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David B. Zoogah lists the four competencies businesses need to develop in order to achieve greater returns

The study was aimed at determining the factors that make pupils fail to answer graph questions, estimate and interpret graphs in biology correctly. The study was conducted in four schools in Mpika District of Zambia. Three research questions were raised and answered by means of questionnaires that were administered to 142 pupils and 13 biology teachers. To determine the factors, the five points Likert rating scale was used. Data were analyzed using simple frequency counts, percentages and...

The study sought to determine the factors affecting the implementation of performance appraisal in selected public secondary schools at Kirinyaga Central Sub County in Kenya. The study covered aspects of key result areas and resources. The study was a survey covering a stratified sample of 150 respondents drawn from 450 employees of the selected schools in Kirinyaga Central Sub County. Data collection in this study was through giving questionnaires to principals, deputy principals as well as...

A study was conducted to assess the fertility status

Human values are vital for the enhancement of social and economic development in a country especially Nigeria. This paper tries to X-ray recovery of human values through mathematics education for social and economic development in Nigeria. Mathematics education and some aspects of human values such as self-discipline, problem-solving and diligence (hard work) which mathematics education inculcates in the children are looked into; with the implications that if mathematics education is...

This study has taken place at Assalaya secondary school in Sudan to discover the problems of English language writing errors.It is clear that learners make mistakes in the process of foreign language writing.However, what language teachers and experts question is why do students make the same mistakes, even when such mistakes repeatedly explained to them?Yet not all mistakes are the same.Some are easy to be reformed, and others fossilized.Therefore, it is the researcher's intention to...

Technology use is evident in all spheres of human endeavour. Focusing on technology use in education, this paper examines teachers’ attitudes towards geographic information system (GIS). An assessment was made of GIS teachers in Rwandan secondary schools. Key areas covered include how GIS is implemented in schools, teachers’ attitudes and perception of GIS. The survey was restricted to teachers with prior trainings in GIS to ensure that all respondents are on the same footing as regards to...

A study of transformation of gender roles and women's adaptive capacity in the context of climate change.

Many efforts have been undertaken to address dysfunctional security sector governance in West Africa. However, security sector reform (SSR) has fallen short of radical – <em>transformational</em> – change to the fundamental structures of power and governance in the region. Looking more closely at specific examples of SSR in six West African countries, <em>Learning from West African Experiences in Security Sector Governance</em> explores both progress and reversals in efforts by national...

Education has been a technology used to sustain black abjection across the African Diaspora. Employing Mills’ Racial Contract and Althusser’s theory of the Ideological State Apparatuses (ISA) through a racial lens, this article will discuss how white supremacist education has been used to promote the misrecognition of black subjects as sub-human. German colonizers’ recruitment of Booker T. Washington to develop cotton schools in Togo, West Africa will be explored to highlight this...

This paper investigates the epidemic that prevails in the lives of persons and families affected by disabilities in developing countries, mainly East Africa and Uganda. Grating data and demography are exposed, along with some of the common dilemmas found in the Ugandan educational systems, churches, and communities, in order to express the palpable realities of families and persons with disabilities. Patrons will discover the features and attributes that constructs the disability studies and...

Receiving the children of Syrian refugees as they begin to arrive in the UK is a realistic possibility for many schools. It is likely that these children will face many challenges as they integrate. Educational psychologist Dr Joanna Mitchell offers a checklist for successful inclusion

Reports in the past few decades indicate that Nigerian cities have high noise levels that is claimed to impact the health of residents negatively. The present article therefore examine the rela-tionshipbetween levels of environmental noise in selected residential areas in Ibadan metropolis with varying reported cases of hearing impairments (HI). Data on cases of HI were collected from one hospital; noise monitoring was conducted with the aid of a noise level meter while copies of...

The article explores the continuing effects of race-based inequalities in South Africa, with a particular focus on university education; it seeks to understand what lies beneath the persistence of race-based thinking. A conceptual framework which aligns everyday racism as a daily practice and the normative yardstick of human capabilities is outlined before examining an empirical case study of a student development programme at one South African university. The policy and historical context...

Uganda introduced the use of mother tongue as medium of instruction in primary schools in 2007. This was meant to promote interaction and participation in the learning process and improve children's proficiency in reading and writing. Drawing elements of interaction and participation from the socio-cultural theory, the child-centred pedagogy was introduced. This intervention, however, did not yield the expected results. Children taught in the local language still had problems in reading and...

Employing an explanatory design, this study set out to investigate the morphosyntactic structures of the SMS language of Communication English I students, and the types of SMS language features used in their written work at a university of technology in South Africa. The study randomly sampled 90 undergraduate students (M = 40; F = 50) enrolled for a national diploma programme during the first academic semester in 2013. Their ages ranged from 19–22 years; they all spoke English as a second...

The need for continual production and replacement of industrial and technological manpower cannot be  undermined, since it will enhance the sustainable industrial and technological advancement and security  for national development. One important and indispensable programme that can produce demand-driven manpower for sustainable industrial and technological advancement and national development is TVET. In line with the assertion, this study identified the mechanisms for developing industrial...

Available empirical data relating to quality generally and the application of quality assurance principles to language education at tertiary-level are scanty. This study explores how higher education institutions in Ghana apply QA mechanisms to enhance the teaching and learning of English for Academic Purposes. It examines how institutional contexts and cultures of the four case study institutions impact their QA processes. First, the rhetorical tensions and the apparent lack of consensus on...

The potential for academic research institutions to facilitate knowledge exchange and influence evidence-informed decision-making has been gaining ground. Schools of public health (SPHs) may play a key knowledge brokering role-serving as agencies of and for development. Understanding academic-policymaker networks can facilitate the enhancement of links between policymakers and academic faculty at SPHs, as well as assist in identifying academic knowledge brokers (KBs). Using a census...