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This study examined the subjective well-being (SWB) of international students. International students represent one of the biggest and most relevant sojourners groups. The sample included 204 Angolan international students who attended Portuguese universities and a control group of native-born Portuguese students. Using quantitative survey research methods, the relative strengths of demographic, acculturation, and sociocultural adaptation factors in predicting two indicators of SWB (overall...

A study on employment and academic progress of undergraduate teacher trainees at Makerere University Uganda was necessitated by the rising number of trainees taking-up employment in secondary schools within Kampala City, which may cause untimely completion and high dropout rates. However, no study has been done to establish the motives for employment, who is likely to seek employment, the job demands and how work affects the academic progress of trainees. Using a pre-tested, valid and...

The article presents Catholic Schools as an outcome of the partnership that exists between the government of Kenya and the Catholic Church which makes the Church very instrumental in the provision of education in the country. It is in such a context that the historical perspective of the Catholic schools is expounded, highlighting the contribution of Religious Congregations and respective dioceses in the establishment and management of the schools. Further, the article underscores the...

There has been a neoliberal re-ordering of the political intent behind education in Ghana. Prior to the said re-ordering, education was a means by which the government facilitated the citizen's acquisition of the social capital required to enable the individual to contribute to the positive development of the state. The state intervened to create a common sense of nationhood and destiny among the citizenry in the quest for national reconstruction. However, the neoliberal “commodification” of...

In modern-day South Africa, both the state and the wider society assume that people whose mother tongue is Zulu are Zulus. How can we explain this close relationship between language and ethnic identity? This essay rejects the primordialist answer, which holds that language and ethnic identity are naturally occurring as well as naturally related phenomena. Instead, it argues that a language-based Zulu identity emerged due to a complex historical process involving human decision-making about...

This study explored the implications of climate change for rural transport in South Africa. The article was seeking to convert existing rural transport adaptation constraints into rural transport adaptation opportunities. Challenges and constraints to rural transport adaptation transitions were also explored. The research methodology adopted was a review of the literature and references to case study examples. Then a four-stage multi-analytical approach was used to unravel and decode the...

The study sought to investigate the role played by language in the academic performance of science students at a high school in the Free State province, South Africa who are taught through a language different from their mother tongue. The paper reports on the decisive mantle language plays in the comprehension and subsequent scholastic performance of these Chemistry students. The study adopted a mixed method research design in which the participants were randomly assigned to either the...

This study was carried out in the Boukhalef River which reaches the western coastal waters of Tangier, Morocco, loaded with wastewaters from two industrial zones: Tangier Free Zone and Gzenaya Zone. To understand the extensive impact of these industrial zones on Jbila and Sidikacem beaches located near the Boukhalef River mouth, water and sediment samples of the Boukhalef River were examined in terms of physical–chemical and heavy metal parameters, respectively. The results showed high...

Cross-sectional survey of impaired renal function among adults nested within a large cross-sectional survey of non-communicable diseases. Each row refers to one participant, containing variables on their answers to a questionnaire, anthropometric measures, and laboratory results.

Based on 46 in-depth interviews with scientists, engineers, and CEOs, this document presents a list of concrete machine research problems, progress on which would directly benefit tech ventures in East Africa.

In this work we use chemical fingerprints as characteristics ratios of specific crustal elements Ca/Al, Fe/Al, K/Al, Mg/Al, Mn/Al, Ca/Fe and Mg/Fe to investigate the long-range transport of volcanic aerosols which are entering the atmosphere in suspended and resuspended processes from Icelandic deserts and hot spots in remote areas in Iceland and transmitted to the central Balkan area (Belgrade). For this purpose, backward trajectories from Belgrade (=44°48’; =20°28’) in 2012 and 2013,...

In this article, I critically examine the pedagogical problems in the teaching of ancient history of African philosophy in continental and diaspora Africa. I argue that the teaching of ancient history of African philosophy poses ab initio some peculiar problems arising from a number of factors: scepticism about the existence of such a classical philosophy; the problem of language and the controversy in the historiography of African philosophy. An examination of these issues as well as a...

Children in the developing world are at far greater risk for emotional, psychological, and health challenges; at the same time, they have little access to clinical interventions or other support services. The intervention presented in this study is a low-cost, play-based intervention that we believed could help to address early learning and developmental challenges in preschool children in under-resourced areas, in this case, rural Uganda. This study explores the connection among...

This article seeks to discuss issues associated with the inconspicuousness of isiZulu as an indigenous African language in the South African education system as established during empirical research conducted by the author for his PhD thesis. The research revealed that the integration of isiZulu into information and communication technology (ICT) in the basic education sector in KwaZulu-Natal is very slow, and yet it could positively fast-track the elevation and promotion of this language as...

Recent scholarship in computer science (CS) education shifts from a focus on the technical-cognitive skills of computational thinking to the socio-cultural goal of computational participation, often illustrated as remixing popular media (e.g. music, photos, etc.) in online communities. These activities do enhance the participatory dimensions of CS, but whether they also support broadening the participation of underrepresented youth remains unclear. While online communities that are dedicated...

This well-researched and well-written book, an expansion of a doctoral thesis, aims to correct a neglect of rural and regional histories in favour of a focus on urban politics in South African hist...

Along with the internationalisation of English, many parents demanded teaching English at the level of primary education in Algeria. The latter is commonly known as the second largest Francophone country where French is set as an official first foreign language in the Constitution and given priority over the international language which is set as the second foreign language. English has no clear status and is not given importance as French at the institutional and political level. The...