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Globally, mentoring has been recognized as one of the effective approaches in professional training and development of teachers. Most importantly, in Zimbabwe, mentoring has been largely adopted as one of the Teaching Practice strategies by teacher training colleges and schools. Good quality mentoring in schools makes an important contribution to developing professional skills especially to the student teachers (mentees) as this will ultimately ensure good quality learning experiences of...

The study conducted a factor analysis of Retirement Anxiety Scale (RAS) for secondary school teachers.It developed a set of appropriate and homogeneous items on retirement anxiety suitable for Nigerian school teachers.It also determined the reliability indices of the scale and established its factor structure.The study population comprised all secondary school teachers in Osun state.Teachers that had less than ten years to retire from the service were the targeted population.A sample size of...

The use of mobile phones in academic and learning processes has recently proliferated. With mobile phones students may be enabled to share tests or assignments, results, receive live comments from professors and classmates, students can source or create their own contents and send them to peer reviewers for discussion and hence evolve better results. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey at the College of Business Education (CBE) was employed in which a sample of 200 students was selected...

Modern technology is the backbone approach for teaching technology education.It continues to be increasingly adopted and used by higher institutions in Ethiopia.The objective of this study was to identify the comparative advantages of using modern technology in improve teaching-learning process in agricultural sciences in Jigjiga University.This study was conducted with the sample of 4 departments, and a total of 16 instructors and 240 students were selected in random basis.An inquiry data...

Acute Bacterial Meningitis (ABM) is an important cause of death and long-term neurological disability. Recent Information on the relative frequency of the isolation and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of these pathogens is scarce in Ethiopia. This study was to document the microbial characteristics, the antibacterial sensitivity pattern, and seasonal variation of community acquired acute bacterial meningitis. The study was retrospective, conducted at university of Gondar referral...

Significance It warns that, outside South Africa, over 15% of people in Southern African states face "hunger", defined as not meeting their basic dietary requirements. The figure rises to over 25% in Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Madagascar, and over 35% in Namibia. Impacts Food price increases combined with election campaigning will encourage the Zambian president to maintain maize subsidies. Proposed land ownership caps could discourage South African commercial farmers to make...

Introduction : Teaching is defined as the process of helping students to learn something in a school, college or university by giving lessons.  A teaching method refers to the principles and ways used for instruction. In nursing education, a teaching method would therefore mean the way of presenting instructional material to student nurses or the way of conducting teaching activities. Such a method would be said to be enabling if it produces the intended results and vice versa. Problem: Some...

Adolescent low back pain (ALBP) can be considered a signal or precursor of a serious organic disease or telltale sign of future incidence of low back pain in adulthood. Published articles on ALBP in Nigeria are not readily available.The study's objectives were to investigate the prevalence of Adolescent Low Back Pain (ALBP) among secondary school students in Ibadan, Nigeria and the prevalence's association with some socio-demographic variables.Participants were adolescent students from 15...

The study examined the influence of literacy education programmes on the socio-economic empowerment of women in Edo and Delta states, in the South South geopolitical zone of Nigeria.A sample of 1,022 women was randomly drawn from basic intermediate and post literacy classes organised by the Agency of Adult and Non-formal Education, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and private institutions in the area under investigation.The outcome of the study showed a strong correlation between...

Background: The short timeframe of medical students’ rotations is not always conducive to successful, in-depth quality-improvement projects requiring a more longitudinal approach.Aim: To describe the process of inducting students into a longitudinal quality-improvement project,using the topic of the Mother- and Baby-Friendly Initiative as a case study; and to explore the possible contribution of a quality-improvement project to the development of student competencies.Setting: Mpumalanga...

Following the international literature, income inequality decompositions on data from contemporary South Africa show that the labour market is the key driver of overall household inequality. In order to understand one of the channels driving this labour market inequality, we use national household survey data to review changing returns to education in the South African labour market over the last 15 years; with a focus on both the returns to getting employment as well as the earnings returns...

The extension of the Child Support Grant in South Africa to all children aged 17 or under gives the opportunity to evaluate this type of social transfer and its effect on school enrolment. Using exogenous variation in the fraction of life exposed to the grant, we find the grant is associated with a higher probability of enrolment, especially for older children. Other methods of identification presented provide supporting evidence for these conclusions.

This study examined the contribution of Western education as provided by Christian missionaries on the changing roles of Idakho women.The spread of Christianity and Western education in Idakho had a broad approach to reinforce evangelization and to win converts.Education, thus, became part of the new value system less identified with transmitting Christian values and belief and more with providing access to new occupational and social status.The colonial authority further introduced hut...

Integration of technology and education has created dramatic and lasting impact on education provision and consumption and thus a paradigm shift from conventional means to modern education supported by technology.The concept of e-learning is not new in Uganda, but its implementation and integration in the education processes is worth noting, and efforts to that effect have not gone without challenges.Ugandan universities have implemented e-learning as means to increase student enrollment,...