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Diversification of the physician workforce continues to be a national priority; however, a paucity of knowledge about the medical school experience for African American medical students limits our ability to achieve this goal. Previous studies document that African American medical students are at greater risk for depression and anxiety. This study moves beyond these findings to explore the role of racial identity (the extent to which a person normatively defines her/himself with regard to...

Nigeria is currently facing a shortage of quality teacher especially in the areas of sciences. This placed enormous task on all stakeholders; government agencies, private partners and most importantly on science teacher educators in Nigeria. This paper articulate radical change needed to succumb this major challenge in the areas of individual Integrated Science Teacher, learning environment and methodology within the realm of general teacher education program. The models of science education...

The objective of the study was to determine the relationship between psychological contract and job satisfaction of secondary school teachers in Gem district, Kenya.A descriptive survey design was used with the target population of 400 teachers in public secondary schools.Stratified random sampling technique was used to come up with a total sample size of 200.Questionnaires with open ended and closed ended questions were developed by the researcher and used in primary data collection.The...

The purpose of this study was to determine the predictors of career indecision by gender.A sample of 359 (162 male and 197 female) secondary school students were surveyed on career indecision, career readiness, locus of control, vocational identity, self esteem, social support and career decision making self efficacy.Using multiple regression analysis, the predictor variables were able to account for 32.9 % of variance in males and 32.8% variance in females.Career readiness and vocational...

There is strong evidence that post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) with antiretroviral drugs in the timely management of occupational exposures sustained by healthcare workers decreases the risk of HIV infection and PEP is now widely used. Antiretroviral drugs have well documented toxicities and produce adverse events in patients living with HIV/AIDS. In the era of “highly active antiretroviral therapy”, non-adherence to treatment has been closely linked to the occurrence of adverse events in HIV...

The study investigated the perception of HIV/AIDS risk and sexual risk behaviours among youths with disabilities (YWD) in comparison with youths without disabilities (comparison group). The study adopted a cross-sectional survey with 362 participants comprising 181 YWD with visual impaired 29(16%), physically challenged 40 (22.1%) and hearing impaired 112 (61.9%) and comparison group (N = 181). A 19-item structured questionnaire was used for data collection. The instrument was revalidated...

Normal 0 false false false EN-MY X-NONE X-NONE The Nigerian government had initiated several youth empowerment programmes through TVET, but a lot of these programmes lack structure and their impact not felt by the nation’s youths. This is evident in the substantial number of youth that still lack work skills-which often results to unemployment, insecurity, loss of lives and properties and chaos. The study therefore, sought to investigate, TVET empowerment skills required by youths as a means...

The study assessed the awareness and indigenous coping mechanism employed by women crop farmers to cope with climate change in Kogi State, Nigeria. Respondents' socioeconomic characteristic, level of awareness about climate change, and indigenous coping strategies to climate change as well as activities of women crop farmers that contributed to climate change were investigated. Four-stage sampling techniques were employed in selecting 200 women crop farmers used in the study. Analytical...

A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Education University of Botswana in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Education Citation: Gaobepe, Malebogo M. (2003) A study on the role of parents' teachers' associations in primary schools: the case of the southern part of Botswana, University of Botswana

Teacher preparation emphasizes application of foundational issues anchored in psychological, sociological and philosophical underpinnings. With such knowledge, teachers are expected to effectively organise the learning experiences of children accordingly. This study, therefore, sought to find out to what extend in-service teachers were able to organise learning experiences that are developmentally appropriate. The mixed methods approach guided this study, as it was informed by both the...

Background: More than 90% of Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in children is acquired due to mother-to-child transmission, which is spreading during pregnancy, delivery or breastfeeding.Objective: To determine the effectiveness of highly active antiretroviral and short course antiretroviral regimens in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and associated factors Jimma University Specialized Hospital (JUSH).Method: A hospital based retrospective cohort study was...

The British colonial policy of education in the Southern Cameroons was guided by the philosophy of adapting education to the mentality, aptitude and occupations of the local population. This policy was gradually abandoned in the 1950s when it was realized that it was serving the colonial exploitative agenda of keeping natives to a permanently rural existence instead of meeting the needs of an independent state. Surprisingly, despite the so much talked of ‘need for education to rid itself of...

Education empowers individuals with appropriate skills, knowledge and attitudes that can fight HIV and AIDS. In regard to HIV and AIDS, many Kenyans are re-examining their long –held cultural beliefs, attitudes and sexual practices. Though billions of shillings have gone into prevention programmes and research, HIV and AIDS has continued to kill people at their most productive age, leaving in its wake helpless children, many of whom have now assumed parental responsibilities over younger...

This study takes on the issue of sustaining occupational information for career choice and development in students of technical colleges in Enugu State, Nigeria. The method adopted for this study was the survey design and the population included were all final year students of the three government technical colleges in Enugu State of Nigeria. The technical colleges were sampled as follows: Government Technical College, Enugu (156 students); Government Technical College, Nsukka (148...

Cameroon has a high concentration of out-of-school youths. Therefore research relating to out-of-school adolescents and HIV/AIDS is imperative. The aim of the study was to investigate the perception of risk of contracting HIV/AIDS and its association with multiple sexual partners among out-of-school youths in Kumba, the Southwest region of Cameroon. A cross sectional study was adopted using a self-administered pretested questionnaire to collect data from a multistage probability sample of...

Procurement performance contributes to the overall performance of an organization through cost savings, improved quality and reduced lead times which leads to internal customer satisfaction.The study sought to analyze the factors affecting the performance of the procurement function in Kenyan public secondary schools.The study was carried out in Gatundu South District.A Case Study approach was adopted in which case a sample size of forty five was selected.The questionnaire was used as the...

Curriculum reform is a key topic in the engineering education literature, but much of this discussion proceeds with little engagement with the impact of the local context in which the programme resides. This article thus seeks to understand the influence of local contextual dynamics on curriculum reform in engineering education. The empirical study is a comparative analysis of the context for curriculum reform in three different chemical engineering departments on the African continent,...