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Climate change is probably going to affect groundwater resources, in Sub-Saharan ccountries (SSA) in Africa either directly, by means of changing precipitation patterns, or indirectly through the combination of changing precipitation patterns with evolving land-use practices and water request. West Africa has, over the past few decades, experienced a sharp decline in rainfall and average annual flow of watercourses. A break in the rainfall pattern was observed around 1968-1972. 1970 is...

Higher education institutes (HEIs) have exerted a significant influence on the rebuilding of countries affected by conflicts. These institutes operate as catalysts of healing in conflict-affected s...

This research paper investigates the efficiency of applying some strategies to improve English verbal communication in Sudanese secondary schools besides the strategies teachers and learners are using now. To achieve this goal, the researchers assign some English language teachers and third grade secondary school students as a target population. The researchers use different questionnaires and pre and post tests as most appropriate methods for collecting the data. Then, they utilise the...

Basaltic rocks and their content of ultramafic xenoliths are common in the Ghab Pliocene Volcanic Field in northwestern Syria in the form of lava flows, cinder cones and pyroclastic deposits. The rocks occur within the Ghab pull- apart graben that formed by sinister strike slip faults within the zone that defines the boundary between the African and the Arabian plates. Three petrographic types occur: basanite, olivine basalt and more commonly alkali olivine basalt. The peridotite xenoliths...

E-learning education has been a concern in education system in developing countries including Nigeria after Covid-19 pandemic. It is obvious that the state of e-learning education in Nigerian Secondary Schools in not encouraging and this called for more investigation. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of effective use of elearning education in Nigerian Secondary Schools for a better Economics instruction and social development in post Covid-19. The study...

The issue of incessant strike by academic staff of Nigerian colleges of education in recent times is alarming. This is not unconnected with their salaries and other remunerations which perhaps cannot sustain them with the present economic condition. As a result, this study examined monetary and non-monetary incentives as correlates of teacher educators’ job performance in colleges of education in Oyo State. The study was guided by three research questions, and descriptive survey design of...

Barriers to learning often refer to difficulties encountered by learners in learning processes that result from a wide range of experiences in the classroom, at school, at home, in the community and/or due to health problems, disability or disorder, and/or social insecurity and similar external factors. These factors lead to the inability of the system to adapt to diversity and lead to the collapse of learning and social justice and, hence, hinder learners' access to education. Several...

This article examines the knowledge levels and experiences of contraceptive use among migrant, adolescent girl, head porters in Ghana, with the aim of igniting interest among relevant stakeholders for sexual and reproductive health education and promotion among migrant adolescent girls in Ghana. Through a quantitative cross-sectional research design, time-location and centres of aggregation sampling techniques were used to draw the study sample of 503 adolescents for a survey in the cities...

Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is the concept that individual teachers strive to enhance their professional competence and knowledge beyond the initial training necessary to do their job. Therefore, the goal of this research is to investigate the nexus between continuous professional development (CPD) and teachers’ teaching competence, action research preparation, mentoring and peer observation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s Gulele sub city’s public schools. By using mixed research...

This study sets out to describe the new secondary school syllabi that came into use in Cameroon in the 2014/2015 academic year superseding the syllabuses that had been in use in the past thirty years.The present syllabi have been created to reflect the national and international learning needs in terms of knowledge, know-how and attitudes.Cast in the Competency-Based Approach to teaching and learning, it draws from the vision of education contained in the Education for All goals (EFA),...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of methods and materials on the teaching of Citizenship Education in Secondary Schools in the Buea Municipality.Two research questions were formulated to guide the study: To find out how teaching methods influence the teaching of citizenship, and how the use of instructional materials influence the teaching of citizenship in secondary schools in Buea Municipality.The study adopted a qualitative approach, using the multiple case study...

Transmission of malaria by anopheline mosquitoes had been established by 1897, and in 1922, the first start of a successful national malaria elimination campaign began. Until then, only malaria control had been considered anywhere as a feasible project, such malaria control having been conducted primarily through larval source management. From 1922 onwards, in Palestine, by ensuring the breeding sites remained destroyed continuously over years and years, malaria elimination was eventually...

pulmonary hypertension (PH) is one of the leading causes of mortality in the world. This study aimed to determine the ratio distribution and etiological characteristics of PH in Somalia-Turkey Training and Research Hospital.the study was designed as a hospital-based retrospective observational study and included 260 patients who were diagnosed with PH by transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) in the cardiology outpatient clinic in Somalia-Turkey Training and Research Hospital in Mogadishu....

In Ghana over 70% of the people employed in the agricultural sector are smallholder farmers living in rural areas engaging in rudimentary agriculture. However, these smallholder farmers are very vulnerable to climate change which impacts on the income, food security and wellbeing. Climate information could be a vital resort for smallholder farmers to adopt climate smart adaptation practices in order to better manage climate risk. The study aimed to study the factors that influence...

The diversity of courses and complications of admission requirements are complex tasks particularly in Nigerian Universities where a number of parameters are used during the admission process. These courses may be wrongly assigned to applicants who have not met the minimum requirements. In a previous related work, a model was developed to address this issue. However, the model considered only seven subjects out of the mandatory nine subjects required of every senior secondary school student...