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The study investigates strategic planning in public sector in Nigeria with reference to education sector. Specifically, education is the bedrock of nation-building, because it provides the platform or pivot on which other sectors revolve. Perhaps, one of the fundamental challenges of educational sector is poor and defective strategic planning. The inadequacy or lack of strategic planning is the focus of this study. Methodologically, data were generated from secondary sources of recorded...

As climate-related crises increase globally, climate risk financing is becoming an integral part of financial protection and resilience building strategies of African countries. Drought-induced crises result in devastating human impacts and high costs for vulnerable countries, threatening longer-term investments and development efforts. While earth observation (EO) has been widely used for drought early warning, new opportunities emerge from integrating EO data and methods into index-based...

Situated in the field of Education Design Research, this chapter describes a curriculum for literary translation at Master’s level. The curriculum responds to specific challenges presented by the diversity of the South African tertiary education setting. These challenges include creating a course that is not language-pair specific, tailoring the learning outcomes of the course to students who may wish to practise as literary translators as well as to those who do not, and catering for...

Survival analysis today is widely implemented in the fields of medical and biological sciences. The basic principle behind the survival analysis implies to a statistical approach designed to take into account the amount of time utilized for a study period, or the study of time between entry into observation and a subsequent event. The event of interest pertains to death and the analysis consists of following the subject until death. This study aims to analysis the survival status of cancer...

This paper explores trends in summer and intermittent teaching practices among African American students in the post-Civil War South, focusing on student activities in the field, the institutions they attended, and the communities they served. Transitioning out of the restrictions and impoverishment of slavery while simultaneously seeking to support themselves and others was an arduous and tenuous process. How could African American youth and young adults obtain the advanced education they...

Members of the nursing profession face problems in relating knowledge with practice. However, there was no study on the correlation between academic and practice performance of pediatrics nursing in Ethiopia.A cross-sectional study was conducted at Mizan-Tepi University using 396 nursing students' academic and practice achievements on a pediatric nursing course. SPSS version 21.0 was used for analysis. Spearman's rho correlation (rs), one way ANOVA, independent t-test and determination...

A water sample was obtained from an arheic oasis in the deep Sahara Desert, the Gueltates Afilal in Tamanrasset (Algeria). Five diatom strains were isolated, cultivated and identified as Tryblionella apiculata, Nitzschia supralitorea, Fistulifera saprophila, Navicula veneta and Thalassiosira pseudonana using a combination of scanning electron microscopy and next generation sequencing. The diatoms identified are opportunistic and cosmopolitan species with known tolerances to organic pollution...

Abstract Background: Overweight and obesity are global public health problems. Overweight or obesity is estimated to cause 4 million deaths, 3.9% of all Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL) and 3.8% of all Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). Overweight or obesity also leads to conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. It has been shown that teachers have a greater occurrence of overweight or obesity than the general population. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major effect on healthcare during 2020. Current evidence suggests that, while individuals with diabetes and obesity are no more prone to SARS-CoV-2 infection than those without, the risk of hospitalisation if someone has diabetes or obesity and then contracts COVID-19 is three times higher – and 4.5 times higher if they have diabetes and obesity. We assembled a panel of experts from South and East Europe, the Middle East, and Africa to discuss the challenges...

Despite civil war and economic crisis, the educational sector in South Sudan has made tentative gains since 2011. This paper explores the everyday governance of schools in South Sudan, and the struggles of teachers to deliver education amid violence and predation and with scarce resources. It presents an analysis of policy data on education coupled with the insights of researchers and teachers from seven locations in South Sudan, drawing on interviews and a dialogue conducted by a group of...

Water quality monitoring and assessment helps to determine the purity of water and how safe it is for use. This also guides environmental engineers in identifying the pollution sources and developing appropriate strategies in mitigating them. The aim of this study was to systematically analyse published literature to identify the interaction of the nature and regional distribution of pollution sources in Nigeria in the domain of surface water, groundwater, and rainwater quality. The scope of...

The ability to combat food-borne illnesses in food facilities and institutional catering units require sufficient knowledge on food safety and sanitation standards by food producers and consumers. The aim of the study was to investigate the food safety and sanitation knowledge of food handlers in Kenyan high schools. A cross-sectional study was carried out among 204 food handlers in 50 schools. Questions about knowledge and practice toward food safety and sanitation were asked. Respondents...

The aim of this study was to find out perceived stress and coping mechanisms among teachers in special schools in the northern part of Ghana.This study was an explorative study with quantitative survey as its main design.Teachers in three special schools formed the population of the study.The proportionate simple random sampling was used to select 60 teachers for the study.A self-constructed questionnaire was the main instrument for the study.Data were collected personally by the...

After the spread of the Pandemic COVID-19, all educational institutions worldwide shifted to online learning utilizing varied online applications to hold virtual meetings instead of face-to-face ones.Therefore, Palestinian universities used different applications synchronously and asynchronously to manage this sudden and unexpected switch from completely face-to-face mode to an online one.The study aims to investigate the extent to which the online applications utilized in Palestine Ahliya...

This article discussed the impact of COVID-19 on primary school administration in Nigeria. Secondary data was used in the paper. The secondary data were sourced from both print and online sources. The paper identified the following: suspension of teaching programme, suspension of internal examination, suspension of extra-curriculum programme, discruption of academic programme and inability to enroll new students into primary school as of when due as the impact of COVID-19 on the...