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In the past few decades, higher education institutions have included transformation, diversity and inclusion as part of their priorities. Yet, while access to higher education is increasing for historically marginalised students in postcolonial countries like South Africa, patterns of unequal participation and outcomes in higher education continue to especially affect black students. For many higher education students in South Africa, racial identity and resource scarcity are interconnected....

Schools are an attractive platform for improving the dietary knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of children and their families, yet limited nutrition knowledge amongst educators can impede nutrition education efforts. Information and communication technology (ICT) can potentially overcome this barrier, yet there is limited evidence for its effectiveness in school settings in low- and middle-income countries.We implemented a randomized field experiment in 50 schools in the North Region of...

Occupational exposure to cotton dust is still an important cause of respiratory problems in textile workers particularly in less developed countries like Egypt. Evaluate respiratory symptoms and diseases, and pulmonary function pattern among Egyptian textile workers. Cross sectional comparative study was conducted from December 2019 to September 2020 in a textile factory in Egypt; 364 male workers (184 cotton dust exposed workers, and 180 unexposed workers) were included. Participants were...

Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) has emerged as an avenue through which Kenya aims to fast track her ambition for upper-middle-income economy status, together with the realization of the Big 4 Agenda. However, like other sectors, the TVET sector has shown its vulnerability to sudden and disruptive events manifested by the inability to conduct online training in the wake of the novel Covid-19 pandemic. Such vulnerability has necessitated the need for TVETs to embrace...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how vulnerable refugee children's education can be supported in the first asylum country during a long-term, complex crisis. More specifically, the authors examine the impact of a remedial education (RE) program on academically challenged Syrian refugees' sustained learning and well-being in Jordan during a protracted emergency.

In recent years, the international community has been increasingly concerned about climate change. This is due to the harm it poses to people and other living things in particular. This study aims to advance the body of knowledge regarding how climate change affects sustainable development in Nigeria. Additionally, data for this study was gathered from secondary sources, including books, journals, and websites, and it was then analysed using content analysis. Additionally, this study makes...

Inclusive education has been a priority for Global North countries and international organisations as reflected in international education policies. Nevertheless, students with disabilities continue to face challenges in their quest to access education. This situation is even more appalling in postcolonial countries like South Africa and Zimbabwe. I briefly trace the history of education and the conceptualisation and practice of inclusive education in both countries. I critique the...

Student achievement is one of the strongest indicators of future earnings. However, in South Africa, there is a continuous achievement gap between students of different races and socioeconomic classes, with more minority and low-income learners underperforming than their wealthier counterparts. These achievement inequalities are caused by several factors, but school-related ones, including curriculum changes, changes to class size, accessibility to technology, teacher preparation, and...

This study was conducted in government secondary schools in the Konso zone, southern Ethiopia, to investigate the effect of teachers’ professional empowerment on school performance. A correlational explanatory research design and a mixed research approach were used. The participants of this study were 350 including teachers, principals, supervisors, and heads of educational offices. The secondary schools and their respective principals, supervisors and educational office heads were selected...

Chinese as a second language learning strategies are essential for foreign students to use when learning Chinese. Based on the literature of Egyptian Chinese language teachers' classroom practice and the collection of the types of language learning strategies used by Egyptian students to learn Chinese, the data sources and the results of learning strategy training, the article discusses the research methodology of Chinese as a second language learning strategies.

Teachers are the single most important input to learning, and in many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa teachers’ emoluments account for most of the spending on basic education (Bold et al., 2017). However, in many countries in the region teachers are poorly distributed between schools. Schools in remote areas are frequently understaffed compared to those closer to towns and large villages, reflecting a reluctance among teachers to accept postings in areas with significant hardship (Mulkeen,...

Free education policies have vastly increased access to schooling but, if improperly financed, can reduce quality, and exacerbate inequities in education systems. To support free education, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have introduced new alternative models of school funding. Abolition of tuition fees has been the key component of free education policies implemented in sub-Saharan African countries since the 1990s (Bashir, Lockheed, Ninan and Tan, 2018). However, abolishing fees, without...

Historically, education expenditure in Sierra Leone has been insufficient to provide quality education to all school-age children. Although real government expenditure on education increased on average by 11 percent per year between 2008 and 2014, this increase was barely adequate to keep up with rapidly expanding enrollment figures, with the total number of students enrolled in primary and secondary education rising from 709,875 to 1,809,563 between 2001 and 2015 (UNESCO Institute for...

The journal retracts the 19th June 2023 article cited above. Following publication, concerns were raised about the duplicate publication of the article cited above in Frontiers in Language Sciences and The International Journal of Research in English Education (http://dorl.net/dor/20.1001.1.25384015.2023.8.2.3.1). An investigation was conducted in accordance with Frontiers’ policies, whereby it was confirmed that the authors submitted the manuscript for consideration in two journals...

There are increasing concerns about the likely impacts of climate change on poverty, economic growth, and the overall development of poor countries. The need to adapt to the daunting challenges posed by climate change has resulted in a multiplicity of responses from various actors across scales. Evidence suggests that at the national and sub-national levels in Ghana, initiatives to address climate change are nascent. The objective of this paper is to uncover the nature of these initiatives,...

This study focuses on the psychological consequences of school innovation for ongoing learning during the COVID-19 lockdown, which includes teaching strategies that use both online and offline (e.g. telephone-based instruction) teaching methods. Based on survey data obtained from Burkina Faso and Ethiopia, as collected by UNESCO/IEA, it is evident that the existence of learning innovation in schools is associated with a significant reduction in the likelihood of children reporting poor...

The aim of this research is exploring and adapting Japanese moral education policies and practices to enhance the Moroccan education system without interfering with its historical, geographical, and sociocultural context. 
 Using a comparative approach and content analysis method, we identified shared and distinct features in both systems, highlighting the strengths of the Japanese side.
 The research concerns an in-depth analysis of four Japanese elementary school moral education...