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Entrepreneurial orientation resulting from entrepreneurship education in tertiary institutions has produced mixed findings in the developed context, especially in Northeast Nigeria, where the insurgency has been disrupting education over the years. This study investigated the level of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of students in Yola, a region in Northeast Nigeria grappling with the onslaughts of the Boko Haram insurgency. This quantitative study examined the difference between the level...

Dr. Motsomi N. Marobela University of Botswana, Department of Management Botswana Email: marobela@UB.AC.BW DOI: 10.47556/J.IJIKMMENA.9.1.2021.3 Purpose: This paper is inspired by the emergence of COVID-19 and how it has profoundly changed the delivery of education and ushered in an online revolution in higher education. Like other institutions of higher learning, the University of Botswana was also affected […]

Rapid changes in food environments, where less nutritious foods have become cheaper and more accessible, have led to the double burden of malnutrition (DBM). The role food environments have played in shaping the DBM has attained global interest. There is a paucity of food environment research in low-to-middle-income countries. We conducted a case study of the food environments of school aged learners. A primary school in Cape Town was recruited. A multi-method design was used: a home food...

<p style="text-align: justify;">This paper extends and complements previous research on unethical leader behavior by examining the social and cultural perspectives that inform the understanding of objectional conduct among secondary school leaders in Kenya. The study used a social constructivist theoretical framework, and qualitative case study, and semi-structured interviews with school boards of governors, principals, and heads of department and school bursars. The findings revealed...

Recent research efforts in teacher education in Nigeria have largely focused on innovative instructional delivery with little attention to learner-related variables such as language anxiety and prior knowledge that can influence learning outcomes in English composition in ESL classrooms. Notwithstanding these interventions, the problems of mass failure and poor quality of essays still persist in Nigerian schools. Studies have confirmed that language-related anxiety and prior knowledge in ESL...

Issues concerning learning during educational disruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic have been the subject of many excellent journalistic accounts, but there has not been much scholarly output addressing the experience. The need to maintain social distance poses a significant challenge to the international communities particularly between populations, educators and students. Though elicited by COVID-19 pandemic, the focal point of this challenge remains how to offer learning opportunities...

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the reality of using virtual online programs in teaching English classes at Libyan state universities, highlighting the pros, cons, challenges encountered, and remedies provided. Design/Methodology/ ApproachThe researcher used a qualitative research method, based mainly on interviewing a sample of instructors at Libyan state universities as primary resources of the study in addition to a literature review as a secondary resource. Research...

The study identified the concept-Electrolysis in Ordinary Level West African School Certificate (WASC) chemistry syllabus as a topic that was not usually well taught by Chemistry Teachers due to either lack of competence or inappropriate pedagogical skills by the Chemistry Teachers. Hence the study examines the relative effectiveness of Computer Simulation Instructional Package (CSI), Four Mode Application Technique (4MAT) and Lecture Method (LM) in improving students’ performance in...

This study examines the perceived effect of the following factors on web searching ability of academic staff in the computing discipline: demographic attributes such as gender, age group, position held by the academic staff, highest qualification, etc; lecturing experience, research experience, English language proficiency, and web searching experience. The research objectives are achieved using a Likert-scale based questionnaire for 61 academic staff from Information Technology and Computer...

<p style="text-align: justify;">In Nigeria, most teachers among other things lack the necessary teaching skills, and mastery of subject matter for effective teaching of mathematics at the secondary school level. These deficiencies have often resulted in high and repeated failure rates in national and standard mathematics examinations. The present study investigated the ability of mathematics teachers to construct practical and realistic word problems in bearing and distance toward...

Higher education is confronted with many challenges in its environment, which are the result of the different mutations that the world knew in the last years. And in order to cope with these new conditions, many changes were operated in the higher education sector, and one of these organizational changes was the implementation of the quality assurance system. So, this paper aimed to investigate academics 'acceptance of organizational change within Algerian higher education institutions. The...

Technical vocational education and training (TVET) are seen as an important tool in economic growth and poverty reduction in many developing countries.There is evidence that creating a work environment and duplicating the industries equipment in the TVET institutions is costly and pushed the budget high and cannot be afforded by the government.This lead to vocational education to be done in an academic setting, working on fictional tasks that are not in line with daily real work...

Intestinal helminthiasis among pupils is a major impediment to their well-being and development. This 2-year study determined how home-grown school feeding programme (HGSFP) impacted on pupils' school attendance and created opportunity for more children to assess interventions geared towards the prevention and possible elimination of intestinal helminthiasis.Faecal samples were collected from 1677 consented pupils and examined for helminths using Kato-Katz technique. Pupils were treated with...

By using a critical emancipatory research framework, this theoretical paper discusses the COVID-19-induced commercialisation of the education system in Zimbabwe. It argues that COVID-19 exposed and widened the digital gap between privileged and underprivileged learners, regardless of the learners’ geographical location. The digitalisation of the education space –in adherence to World Health Organization’s COVID-19 guidelines – has resulted in the creation of virtual elite schools. Learners...

As the education sector is gaining increasing attention in international debates for sustainable peace building, it is important to analyze the conditions under which education is taking place. The provision of education in conflict-affected and fragile countries is challenging. The Congolese education sector is characterized by a gradual retreat of the state in the provision of education and an increasing authority and decision-making power of local actors. The predominance of uncodified...

This study aims to investigate the effect of demographic factors on the turnover intentions of teachers in public secondary schools in Murang’a county Kenya. The study was guided by the following specific objectives: To investigate the association between age and education and turnover intentions; to establish the association between gender and turnover intentions; to determine the association between tenure and turnover intentions and to establish the association between educational level...

Abstract Background this study was conducted to explore the ecosystem services of urban forests in Adama city, central Ethiopia. Attempts were made to quantify the carbon storage and sequestration, air pollution removal and hydrological benefits of urban trees. The urban forest structure and composition of the city was surveyed and analyzed. The i-Tree Eco Model was employed to analyze the ecosystem services based on the current urban forests structure of the city. Results the result...

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has highlighted a ‘vicious cycle of decline’ in rural, regional and remote (RRR) regions, with significant inequalities in educational outcomes between rural and urban areas. However, interventions have not resulted in transformative or lasting improvements to education in rural contexts. This paper presents a cross-comparative country analysis of current global policy on RRR education. We used a policy analysis framework to...