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Several factors influence student learning such as the relevance of the tasks requested, the time devoted to the practice of these tasks or the environment in which the students practice these tasks. Another factor, just as decisive, is the way in which the tasks are developed and presented to the student, that is to say the teaching style used by the teacher to communicate and promote the learning of the selected content.

Malawi adopted internationally accepted standards of a three-tier broadcasting system comprising public, commercial and community broadcasting in 1998. This followed the enactment of a Communications Act, 1998, whose provisions reflected Malawi's newly adopted multiparty system of governance. The three-tier system is designed to achieve media pluralism and diversity of media content, these are key tenets of liberal democracy. Taking the case of Malawi's 2019 tripartite elections, this...

This paper presents the findings of a study that investigated cross-linguistic influence (CLI) on the acquisition of English vocabulary by Tanzanian third language (L3) learners. Specifically, the study aimed to determine how lemmatic CLI from L1 and L2 influences L3 in a multilingual rural context where L1 is a dominant ethnic community language (L1=Haya, L2=Swahili, L3=English) and determine the source language responsible. In all, 40 participants performed three language tasks i.e. word...

The paper assesses local people’s perceptions on the impact of drought on wetland ecosystem services and the associated household livelihood benefits, focusing on the Driefontein Ramsar site in Chirumanzu district, Zimbabwe. Field data were obtained using a questionnaire from 159 randomly selected households, key informant interviews and transect walks. The study findings show that provisioning, regulating and supporting services are severely affected by a high frequency of drought,...

Smallholder farmers are among the most vulnerable groups to climate change. Efforts to enhance farmers’ adaptation to climate change are hindered by lack of information on how they are experiencing and responding to climate change. Therefore, this paper examines smallholder farmers’ perceptions of climate change, factors influencing their perceptions, and the impacts and adaptation strategies adopted over the past three to four decades. A list of farmers was obtained from the Agricultural...

This chapter is a historical critique of the Zimbabwean policy of citizenship education in higher education (with particular emphasis on teacher education) with a view to understanding how such policies promoted (or not) deliberative communication values. The chapter foregrounds communicative competencies, in the Freirean-Habermasian sense, as being the hallmark for a deliberative model of citizenship education that ought to inform citizenship education in a postcolonial democracy. Two...

The study sought to establish the antecedents of employee training and development and its outcomes in selected Energy State Corporation. The study has been informed by literature review as derived from research and works by other researchers obtained from journals, manuals, magazines and the internet. It also contains theoretical review, critical review as well as the conceptual framework. It aims at assisting in the problem definition, and makes it possible to understand what other...

Study findings on the effects of education funding on student performance have been inconsistent. Some have indicated that it is how money is spent and not how much is available that determine academic outcomes. In Uganda, poor performance of Universal Primary Education (UPE) schools has partly been blamed on ineffectively utilization of UPE funds disbursed by government. This study aimed at establishing the relationship between funding and academic performance of such schools in Aboke...

According to the Kenya National School-Based Deworming program launched in 2012 and implemented for the first 5 years (2012-2017), the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminths (STH) and schistosomiasis substantially reduced over the mentioned period among the surveyed schools. However, this reduction is heterogeneous. In this study, we aimed to determine the factors associated with the 5-year school-level infection prevalence and relative reduction (RR) in prevalence in Kenya following the...

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on global operations and economies. Inadvertently, lock-downs and working from home have reduced the daily carbon footprints of transport and office buildings. A beneficial consequence of these reductions is the ability to measure the differential demand of occupants, to benchmark the base load of these buildings, and identify opportunities for efficiency improvements. In this paper we evaluate the change in energy demand in five public schools...

This study projects water availability and sustainability in Nigeria due to climate change. This study used Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) terrestrial water storage data (TWS), Global Precipitation Climatology Center (GPCC) precipitation data and Climate Research Unit (CRU) temperature data. Four general circulation models (GCMs) of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 were downscaled using the best of four downscaling methods. Two machine learning (ML) models, RF and...

Research shows that missionaries played critical roles in the establishment of educational institutions and structures during colonialism. This chapter discusses the growth and development of mission education in colonial Malawi. The chapter shows the impact of the school curriculum on the formation of African social identities. To achieve this, I examined the hierarchical structures in mission schools and their implications for teaching and learning. I demonstrate that Africans were...

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the learning process and outcome of medical education. In this commentary, we discuss the effect of COVID-19 on medical education in Nigeria. The disruption of educational services due to government-imposed lockdown and subsequent transition to e-learning with reduction in direct tutor-trainee contact hours to limit virus spread have had a profound effect on the quality of medical education. These measures have impacted adversely on the...

Climate change poses a major threat to development in most low and middle-income countries, especially the sub – Saharan Africa. Wurompo is a small farming community in the Wenchi Municipality of the Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana that depends on rain-fed agriculture activities for livelihood. In recent years, droughts, unpredictable rainfall pattern and crop failure have become common in the area. The study assessed knowledge and awareness, effects of climate change on female...

DuPont Water Solutions has sponsored a community-based water purification project at Reneilwe Primary School in South Africa.

This is an exploratory case study conducted at the faculty of Letters and languages at the University Abderrahmane Mira of Bejaia -Algeria. It examined general education teachers and faculty members’ views concerning inclusive education (IE) in classes of English as a foreign language (EFL) and identified major issues regarding its future development in higher education. The goal of the present study was to reflect on the current status of inclusive education in the Algerian learning...