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The COVID-19 outbreak had a significant impact on social life and the education system, leading to the suspension of face-to-face classes and the adoption of online learning as a strategy to continue the teaching and learning process in many countries around the world, including Mozambique. Thus, we conducted the present study to analyze the teaching and learning process using digital platforms during a state of emergency due to COVID-19. We inquired 417 academics who responded to an online...

Indisputably, education in every society is pivotal to national development without which the society retrogresses. The world superpowers, the United States, China, Germany, UK, France, Canada, Japan e.t.c. are able to attain substantial economic growths as a result of educational advancement through quality schools that result in the production of quality education at all levels. In these countries, education in both states and non-states institutions is well funded to meetup their...

The affective response of students on the integration of think-pair-share and Reciprocal Teaching methods on upper basic education social studies students in Imo State, Nigeria has been rigorously asses to ascertain the attitude of students towards the use of these learning methods. Two research objectives were proposed to guide the study; two research questions where posed; while two hypotheses were equally raised and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted the descriptive...

In emergency response investing in learning is often seen as a luxury that will take resources and focus away from the people most in need. However, in COVID-19, building on learning from the Ebola outbreak in 2014, and from previous experiences responding to Ebola, was critical to getting an effective response mobilized quickly. The time and investments in documenting lessons learned and in building learning and collaboration spaces allowed many countries in West Africa to quickly respond...

This article examines the nexus of autonomy and instructional leadership in school clusters in Zimbabwe. Using the Better Schools Programme of Zimbabwe cluster, teachers and school heads were interviewed on their perspectives on how autonomy influences instructional leadership practices. Results established that clusters provide schools with the freedom to determine the activities deemed necessary to improve student learning. However, although autonomy is prescribed in the policy, inadequate...

This paper presents the application of machine learning for classifying time-critical conditions namely sepsis, myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest, based off transcriptions of emergency calls from emergency services dispatch centers in South Africa. In this study we present results from the application of four multi-class classification algorithms: Support Vector Machine (SVM), Logistic Regression, Random Forest and K-Nearest Neighbor (kNN). The application of machine learning for...

The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting closure of South Sudan’s schools in March 2020 exacerbated many of the challenges female learners face in pursuing an education. Research conducted for this paper found that increased poverty, domestic care work, early and forced marriage, and teenage pregnancy would make it difficult for female learners to return to schools when they reopened in May 2021. The paper, written by the Institute of Social and Policy Research, sets out how greater financial and...

This study determined the effects of rational emotive occupational health coaching on the management of work stress among academic staff of science and social science education in south east Nigerian universities.A randomized controlled trial experimental design was adopted for the study with a sample size of 63 participants who were randomized into an intervention group (n = 32) and control group (n = 31). Occupational stress index and perceived stress scale were used for data collection....

The article discussed the challenges facing the teaching and learning of educational administration and planning programme in the Nigerian higher institutions. Secondary data was used to support the points raised in the article. Secondary data was used and the secondary data were sourced from print material and online publication by recognized institutions and individual author. Inadequate funding of educational administration and planning programme, inadequate academic staff, lack of...

Everything will depend on the way in which the possibility proposed by the event is grasped, elaborated, incorporated and set out in the world -Alain Badiou 1 Badiou uses "the Event", "the event" and the "event" interchangeably.We refer to #MustFall-TheEvent in direct reference to the student protests of 2015-2016.In other instances, we refer to the 'event', except when part of direct quotations.

Many Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Africa face challenges that require the intervention of national governments, development partners and other stakeholders. HEIs also require new investment paradigms to maximize students’ acquisition of work-ready skills, knowledge and attitudes to enable students to contribute effectively to the workforce. The objective of this study was to identify reforms and investments needed to strengthen Higher Education (HE) in Africa and to inform the...

This study analysed the impact of climate change on farming and fishing livelihood in Bayelsa State, Nigeria with the aim of determining the perception of farmers and fishers on climate change vulnerability on their livelihood.The study adopted cross sectional household survey and multi-staged sampling techniques to sampled 400 (200 farmers and 200 fishers) respondents from three Local Government Areas and twelve communities.Data for the study was obtained through the use of questionnaire...

This paper examines entrepreneurship education as a tool for reducing unemployment in Nigeria (a case study of the University of Benin University). Three research questions guided the study. The survey research design was used for the study. The total population comprised 200 students made up of 300- 400 level of university students. The Chi-square statistics was used to answer the research questions. The findings of the study indicated that entrepreneurship education can serve as a tool for...

The status of physical working conditions/facilities especially in Nigerian public secondary schools today appears to be of great concern to educators. It seems that the provisions of these school facilities have dwindled over the years, perhaps due to increase in school enrolment rate which had led to population explosion in public schools. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of physical working condition on effective teaching and learning in public secondary schools of...

<ns3:p><ns3:bold>Background:</ns3:bold> Disability is a complex concept involving physical impairment, activity limitation, and participation restriction. The Washington Group developed a set of questions on six functional domains (seeing, hearing, walking, remembering, self-care, and communicating) to allow collection of comparable data on disability. We aimed to improve understanding of prevalence and correlates of disability in this low-income setting in Malawi.</ns3:p><ns3:p>...

Abstract The recent report (the Sixth Assessment Report of Working Group 1) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change clearly points to the urgency of global climate action. Optimal governance regimes are necessary for climate change mitigation in major greenhouse gas‐emitting countries and economic sectors. Given our study's domain, the ‘climate change governance’ concept suffices as our theoretical framework. Adopting comparative legal and policy analysis and the case study...

Although governments across the globe have pledged resources and efforts to minimise the factors contributing to climate change, it is a concern that climate change continues to exert significant hardship on many rural communities of which South Africa is no exception. The Eastern Cape Province in South Africa is one of the driest provinces with prolonged water scarcity challenges. The purpose of this study is to investigate coping strategies adopted by the rural poor to build resilience...

Abstract Background Headache is one of the most disturbing complaints worldwide, negatively impacting social and regular life activities.In the background of stressful life in medical schools, adding to the stressful situation in Palestine, a developing country under occupation, this study investigated the prevalence and clinical characteristics of migraines and tension headaches among medical students from the Palestinian Universities in West Bank and Gaza Methods: A questionnaire-based...

Place-based inequalities, such as exposure to violence and access to nutritious food and clean water, may contribute to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated cognitive impairment. In this study, we investigated neighborhood effects on cognition in children and adolescents with HIV in Lusaka, Zambia.We conducted a prospective cohort study of 208 children with perinatally acquired HIV (ages 8-17) and 208 HIV-exposed uninfected controls. Participants underwent neuropsychological testing...