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Agricultural policy changes in Cameroon had weakened technical and managerial capacities in rubber smallholdings. This study assessed the training needs of rubber farmers in the South-West region of Cameroon. A structured questionnaire was administrated to fifty respondents in Bombe-Bakundu and Mundame, two representative rubber-producing localities. The findings of the study revealed that the majority of rubber farmers had high training needs on production of planting materials (100%),...
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Factual recall is an aspect of memory which deals with the lower order cognitive functioning comprisingof knowledge and comprehension. It is the aspect of memory which serves as the foundation for thehigher order cognitive functioning which includes application, synthesis and evaluation of knowledge.Definitely, good factual recall ability is needed to enable man acquire knowledge and comprehensionwhich form the basis for ability to apply, evaluate and synthesize knowledge at the higher...
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The study sought to answer these questions: How do the teaching strategies employed by Ghanaianinitial teacher educators and the classroom ecology they create affects the thinking skills of pre-serviceteachers? And what can be done to improve pre-service teachers’ thinking through teaching methodsand classroom ecology? The study employed a qualitative case study approach to investigate theproblem at Akatakyiman Teacher Training College (a pseudonym) in Ghana. Teachers in science,mathematics...
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School feeding programs are an important development tool and relate to at least three of the Millennium Development Goals. School farming has been largely overlooked in the urban agriculture literature, but with many parents currently unable to afford school lunches for their children, it can play a vital role in reducing the costs involved in providing nutritional meals for pupils. This paper examines school feeding and school farming in an urban setting—Nakuru Town, Kenya—the extent to...
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Endemic Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) is a juvenile malignant neoplasm of B-lymphocyte origin, markedly affected by climate, vegetation and geographical location. This real country-based, cross-sectional, retrospective study reviews all out-patient clinical records of patients histologically and/or clinically diagnosed with BL from January, 2000 to December, 2007 at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Ghana, a country within the malaria and lymphoma belts of the world. The aim of the study is to...
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Performance-related pay for teachers is being introduced in many countries, amidst much controversyand opposition from teachers and unions alike (Denver, 2006; and Houston, 2006). The rationale forthese programmes is the notion that incentive pay may motivate teachers to improve theirperformance. For example, in early December 2000, the Israeli Ministry of Education unveiled a newteachers’ bonus experiment in forty-nine Israeli high schools. The main feature of the programme wasan individual...
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In the last two decades, the social and economic benefits of formal education in Sub-Saharan Africa have been debated. Anecdotal evidence points to low returns to education in Africa. Unfortunately, there is limited econometric evidence to support these claims at the micro level. In this study, I focus on Nigeria, a country that holds 1/5 of Africa's population. I use instruments based on the exogenous timing of the implementation and withdrawal of free primary education across regions in...
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Information literacy recognizes the need for information to solve problems, develop ideas, and locate appropriate information that would be used by individuals. The school library media centre has an important role of disseminating information to all students regardless of their physical abilities. This article examined the acquisition of information literacy skills by disabled students and the role of the school library media specialist in ensuring that they becomes information literate...
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The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge levels of students in the Midwifery and Nursing Departments of the School of Health Sciences in Kahramanmaras Sutcuimam University (KSU) about Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) and to examine the factors influencing those knowledge levels. The study was conducted between April-June 2009 in the School of Health Sciences, KSU, Turkey. All the midwifery and nursing students in the School of Health Sciences at that time, 296 individuals,...
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This paper posits that the safety and security concerns while interacting with information communication technology (ICT) devices should be considered as a social skill for school learners. Teaching these concerns specifically to information technology learners marginalises the balance of learners, whom are exposed to same risks regardless. We contend that given the widespread usage of ICT devices, it may be necessary for all learners to be aware of the usage risks of ICTs in general on...
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Although distance education is catching up in almost all countries in the world, it is still little known and less studied in many of the developing countries including Sub-Saharan Africa (SAA). Achieving the Millennium Development Goals and the 'Education for All' (EFA) targets, to which African Governments have committed themselves, is a daunting task that requires, among other initiatives, the use of open and distance learning. Ethiopia faces many historical, cultural, social and...
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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play a pivotal role in enhancing learning and teaching at all levels of education across the globe. Many developed countries appreciate that the use of ICTs has improved the quality of education. Developing countries such as Malawi have also incorporated ICTs in various curricula of programmes at all levels of education. Unfortunately, these resource constrained countries face a number of challenges in gleaning the maximum benefits of ICT in education sector.