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This paper is aimed at describing and exploring staff development issues in Ethiopian higher education. The principal research question of the study reads as how do the academic staff, view the need of short term continuous professional development trainings and how they prefer such trainings to be organized in Ethiopian higher education? To respond to this question, open and close ended questionnaires, interviews, documents and literature review were used as data collection instruments. The...

This study was designed to determine the effect of the ethnomathematics teaching approach on Junior Secondary three (JS3) students' retention in statistics.It is also aimed at determining whether any of the sexes (male and female) would retain statistics concepts more than the other from the teaching.The study was carried out in Obi and Oju education areas of zone C in Benue state of Nigeria using a sample size of 248 junior secondary three (JS3) students.The study employed...

In this paper, we address the issue of how education affected income inequality in twentieth-century Africa. Three channels are identified through which education may affect income inequality. First, an increase in the average educational level is correlated with an increase in average income, which, ceteris paribus, reduces inequality. Second, a reduction in educational inequality may, given a positive correlation between education level and income, reduce income inequality. Thirdly, an...

This study investigated the influence of Gender, need-achievement and assertiveness on conceptions about math among senior secondary school students in Ijebu-Ode Local government area of Ogun state.Using an ex-post facto survey research design and multiple sampling methods, a total of 350 participants participated in the study.127 (36.3%) were male, 223 (63.7%) were female.150 (42.9%) were from female only schools, 150 (42.9%) were from co-educational schools and 50 (14.3%)from male only...

This paper investigates the relationship between skills acquisition and job characteristics using a panel dataset of individuals in urban Ghana by analyzing on-the-job skills acquisition and exploring the link between mathematics skills and jobs which involve the handling of money. These mathematics skills are important, not only, in the workplace but also more generally. Survey respondents were administered a short mathematics test involving a number of theoretical and practical math...

This paper investigates the relationship between skills acquisition and job characteristics using a panel dataset of individuals in urban Ghana by analyzing on-the-job skills acquisition and exploring the link between mathematics skills and jobs which involve the handling of money. These mathematics skills are important, not only, in the workplace but also more generally. Survey respondents were administered a short mathematics test involving a number of theoretical and practical math...

Every aspect of a community’s life and values in indigenous Africa provide the theoretical framework for education. The holistic worldview of the traditional system places a strong emphasis on the centrality of the human element and orature in the symmetrical relationship between life and learning. This article focuses on proverbs and the words that form them as important sources of, and foundation for, indigenous African education. The article analyzes proverbs and the power of the spoken...

The relationship between education and performance on neuropsychological tests has been established (Dotson, Kitner-Triolo, Evans, and Zonderman, 2009). It has also been found that ill-educated but cognitively healthy individuals get lower scores on neuropsychology test than mildly impaired but better educated patients (Lezak, Howieson and Loring (2004). However, it is a great challenge to find an appropriate approximation of educational attainment. Therefore, this study investigated the...

Background: Forming collaborations and partnerships across borders is a principal componenet of transnational education practice. One approach to establishing transnational partnerships is to form alliances based on best - practice. Pharmaceutical public health education and training and the delivery of pharmaceutical services with a public health message is an area where transnational approaches can be fostered. Objectives: The objective of the project was to establish a partnership (Health...

This study was carried out to find out the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS School-based programme delivery on behavior change for sustainable development among Zimbabwean 'O' secondary school students.The sample consisted of one hundred and twenty students, twenty-four teachers and twelve school heads, drawn from the twelve secondary schools in GweruUrban District of Zimbabwe.Simple random sampling technique was used to come up with a sample of students while teachers and heads were purposively...

The purpose of this study was to investigate inclusion and the perceptions and attitudes that Bachelor of Education in service trainee teachers hold towards inclusive education in Zimbabwe.The participants were 97 main stream in-service Bachelor of Education teacher trainees (43 male, 54 female) from Midlands State University's Faculty of Education.The research design was exploratory and descriptive in nature.A questionnaire was used for data collection.The findings indicate that main stream...

The effects of the dynamics of climate on agricultural production are the thrust of this paper. Temperature, rainfall and crops (rice, maize, cassava, groundnut and garden eggs) data were collected for a period of 10 years from the meteorological and agricultural department of the Agricultural development programme (ADP) Gwagwalada. The work assembled and analysed all available data which are needed for evaluating the implication of climate change on agricultural production in the FCT. Some...

Even though the governments of Ethiopia in successive eras had implemented different policies, strategies and programs to alleviate poverty and food insecurity, still millions of people are dependent on food handouts for many decades.The general objective of the study was therefore; to identify the constraints faced the safety net beneficiaries by using Lay Gaint district as a case study site.Questionnaire survey, key informants interview and focus group discussions were employed to collect...

The purpose of this qualitative study is to enlighten, illuminate, and elucidate readers as to the worldviews of African American women in regards to their recruitment and retention to the public school superintendency. The question this study seeks to answer is whether African American women perceive recruitment and retention to the public school superintendency as intimately connected to gender, race, and social politics. Finally, this qualitative narrative study will explore from their...

The Study examined the air pollution tolerance indices (APTI) of five plant species around Enugu urban area.Four physiological and biological parameters including leaf relative water content (RWC), ascorbic acid (AA) content, total leaf chlorophyll (TCh), and leaf extract pH were used to develop an APTI.The vegetation monitoring in terms of its APTI acts as a 'Bioindicator' of air pollution and can be incorporated into assessment studies for selecting trees for urban heat island (UHI)...

This thesis aims at a critical understanding of how the curriculum policy making process is perceived by teachers and policy-makers in The Gambia � a former British colony. The complexity of curriculum policy issues requires this study to draw on multiple theoretical underpinnings in order to gain insight into curriculum policy relating to Basic Education in The Gambia. Therefore, curriculum theories and education policy literature including the issues of globalisation and national policy...