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Abstract Introduction Institutions are increasingly using technology to augment the class learning experience of medical students. Especially in Africa, local content is key to allow insights and knowledge to emerge and build transformative capacity for students and patients. There is currently no peer-reviewed video content produced to provide insight into Orthopaedic conditions for medical students and patients in this region. Our goal was to evaluate the demographic and geographic...

This study assessed the provision of informal training offered by the Limpopo Department of Agriculture, South Africa, to agricultural extension officers (AEOs). The study used surveyed 90 public extension officers purposively sampled. There were statistically significant differences in extension officers’ exposure to climate change between their education levels and in the provision of climate change training between extension officers’ work experience ( P⩽0.05). The study concluded that...

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Issues relating to impairment have been placed in the mainstream of development discourse at global, regional and national levels.Responding to pressure from international human rights regulations, a number of policies and pieces of legislation have been implemented for the improved understanding of people with impairments.However, people with impairments in Zimbabwe continue to face various attitudinal, institutional and environmental challenges.This study seeks to unveil such challenges...

Education is the most critical ingredient in a country's development process in the social, economic and political realms.Kenya in its vision 2030 hopes to be transformed into a newly industrialised, middle-income country providing a high quality of life to all its citizens in a clean and secure environment by the year 2030.To realise this vision, the country needs to develop through its education system, manpower that is trained to think creatively.The role of Chemistry in the development...

The purpose of this paper is to ascertain whether the course, entrepreneurship education is yielding the desired result of enhancing the capabilities of Nigerian graduates by creating in them the right mindset towards creating their own businesses rather than looking for non existing jobs.This is achieved through the analysis of relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention among students of Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi Uku.This study made use of survey...

This paper examined the flippedclassroom strategy as a method in the teaching-learning process in the Nigerian educational system.Issues, problems and the prospectsof flipped classroom strategy on junior secondary school students' performance was also examined in science class specifically.The study adopted a quasi-experimental pre-test, post-test, control group design.Four null hypotheses were generated and tested at 0.05 level of significance.The sample consisted of 120 junior secondary...

Purpose: The study explores the importance of information load in enhancing Fiscal Decentralization delivery in Government Aided Primary Schools in Busoga sub region, Eastern Uganda.The study is occasioned by availability of not so many empirical studies in many developing countries such as Uganda.The major objectives of this study are to establish the relationship between information load and Fiscal Decentralization in Busoga Sub region Government Aided Primary Schools in eastern...

Forms of delinquent behaviour amongst secondary school students continue to increase thus hindering effective learning by students leading to poor academic performance in national examinations.The study sought to determine the influence of Authoritarian parenting on forms of delinquent behaviour among secondary school students in Butere Sub-County.The study was based on the Parenting Models theory.It adopted a correlational research design which allowed the researcher to describe different...

Delinquent behaviour amongst Secondary School students continue to increase, not only in Kenya but world over thus hindering effective learning by students leading to poor academic performance in National Examinations.The study sought to determine the influence of permissive parenting style on forms of delinquent behaviour among Secondary School students in Butere Sub-County, Kenya.The study was based on the Parenting Models theory.The study adopted a correlational research design which...

Background: HIV/AIDS is highly prevalent among youth.Inadequate knowledge and major misconceptions related to HIV/AIDS among adolescents/youth including university students would increase its transmission.Objective: to assess knowledge about HIV/AIDS and its determinants among Assiut University students.Method: A cross-sectional study was carried out on a representative sample of 776 students in Assiut University.A multistage stratified cluster sampling technique was used.A self-administered...

This study examines the Knowledge level of teachers in Ibadan on global warming, the factors influence it and how they perceived it. Questionnaire was used as the main instrument for data collection. It was designed to elicit information on the basis of research questions set for this study. A total number of 450 teachers were used as the sample size. Descriptive statistics such as simple percentages and frequency counts were used in the analysis of the research data collected. The study...

Background: Obesity and low self-esteem are prevalent disorders among adolescents.Tackling this relationship may introduce effective intervention that promotes healthy adolescence.Objectives: to measure the prevalence of overweight and obesity and identify its relation with self-esteem among school adolescents.Method: A cross sectional study was carried out on 533 adolescents selected by multistage cluster sample.The students completed a structured questionnaire on dietary habits, physical...

ICT has brought some degree of changes in every bit of our daily life from education, health, sports etc. Educators and governments have also devoted huge resources to the provision of technology in the learning environment.Despite the increase in ICT tools in Ghanaian Senior High schools, most of the schools seem to be teaching ICT literacy instead of complete integration of the ICT tools in the curriculum to enhance the teaching and learning process.This study assessed whether ICT policy...

The general consensus among countries globally is that TVET plays significant role in economic development, but the increased awareness notwithstanding, provision of TVET in African countries is hampered by diverse constraints as many countries on the continent have not been able to make quality provisions for TVET at a level that can support quality training.The continent faces the enormous challenge of providing stable and sustained socio-economic development that will provide room to lift...

Over the years, scholars and researchers alike have evaluated the basic components of quality secondary education.This has been the case in Uganda and other countries.Success on such an undertaking requires that countries will have to confront the resource requirements for maintaining growth and expansion trends in secondary education.Uganda as a developing country is faced with limited educational resources and a concerted effort from all stake holders must be put in place to mobilize the...

Sexual Harassment (SH) is a global phenomenon and a pervasive problem that affects thousands of students in learning institutions daily yet there are few studies exploring its effect on students' self-esteem especially from the Kenyan context.Sexual harassment is also considered a risk factor for lifelong problems including psychological ill-health and poor self-esteem.The purpose of this study was to describe and explore sexual harassment in and its effect on students' self-esteem.The study...

Competency-based education (CBE) is advocated for, to improve the competence of professionals for health systems performance in the 21st century.Limited evidence of efforts in advancing CBE in the training of Human Nutrition/Human Nutrition and Dietetics (HN/HND) at the undergraduate level exists in Uganda.Failing to develop and validate competencies required of HN/HND professionals to perform in Uganda's health systems may limit advances towards CBE of HN/HND in the country, lead to the...

Many studies have been conducted on thunderstorm activity in recent decades, one of them was started by W. O. Schumann (1952).He discovered a resonance phenomenon associated with ELF (Extremely Low Frequencies) electromagnetic waves propagating around the Earth.The Schumann resonance (SR) can be observed at frequencies close to 8, 14, 20, 26 Hz (Balser and Wagner 1960).These frequencies are associated with the existence of the Earth-ionosphere cavity, in which the ELF waves are excited...