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Tanzania devotes about one-fifth of government spending to education, focusing much of the funding on expanding school access. Primary school enrollment rates have surged, yet the quality of education services and learning outcomes remain poor, with only 38 percent of children aged 9–13 able to read or do arithmetic at the second grade level. Teachers play a critical role in helping children learn, but in Tanzania, many do not show up to teach. Poor motivation and lack of accountability have...

Highlights: There was significant relationship between teachers' fairness and secondary school student academic performance. There was significant relationship between passion

The breast cancer is the most common type of cancer, accounting for 32.3% of all reported cancers in Yemen. It is the most frequently diagnosed life-threatening illnesses in women; it is greatly affect all spheres of women's life. Being diagnosed and living with cancer is a very stressful experience and having a serious impact on many aspects of women’ daily life. Which make them prone to psychological and emotional disturbances, low quality of life, and leaves dramatic and adverse...

Birth asphyxia is a major contributor to neonatal mortality worldwide. In Ethiopia, birth asphyxia remains a severe condition that leads to significant mortality and morbidity. This study aims to assess the prevalence and contributing factors of birth asphyxia among the neonates delivered at the Nigist Eleni Mohammed Memorial Teaching Hospital, Southern Ethiopia.This hospital-based cross-sectional study was carried out on 279 participants using the systematic sampling method during June...

Abstract Nowadays climate change is amongst the most critical problems affecting the wellbeing of human beings. In Ethiopia, where the majority of the population rely on agriculture, climate change has adverse effects. In rural areas, low resilient capacity to shocks exacerbates the impacts of climate change such as production failure, which in turn enormously contributed to food insecurity. In view of this fact, this study assessed the perceptions and practices of climate change and related...

Nowadays, the initial training of nurses and midwives in Morocco represents a turning point. Faced with the multiple actors involved in this training and the proliferation of training institutions, the quality of the offered training should decide the attractiveness of these institutions. The quality of training depends on the training approaches adopted by the institutions. In fact, an approach that promotes skills development and building and is learner-centred would add more value to the...

BackgroundNeurological impairments might significantly contribute to reduced life expectancy in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). There are no empirical studies of premature mortality in children with neurological impairments in Africa. This study estimated the risk of premature mortality in children with neurological impairments and identified risk factors and causes of death.MethodsWe did a cohort study based on a two-stage epidemiological survey in the Kilifi Health and...

Abstract Foundry practice have existed in Nigeria for centuries. However, for the development of the practice, know-how and skills must be developed. Personnel must be trained at all levels. In this study, the practices in foundries of research and academic institutions involved in foundry within Lagos state were investigated. Investigations were carried out by on-site study of the foundries and also by means of questionnaires investigating various aspects of foundry practice. From responses...

Adolescence was previously assumed to be a diseases free stage of life. It is however now known that adolescents are not only involved in risky health behaviours but they also have their own share of health problems that other age groups face. The adolescent-friendly model helps to create adolescent-responsive health systems, Nigeria currently has no country-specific report on the adolescent-friendly characteristics of the health services rendered to her adolescents. This study identified...

The teaching of Religious and Moral Education as a course appears to be problematic in the Colleges of Education. This research work was undertaken in some selected Colleges of Education in the Eastern Region of Ghana to overview tutors’ approaches of teaching of values in Religious and Moral Education as a course. The study used sequential mixed method survey and the sample size was 344 respondents - 336 pre-service teachers and 8 tutors from the chosen Colleges of Education. Questionnaire...

Students need guidance and counselling at various levels of their educational development.The general purpose of this study was to find out teacher-trainees' perception of guidance services offered in Colleges of Education in the Volta Region of Ghana.The research study was guided by Existential theory and Humanistic person-centred theory.The study is a quantitative research which employed descriptive survey design.A sample size of 346 respondents made up of teacher-trainees was selected...

This study analysed farmer’s perceptions on climate change, their willingness-to-insure their farms and their recovery from or resilience to climate shocks. This involved 209 farmers that were selected through a multistage sampling procedure in the Northern region of Ghana. The data was analysed using double hurdle and ordered probit regressions. From the result, the study established that most of the farmers were willing-to-insure their farms and were willing-to-pay a positive price for...

Misuse and dependency of opioids especially codeine-containing products is of increasing global concern. Inappropriate use of opioids among healthcare students could affect quality of service and ethical conducts of these future professionals, thereby putting the society at risk. This study aimed to evaluate knowledge and perception of medical and pharmacy students in a Nigerian tertiary University on use of opioids with focus on codeine-containing products.A cross-sectional survey among...

Abstract The paper examines the link between organizational climate and work engagement among the non-teaching staff of a Nigerian University. Participants consisted of 229 (F=46.7%; Mean age =45.7) non-teaching staff selected using stratified random sampling technique from non-teaching staff of the institution. Participants completed the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale and Organizational Climate Measure that were subjected to Pearson Product Moment Correlation and t-test analysis. Results...

Studies on data collection of health and medicine are lacking; especially in endemic diseases. This study aimed to create and publish a data benchmark and make it available for researchers. Malaria is one of the endemic and infectious diseases consistently in many countries. must attention. Such diseases need high attention to diagnose, predict, and control by physicians and stakeholders. The initial step of data mining and data analysis is data collection to draw knowledge of this data and...

This study aimed to find out the usage of internet technology among the pre-service teachers at Faculty of education in Amran University, Yemen. To bring about this aim, a descriptive research design (i.e. survey, and open interview) was used. A constructed questionnaire includes 28 items that were distributed on three domains of the internet usage: academic, professional and general internet usage. Interview, as an aid tool, was used to explore the reasons beyond why some of the study...