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This study sought to determine the role of human resource management practices in developing organizational resilience in star-rated hotels within Nairobi County, Kenya. Specifically, the study sought to assess the role of recruitment and employee training in developing organizational resilience. An embedded mixed research design was adopted. The study targeted 121 managers in star-rated hotels within the Nairobi region obtained through stratification sampling where questionnaires and...

The advancement of web technologies has innovated tools and software applications, also known web 2.0, to support collaborative teaching, learning and research.These technologies offer learners and learning facilitators an opportunity to interact both vertically and horizontally beyond four walls of the classroom.This study provided further understanding, from students' perspective, of issues surrounding usage of web 2.0 Technologies in Mui University, Uganda.This was achieved by: assessing...

Generally, the constant change in demographic trends among the aged depict gradual increase in the size of the aged population globally. The aged population is often capitalised with degenerative conditions such as chronic illness which affect their ability to function effectively and often require special support. Despite the increase in the size of the aged population and their associated degenerative conditions, very few descriptive studies on the determinants of chronic illness among the...

The position and roles of the language teacher have changed a lot in the globalised world of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This is to say that with the upsurge of ICT the relevance of the teacher is threatened. Thus the language teacher needs to change from the stereotype methods of teaching and apply all available resources to achieve his goals. It is the intention of this paper to present a discussion on how oral expression can be used to effectively teach literature in...

Noise pollution and its concomitant effects on humans and environment has reached dangerous levels in many urban areas across the world. However, very little is known about the sources and effects of noise pollution within students’ hostels in a developing country like Nigeria. This study investigated urban noise pollution in residential neighbourhoods, using the Nnamdi Azikiwe University students’ off-campus accommodation in Awka, southeast Nigeria as the study area. Data were obtained...

This study was designed to investigate teachers’ and students’ perception of students’ rating as a tool for evaluating language instruction in College of Education. It examined the percentage of teachers and students who perceived students’ rating as a tool for evaluating language instruction; it also tested to ascertain the significant differences in the perception of students’ rating as a tool for evaluating teachers’ language instruction. The population of the study comprised all the...

Coronavirus infection became a global pandemic in March 2020. The number of hospitalized cases in Nigeria and Ogun State has been on a steady increase with a concomitant rise in Mortality. This necessitates a coordinated and a more systemic approach in the management of this deadly disease. As a result of the potential effects of the disease on the socio-economic development of Ogun State, the state government granted Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilishan-Remo the permission to...

The paper presents the findings from current research on the impact that the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) curriculum subjects have on two South African Schools in Gauteng province in South Africa. The aim is to present the impact of the CAPs subjects in the school. The study did a critical evaluation of each subject to elaborate on the importance and challenges in implementing the subjects and using a qualitative research method to collect data on a group of teachers and...

When Science was yet to find a cure for the COVID - 19 pandemic, one of the non-pharmaceutical measures adopted was avoidance of mass gathering and where desirable social and physical distancing. The UNESCO directed that schools should be closed and as such recommended the deployment of the Information Communication Technology (ICT) and the internet to run e-learning education. COVID - 19 pandemic and the e-learning expose the inadequate infrastructure in Africa, in terms of electricity and...

Various forms of support frommore experienced teachers help Newly Recruited Teachers (NRTs) to quickly adjust to the expectations of the new job as well as the respective place of work.Today, support of NRTs is even more crucial considering that since 1998,the Teachers Service Commission (TSC)currently established under Article 273 (1) of the Constitution of Kenya (2012); the sole employer of teachers in Kenyaapplies a demand-driven-teacher recruitment formula.Teachers are recruited and...

This research identified the sources of credit available and utilized by the respondents, evaluated the socioeconomic factors determining farmers’ access to credit, constraints encountered by respondents and the influence of access to credit on management practices of poultry farmers in Obafemi Owode Local Government of Ogun State. The data collected from 90 poultry farmers were analyzed using descriptive statistics and the logit regression model, to evaluate the socio-economic factors...

Anxiety is a public phenomenon that constitutes a public source of inadequate performance globally and plays a significant role in their lives. Engineering students and academics have been through immense changes in education because of the effect of the COVID-19 crisis. It is well-known that epidemics' occurrence creates or accentuates new stressors, including panic and fears for loved ones or oneself, constraints on social activities and physical movement due to quarantine, and unforeseen...

The challenge of climate change and tourism is an evolving international knowledge domain. South Africa is one of the most vulnerable countries with respect to projected climate change. For the national tourism economy climate change is a significant topic of concern. The objectives in this article are to present climate change projections and potential impacts for South Africa’s tourism economy and to critically analyse the policy landscape concerning national government’s response to...

This study assessed the correlation between decentralisation policy implementation and Universal Primary Education (UPE) performance in Uganda. It was guided by the objective of assessing the relationship between political decentralisation and Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) performance in Katerera County in Rubirizi district, in Uganda. The study adopted a descriptive research design with quantitative and qualitative approaches. A sample of 139 respondents were selected using Slovene’s...

This paper aims to demonstrate the efforts made by the International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB) in achieving the quality of the accounting learning outcomes and to explore the reality of accounting education in Algerian. We based on the comparative method in order to compare between the content of universities' accounting programs and the International Accounting Education Standard (2). Considering that the accounting educational system in universities should emphasize...

The study investigated the effect of instructional quality on trainee teachers' effectiveness in the delivery of basic education, focusing on Accra and Ada Colleges of Education (CoE), Ghana. The study also considered the moderating role of trainee teachers' academic self-discipline on the relationship between instructional quality and trainee teachers' effectiveness in terms of professional values, attitudes, knowledge, and practices. A cross-sectional descriptive survey design was...

Teachers and pupils co-construct classroom reality, but existing studies examining learner-centred pedagogy (LCP) in the Global South have primarily focused on teachers. Pupils’ experiences with LCP and its contribution to their learning have attracted little scholarly attention. This article seeks to address this gap to some extent by exploring not only teaching and learning practices observed in classrooms but also pupils’ narratives about their experiences in Tanzania. This research...