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The growing performance gap between learners attending rural schools and those attending top tier schools in Zimbabwe remains a concern that needs to be addressed to assist all learners to develop holistically.This study aims to investigate what learners attending rural schools perceive as factors that influence their academic achievement.This qualitative study was executed by making use of focus-group interviews with eight (8) grade six learners.We furthermore interviewed one parent and one...

This study sought to assess the levels of leadership styles and quality audits in teacher training institutions (TTIs) in West Nile, Uganda. Furthermore, assess the influence of leadership styles on quality audits in TTIs in West Nile, Uganda. It was hypothesized that there was no significant influence of leadership styles on quality audits in TTIs in West Nile, Uganda. The study was guided by a pragmatic stance and a mixed-methods research design. Data was collected from 246 respondents...

Purpose Despite the fact that students in higher education contributes significantly to the number of professionals, little has been done to incorporate the students’ perspectives on the status of procurement and supply professions in Tanzania. This study examined the challenges confronting the procurement and supply professions from the perspective of future procurement professionals enrolled in Tanzanian higher education. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional design was used to...

Height for age is an important and widely used population-level indicator of children's health. Morbidity trends show that stunting in young children is a significant public health concern. Recent studies point to environmental factors as an understudied area of child growth failure in Africa. Data on child measurements of height-for-age and confounders were obtained from fifteen waves of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for six countries in East Africa. Monthly ambient PM2.5...

This work provides the results of the analyzed long-term trends for three air temperature categories, namely: average (Tavg), maximum (Tmax) and minimum (Tmin) on monthly, annual and seasonal bases for Alexandria. The aim was to examine possible climate changes in this famous City based on the results obtained from the analyzed trends. The study was based on examining (1) linear regression approaches, (2) trend magnitudes, (3) Mann-Kendall trend test and (4) extreme air temperature events....

Background: Visual impairment (VI) is a public health problem that can affect an individual’s social wellbeing. The study aims to determine the distribution and causes of vision impairment (VI) and blindness among patients at Nigerian Army Eye Centre Lagos, Nigeria. Method: An institutional cross-sectional study was conducted, and a systematic random sampling technique was used to enrol study participants from their medical records. Information about their demography, presenting visual...

Adolescents grapple with many social issues as they strive to cope with the physical, social, and emotional changes that they are experiencing. This is not made any easier by the dictates of the social cultural values in the communities they live in. However, due to socio-economic and political changes many of these values are gradually being abandoned as the adolescents negotiate for their space and construct their individualities in ways they so choose. This paper focuses on one aspect of...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the school of information science (ESI) has transitioned to online learning since March 2020. Courses have been delivered using the Moodle LMS and the MS teams tool. Moodle is used to manage learning content, and MS Teams to communicate with students in synchronous mode. This paper focuses on a particular course: “Distributed Systems”, intended for third-year students. We conducted mixed-method research to collect both qualitative and quantitative data two weeks...

Despite South Africa's shift into a democratic dispensation in 1994, historical and ongoing structural inequalities continue to disproportionately locate large numbers of citizens in marginalised communities where they are socially and economically vulnerable.Families and individuals often struggle for survival against great odds, exposing them to recurring traumatisation.It is especially in these marginalised communities where social work services are located.This chapter interrogates...

There is a myth that students from lower socio-economic status (SES) groups are often seen to have a reduced chance of success in higher education (HE) as they do not embody the appropriate cultural and social capital necessary for progression in higher education institutions (HEIs).This myth has contributed to a deficit-oriented conceptualisation of this student group, undermining their capacity for resilience, agency and self-determination.This chapter suggests that HEIs need to...

Abstract South Africa is one of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts and risks of climate change in Africa. News media outlets play an important role in communicating content relating to climate change. Newspaper attention devoted to climate change has been more prolific in the Global North. To understand the portrayal of climate change science in news media in South Africa, this study examined objective facts coverage in three leading broadsheet newspapers between 1996 and 2016....

The African continent, with specific reference to South Africa, is debating on a critical education paradigm, which is decolonising the curriculum and some professional practices.This chapter aligns its arguments with such debate.This is because social work interventions, methods, skills, values and principles in numerous African settings continue to yield meagre results because they are not indigenously grounded.Over the centuries, Western-based social work education has been implemented in...

There have been series of advocacies all over the world to prepare future scientists who would take up the challenge of eradicating environmental pollution through the deployment of scientific knowledge such as green chemistry. This study investigated teachers’ knowledge of green chemistry in Kwara State, Nigeria. The Green Chemistry Knowledge Questionnaire (GCKQ) was used to collect the data. Answers were provided to the research questions using the mean and percentage, while the research...

Community Radio Stations (CRS) play an important role in information dissemination at local and context-specific levels. This study aimed to analyze the point data distribution of the CRS and their role in promoting climate change adaptation measures in agriculture in times of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). The study’s methodological approach included the geospatial mapping of point data of CRS in Arc GIS 10.3, surveys and interviews with thirty-nine (39) experts. In addition, the...

This chapter examines the internal drive behind English linguistic imperialism in Ethiopia. Although Ethiopia has a policy of mother tongue instruction in primary school, the implementation of this policy is undermined by English's prominent status among the ruling elites of the country. In high school and university, English is the sole medium of instruction and its use is expanding into the primary level. While the washback effect of English on the gains of education is observed in...

Anthropogenic and climate-induced change can potentially impact negatively on direct dependents of forest ecosystem services. To help build resilient societies, we examined the vulnerability of ecosystem-dependent communities in the Worobong South Forest Reserve (WSFR). We also examined climate variability impacts on forests and further suggested ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) strategies for livelihood improvements in the study area. The reserve can be found in the Eastern region of Ghana....

Abstract Background: Urogenital schistosomiasis is endemic in Mali and a major cause of morbidity in large parts of the world. It is of great socioeconomic and public health importance and has important consequences. The aim of our work was to study the risk factors and ultrasound aspects associated with urogenital schistosomiasis. Methods : We conducted a cross-sectional study in November 2021 with 971 children aged 6 to 14 years randomly recruited in six schools in three districts in the...