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Inclusive tourism represents a concept which is attracting major interest in international literature and an increasing policy focus in South Africa.Public procurement is used in South Africa as a vehicle for supporting national development goals.Against the background of growing interest on the behalf of South Africa's national government to utilize public procurement for leveraging a more inclusive development path the aim is to direct attention to the potential application of public...

This paper outlines an action research case study in Mauritius to obtain crucial practitioner insights into the implementation of a Tablet PC project in a State Secondary School (National College) with O'level students, to promote innovative teaching & learning and to develop students' 21st century skills. The research was conducted over four weeks in a French literature class of 32 students when Tablet PC's were used to enhance and innovate their engagement with a satirical comedy play....

Social insurance is an important way to defend individuals from the dangers of retirement, sickness, and financial despondency.However, the social insurance data of Egypt are extremely massive, diverse and complex, due to the intricate provisions in Egyptian laws on social insurance.This calls for an effective method to distinguish between the insured and the uninsured based on the big data.Therefore, this paper fully demonstrates the capability of supervised learning algorithms in...

The contributions of individuals towards a nation's development cannot be underestimated. Nevertheless, research has proven that gender roles could create some setbacks to the extent that some individuals may not be able to reach the optimum in higher education. This correlational study explored whether the interplay of some female gender roles affected persistence as female students juggled with studies. A total of 21 study centres with female enrolment of a 100 and above were purposively...

This article examines attainments and challenges in the pursuits of legal education reform launched in 2006. Achievements and challenges in LL.B programmes are examined based on the standards of the legal education reform programme relating to admission of students to law schools, staff profile, standards of reform relating to curriculum, course delivery, assessment, law school autonomy, research, publications, quality assessment and the requisite resources thereof. There are commendable...

The aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness of the internal control system in the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA). And, therefore, the specific objectives are to assess the effectiveness of elements of the internal control system in the CUEA, which are control environment, risk assessment, control activities, information and communication activities and monitoring activities. The study used a descriptive research design, and a sample of 53 administrative staffs was...

Anchored on Empowerment theory, the study adopted a crosssectional research design on the Relationship between entrepreneurial process and success of business of entrepreneurs with disability in Western Kenya, Kenya. The target population was 73 registered businesses of entrepreneurs with disability. Saturated sampling was used in this study. The respondents were 69 business owners, out of which 4 were used for piloting, being 5-10% of sample size considered as a sufficient representation....

The Learning Management System or popularly known as LMS in the community of higher institutions is an online portal that connects lecturers and students, provides an avenue for classroom materials or activities to be shared easily, also a portal that enables lecturers and students to interact out of the classroom, having discussions through forums that could otherwise take up too much of the time supposed to be spent learning in the classroom (Adzharuddin & Ling, 2013).Adzharuddin and Ling...

An effective management within educational institutions could enhance the quality of education provided by the institution. This quantitative study determined the perceptions of secondary school principals on the importance of teacher competency, conducive learning environment, curriculum relevance, staff development, supervision and motivation towards the attainment of quality education. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 175 public secondary school principals from a...

This study aims to identify the obstacles of learning chemistry for ninth grade students in Syrian Arab Republic-Idlib Suburb Refugee camps and suggest solutions to overcome these obstacles. The study followed an analytical descriptive approach using two questionnaires of (58) items of questions for teachers and (18) for students.The population of the study included (27) teachers of chemistry and (91) ninth grade in schools in students in Idlib Refugee camps between 2016 and 2018. The SPSS...

Background: Prescriptions written in daily medical practice are associated with increasing numbers of prescription writing errors. Both omission and commission errors are encountered and caused by prescribers of different cadres. Prescribing errors are associated with adverse drug events (ADEs), which are harmful to patients. This study aimed to determine the common prescription errors, the categories of prescribers who commit prescription errors, and the most prescribed drugs in the...

Menstruation is a normal physiological process of females at their reproductive age. However, it is surrounded with social taboos and supernatural beliefs. The poor knowledge and understanding of menstruation may lead to unsafe hygienic practice that intern increases the risk of reproductive and genito-urinary tract infections, cervical cancer, school drop-out, poor academic performance and overall poor quality of life. Despite such clinical and academic effects, the knowledge and hygienic...

Morocco is one of the most multilingual nations on earth in terms of the number of individuals who are multilingual in three or four languages (Moroccan Arabic, Standard Arabic, French, and for approximately half the population, a variety of Amazigh, or “Berber”). English was introduced into the high school curriculum in the late 1960s, and since the advent of digital communications (satellite television, the internet, and mobile devices), in the 1990s, has become a prestige language in the...

The protection of language rights and linguistic groups is the cornerstone of the constitutional dispensation that Ethiopian has embarked upon almost two decades ago. The constitution declares that all Ethiopian language shall enjoy equal state recognition and allows for regional preference in language use. This article examines the laws and policies that regulate the use of languages in education and investigates their implication for the recognition of cultural diversity, accommodation of...

The paper explores spatial and temporal variability of rainfall and temperature in Bilate catchment based on monthly data of 11 meteorological stations. Precipitation Concentration Index (PCI) and Pearson product moment correlation were used to estimate monthly concentrations and associations between annual and seasonal rainfall. Similar methods were used to analyze the association of ENSO with rainfall variability using Eastern Equatorial Pacific (Niño 3.4) data, Sea Surface Temperature...

Abstract The Ethiopian rift which is part of East African Rift system passes through the middle of the country making it one of the most seismically active regions in the world. Thus, significant and damaging earthquakes have been reported and recorded in the past in this region. A homogeneous earthquake catalog is of basic importance for studying the earthquake occurrence pattern in space and time and for many engineering applications including assessment of seismic hazard, estimation of...