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The past 25 years have witnessed sweeping educational reforms in Uganda. The introduction of ‘free’ Universal Primary Education (UPE, in 1998) and Universal Secondary Education (USE, in 2007) has raised social expectations about access to quality education. Over the same period the population of young people in Uganda has also grown dramatically. As a result hundreds of new primary and secondary schools have been established across the country. This article examines the social and economic...

Bacterial pathogens isolated from dacryocystitis patients are diverse and complex in terms of their distribution, prevalence, and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern. The clinical importance of microbial causes of dacryocystitis and pattern of drug resistance has not been reported in northwest Ethiopia. Moreover, the management of dacryocystitis is based on only clinical observation Therefore, this study attempted to identify and define clinical and microbiological characteristics of...

Women's satisfaction with intrapartum care is critical as it may have a positive impact on service use. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted to describe women's level of satisfaction with delivery services in Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana. A total of 100 randomly selected postnatal women participated in the study using a semi-structured interview schedule. Data were collected over a 4-week period in March–April 2013 and were analysed using IBM SPSS Statistics...

Background: Motivation has always been a central issue in education and has even been referred to as the most complex and challenging issue facing teachers today. The aim of the study was to develop motivational strategies for nursing students at Zagazig University. Methods: The researchers used the descriptive methodological design. Two types of samples were used: A stratified proportionate sample (323) and Jury committee (10). Questionnaire sheets were used to collect data for the present...

The prevalence of extended spectrum β-lactamases among 246 clinical isolates from Abia State University teaching Hospital patients was investigated. The isolates were made up of 134 Escherichia coli and 112 Klebsiella species. Antimicrobial susceptibility of the isolates was determined by the disc diffusion method. ESBL phenotypes were determined by the double disc synergy method using ceftazidime, cefotaxime, ceftriaxone and co-amoxiclav. Out of the 246 isolates, 125 (50.8%) were ESBL...

African history has reached a high level of research and writing, yet the female role in history has not been brought out clearly, in historical explanation or discourse, and in teaching of the discipline. The main question posed is whether the history syllabus and the textbooks put in place to facilitate the implementation of the curriculum generate the kind of historical consciousness in education for both female and male gender. The research constituted a survey where information was...

This paper presents a structural and empirical analysis of the agential of the raison d’etre for Nigeria’s unpreparedness to adapt to changing climate. Structures and strictures of renteir state, prebendal politics and people-unfriendly economic reforms have derailed the developmental focus of the state, and led to the emergence of self-serving, self-perpetuating political elites. This increasingly weakened the state’s capacity and sovereignty across its territory, making room only for a...

The study analyzed the impacts of climate change among rural farmers in Imo State, Nigeria.Specifically, it ascertained the socioeconomic characteristics of the farmers, their level of awareness of climate change, the perceived causes of climate change and the perceived impacts of climate change.Multistage sampling technique was used to select a sample of 100 farmers for the study.Data were collected using structured questionnaire.The data were analyzed using frequency counts, percentages,...

Growth and yield of two Tunisian pepper varieties were evaluated for their salt and water stress tolerance under the salinity levels of 0, 30 and 60 mM NaCl and water stress with 50% depletion of available soil water. The treatment were applied 10 days after transplanting and continued up to plant harvesting. The results of this study indicated that growth, leaf area, yield and marketable fruits of the pepper genotypes were clearly decreased when the plants were exposed to water stress, salt...

Background: Pediculosis capitis (PC) and scabies are an important public health problem in childhood. They have a worldwide distribution. Also, they have many effects on the infested students. Objectives: To define the prevalence of PC and scabies, to find out the socio-demographic, environment, and health care behavior risk factors, and to determine the effects on the studied students in Cairo, Egypt. Subjects and Methods: A cross-section, analytical study design was chosen to conduct this...

The present study was carried out to assess stream sediment quality and pollution level by major and trace elements near six abandoned barite mines in the Oban massif and Mamfe Embayment (SE Nigeria). Results showed that the stream sediments are sandy (> 70%) and slightly acidic (pH, 4.1- 6.3) with LOI ≤ 4%, qualitatively indicating low organic matter contents. The concentrations of trace elements varied widely among the dump sites and decreased with depth and distance away from mine dump...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has realized that low educational quality has negative implications for sustainable national development, hence her commitment to develop national policies and national curriculum for teacher education to improve the quality of education (including music education). This article observes improvement in the preparation of musician-teachers as absolutely imperative to move modern music education as a field in the direction for continued growth. It traces out a...

Climate change has emerged as an urgent issue around which both ideas of development and practice are crystallising both in the North and South. However, in this discourse the concern with climate change seems not to dwell much on seeking a better understanding of the barriers to climate change policy responses in different contexts. This paper explores the extent to which climate change ideas are received and converted into policy and programmes by local governments, with reference to...

School environment emphasise on adequate and qualitative facilities to promote conducive teaching and learning environment, the deplorable conditions of the primary schools has become worrisome to the state government and education stakeholders. The study investigated the effects of school environment and pupils' satisfaction with schooling in Ondo State, Two hypotheses were formulated and tested. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study and a multistage sampling technique was...

Gharyan Volcanic Province (GVP) is one of the four major outpouring volcanic provinces (Jabal as Sawda, Jabal Al Haruj, and Jabal Nuqay) in Libya. It culminates the extreme NNW–SSE linear trend with the other province which defines a systematic decrease in age from NWW to SSE. The voluminous petrologic and chronologic episode in GVP is the Old Lava Series (OLS). This OLS (55–50 Ma) is flown over 1000 km of Mesozoic rocks that are sliced by Wadi Ghan fault zone. The second cycle is...

Although managerial Self-directed Learning (SDL) has been extensively researched, this research has largely been conducted within Western context. Thus, there is relatively little understanding of the influence of socio-cultural factors on managerial SDL in non-Western contexts. The significance of this research comes from being the first research that investigates the influence of factors that affect the form and extent of Syrian managers’ engagement with SDL. Four subsidiary aims branched...