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This paper focuses on the initiatives and challenges of promoting ethics in teacher training colleges. It draws on qualitative data; generated from Dar es Salaam, Iringa and Mbeya regions of Tanzania in East Africa. Data collected reflect views of informants, including teacher educators, school teachers, student teachers, school inspectors, Teachers Service Department (TSD) officers, and education officers. The data was generated from both interviews (primary) and documentary (secondary)...

Restless Development’s youth-led model places trained Volunteer Peer Educators (VPEs), aged 18–25 years, in schools to teach HIV prevention and reproductive health (RH). VPEs also run youth centers, extracurricular and community-based activities. This evaluation assesses (i) program effects on students’ HIV/RH knowledge, attitudes and behaviors using a non-randomized quasi-experimental design among 2133 eighth and ninth grade students in 13 intervention versus 13 matched comparison schools...

Recognizing the need for students to be literate in the more traditional areas of reading and writing, professional organizations such as the NCTE, IRA, and NCATE as well as NAQAAE, The National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education in Egypt, have put in place English language standards that address other literacies, including visual literacy. Yet, it has been unclear how secondary English language teachers feel about and understand what is expected of them in...

Needle-stick injuries have the potential to change a student nurse’s life; yet they are dealt with covertly and many go unreported. This could create difficulties when evaluating a curriculum, because potential risk issues in nursing education might go undetected. In addition, needlestick injuries are inherently preventable occupational health hazards. The fact that there has been, until now, no information available on the incidence of, and context in which needlestick injuries occur...

The study examined the roles of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the conduct of continuous assessment in secondary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria. Adopting a survey type of descriptive research, a self developed questionnaire was administered on 240 respondents (principals, vice-principals and teachers) from 20 randomly selected secondary schools across 5 local government areas. Data collected was analyzed using descriptive and t-test inferential statistics at 0.05 level...

The study aimed to identify the degree of the administrative creativity of the public principals' practice in Tafila Directorate of Education.The sample consisted of 402 teachers (male and female) chosen randomly.The instrument of this study included 36 items.Means, standard deviations, and 3 -way ANOVA were used for statistical purposes.The results indicated that there are statistically significant differences for the interaction of gender with experience, the interaction of experience with...

The study aimed to identify the degree of the administrative creativity of the public principals' practice in Tafila Directorate of Education.The sample consisted of 402 teachers (male and female) chosen randomly.The instrument of this study included 36 items.Means, standard deviations, and 3 -way ANOVA were used for statistical purposes.The results indicated that there are statistically significant differences for the interaction of gender with experience, the interaction of experience with...

The 1st Southern African Students Psychology Conference was hosted as a collaboration between the University of South Africa (UNISA) and the University of Botswana over two days, 26 and 27 June 2009, at the University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana. It was well attended by students from universities across South Africa and Botswana, as well as young and senior academics from various African countries, including Zambia, Dakar, Senegal and Malaysia.

This article examines the current debate on climate change within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its impact on fragile ecosystems in Central Africa. The negotiations with regard to the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions have been ongoing since 1997 and no tangible targets have been reached. The article contends that the initiative for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD-Plus) has not provided the necessary financial...

Purpose: Sexual assault is a violent crime against both the individual and society but is largely underreported.The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and nature of sexual assault among female students in the University of Maiduguri.Methods: A crossectional descriptive study using a close ended, self -administered questionnaire administered to female students of a tertiary institution in Maiduguri was used to survey 400 female students in University of Maiduguri.Results:...

Engaging and retaining valuable and skilled employees is a major challenge faced by South African universities. The main aim of this study was to measure the levels of engagement of staff at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) and to determine whether labour turnover can be contained through effective engagement strategies. The methodology followed included a quantitative-descriptive survey distributed to 200 employees representing both academic and administrative departments at TUT....

Purpose:The study was carried out to investigate the epidemiology and associated toxoplasmosis predisposing risk factors in Cameroon.Methods: The survey took place at the Yaounde University Teaching Hospital from May to June 2008.Serum samples were collected from 110 pregnant women attending the ante natal clinic using aseptic techniques after obtaining informed consent.The samples were analysed using toxo-lgG immunocomb and toxo-IgM "capture" ELISA.A structured questionnaire was used to...

Seventeen years after the transition from a racially divided higher education system, which was designed to uphold white privilege and black subordination, apartheid continues to rear its ugly head. There is inadequate response to the changing face of South African universities; persistent inequality in the representation of women and black people in the academe, especially in senior management positions; and enduring covert racism in the academe through obsession with black students’...

Purpose:The prevalence, risk factors and effects of work on school performance and health consequences of child labour among school children in a rapidly urbanising community in south west Nigeria was assessed.Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study of 386 Junior Secondary School students was conducted.Questionnaires were used to obtain information on the students' socio-demographic characteristics, history of child labour activities, and recent history of illness.The academic records...