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Students’ Loans are Government Loans extended to students in Higher Learning Institutions (HLIs), these Loans has to be repaid back on or after expiry of the grace period (HESLB, 2004). The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility of engaging financial institutions to partner with the Government in financing higher education by addressing the following objectives:(i) to determine whether there is policy consideration for students’ loans provision by financial institutions (ii)...

Student unrest has been a major problem in Kenya for the government, public universities, the community, society, and even students themselves for several decades. However, the student leaders, majority of who are undergraduates in their late teens to early twenties, lack governance and leadership skills and experience. This study focused on principles of governance and leadership among student leaders in public universities. The study was anchored on positivist research philosophy and...

Good essay writing skills are necessary for composing correspondences, reports, term papers, research papers, homework, examinations and lots more. Essay writing provides the avenue for people to express themselves in a logical manner, develop their writing skill, vocabulary and grammar. Hence, its inclusion at all levels of the school curriculum of English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching in Nigeria. Despite the good intention of the curriculum planners, adult learners still perform...

Pain is subjective and it can only be described by the individual experiencing it.It is the main reason why people seek medical help.Nurses play a major role in the management of pain; hence they must be highly knowledgeable to ensure their practices are of high quality.The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of Nurses' Pain Educational Program (NPEP) on nurses' knowledge of pain management.The quantitative design was employed in the study; five lectures on the Nurses Pain...

Virginia will not forget that she is indebted to the colored women of the Commonwealth for the Industrial Home School. [Davis 1920: 362]Historically, African American child welfare services have evolved as a response to exclusion, differential treatment, segregation, and other forms of racial oppression [Billingsley & Giovannoni 1972; Smith 1991; Stehno 1988]. Internal social reform and selective services for African American children have resulted from mutual aid-oriented responses on the...

Virginia will not forget that she is indebted to the colored women of the Commonwealth for the Industrial Home School. [Davis 1920: 362]Historically, African American child welfare services have evolved as a response to exclusion, differential treatment, segregation, and other forms of racial oppression [Billingsley & Giovannoni 1972; Smith 1991; Stehno 1988]. Internal social reform and selective services for African American children have resulted from mutual aid-oriented responses on the...

Virginia will not forget that she is indebted to the colored women of the Commonwealth for the Industrial Home School. [Davis 1920: 362]Historically, African American child welfare services have evolved as a response to exclusion, differential treatment, segregation, and other forms of racial oppression [Billingsley & Giovannoni 1972; Smith 1991; Stehno 1988]. Internal social reform and selective services for African American children have resulted from mutual aid-oriented responses on the...

This study examines the use of Cronbach alpha reliability estimate in research among university students in Ghana. An exploratory research design was employed in the study. University students’ (both undergraduate and post-graduate) research works were selected from three public universities in Ghana. With the use of inclusion criteria, purposive sampling technique was used to sample 100 research works conducted by students. The sampled research works were examined to evaluate how the...

This study was developed and conducted to test the effect of cognitive restructuring in the management of mathophobia (that is, Mathematics anxiety) among secondary school students in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. To guide the study, two research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated for testing at 0.05 level of significance. In executing the study, the pre-test, post-test, and control group experimental research design was adopted using a randomized...

This paper focuses in examining the distance education, cloud computing and platforms, E- learning and its approaches via cloud computing, benefits and challenges in National Open University (NOUN) in Nigeria.Cloud computing and distance learning are rising speedily and play vital and powerful roles in education and learning in Nigeria today. The use of distance education in learning has come to stay and is being adopted, it needs to be constantly dynamic and innovative. It’s has the...

During the early humanitarian response to a crisis, there is limited time to train health providers in the life-saving clinical services of the Minimum Initial Services Package (MISP) for Reproductive Health. The Training Partnership Initiative of the Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises developed the S-CORT model (Sexual and reproductive health Clinical Outreach Refresher Training) for service providers operating in acute humanitarian settings and needing to rapidly...

The article describes the need for a staff development on effective teaching methodologies and English conversation for government schools in Tanzania. Given this need a training program was provided and funded from Rotary Foundation and the Rotary Club of Ames District 6000 as a Vocational Training Team (VTT) grant. Objectives of the program were to provide the training program on teaching strategies to staff including improving use of English through dialogue and using donated Amazon...

Education and training is a provision that is fundament to governments overall development strategy since January 2003, when the government came power, major reforms to revamp the education sector are being implemented.The reforms cut across the major sub-sectors in education, Primary education, that is early childhood education, Primary education both formal {and non-formal} secondary education, Tertiary education A sessional paper is currently being developed by the government which will...

Following two decades of civil war, Somalia recently entered the post-conflict rebuilding phase that has resulted in the rapid proliferation of higher education institutions. Given the high maternal mortality ratio, the federal government has identified the reproductive health education of health service professionals as a priority. Yet little is known about the coverage of contraception, abortion, pregnancy, childbirth, and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in medicine, nursing, or...

Quality is at the heart of any education and training system. It influences what trainees learn, how well they learn and what benefits they draw from their education and training. Whether a particular education and training system is of high or low quality can be judged in terms of input, output and process. Until recently, however, much discussion of educational quality has been centered on only system inputs in terms of the provision of teachers, educators, teaching materials and other...

Mobile broadband penetration is growing rapidly in Africa, and it offers vast opportunities for mobile learning. Together with its possibilities is the danger of overlooking standards related to its use. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has initiated work in this area focusing on African and Middle East (AME) countries. Countries are required to develop their own mobile learning policies. Examining information and communication technology (ICT) in...

The present study was done to ascertain the pollution index of Benin River flowing through the industrial site of Oghara town for the assessment of heavy metals’ concentrations in soil and water samples. The description of the study area was enhanced by means of a geographic positioning system (GPS) and geographic information system (GIS)  devices  of  the designated sites (A, B, C) with specific distances of 100, 200 and 300 m from the industrial site (labelled D). In each case for soil and...