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In today's world of stiff competition in the labour market, coupled with advanced technology, industries require of students to have job experience before employing them.The challenge here is that the experience being required is not taught in the lecture rooms.The reality is that, it is only gained though hands on the job, thus real world confrontation popularly called industrial attachment a platform for students arm themselves with all the skill, knowledge and demanded experience.This...

Use of ICTs integration for enhanced learning has been studied for some time now with focus mainly on content delivery.It has however been noted that ICTs usage for learning has not picked well and in a uniform way.Further, little has been done to ensure delivery from a common pool so as to promote standardization of curriculum delivery especially on content creation and sharing.This has left a gap in ICT usage and improvement of delivery.The main objective in this paper is to look at the...

AbstractAim: The objective of this study was to investigate Nigerian physiotherapy teachers’ self-assessment on the attributes of effective clinical teaching and the importance attached to these attributes. Methodology: The McGill Clinical Teacher Evaluation including self-assessment and importance of the attributes of clinical teaching was used to survey 46 clinicians and academicians who teach physiotherapy in five of the seven physiotherapy programs in Nigeria. Descriptive and...

Purpose – The paper is based on a doctoral action research project in which three ESL teachers and the author in one secondary school in the Seychelles focused on strategy instruction in the process approach to writing instruction with the aim of helping students become effective writers. The project enabled the author to establish relationships with the participating teachers as educator, facilitator and collaborator. To ensure the trustworthiness of the research, the author needed to...

This study addresses underlying principles to interpret scholarly-based service-related teaching and learning. Such principles include addressing specific concerns of communities, transforming theoretical knowledge into lived experiences for students, making the knowledge generated within communities meaningful and forging constant growth and learning gain for both students and community members (CMs). Following a grounded theory design, academic staff members, students, community...

The Uganda language-in-education policy is silent about pre-primary schooling. This level of education is largely in the hands of private individuals who, because of wide-spread misconceptions about learning and acquiring English in Uganda (as in many other African countries), instruct pre-primary school learners in English. This article demonstrates how this omission in language-in-education policy is creating competition between rural government and private schools regarding the teaching...

This is a case study model which has applied descriptive analytical approach. The study aims to evaluate the reality of achieving the goals of Education for All (EFA) in Sudan by the mid- term of Dakar commitment deadline (2000-2008-2015). The Basic Education was chosen as a case for the study; a list of thirteen indicators was used as standard instrument to compare the situation between the schooling year of 2001-02 which represented the kick-point (2001) and the schooling year of 2008-09...

Vegetation health and vigour may be affected by oil leakage or pollution. This effect can alter a plant's behaviour and may be used as evidence for detecting oil pollution in the environment. Satellite remote sensing has been shown to be an effective tool and approach to detect and monitor vegetation health and status in polluted areas. Previous research has used vegetation indices derived from remotely sensed satellite data to monitor vegetation health. This study investigated the potential...

This study investigated the perception of undergraduates on the adoption of mobile technologies for learning. The respondents included 182 randomly selected undergraduates from three universities in Kwara State. The data collected through a researcher-designed questionnaire were analyzed using percentages, means, standard deviation and the t-test statistics. The results revealed among others that no significant difference existed in the undergraduates’ perception on the adoption of mobile...

This study was carried out in Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko Ondo State, Nigeria to verify the level of availability of Online learning tools and to find out the level of readiness of both the teachers and students toward using it. Three research questions and three hypotheses were raised and tested for the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. A sample of one hundred and twenty five respondents participated in the study. The research instruments...

Mobile advertising has given business organisations great opportunities to reach consumers and clients directly with products and services irrespective of time and location. These possibilities have made mobile advertising a strategic business plan in today’s global competitive marketing world. This trend of mobile advertising in South Africa and the extent to which it infringes on the information privacy of consumers is examined in this paper. Using 440 questionnaires administered to...

Physical environmentalists (notably meteorologists and climatologists) argue that there is an interwoven relationship between the character of the physical environment and climate change. They therefore distill geophysical factors and analyze their interrelations within the matrix of geo-physical theories. But social scientists are primarily concerned with the human side of the problem: how man activities affect the character of the environment. Specifically, policy analysts are beset by the...

Abstract In Ghana the West African Craton is represented by Birimian and Tarkwaian rocks with extensive granitoid bodies. Granitoids from Asamankese area of the Kibi-Winneba volcanic belt, southern Ghana were analysed for major and trace element contents and found to be characterised by highly-fractionated REE, enrichments, in LILE, and depletion in Nb, Ta and Sr. The LILE enrichment relative to strong Nb–Ta depression, indicates that these granitoids were emplaced in an active margin. Based...

Khat (Catha edulis) is commonly chewed for its psychostimulant and euphorigenic effects in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Students use it to help them study for long hours especially during the period of examination. However, how regularly khat is chewed among university students and its associated factors are not well documented. In this article we report on the prevalence of and factors associated with regular khat chewing among university students in Ethiopia.We did a cross-sectional...

Principals’ leadership has been a part of discussion on the effectiveness of school for the past decades, based on the assumption that no school can success without effective leadership of the principal. This resulted to the various researches on principals’ leadership and school effectiveness worldwide. Contemporarily, majority of principals cannot meet up with the mandated proficiency levels of student performance in Nigeria. The objective of this survey research is to determine the...

The nature of health communication is changing globally as more people are relying on the Internet for health information (Gallant, Irizarry, Boone & Kreps, 2011). These authors argue that web-based communication tool development that engages e-patients can better guide effective healthcare strategies and intervention and promote participatory medicine. However, In Nigeria, health communication is only evolving and it is not clear the extent to which it can be argued that hospitals are...

This paper explores the causal relationship between primary schooling and adult HIV status in Malawi and Uganda, two East African countries with some of the highest HIV infection rates in the world. Using data from the 2010 Malawi Demographic Health Survey and the 2011 Uganda AIDS Indicator Survey, the paper takes advantage of a natural experiment, the implementation of Universal Primary Education policies in the mid 1990s. An instrumented regression discontinuity approach is used to model...