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This paper examines the legal challenges librarians managing university libraries in Kenya experience when providing information services in support of distance learning. Kenya is experiencing enormous socio-economic changes. These changes have exerted serious pressure on higher education resulting to phenomenal expansion of university education. Unfortunately, the demand for university education has not translated into infrastructural expansion of universities. While university intake...

The study examined the curriculum of library and information science (LIS) programmes in university of Calabar and university of Botswana. The study also set out to find areas of possible collaboration between the two universities in order to reposition the programmes for effective teaching and learning for development. The methodology was a descriptive, as well as, a prescriptive approach, this involved content analysis of the curriculum in relation to course titles, programme structure,...

There has been a general lack of entrepreneurship culture among the youth in Kenya. The intervention level of entrepreneurship education has been at tertiary institutions and universities. This paper argues that attitudes and values are acquired at formative stage in life. Based on literature review of the models that have been used  and yielded positive results, this paper proposes an innovative approach to the teaching of entrepreneurship education that is inclusive of pre-school, primary,...

Understanding the potential impacts of climate change is very important in developing adaptation strategies and actions to reduce future climate change risks. In recent years, global climate change models have been used in Egypt to develop climate change scenarios. The objective of this chapter is to highlight the importance of using global climate change models to quantify the risk of climate change on wheat and maize production in Egypt. Field experiments data from case study sites located...

One of the challenges related to the reform of Moroccan higher education is the improvement of the quality of teaching. In fact, the introduction of the principle of quality assurance is materialized by measures cited in the 01-00 law; such as the setting up of assessing systems regarding the variation of training offered by the Higher Teaching in addition to the role played by the evaluation in promoting the present coaching and research. Up to now, the assessment by tutors of Higher...

A Research Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Award of Masters Degree of Education in Educational Administration. University of Nairobi

Enhancing girl-child participation in secondary education is majorly based on socio-economic,socio-cultural, parents level of education and distance from school factors. The study purposed to establish the extent to which the factors affect girl-child participation in secondary education in Migori district, Migori county, Kenya. Four research questions were formulated to guide the study. Literature reviewed was discussed in the light of the variables affecting girl-child participation in...

Dismal performance in mathematics by students has continued to curtail their admission into strategic professional courses both at midlevel colleges and universities. Therefore, this study sought to assess counselling needs related to mathematics performance among secondary school students in Maara district in Kenya. The study examined counselling needs regarding attitudes, study methods and test taking skills related to mathematics performance and determined whether statistically...

School counsellors collaborate with teachers, parents, school administrators and the local community in an attempt to influence students’ academic, social, personal and career domains. Basically, mathematics teachers hold key information necessary for identifying pertinent guidance and counselling needs related to students’ achievement in the subject. Therefore, to facilitate school counsellors’ role in providing comprehensive mathematics counselling services to students, this study sought...

School counsellors have been instrumental in assisting students to overcome barriers towards excellent mathematics achievement. However, boys seem to outperform girls in spite of both genders being exposed to similar mathematics learning conditions and intervention measures. Thus, to enhance school counsellors’ efforts in narrowing the gender gap in mathematics achievement, this study sought to determine gender differences in mathematics counselling needs among secondary school students in...

Diabetes mellitus is a significant cause of visual impairment, hence adequate knowledge on this condition and its ocular manifestations is of immense importance to diabetic patients.To assess the knowledge of diabetic patients on the disorder and its ocular manifestations, and their attitude towards ocular examinations.A cross-sectional survey involving the use of a structured interview was conducted among diabetic patients attending the Diabetic Clinic of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital....

Uganda is internationally recognised for its extensive legal and constitutional provisions for ensuring the rights of the disabled, in addition to the presence of a number of impairment-specific disabled persons’ organisations (DPOs), which provide informal advocacy and support structures. Using a unique dataset from a sample of 579 physically disabled Ugandans collected by the authors in June 2012, we investigate the factors that are correlated with knowledge of the formal institutions of...

The role of the state in managing entrepreneurial tertiary education in Nigeria was discussed in recognition of the national mandate to the state (government) to participate prominently in managing educational programmes at tertiary education in the country for manpower generation and economic development. It is here argued that if the state has such an indispensable mandate, it must participate actively in addressing the current issue of entrepreneurial education that has become the public...

A thesis submitted by Edward Otieno Owino, in fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of doctor of philosophy in business administration, school of business, University of Nairobi.

A thesis submitted by Edward Otieno Owino, in fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of doctor of philosophy in business administration, school of business, University of Nairobi.

IJMBR is a highly brandable 5 letter .com name representing a site about health and research. It served as an online platform for the International Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Research, an open-access journal meant to promote quality research and publication in medical sciences.