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Mobile technology has been an emerging technology over the last few decades.This phenomenon presents both opportunities and challenges in higher education, especially in the classroom.The purpose of this study was to explore how students' use of mobile technology in the classroom affects their classroom engagement and learning.A sample of students from a University in Nigeria was surveyed to assess their perceptions of their use of mobile technology and for what they used it.Collectively,...

In 2003, Liberia emerged from a violent 14-year civil war which caused widespread destruction of the nation's socio-economic and educational infrastructure. Even before the war, Liberia lacked the necessary programs and policies to effectively train public school principals and provide them with sustainable ongoing leadership development opportunities and support throughout their careers. This remains true today. This descriptive qualitative study explores the perceptions of Liberian public...

Software Engineering (SE) professionals design, implement, and maintain modern business applications. From the software industry’s perspective, SE graduates must possess the necessary competencies required by industry. In this paper, we present results from a focus group arranged as a webinar conducted amongst SE industry supervisors, a graduate programmer, and academics from three computing departments in different universities in Namibia. Our results identified crucial SE skills expected...

Background: Management of Family planning (FP) commodities is a significant problem that is not limited to compromising the quality of FP services but also results in economic burden especially in developing countries. Some facilities may have ample FP commodities while others have a shortage if FP logistics are managed poorly. Hence, assessing the FP commodities logistic management is relevant to inform decision-makers.
 Methods: This survey was a cross-section study of 763 public...

The purpose of this research project is to study the experiences of Sub-Saharan African students, who have earned professional degrees from American institutions and are currently living in the United States. Acculturative stressors have been identified by researchers as predictors of loneliness, depression, homesickness, and poor mental health among international students and in Sub-Saharan African students. Although academic research by scholars has shown a negative impact of acculturative...

The Ramsar wetland sites are important habitats for biodiversity and provide ecological services to communities that otherwise have no access to water resources. In Kenya, some wetlands are more prominent and are recognized worldwide as tourist hot spots, biodiversity-rich zones and wildlife habitats. However, these wetlands face overexploitation and degradation from surrounding communities. The efforts to halt underlying threats and the projected declines in the size and quality of inland...

Nationwide E-inclusion is yet to be realised in many countries, including South Africa, conceivably resulting in the E-skills diversities that exist in the workplace and amongst university students. Literature confirms diversity of E-skills, however does not provide a strategy to develop these E-skills diversities, such that students may cope with the rapid, countrywide adoption of E-learning by South African universities, which has consequently imposed additional demands on students to use...

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine the lived experiences of African American women and their undergraduate preparation for future leadership roles. African American women are more adversely impacted than their African American male and White female peers by institutional inconsistency in leadership education in their post secondary studies. While women earn more than fifty percent of all college degrees, they still lag significantly behind White men who currently hold...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the sources and management strategies of interpersonal conflict arising between college managers and teachers. It attempted to identify frequently observed conflicts and their sources, conflict management strategies, and whether teachers and managers have differences in their views for the sources and management strategies of conflict. To achieve this purpose survey method was employed and both quantitative via (questioner) and qualitative via...

Career Guidance Apps are fast becoming a topic of debate amongst Career Guidance experts. They seem to be able to supplement career guidance experts and hence are very useful especially in places where there are no career guidance experts. To explore this subject further, this research investigated the use of Career Guidance Apps (CGA) by Undergraduate Students in Namibia. Applying a quantitative method using questionnaires, data was collected from 361 students. Findings of the study show...

The understanding of teachers and other key stakeholders' perceptions of existing or anticipated educational policy reforms and the solutions that are acceptable to those reforms are significant in promoting basic education quality.This qualitative study adopted the Interpretive Phenomenology Analysis (IPA) methodology to solicit and analyze the diverse teachers and major educational stakeholders' perceptions and experiences on primary education policy reforms in a metropolitan city in...

The understanding of teachers and other key stakeholders' perceptions of existing or anticipated educational policy reforms and the solutions that are acceptable to those reforms are significant in promoting basic education quality.This qualitative study adopted the Interpretive Phenomenology Analysis (IPA) methodology to solicit and analyze the diverse teachers and major educational stakeholders' perceptions and experiences on primary education policy reforms in a metropolitan city in...

This article presents findings from a study on- “how students’ career aspirations predict their career choice at the advanced secondary level of education in Uganda”. This was premised on three predictors of career aspirations namely; financial remuneration, employment prospects and opportunity for professional growth. The study aimed at answering the question: Do Students’ Career Aspirations Predict their Career Choices? The study presents qualitative narratives from a survey of 48 male and...

This study examines the effect of online learning on technostress levels among language teachers in Palestine during the Covid-19 pandemic. The research method that is used is quantitative with a database of research respondents. The researchers used a scale and validated the instrument carefully to measure the technostress levels among language teachers in Palestine. The collected data were analyzed using (SPSS) to provide answers to the questions of the study. The sample consisted of 101...

The study investigated stakeholders’ perceptive in accessing Nigerian tertiary institutions’ admission, with a focus on Eredo LCDA, of Lagos State. It investigates; parents’, Jamb tutors’ and students’ perception of problems and ways of providing solutions on accessing tertiary institution admission. The descriptive research design was adopted, while simple random sampling was used to select respondents for the study. A structured questionnaire tagged AHEQ was engaged. Five research...

Over the years, Performance in Mathematics as echoed by the KCSE results has remained poor. Several involvements have been put into place to address this low students’ performance in Mathematics in KCSE. The Education Ministry has tried to enhance the teaching of mathematics in most schools by introducing projects such as Strengthening Mathematics and Sciences in Secondary Education (SMASSE), in order to advance performance.  However, the students’ low performance in Mathematics in KCSE...

Parenting styles is the manner in which the parents instill discipline in their children with an aim of influencing their behaviour. Different types of parenting styles have varied characteristics with relative effects on the general behaviour of children. The style of parenting adopted in different homes affect the children’s disposition. This can facilitate the development of a child or be detriment of his or her academic career. This paper is drawn on a study that sought to explore the...

Introduction: The unfriendly relationship between society and individuals with special needs have been debated several times. The term "inclusion" resurfaces at the end of symposium and meetings as resolution to that by the conveners with a belief that such might end the negative attitudes towards individuals with special needs within the society. Purpose: This review was to add to the non available literature for the use of researchers, students, policy makers and lovers of persons with...