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Background: There is growing evidence that social media addiction is an enduring problem among students. This information can be used by marketers to create specific advertisement campaigns for students to promote organisational branding.Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the mediating role of psychological dependence between social networking sites (SNSs) addiction and attitude towards social networking advertising among a sample of rural students in South Africa.Method:...

Both the work of a number of poets and novelists and the popular discourse of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries epitomise the fascination which drought continues to hold for the South African imagination. They also embody the environmental humanities principle that “environment” is inseparable from “society.” If, as has recently been argued, our literature is continuous with San orature, then our memory of drought covers millennia. A selective account of texts from the...

There is consensus about the potential of education to influence the lives of individuals and society. Governments and the international community try to harness the positive potential by promoting universal access to quality basic education through periodic global goals, constitutional guarantees, deliberate national policies and increased investments in education. However, despite the multiple imperatives, evidence from national education systems and the Global Education Monitoring Reports...

Objective: The aim of this article is to reflect on the experiences of the nursing education leaders with transformational leadership styles, with the objective of describing such styles used by academic nurse leaders.Methods: The qualitative research adopted an explorative, descriptive and contextual design. The participants (N = 8) were purposively selected, based on their availability and number of years’ experience as nursing education leaders, through an open invitation. Data was...

Este artigo é um encaminhamento após a participação no 4° Seminário de Formação de Professores Angola – Brasil como integrante da mesa redonda “Leitura, escrita e constituição de sujeitos” e realização da oficina “Educação Ambiental na busca de discursos de resistência”, tais ações possibilitaram a construção de Arpilleras, as quais foram construídas por graduandos das diversas áreas do conhecimento do Instituto Superior de Ciências de Educação do Sumbe - Angola (ISCED), província do Cuanza...

OBJECTIVE: This study examined family leadership styles as determinants of deviant behaviours among primary school pupils in Enugu State, Nigeria. 
 
 METHODS: The study adopted a correlational research design. A total of 821 pupils were drawn as the sample for the study. A questionnaire was used as an instrument for the study.
 
 RESULTS: The major findings of the study revealed that primary school pupils exhibited 12 out of 15 types of deviant behaviours such as...

OBJECTIVE: This study examined family leadership styles as determinants of deviant behaviours among primary school pupils in Enugu State, Nigeria. 
 
 METHODS: The study adopted a correlational research design. A total of 821 pupils were drawn as the sample for the study. A questionnaire was used as an instrument for the study.
 
 RESULTS: The major findings of the study revealed that primary school pupils exhibited 12 out of 15 types of deviant behaviours such as...

There is an urgent need to improve access to safe surgical and anaesthetic care for children living in many low- and middle-income countries. Providing quality training for healthcare workers is a key component of achieving this. The 3-day Safer Anaesthesia from Education (SAFE)® paediatric anaesthesia course was developed to address the specific skills and knowledge required in this field. We undertook a project to expand this course across five East and Central African countries (Ethiopia,...

This article explores the importance of education and schooling precisely, as the catalyst for the development and transformation of citizens within, the African context. Historically, intellectual and citizenship education has always been seen as a western concept within the African continent. Hence, this exacerbated the myopic view that intellectual education is new as its approach in schools is often western oriented. Drawing from post-colonial theory, this study opines that though...

This study, investigated the effect of school type (public and private) and leadership pattern of principal on teachers' job performance in Rivers State Nigeria. The design for the study was survey. The target population for this study comprises of all the Senior Secondary School Three (SS 3) students and their teachers in public and private Schools in Rivers State Nigeria. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 370 'respondents (60 teachers and 310 students) and, stratified...

Severe foodborne disease outbreaks have occurred in different continents of the globe in recent decades, particularly due to ineffective food laws, regulatory systems and inadequate food handling knowledge among food handlers and consumers. The purpose of the present study was to assess the food safety knowledge and practices among secondary school students in rural parts of Kogi State, Nigeria.A cross-sectional study using self-administered questionnaires was carried out between October and...

This paper examines rainfall variability and change as well as drought intensities in the Sudano-Sahelian region of Nigeria with a focus on the sowing season (June -July) and mid-season (August -October) of the farming calendar of rice.Monthly rainfall and rain-days data for Sokoto, Gusau, Katsina, Kano, Potiskum, Nguru, Maiduguri and Yola for 65 years were sourced from the archives of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency.Rainfall decreased in Katsina and Nguru at annual rates of 0.69mm and...

The advancement in information and communication technology and its application in teaching and learning tools have taken learning to a higher level. Innovations in information and communication technology and its deployment in teaching and learning aid adult learning through the distance education mode. Accra Learning Centre hosts the biggest student population pursuing degree programmes through the distance education mode in Ghana. Simple descriptive statistics were adopted to help build a...

Abstract The Cara Syria Programme has been developed to support Syrian academics who have had abandon their academic positions due to the conflict in Syria and who have seen their careers compromised as a result. The Programme offers a means to re-establish their academic identities and develop new skills through participation in the learning activities and workshops provided on the Programme itself and through potential research collaborations with academics in universities in the UK. A key...