in the district. Non-probability sampling technique (purposive and convenient sampling techniques) was used for the study. Purposive...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of training on labor productivity and wages in order to examine how the benefits from training are shared between employers and employees. Design/methodology/approach This study analyzes an industry panel covering all sectors of the Tunisian economy for the period 2000–2014. The panel structure of the data allows controlling for the endogeneity of training by using different panel data techniques. Findings Results show that both...

This article draws on the notion of epistemic agency to illustrate how the enactment of shared epistemic agency is enabled or hindered in a mathematics classroom for student teachers. I used data from an ethnographic study that was conducted in a third-year class of mathematics for educators. Data was drawn from verbal interactions that took place between mathematics student teachers, and between student teachers and myself as their lecturer, as they worked on class tasks. A narrative mode...

Presentation du projet de decouverte du monde rural, d'un centre de formation agricole et de la culture de Madagascar.

This article sketches the contours of the particular tradition of radical workers’ education that emerged in South Africa in the context of the re-emergence of militant trade unionism in the 1970s and 1980s. It draws methodologically on Cultural Historical Activity Theory and its view of education as an activity system to present an analysis of the some of the distinctive features of this tradition of radical workers’ education. These include its transformative purpose, its internal...

Abstract Background Children with epilepsies (CWE) show an increased prevalence of comorbid depressive and anxiety disorders. Patients and Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study on children with epilepsy aged 7 to 19 years attending neurology consultations at YOUTH during the period from May 06 to August 6, 2019. STAIc Anxiety Scale and Child Depression Inventory were performed in all the patients. Results: The mean age of children with epilepsy was 10.86 ± 3.30 years with male...

According to the control-value theory of achievement emotions, the influence of cognitive activation teaching strategies on students’ effective use of Cognitive and Meta-Cognitive (CMC) learning strategies is mediated by control appraisals (e.g. self-efficacy) and achievement emotions (i.e. enjoyment and boredom). However, there is limited and contrasting empirical evidence to support this assertion despite claims of cross-cultural and domain consistency. The present study was aimed at...

Background and Aim: This study was aimed to assess the prevalence of partial impairment of dental function among Libyan elderly population.
 Methods: Secondary data analysis of previously collected data for a national survey of reasons of tooth extraction among Libyan adults. The data was extracted according to age of the participants (65 years of age or more). Having 20 or less functional teeth was considered as partial impairment of dental functions. Data was analyzed by SPSS version...

As a result of the poor sensitivity and specificity of the standard parasitological diagnostic methods currently being used, this study was conducted to compare the standard parasitological diagnostic methods and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in determining the prevalence of urinary schistosomiasis in Cross River State (CRS). The study was conducted between April 2015 and March 2016. Seven hundred and seventy seven (777) urine samples were randomly collected from selected school-age...

Purpose This paper aims to identify the level of contribution of different levels of education to remaining in unemployment as well as the transition from unemployment to employment in Egypt. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, transition probabilities matrix differentiated by gender, age groups, educational levels, marital status and place of residence based on worker flows across employment, unemployment and out of labor force states during the period 2012–2018 using Egypt Labor...

Abstract Background: Low back pain (LBP) has become one of the most serious public health problems with substantial socioeconomic implication. Degenerative disc disease one of the commonest cause of LBP. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is routinely utilized in evaluation patients with degenerative changes of the lumbar spine. However there are contradictors reports with regards to association of MRI findings of lumbar spine and patients’ symptoms. Objective: This study is aimed determine...

The study explored Head teachers’ instructional supervisory role among public Junior High Schools in the Jirapa Municipality of the Upper West Region of Ghana. It adopted psychological and system theory of supervision propounded by Planturrroot (2006) and Bertalanffy (2015) respectively. The mixed method sequential approach was followed in the conduct of the study where both quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analysed. A sample size of 200 respondents made up of 40 head...

Consistent with the large-scale re-emergence of precarious forms of work, in recent years literature on precarious workers and their working conditions has become one of the main strands in labour studies. However, the literature on the nexus between precarious workers and workers’ education is almost non-existent; and yet precarious work is probably the future of labour at least under global capitalism. In an attempt to fill the gap and make a contribution to the emerging literature on...

The importance of enabling student-teachers to acquire informed conceptions of the Nature of Science (NOS) is widely emphasised. Hence, this study investigated the effectiveness of a science pre-service teacher education programme of one university in Tanzania in enabling student-teachers to acquire informed conceptions of NOS as stages in a Learning Progressions model. We employed a comparative impact study design where NOS conceptions were compared resulting from two interventions—science...

Balance impairment is the predominant risk factor for falls in stroke survivors. A fear of falling after stroke can contribute to sedentary lifestyles, increased disability and risk of recurrence, leading to poor quality of life.To determine the frequency and factors associated with balance impairments amongst stroke survivors at the University Hospital of Parakou.This cross-sectional study included adult stroke survivors. Stroke survivors after discharge were enrolled at the University...