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ABSTRACTAs part of the Limpopo School Empowerment Project, implemented by Link Community Development in South Africa, 10 trainee teachers from Exeter University, UK, replaced 10 primary teachers from Vuwani District (Northern Province) for 6 weeks, to enable them to take part in a Leader Teacher training programme without disruption of their pupils' education. The students' experiences were evaluated through the keeping of detailed logs and follow-up interviews. The paper describes the...

AbstractPersonal factors tend to inhibit learners' opportunity to benefit from the provision of mathematics education and to achieve satisfactory performance in mathematics. Equity in the provision of such education is seen to be lacking if such factors relate significantly to one or the other of the demographic characteristics of a group of learners or of their schools. One of such factors relates to the reaction of the learner to his/her experience with this subject. According to Heider...

The English curriculum is significant in schools in Kenya because of the importance of English Language as the medium of instruction in schools in Kenya from upper primary school and beyond. Further, English is the official language in Kenya. Oral communication skills which comprise listening and speaking skills form the backbone to the teaching of English. They facilitate the acquisition of other language skills: reading and writing. This paper is a report on a study on the teaching of oral...

In Nigeria, nearly 110 million clinical cases of malaria are diagnosed per year, thus being a major public health problem. The problems of resistance resulted in the introduction of the artemisinin based combinations (ACT) by the WHO. Artesunate and amodiaquine (AS+AQ) is at present the world’s second most widely used ACT. This study is an assessment of the efficacy and safety of Camosunate (a brand of AS+AQ; Geneith Pharmaceutical Ltd., Oshodi, Lagos) in the treatment of...

The highest levels of air pollution in the world now occur in developing country cities, where air pollution sources differ from high-income countries. We analyzed particulate matter (PM) chemical composition and estimated the contributions of various sources to particle pollution in poor and affluent neighborhoods of Accra, Ghana. Elements from earth's crust were most abundant during the seasonal Harmattan period between late December and late January when Saharan dust is carried to coastal...

This paper examines the changes in parents’ perception on the value of daughters and their education. It utilizes information generated from Focus Group Discussions in two urban and four rural Isoko communities in Delta State, southern Nigeria. Eight Focus Groups were constituted in each of the towns and villages (four for men and four for women). The groups were homogeneous in terms of sex, age and educational level. It is observed that parents’ perception on the value of daughters is...

This article contends that teacher unions’ participation in policy making during South Africa’s political transition was characterised by assertion of ideological identity (unionism and professionalism) and the cultivation of policy networks and alliances. It is argued that, historically, while teacher unions were divided along political and ideological lines, they have demonstrated flexibility in contesting for influence in the policy arena. In this regard, teacher unions’ agency plays an...

This essay critically analyses the policies, guidelines, the Examinations Council of Zambia Act No. 15 of 1983 and the regulations on the administration of examinations in Zambia at High School and Basic School level held at Grade 9 and 12.The issue has been approached from both the legal and administrative points of view. The study inquired into the weaknesses and strengths of the present legal deterrents available. An examination of the impact or effect of the increase in examination...

This study examined the role that Ghanaian caregivers’ values toward education play in shaping students’ intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation for learning, and the ways these values and motivational orientations predict school attendance and achievement. Study participants included 88 students (M = 11.63 years; 48% female) from two primary schools in peri-urban Ghana and their 68 caregivers (M = 40.02 years; 60% female). Results revealed that caregivers’ perception of education as valuable...

The objective of this study was to obtain data on susceptibility patterns of pathogens responsible for UTIs.In addition, for the first time, the prevalence and risk factors of ESBL-producing strains in Rwanda are described.Urinary isolates from symptomatic UTI patients' cases attending to the University Teaching Hospital-Kigali and University teaching Hospital-Butare were identified by conventional methods.Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed by Kirby Bauer's disc diffusion...

Science Laboratory Technology training is considered the hub to Kenya's economy, as it is increasingly seen as a vehicle through which the country will build a competitive workforce for key industries within priority sectors identified in Vision 2030.Despite the importance of Science Laboratory Technology, students' performance in Institutes of Technology in South Nyanza, Kenya has been below expectations.For the period between 2006-2010, cumulative performance in Science Laboratory...

ABSTRACTThe pre-independence education system in Namibia did not encourage the teaching of mathematics and science in predominantly black schools. However, since independence in 1990, efforts have been geared by both government and non-governmental oganisations to redress the situation. This study was therefore aimed at investigating the secondary school students' perception of mathematics and their mathematics and their mathematics classes and lessons under the new dispensation. It is a...

The paper analyses the capacities of different local institutions to enhance farmers' climate change adaptation (CCA) strategies in Southern Benin. Results are used to reflect on the international support to CCA for developing countries. The study is based on field researches led among farmers' households in Southern Benin, on interviews conducted among governmental and non-governmental institutions, and on analysis of relevant literature. Constraints and opportunities to the development of...

Objectives . To determine the knowledge and skills of final-year medical students in managing victims of violence against women (VAW), and to describe the extent to which VAW is included in the undergraduate curriculum of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. Method . A mixed-method study design was used that collected qualitative data through a review of curriculum documents and interviews of departmental heads (or their representatives) of 6 departments in the college. A...