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This research was aimed at surveying perceptions of climate change and educational themes that would be contextually relevant for climate change adaptation. It locates within the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO’s) Balaclava recommendations on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development (2013). Uncertainty as to how residents of selected households understood the causes and effects of climate change as well as the content structure of...

The development of endoscopy is a testimony to human ingenuity. Instruments have evolved from dangerous straight tubes, illuminated by light reflected from candles, to more flexible and safer instruments with an image transmitted through a series of prism lenses and illumination by an electric light bulb, to images transmitted through fiberoptic bundles with illumination transmitted by fiber bundles from an external source, to our present remarkably safe electronic instruments with digital...

Research is a critical component in the curriculum for post-graduate students. The mentees are assigned supervisors for guidance. The present study sought to investigate the experiences of mentors for postgraduate students undertaking research. The research design was a survey. Purposive sampling was used to select five mentors. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the participants. The study found that the majority of the mentors did not receive training on how to supervise...

Research is a critical component in the curriculum for post-graduate students. The mentees are assigned supervisors for guidance. The present study sought to investigate the experiences of mentors for postgraduate students undertaking research. The research design was a survey. Purposive sampling was used to select five mentors. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the participants. The study found that the majority of the mentors did not receive training on how to supervise...

Research is a critical component in the curriculum for post-graduate students. The mentees are assigned supervisors for guidance. The present study sought to investigate the experiences of mentors for postgraduate students undertaking research. The research design was a survey. Purposive sampling was used to select five mentors. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the participants. The study found that the majority of the mentors did not receive training on how to supervise...

Realization of the public health benefits of mass drug administration (MDA) for the control of schistosomiasis depends on achieving and maintaining high annual treatment coverage. In Uganda, the uptake of preventive treatment for schistosomiasis among school-age children in 2011 was only 28%. Strategies are needed to increase uptake.Serial cross-sectional surveys were conducted at baseline (after MDA in 2011) and at follow-up MDA in 2012 where teacher motivation was provided and supervision...

People who identity as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) have specific health needs. Sexual orientation and gender identity are social determinants of health, as homophobia and heteronormativity persist as prejudices in society. LGBT patients often experience discrimination and prejudice in health care settings. While recent South African policies recognise the need for providing LGBT specific health care, no curricula for teaching about LGBT health related issues exist in South...

The major objective of this study was to determine knowledge, attitudes and practices about HIV testing services and the uptake of this service amongst girls aged 15-19 in selected secondary schools in Malawi. A questionnaire was administered to 457 students and 18 focus group discussions and 45 in-depth interviews were conducted. The study found that almost every student knew about HTC but uptake was low as only about a third of the students reported having been tested. The uptake of this...

Using Malawian data, this paper answers two interrelated questions: are there rural–urban differences in the factors that influence the probability that a household spends or does not spend on own children's education; and are there rural–urban differences in the factors that affect educational expenditure if a household decides to spend? Computed elasticities indicate that spending on education by rural households is more sensitive to changes in income compared with urban households,...

This paper draws on data from an exploratory research project that was carried out at the Centre for Higher Education and Capabilities Research (CHECaR) at one South African university in 2012. I examine the experiences of one student, Jane1 who is disabled according to the university's categorisation of disability. She chose not to identify herself as such and did not declare her status to the university, even though students are encouraged to declare their disability/impairment status on...

In this qualitative study the researchers adopted a case study design genre and utilized multiple data collection tools: focus group discussions, individual phenomenological interviews and discourse analysis to unmask the patriarchal nature of the Zimbabwean school curriculum. Our analysis of data thus involved content and discourse analyses of curricular material as well as the coding and decoding of participants’ responses in accordance with the emerging themes. This approach was motivated...

Improving the knowledge and skills of Medical Laboratory Scientists (MLSs) is imperative and a key intervention area in Nigeria. Earning continuing professional development (CPD) credits is a requirement for re-licensing of MLSs. While the requirement was adopted in 1996, it was rarely practiced and enforced due to the absence of adequate stakeholder commitment and a lack of comprehensive and accessible accredited activities. Recognizing these challenges, a multi-stakeholder partnership was...

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Abstract This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi utilizing a micro‐simulation evaluation method. For this purpose, we simulate four hypothetical scenarios in which a household receives: (1) MK1,040 (US$2.5) for each child enrolled in school regardless of the child's gender; (2) MK1,040 (US$2.5) regardless of the child's enrolment status and gender; (3) MK1,040 (US$2.5) and MK2,080 (US$5) for each boy or girl enrolled in...

The purpose of this study was to determine the physical activity patterns among female students of Kyambogo University, Uganda. A total of 150 resident female students from Kyambogo University, Uganda were purposively selected from the Faculty of Science to participate in the study. A self-developed questionnaire was used to collect data. Three focused group discussions, each comprising eight students were conducted. Both quantitative and qualitative data were analysed using percentages and...

This study explores teaching English as a foreign language in the West Bank, Palestine. It investigates the perspectives of a group of faculty, preservice, and in-service teachers about teaching and learning English in the primary grades under the overarching harsh realities of political conflict and instability. The study demonstrates the importance of addressing socio-political contexts to make teaching meaningful and to set pedagogical strategies that correspond to the context of the...