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This study examined the demand, supply and utilization of secondary school teachers in Kabba/Bunu LocalGovernment Area, Kogi State. Ten secondary schools were selected from the Local Government (comprising of three schools inurban areas and seven schools in rural areas), using stratified random sampling techniques. Nine teachers were randomlyselected from teachers in senior classes in urban schools and six teachers in rural schools. Relevant data were collectedthrough the use of highly...

The San are Southern Africa's first indigenous peoples. They can be found in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Namibia. The San peoples in Botswana still face discrimination especially in the education sector as their indigenous literacy and way of life are largely ignored. Their languages are not part of the school curriculum in Botswana; English (the official language) and Setswana (the national language) are taught in schools. In theory, this should not be the case. It greatly...

The paper reports the outcome of a funded non-formal, functional adult literacy project embarked upon in the university-based Ìsoyà rural development programme area in south-western Nigeria from 2005–2007. It specifically presents the approaches used in legitimising the literacy project amongst community people; and reports the positive impact of the project on community empowerment. A case study design was used to carry out the study amongst adult literacy class participants. It was found...

The climate of tropical Africa transitioned from an interval of pronounced, orbitally-paced megadroughts to more humid and stable conditions approximately 70,000 years ago (Scholz et al., 2007). The regional atmospheric circulation patterns that accompanied these climatic changes, however, are unclear due to a paucity of continental paleoclimate records from tropical Africa extending into the last interglacial. We present a new 140-kyr record of the deuterium/hydrogen isotopic ratio of...

The main thrust of this article was to explore the causes of dropouts in high school Mathematics in Masvingo urban secondary schools. The researchers got primed to delve into such a research study after realising that a significant proportion of high school pupils were dropping Mathematics when paradoxically a pass in high school Mathematics is mostly a precondition for admission into many tertiary institutions in Zimbabwe. The phenomenological research design was used with individual...

OS11C-06 As well as providing well-localized samples, Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) produce huge quantities of visual data whose potential for geological data mining has seldom if ever been fully realized. We present a new workflow to derive essential results of field geology such as quantitative stratigraphy and tectonic surveying from ROV-based photo and video material. We demonstrate the procedure on the Charles Darwin Seamounts, a field of small hot spot volcanoes recently...

This study investigated knowledge about HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis coinfections among students of tertiary Institutions in Ilorin, Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was adopted to select 405 students from the three selected tertiary Institutions (i.e. University of Ilorin, Kwara State Polytechnic and Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin). A cross-sectional survey research design was carried out, using a structured questionnaire, which was tested for reliability at 0.89r. The data...

Abstract Music education in primary schools in Malawi is faced with challenges related to its marginalisation, inappropriate policy and implementation, teacher training and motivation. There are curriculum-related problems and a shortage of qualified teachers. In this article a philosophical solution is proposed, as the field of philosophy is best suited to reaching the core of the issues involved. The formulation of a philosophy requires multifaceted research and careful reflection. Based...

The purpose of this book is to contribute to the dialogue about African higher education by sharing stories about some of the individuals whose visions and actions have, collectively and in diverse ways, spurred transformation at universities in Africa. This book will focus on nine different countries where universities received support in the first decade of the 21st century from the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (henceforth referred to as the Partnership): Egypt, Ghana, Kenya,...

The purpose of this study was to examine sources of stress among African American college students at a private historically black college and university (HBCU). convenient sample (N = 95) of students from classes in the Department of Health and Human Performance at a private southeastern historically black college and university were used for this study. Data was collected using the Inventory of College Students' Recent Life Experiences Survey. Independent t-test and analysis of variance...

The so-called ‘massification’ of higher education challenges all spheres in institutions serving this education sector. The university classroom and its pivotal areas of teaching, learning and assessment is no exception. While the literature suggests that assessment has a strong influence on learning, it is also maintained that feedback related to assessment is a key determinant of learning attainment. However, conditions in higher education environments are not always conducive to feedback...

Historical knowledge of childhood in the Gold Coast (modern Ghana) is sparse and too often disconnected from a global historiography that has convincingly demonstrated the "child" to be a social construct. In contemporary discourse the "African child" is most commonly portrayed as either aspiring scholar or helpless victim—images that are echoed in the fleeting appearances of children in Africanist historiography. This essay, by contrast, explores the economic aspects of childhood in the...

This article reports on a research project investigating the role of itinerant teachers (ITs) of children with visual impairment in Uganda. The research focused on the activities of 52 ITs who recorded their work in a journal over a period of eight weeks (a new practice which was introduced to them through a workshop). Analysis of the data collected demonstrated that ITs were not able to visit all the children on their caseload as often as they had planned at the beginning of the project....

The study focused on the challenges to female black postgraduate students in South Africa during their period of study. The purpose was to explore the social and emotional challenges to female black postgraduate students and to come up with guidelines on assisting them in coping with their studies at postgraduate level. The qualitative design type was used and the theoretical framework that guided the study was that of Urie Bronfenbrenner’s ecosystemic theory. Three female black postgraduate...