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Abstract The Tinderet volcano (19.9 to 5.5 Ma), located within the Kavirondo rift in Kenya, contains blocks of carbonatite lavas with calcite, minor apatite, fluorite, spinel-group minerals, accessory perovskite and 'plumbopyrochlore'; nyerereite is present as inclusions in the perovskite. At least four types of calcite are present in the carbonatite lavas; they differ in morphology, composition and origin. The dominant variety is secondary type-II calcite, which is enriched in sodium (up to...

The process of appointing teachers to promotional positions within the South African education system has lowered the morale of teachers. Key members of the South African Democratic Teachers' Uni on reportedly get preference for promotion over deserving ordinary teachers. The aim of the research wa s to find ways of discouraging cadre deployment in order to boost the morale of deserving teachers. Focus group interviews were conducted using open ended questions. Verbatim transcribed data were...

The study was designed to assess the level of knowledge of sexually transmitted infections and possible factors associated with knowledge of patients attending outpatient clinic in University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. This is to enable appropriate advocacy targeted on at risk population so as to control sexually transmitted infections and prevent its complications in this environment. A cross sectional descriptive study was carried out on patients attending outpatient clinics of...

The study seeks to analyze the affective and cognitive traits of teacher trainees in higher educational institutions in Nigeria. This is with the view to develop an effective teacher education framework by using inputs from the trainees, in-service teachers and teacher educators and to incorporate their ideas into the structuring and organization of not only the educational programmes but also the admission processes into such programmes. Using inputs from classroom teachers, teacher...

This paper examined the School-Based Management Committee's (SBMC) involvement and effectiveness in school governance, curriculum implementation and students' learning outcomes in Nigerian secondary schools; the major challenges facing effective operation of SBMCs were identified as low capacity of key members of the SBMCs; poor attendance of members at meetings due to lack of incentives and financial support from the government; lack of cooperation from the schools; and PTA's resistance to...

Based on a socio-cultural perspective on educational policy as practice, this study used interviews, classroom observations and document analysis to investigate the case of four teachers’ implementing an educational policy and implications of their practices for first and second grade students’ access to, performance and retention in school, especially girls. Results revealed that a) teachers interacted mainly with the pedagogical and the content knowledge; b) the classroom atmosphere was...

The study investigated gender differences in entrepreneurial activities of secondary school administrators in public schools of Southern Nigeria. A descriptive survey design was used in this study. The study sample was 369 (213 males and 156 females) administrators of secondary schools (principals), which was 40% of the population of 1339 administrators, using the multi-stage random sampling technique. A 20-item researchers-designed instrument, “involvement of secondary school...

This manuscript highlights the participatory social learning theory (PSLT), an underutilized yet viable theory for assessing development initiatives. The PSLT is presented in this article as a means of analyzing the initiatives proposed and implemented for women’s economic growth in Uganda. It specifically analyzes the International Labour Organizations (ILO) report on support for women entrepreneurs in Uganda utilizing the five development imperatives of institution building, human...

The paper is an extrapolation of a tripartite classification of basic concerns in secondary education in Nigeria. Experiences in school counselling practice guided the discussion on the classification– the cause, the effect and the consequence -so as to arrive at a comprehensive picture of the main concerns of secondary education Nigeria. The discussion focuses more on an area which is often accorded little or no attention that is the third leg of the classification - the consequence. The...

Bearing in mind the strategic position of science in the development of society and arising from the need for an investigation into the information environment of Teachers of Science Subjects (TSS) in Offa, the study was carried out to determine their information needs, seeking behavior, sources, perceptions on the state of their school libraries and challenges of accessing information. It adopted survey research method with questionnaire as the tool for data collection, which was...

Air pollution from five mobile telephone companies in Tanzania was investigated. Results show maximum noise level of 83 dB and a minimum of 61.4 dB, above a permissible 45 dB. Concentrations of NOx ranged from 0.135 mg/m3(NO) to 0.18 mg/m3(NO2), above a permissible level of 250 mg/m3. The applied Gaussian model estimated the contribution of the BS generators to the atmosphere, to be between 0.0006 μg/m3 and 0.001 μg/m3 at 300 m from the source to 0.35 and 0.014 μg/m3 10 m from the source for...

National education policies around the globe increasingly highlight the need to equip children and youth with entrepreneurial skills, also called “21st century skills,” “employability skills,” “core competencies and others. The present article identifies and analyzes these skills, combining the perspectives of employers and the international development sector, and asserts that education and training can and indeed must work deliberately to imbue students with these. The Entrepreneurial...

In a growing number of countries of the developing world, there has been a shift in policy from fee paying to fee free education for the basic education level of schooling. This has necessitated the introduction of grants directly to schools to mitigate delays in procurement of goods and services by centralized education management systems. In Malawi Direct Support to Schools (DSS) was introduced in 2006 to enable schools purchase teaching and learning materials and perform small scale...

Abstract: The socio-political and economic situation for the period 2007 to 2008 characterized subdued teaching and regressed learning in Zimbabwe. The purpose of this study was to track the learning achievements levels of primary and secondary school pupils in Manicaland. Data was collected through mathematics achievement tests to pupils from Grade 4 to 6 in primary schools and Form 1 to 3 in secondary schools. A sample size of 18417 pupils in four districts in Manicaland participated in...

This study investigated the impact of the Girl-Child Education Campaigns between 1998 and 2006 on enrolment and retention in selected basic schools in Zambia. The campaigns were part of the strategies that government used to redress the existing gender disparities in basic schools where girls were numerically under represented. A multi-pronged research design that encompasses primary and secondary research methodologies was used. Data were collected through questionnaires, interview...

Child and adolescent mental health problems could cause significant distress, and may limit the chance of a student to fully utilize his or her potentials.  School mental health services (SMHS) are standard practices in many parts of the world and serves as a useful preventive intervention against child/adolescent psychiatric disorders. The study is aimed at determining teachers, students and parents beliefs about the need for school mental health services in a sample of secondary schools...

The main objective of this study was to examine the effectiveness of the Kyambogo University teacher-education curriculum on secondary school teacher performance in Uganda. The study was conducted between 2008-2011. Questionnaires, focus group discussions, lesson observations and interviews were administered to Kyambogo University lecturers, university students, secondary school teachers and students. Results indicate that most lecturers and secondary school teachers use teacher-centred...

According to the National Education Policy Act (No. 27 of 1996) and the South African Schools Act (No. 84 of 1996), the underlying principle of current Language-in-Education Policy (LiEP) is 'to maintain home language(s) while providing access to and the effective acquisition of additional language(s)'. In practice, though, learners' home language development is being abandoned too early. At the same time, premature reliance on a new additional language sacrifices its effectiveness as a...

In Madagascar EFA Plan of 2007, primary school teacher pre-service training was abandoned; it was replaced by in-service training. In addition to the inservice training implemented twenty years ago called “Pedagogical days” (JP), the “Teachers’ Networks” were created to cater for the profession development of neophyte teachers who have been massively recruited by parents’ associations (FRAM), but not excluding experienced teachers. A study was conducted to analyze the teachers’ network...