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Higher education in Algeria is suffering from many problems which damage the image of the Algerian university, but the most important one is the wide gap between the university outputs and the needs of the market labor. The cause of the latter is the lack of coherence between higher education institutions and the labor market. So, the main objective of this study is to show the importance of the coherence between higher education policy and employment policy in Algeria, especially with the...

Our purpose was to explore the voices of five African American graduates of Kansas City’s Lincoln High School between 1955 and 1985. It has been suggested that an ethic of care supporting institutional caring was maintained within segregated schools and broader communities of the old South and existed in all-Black Northern schools as well. This finding led to an inquiry about race and schooling in Kansas City, Missouri. Using oral history, the following question guided the study: What were...

The present study was a correlation survey examination of self-esteem among African American college students. The constructs of racial socialization, parental involvement, social support, family structure, and self-esteem were examined among 98 African American college students residing in the central region of North Carolina. To examine these relationships, Pearson product correlation, multiple regressions, and ANOVA were run to analyze data. Conventional wisdom suggested that changes in...

Research Article| January 01, 2016 Sector collapse events at volcanoes in the North Tanzanian divergence zone and their implications for regional tectonics A. Delcamp; A. Delcamp † 1Department of Geography, Earth System Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Elsene, Brussels, Belgium †delcampa@tcd.ie Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar D. Delvaux; D. Delvaux 2Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Museum for Central Africa, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium Search for other...

On Monday 29 June it emerged that seven British medical students have flown to Turkey from Sudan seeking to join the militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. They seem to be following in the footsteps of a group of five British people from the same university who crossed the border to Syria in March. The first group also …

African American Student Network participants have shown higher rates of retention and graduation than their counterparts even after taking into account academic factors. To understand other ways these students might differ from Black students on campus, we used social network analysis to explore whether there were significant differences in demographic composition and frequency of contact with alters/connections in the ego networks of 32 African American Student Network participants and 193...

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitudes and behavior of Syrian schoolchildren towards oral health and dental treatment. Methods: Students of this study aged between 11-15 years old attending public schools completed a questionnaire that aimed to evaluate young schoolchildren’s behavior, knowledge, and perception of their oral health. Results: 300 students participated in this study. Results of this study indicated that desire to improve oral health found...

Presently, there is armed conflict in Darfur, Sudan. Armed conflict has adversely affected the social, economic and educational development of Darfur, Sudan. Purpose of this study is to know the impact of armed conflict on managerial behavior of the principals of secondary schools in Darfur, Sudan. In this study, the impact of armed conflict on performance of the secondary school principals was analyzed in perspective of their managerial behavior. Based on the findings of the study...

In spite of sustained efforts tertiary institutions implement to try and improve student academic performance, the number of students succeeding in first-year mathematics courses remains disturbingly low. For most students, the gap between their mathematical capability and the competencies they are expected and need to develop to function effectively in these courses persists even after course instruction. In this study, an instrument for identifying and examining factors affecting student...

In spite of sustained efforts tertiary institutions implement to try and improve student academic performance, the number of students succeeding in first-year mathematics courses remains disturbingly low. For most students, the gap between their mathematical capability and the competencies they are expected and need to develop to function effectively in these courses persists even after course instruction. In this study, an instrument for identifying and examining factors affecting student...

Evidently, the implementation of a DL system does not ensure a high-quality education. The purpose of this study is to explore the dynamics and challenges of distance education at Private Higher Institutions in South Ethiopia. In a given study, a representative sample of tutors and academic program leaders selected through simple random and stratified sampling techniques. Questionnaires and interview were instrumental for data collection. The finding revealed that, the number of learners in...

The pledge made in 2000 to achieve universal primary education by 2015 has not materialised and in spite of South-Saharan Africa’s governments’ efforts, teacher preparation has been insufficient. This paper discusses the space of teacher education within the national policy and official development assistance nexus in Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda. Based on the analysis of data obtained from the OECD, UNESCO and AidData, this paper suggests that donor’s limited investment...

The study of students’ motivation and attitude in second language (L2) has recently become an important concept across disciplines of second language acquisition (SLA) and communication. This study sought to validate Gadner’s (2009) Attitude Motivation Test Battery (AMBT) on a population of Arabic language learners in Nigeria, and to determine their attitudes and motivations for learning Arabic language. The sample comprised two hundred and eighty eight (288) Arabic language students from...

The objective of this research work is aim at providing reliable information to land-use planners, it offers almost limitless opportunities for intelligent land-use allocation using Geographic Information System approach. Land-use planning is a decision making process, it is a geometrical process. Therefore, planners need appropriate and reliable geographical information to enable them make sound decisions relating to sharing of various competing land-uses. Thus, the end product of the GIS...

The intensive airstrikes on agricultural lands in the Gaza Strip create craters of 20 m diameter and 10 m depths. Samples from the craters are collected from fourteen different locations, were analyzed to assess the impact of war activities on soil pollution. Soil samples were analyzed for major heavy metals (Ni, Cr, Cu, Mn, Co and Pb) by using hotplate digestion and A Perkin-Elmer Analyst 600 GF-AAS analyzer, equipped with pyrolytically coated graphite tube with integrated platform Zeeman...

Context: Unsafe abortions remain a significant cause of maternal mortality and morbidity in Nigeria. They increase the burden on the already stretched health systems with majority coming in as emergencies and contribute to maternal morbidity and mortality. It is important to ascertain these contributions in order to prevent them. Objectives: This study aims at reviewing the contributions of unsafe abortions to gynaecological emergencies, the pattern of terminations and complications, as well...