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The climate change phenomenon is an issue which has posed serious threats to the environment and the economy of developed, developing and underdeveloped countries of the world. The concept of global warming was prominent in the post-industrial era, sequel to that the issue of global cooling was the case during the pre-industrial era. The climate change issues can be of natural occurrence which may be from sources such as eruption of volcanos, respiration by living organisms and decomposition...
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The article provides an opportunity for critical discourses geared towards the modernisation of education in Sierra Leone to confront the realities of digital transformation in the 21st century. The purpose of the study is carved towards the achievement of addressing three objectives, which include the assessment of technology provision and gaps in the country, and proffering recommendations geared towards edging the country’s hope of making realistic growth prospects that are comparable...
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The clinical learning environment has been found to be significantly related to nursing practice and ultimately patient outcome. However, despondency among nursing students towards the clinical learning environment has been widely reported. This study adopted a quantitative research method that included a descriptive survey design with the aim to examine nursing students’ perceptions of the clinical learning environment. The target study population (N=498) was comprised of third- and...
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The study investigated how the school management team of a primary school in Gauteng supported parents to ensure academic success during COVID-19. Therefore, the study explored the perspectives of parents on their experiences and challenges that they had to support learning at home during the COVID-19 lockdown. This study used a quantitative approach and participants were selected using quota sampling. The respondents were limited to parents of Grade 3–7 learners from a selected school in...
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The right to nationality is among the fundamental rights that are recognisable under international and regional treaties, as well as national laws. Under international law, the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (collectively the “Statelessness Conventions”), for example, were adopted to promote and protect the right to nationality and eradicate statelessness. There are three ways by which nationality can be...
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The Gambia EMIS has mainly consisted of a manual, paper based reporting system maintained from the national level. The recent policy changes, which emphasize social inclusion in quality learning, call for an “EMIS shift”, which includes the development of a digital national Teacher Register, Learner Records, and the decentralization of key EMIS functions to regions and schools. Empirically, this paper concerns the steps taken towards a decentralized EMIS in the Gambia as we follow the...
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Background: Assessment is the systematic collection, review, and use of information about educational programs undertaken to improve teaching and learning.It ensures quality in training programmes, motivates, and directs students' learning.Assessment is also used for verification of achievement of objectives of training, feedback to students, licencing, certification, and screening of students for advanced training.It is guided by several principles, including the aims of the assessment (why...
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COVID-19 and its attendant lockdown adversely affected the traditional face-to-face classroom activities in virtually all parts of the world, Nigeria inclusive. As a way out, online teaching became the vogue in many parts of the world. This study measured the perception and attitudes of private school proprietors to the adoption of online learning amidst COVID-19 in Ibadan, the capital city of Oyo State, Nigeria. To elicit information for the study, a purposive sample of 327 listed private...
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In the framework of COMMON MED-project, a sampling campaign was carried out during December 2020 along two radials namely: T1 and T2. The findings showed that microplastic particles (MPs), ranging from 0.31 to 4.9 mm. For all samples, white color and fragments are the most common. As well, HDPE and PE are the predominant polymers. The concentrations of MPs varied between 62,095,032 and 260,979,12 items/km² with a density of 4 times greater in the T2 radial, which shows the influence of urban...
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This study aimed to examine how faculty view the experience of the unexpected transition to distance learning as the only option to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The phenomenological research design was adopted to account for faculty experience when delivering online language courses. Data were collected through email interviewing with Moroccan university teachers. 20 male faculty members, drawn from a purposeful sample, participated in this study after the completion of a seven-week...
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The need for states and civil society to contribute to the global response to climate change is an important feature of international climate change instruments and literature. While states are duty-bearers of rights for all, protests are a historic strategy of civil society to demand accountability and foster societal change. The protection of protests is not specifically guaranteed under human rights law, but its inferred legal basis and scope reflects the liberal tradition, where...
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Universities worldwide are adopting quality-assurance programmes to improve the quality of their services, however, the value of Western quality-management models developed for stable contexts, in conflict-affected contexts is questionable. This study sought to review the quality management strategies, policies and practices of two higher education institutions (HEIs) in the non-regime conflict-affected northwest of Syria (NWS), selected as representative of the emerging HE sector in the...
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In this field note, I explore the community coalition model Creative Associates International and its partners employed to provide nonformal education to out-of-school displaced children and youth in northern Nigeria under the USAID-funded Education Crisis Response project. While there is no evidence directly linking community involvement to improved education outcomes in crisis- and conflict-affected contexts, the existing literature and final project results point to its importance in the...