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In the late 1990s, South Africa faced the three-fold challenge of reforming the apartheid-divided institutional landscape of vocational education and training (VET) institutions; ensuring equitable access to skills; and reorienting its skills development system in line with the nation’s reinsertion into the global economy. A wave of institutional reforms was enacted which was followed by a large programme of evaluative research. While this body of work was both valuable and necessary, it...

This article highlights how school science pedagogy can be reconceptualized to infuse environmental problem solving and social transformation into a rural community in Malawi. Historically, the environmental education curriculum in the country is teacher-driven and theoretically-oriented, thus offering limited references to the local communities. Through participatory action research, the science teaching and learning practices were reconceptualized to address local environmental challenges....

Background Dialogic book‐sharing is an interactive form of shared reading. It has been shown in high income countries ( HIC s) to be of significant benefit to child cognitive development. Evidence for such benefit in low and middle income countries ( LMIC s) is scarce, although a feasibility study of our own produced encouraging findings. Accordingly, we aimed to establish the impact on child language and attention of providing training in dialogic booksharing to carers of infants in an...

17ABSTRACTGlobally, as many as twenty to fifty percent of adolescents have initiated sexual activity with age at first sexual intercourse ranging from fourteen to eighteen years, making the need for adolescent contraception obvious. Emergency contraception (EC) is the only form of contraception that can be used after sexual intercourse offering adolescents a second chance to prevent unintended pregnancy, because of sporadic and/or occasional sexual intercourses that adolescents engage in....

The purpose of this paper is to make a comparative study between Egypt and India aiming to measure the impact of three variables, which are: Emotional Intelligence (EI), Job Satisfaction (JS) and Organizational Learning Capability (OLC) among academicians in private Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in both countries Egypt and India.Data was collected from private HEIs in Egypt and India.The study employs standardized scales for Emotional Intelligence, Organizational Learning Capability...

Recent reviews report that healthcare professionals have limited training in managing acutely ill patients and that significant gains could be made in low-income countries by focussing on care of the critically ill. We aimed to determine if a UK-developed acute illness management course (AIM) was acceptable to staff and students in a low-income country and if it improved their knowledge.A total of 188 students and staff attended one of 8 one-day courses teaching a systematic approach to the...

Background: Globally, about 3.5 billion and 45 million people, particularly children are affected and ill with parasitic infection respectively.Intestinal parasitic infection constitutes one of the ten top major public health problems in resource-limited countries.Methods: An institutional based cross sectional study was conducted among 364 randomly selected students from the Motta primary School, November 2014.A pretested structured questionnaire was used to collect data on...

Screening and rehabilitation of attention disorders is a really encouraging field for clinical practice and research because of their effect on cognitive functions. Therefore, they can affect the language productions and cause significant educational, professional, social or familial difficulties. In this context, this study aims at screening for disorders of attention and unilateral spatial neglect in a sample of Moroccan junior high school students at El Moukaouama junior high school,...

Le mouvement d’éducation de l’Association des Oulémas Musulmans Algériens, et de son chef de file Ibn Bâdîs en particulier, s’est caractérisé dans les années 1930 par le développement d’écoles enseignant les sciences religieuses associées aux sciences profanes élémentaires. La défense de l’enseignement de la langue arabe et de l’islam en contexte colonial a donné une dimension éminemment politique à l’action des Oulémas, qui arrive à son paroxysme en 1938 lorsque le gouvernement français...

The Success of failure of an organization depends on the quality of its human resources and training being an integral part of the strategy to integrate human resources management with an organizations business strategy, coming at the age where employees are beginning to realize that employers have the potential to be much more dynamic and beneficial to the organization. Hence, this study was aimed to determine the relationship between training and employee performance in Mutare City...

Food insecurity in Kenya has been experienced over the years and is getting worse. The phenomenon is partly attributed to accelerating global Climate change and variability. This study investigated smallholder farmers' perceptions on climate change; food access and consumption across seasons, and food management strategies for coping with food insecurity, with the aim of identifying promising cases that can be up-scaled to enhance food security. Five sites representative of Kenya's major...

The certainty of a changing climate is asserted in the perception of observable changes in rainfall and temperature reported by more than 52% of farm managers in Cameroon's dry North region and almost 70% in the humid West region.Responding to these observable changes, soil and crop management techniques are adopted to ease climatic stress and insure farms from income shocks and associated vulnerabilities.Farmers were surveyed on their participation in sustainable land management (SLM)...

Abs tract- A combined geophysical survey involving the Very Low Frequency Electromagnetic and the Electrical resistivity survey has been carried out in the Teaching and Research Farm of the Afe Babalola University along Ado – Ikare road, Ado Ekiti with a view to determining the subsurface layers and thickness of the overburden as a means to appraising the ground water potential in the study area. Seventeen (17) west east traverses were established from which VLF –Electromagnetic data were...

The significance of improving nutrition knowledge in order to have a positive influence on food choices and health should not be underestimated. This study assessed the nutritional status and knowledge of school children attending selected secondary schools in Sokoto metropolis. The study population was purposively drawn from secondary school students in Nigeria attending Federal Government College and State Government-owned schools. Four secondary schools were used for the study: Federal...