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The aim of this study was to examine attitudes and knowledge regarding career planning after graduation, as well as the perceived educational environment of a pediatric clinical course, among nursing students at Menoufia University in Egypt. This study also investigated the influence of the perceived educational environment on future career planning among nursing students.A descriptive cross-sectional study was used, with a structured interview questionnaire that included demographic...

This paper examined library policy formulation and implementation as well as its implications in relation to school library services in Nigeria.The paper reviewed the concept of library and information science policy and school library services in today's society as one that is required at every step of the way, highlighting that the progress of any nation depends on information generation, dissemination and use which is required early enough at the primary and secondary foundation levels of...

Higher education (HE) plays a predominant role in the development of any society.The expansion of HE all over the country (Angola) through the creation of new public and private higher education institutions (HEIs), as well as the creation of internal and external scholarships, have been some of the policies aimed at increasing access to HE, especially the increase in women's access to HE. Giving the growing number of HEIs throughout the country, the Government's main concern is their...

Abstract Aims The survival and ecological distribution of plants in arid habitats are mainly conditioned by water availability and physiological adaptations to withstand drought. In the present study, we have compared the physiological responses to drought of two Retama raetam (retama) subspecies from Tunisia, one of them living under the desert climate (subsp. raetam) and the other one growing on the coast (subsp. bovei). Methods To physiologically characterize the two R. raetam subspecies,...

Recently, researchers in education and psychology have concluded that, the manner in which students approach their learning is an important determinant of educational attainment that needs attention to improve curriculum design and delivery.Scholars contended that since mid-1970s to date, there is an increasing focus by researchers in the area of students' metacognitive awareness from various fields, which includes but is not limited to the field of psychology, science, sports, health and...

In this paper I consider the politics around the school library in South Africa and what is emerging during this postapartheid period of social transformation, to assess the politics of the 'new space' being produced through that transformation. This requires me to look back, through memories and images, at what was inherited from the apartheid era – an approach often criticised by embarrassed white South Africans who wish to be blinkered, and move on, ignoring our painful history, our...

Financial literacy education is a lifelong asset that every individual needs to function and fit well in modern-day society.It provides the financially savvy better decision making, best investment alternatives and family wellbeing.Unfortunately, most consumers especially in this part of our world appear relatively less active and less confident in participating meaningfully in the financial sector due to lack of knowledge about the complex nature of financial products and services and...

Human Resource (HR) practices like performance appraisal (PA) training are meant to ensure that employees are equipped with the knowledge and skills needed for the attainment of organisational goals.However, gaps still exist on the relationship between PA employees' training and employees' performance.This study aimed to establish the relationship between PA training and employees' performance in Public Teacher Training Colleges (PTTCs) in Kenya.A cross-sectional survey study was conducted...

The integration of information and communication technology (ICT) into the educational sector has contributed a great deal to the development and transformation of the teaching and learning process, from the primitive method to virtual interaction between teachers and learners.This means that knowledge was imparted smoothly without the need for the physical presence of teachers and learners, making teaching and learning easier and simpler by making learners more involved in the learning...

IntroductionThe World Declaration on education for all and framework for action to meet basic learning needs adopted in Jomtien, Thailand from 5 th -9 th March 1990, sets out the vision for provision of education to all children as they have equal rights to access education.The forum gave a chance for the initiation of special education for students with special needs in many countries ( UNESCO, 1990).It did not initiate the special schools but it initiated the massive introduction of...

Communicating climate change occurrence in Ogba Egbema Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State was the key interest of this study due to the incessant environmental degradation caused by multinational oil and gas companies in the area. This study used multi-stage cluster sampling technique and administered four hundred (400) questionnaires in a study population of 445,760 persons determined by Taro Yamane statistical technique. The findings revealed that the stakeholders felt that...

Les menages agricoles qui prennent des mesures pour s’adapter au changement climatique ont-ils un revenu plus eleve que ceux qui ne le font pas ? Cet article vise a repondre a cette question dans le contexte des revenus des cultures et du betail dans la region des savanes au Togo. A cette fin, nous construisons un modele bioeconomique base sur le modele de menage agricole. En utilisant les donnees d’enquete recueillies aupres d’un echantillon de 450 menages agricoles au cours de l’annee...

Substantial backlogs in public and school library services in South Africa, especially in the previously disadvantaged, remote rural areas, compel library authorities to explore alternative, more cost-effective ways of library service delivery. This paper describes a South African study which investigated the variants of the school-community library model worldwide, with the aim of defining a South African prototype, which would satisfy the needs of a rural, tribal community. The paper also...

This paper reports on the information needs of learners in the Emzamweni High School in Inadi near Pietermaritzburg Msunduzi in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. A preliminary report, it presents the outcomes of a survey based on the critical incident approach. Students in the Post Graduate Diploma in Information Studies Programme conducted interviews over a two year period from 2001 to 2002. The students were enrolled for an exemplar in the Community Higher Education Service Partnerships project...

This study examined the impact of cognitive restructuring and token economy techniques on the reduction of truancy among secondary school students in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study adopted a pre-test, post-test, control group design with a multistage sampling technique as the sampling method. Judgmental sampling technique was used to select two from the six Education Districts in Lagos State, simple random sampling technique was adopted to select six schools; three schools from each of the...

A High Performance Organization is an organization that achieves financial and non-financial results that are exceedingly better that those of its peer group over a period of time of five years or more, by focusing in a disciplined way on that which really matters to the organization (Dr.De Waal, HPO Center).The high performance organization framework is a conceptual and scientifically validated structure that managers can use to focus on in order to improve organizational performance and...