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The purpose of the research was to assess the relationship between household wealth on education of children in Kasongo Districtt. The study objectives were; 1) to analyze the relationship between household income and enrollment rate; 2) to analyze the relationship between household income and rate of completion; 3) to determine the relationship between income, sex and the level of education of household heads, the number school age children, and the sex of the schooled child with education...

Abstract Background: There is very little information on sexual risk behaviour among Sierra Leone and Liberia school-going adolescents. The present study assessed the prevalence and determinants of sexual risk behaviours among school-aged adolescents in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Method: We used publicly available nationally representative cross-sectional datasets of the 2017 Sierra Leone and Liberia Global school health survey. The sample consisted of 2798 and 2744 school-going adolescents...

In South Africa, the scholarship of epistemic justice has taken on an historical gaze with higher education framed as a social institution that might ameliorate the historical traumas of colonialism. Undoing the legacies of colonialism has been framed as the democratisation of the knowledge project. Using the White Paper 3 of 1997 that posits academic freedom, institutional autonomy and public accountability as fundamental to institutional governance, in part I of this analysis I broadened...

The article addresses a practical problem in the teaching of a particular sub-theme in Tanzania’s secondary school History syllabus, namely age-set systems in pre-colonial Tanzania. Based on their reading of the school syllabus, textbooks and other reference materials, the authors submit that the contents of this sub-theme are sometimes wrongly perceived and presented. According to the authors, the problem partly arises from confusions arising from failure to distinguish age-set systems from...

Purpose: To evaluate disability profile and accessibility limitations among Persons Living with Disabilities (PLWDs) in Nigeria. Methods: 61 PLWDs (44 men, 17 women) consented for this study. World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0, Facilitators and Barriers Survey for People with Mobility Limitations version 2, Barthel Index, and Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Questionnaires were used to obtain data on physical disability profile, level of access barriers, activities...

This study investigated the extent to which teachers use computers in teaching and learning in public secondary schools in Arusha city council, Tanzania.Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation theory guided the study.Convergent parallel design under mixed research approach was adopted.Purposive and stratified simple random technique were used to obtain 110 respondents where by 100 were teachers and 10 were heads of schools.Instruments of data collection were questionnaires, structured Interview...

In this article we present the findings of an investigation on how primary school teachers at 3 independent primary schools in Johannesburg experienced continuous professional teacher development (CPTD). There is a wealth of literature available on planning, organising and implementing effective CPTD. Such literature also highlights the importance of applying adult learning principles in CPTD contexts in order to promote teachers’ learning and development and in turn contributing to a...

Abstract Climate change has had a serious effect on farm output, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. To reduce the effect of climate change farmers require adopting mitigation strategies. Systematic use of crop rotation and improved seed is a pathway to increase farm income, but adoption of these strategies remains low. We investigate the effect of climate change on farm households’ welfare in terms of farm income and explore whether the adoption of crop rotation and improved seed varieties is...

The study reported on here contributes to the growing body of knowledge on the use of standard setting methods for improving the reporting and utility value of assessment results in South Africa as well as for addressing the conceptual shortcomings of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) reporting framework. Using data from the “verification” version of the Annual National Assessments (ANAs), we explored relevant technical and conceptual factors to consider for the...

Gender equality in education and training can be achieved only if curricula at every level of the system become gender-sensitive. The present study examines the extent to which the milieu at one agricultural training college in Zimbabwe promotes the implementation of gender-sensitive training. The main investigative question posed was as follows: To what extent is the agricultural education and training curriculum used at the college gender-sensitive? By responding to this question, the...

This paper is aimed at analysing the importance of teaching science practicals as they are shown in the syllabus of science subjects lather than waiting for the national examinations or waiting learners to reach form three or four. Among the importance of teaching science practicals as shown in the syllabus include, Development of student’s scientific knowledge through practicals, Involving students in action and reflection, Practicals develops learners interest, Practical enhances...

Change and transition processes are complex. As a result, the implementers tend to be reluctant in executing them. Education in Kenya has evolved with time in an effort to meet the needs of the changing times to attain quality standards. However, policy changes in the education sector have been both a success as well as have experienced failures in their implementation. Kenyas education system is currently transitioning from 8-4-4 to the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) which is in its...

Abstract Coastal wetlands are highly sensitive to changes occurring at the coastline. It is critically important to determine region‐specific projections for these areas due to their specificities and vulnerabilities to climate change. This work aimed to value the impacts of recent climate changes at West Africa Sahara coastland, southern Morocco, at Khnifiss Lagoon. We have applied a combined approach using remote sensing techniques and environmental reconstructions based on high‐resolution...

The study sought to determine the effectiveness of the implementation of Continuous Assessment Learning Activities (CALA) by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education in Nyanga, Zimbabwe. The researchers were motivated to carry out the research due to the endless outcry by students who are finding CALA difficult to execute and teachers who are also finding it difficult to guide the students. The initiative was introduced by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education arguably...

The aim of the study was to examine the influence of financial resource management on the students’ academic performance in public secondary schools in Lang’ata sub-county, Nairobi County- Kenya. The study was premised on behavioural leadership theory propounded by Kurl Lewin in the 1930’s which emphasizes that people can learn to become leaders through training and observation. The following research questions were formulated to guide the study: What is the influence of budget management on...

The development of the agro-industrial sector lies in increasing agricultural productivity which is directly affected by climatic changes. The study, therefore, evaluated the strategies for implementing agro-industrial policy in the face of climate change in Southwestern, Nigeria. The study adopted a participatory Field Survey Method to carry out a preliminary survey, while a multistage sampling procedure was used to select 238 crop processors/agro-industrialist. Data were collected through...

Education remains the heart beat of any nation aspiring to greatness.It is as a result of this fact that each country or nation lays much premium on the education of its citizens.It is equally true that evaluation or examination plays vital role in ascertaining the standard of any nation's education system.The evaluation of education system all over the world rests on testing which helps to ascertain the skills the recipients exposed to the education system have acquired over the years.As...

In support of the on-going temporal palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic reconstructions of the Neogene sediments, this study attempts describing the palaeo-proxies recovered from DEL-1 Well, western offshore Niger Delta. The use of standard smear slide method enabled the recovery of well-preserved calcareous nannofossils that depicts early to mid – Miocene (NN4 – NN5) sediments. The up-hole relationships between the relative abundance of Discoaster spp. and coccolith size of...