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Asset-based community-driven development (ABCD) has gained momentum in social work education over the last ten years. This mix-method study presents students’ perceptions of the relevance and application of ABCD in social work education at two universities in South Africa. The students perceived ABCD as a relevant approach that shifts community members from a deficit orientation focused on lack and needs to one in which people utilise their assets and take ownership of their own future....

The use of information and communication technologies platform in rural areas of Cameroon face a lot of difficulties to be fully implemented. A such, making the management of secondary schools in these areas to be challenging by the school administrators. This raises many questions about the relevance of the use of ICT in administrative procedures in schools. The objective to this paper is to examine the effect of ICTE platform in the effective management of secondary schools in rural areas...

In improving railways for the future, artificial intelligence and machine learning were identified as top-priority technology systems that enable data-driven methods and predictive maintenance. A local survey using semi-structured interviews showed that the railway industry lags behind in adopting and implementing data-driven and machine-learning methods for predictive maintenance. Insights from international studies were found to be relevant in South Africa. Other implementation barriers...

This chapter interrogates the extent to which climate change may pose an impediment to realising the right to development in Africa. The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights guarantees a right to economic, social and cultural development, achievable with due regard to the equal enjoyment of the common heritage, which is understood to encompass the natural environment and its appurtenance resources that are currently predisposed to extinction as a result of climate chance. In this...

Despite the government effort of subsidizing Education, children from humble backgrounds fail to enroll in public secondary schools.Therefore, the study sought to find out the influence of government subsidy on student enrollment rates in Uasin Gishu County.The specific objectives were: to assess the influence of government subsidy on student enrollment rates in public secondary schools.This study was anchored on the human capital theory by Schlutz in 1961.A descriptive survey research...

Despite the government effort of subsidizing education, children from humble backgrounds fail to complete in public secondary schools. Therefore, the study sought to find out the influence of government subsidy on student retention ratio in Uasin Gishu County. The specific objectives were: to assess the influence of government subsidy on student retention ratios in public secondary schools. This study was anchored on the human capital theory by Schlutz in 1961. A descriptive survey research...

Learning resources are important because they are utilized as the primary source of information for teachers and students during lessons. The study objective was, to explore the criteria determining equitable distribution of learning resources in public secondary schools. The study used a sequential explanatory mixed research design and was conducted in Misungwi district. The study used Purposive, stratified and simple random sampling to sample 78 respondents out of 718, in public secondary...

The devastating floods in the Global South have been attributed to climate change. Furthermore, governmental agencies have been unable to effectively apply the Disaster Management Cycle (DMC) before and after disasters. This paper addresses this gap by analyzing the application of the DMC in preparation for, and in response to, flood disasters in two South African coastal provinces (namely, the Eastern Cape [EC] and KwaZulu-Natal [KZN]). The paper also assesses the association between the...

The devastating floods in the Global South have been attributed to climate change. Furthermore, governmental agencies have been unable to effectively apply the Disaster Management Cycle (DMC) before, during and after disasters. This paper addresses this gap by analysing the application of the DMC in preparation for, and in response to, flood disasters in two South African coastal provinces (namely, the Eastern Cape [EC] and KwaZulu-Natal [KZN]). The paper also assesses the association...

It is widely recognized that digital archiving represents many advantages compared to manually preserved documents. These include i) reduced risk of losing data, ii) eco-friendliness, iii) data security, iv) faster access to data, v) simple data management, vi) overall costs saving, and vii) potential for data recovery. However, in contrast to developed nations, which have experienced a steady maturity in the field, digital archiving is still in its infancy in developing countries,...

A country’s productive structure and access to energy are critical to achieve sustainable development across countries. However, the existing studies on the economic complexity-inclusive growth nexus and how this relationship is moderated by renewable energy are lacking making it imperative to conduct further empirical research. This study, therefore, explores the relationship between economic complexity and inclusive growth and how this relationship is moderated by renewable energy...

Maritime education and training (MET) has been instrumental in the development of seafarers in South Africa and internationally. As a result, different MET systems are used to not only produce eligible maritime professionals but to ensure that they comply with the requirements of the International Convention on the Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) 1978, as amended in Manila. Some of the challenges in MET prove not to be exclusive but common to some maritime...

Introduction: measures of obesity such as body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) have been shown to be associated with high blood pressure (BP) in children and adolescents. The purpose of this study was to determine the proportion of secondary school adolescents with elevated BP and high BP in relation to some measures of adiposity (BMI, WC, WHtR) and to examine the association between BP and adiposity indices amongst the children.

This chapter provides detailed information on Burundi’s higher education system, which comprises the public universities where enrollment of students is based on student’s weighted national test results and private institutions, which are often regarded to be for those who performed below standards as compared to public universities which are considered to be for the elite secondary school performers. The textile and apparel industries offer significant potential for value development and...

One of the main goals of the Ministry of education is to ensure that every learner that goes through secondary school has acquired basic computer literacy. In the achievement of this goal, the ministry has introduced subjects such as Office practice, Information communication, and Computer studies into the secondary school curriculum. The purpose of the study was to analyse and provide recommendations towards the utilisation of open-source software in Namibia government secondary schools....

Malaria is a threatening disease which is caused by a bite of female mosquitoes called anopheles and when it is not discovered at its earlier stage, it can put the life of many people at risk and even reduce the workforce of the country. However, its rate of transmission can be decreased if the information regarding the development of these mosquitoes are made available in due time. However, there is a lack of real time information about Malaria spreading to help the Ministry of Health to...