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The study focused on factors that hinder school effectiveness of the primary school pupils in Nachingwea District in Tanzania. The study was guided by three objectives which were to: determine the school based factors that affect education effectiveness in primary schools in Nachingwea District, establish parents’ based factors that hinder education effectiveness in primary schools in Nachingwea and establish student personal factors that affect education effectiveness in primary schools in...
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Three elements of co-business in higher education in South Africa are teaching and learning, research and community engagement. The bulk of the academic?s workload however involves teaching in under-graduate programmes. As academics go about the business of teaching, the assumptions are that there are philosophies under-pinning the way they teach and assess. This paper analysis the conceptions of teaching of fifteen academics who submitted portfolios for a teaching award over a two year...
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A recently released World Bank report entitled Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty shows that climate change is an acute threat to people with little means across the world, with the power to push more than 100 million people back into poverty trap by 2030. Climate change is one of the most important global issues, with a range, broad and far reaching ecological, social, economic, and political impact (Sanahuja, 2011). It is not surprising that during the upcoming...
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The purpose of this paper is to present the limitations of entrepreneurship education in Cameroon, and propose a new direction that entrepreneurship must follow. In order to achieve the above objectives, an empirical study was undertaken with the aim of analyzing the impact entrepreneurial courses have had on learners since its inception in Cameroon, just at the beginning of the new century. The approach used to collect data is a well designed reliable questionnaire among hundred graduates,...
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The main focus of this empirical research is to gauge “the impact of employee motivation on customer satisfaction. This study was carried out at some higher institutions in the city of Buea, South West Region of Cameroon, and examined the role employee motivation has to play in the success or failure of most private higher institutions in the city of Buea. Furthermore, the research investigated the relationship between employee motivation and student satisfaction in one part, but also as...
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Climate change is one of the most important global issues, with a range, broad and far reaching ecological, social, economic, and political impact (Sanahuja, 2011). It is not surprising that during the upcoming CoP 21 gathering in Paris, France, the focus will be on climate change mitigation. Van der Berg (2009: 269) says that the goal of monitoring and evaluation system for adaptation is to identify the aspects that are working, those that are not working, and the reasons why, as well as...
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Curricula and Farming Trainings in Senegal: Extension Workers’ Skills and needs in Farming Risks Management Amadou Ndiaye Abstract In Senegal, the farming technicians who were in the educational system in place in the 1960s did not allow to ensure food security. Today, the orientation of public policies has favored alternative agricultural trainings. In the context of global changes, these trainings have to integrate the development of skills in farming risks assessment and management. How...
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Climate change has numerous effects on livelihoods, animal and plant health, environment as well as on eco-system stability and resilience. These effects of climate change are increasingly being acknowledged as significant factors contributing to poverty due to its implications on agriculture. This study was done to determine the vulnerability of farmers in Nambale district to the effects of climate change and their adaptive capacity. Qualitative and quantitative data was collected from one...
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The focus of this study was to evaluate stakeholders’ perceptions of VET in the Micro and Small Enterprises (MSE) in design sewing and cloth making sector. Data were collected in Tabora municipality. Questionnaires were administered to 10 MSE employers and 20 employees, interviews were held with 2 VET officers, 2 education officers, 4 VET trainers and 6 parents. Five focus group discussions with VET trainees were held and documentary analysis was used to get data from relevant documents....
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<title>Abstract</title> Climate change is increasingly recognized as a worldwide phenomenon that impacts people's livelihoods in many ways. This is especially important in rural areas where households are heavily dependent on rainfed agriculture and natural resources in general for their livelihoods. Farmers' perception and the household level data were collected and analysed to understand the determinants of adaptation to climate change and the impacts of sustainable land and water...