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This paper discusses the importance of education with specifi c reference to GirlChild’s education, and gender inequality 1 and inequity 2 in education in Zambia, focusing on one of the rural areas, Chongwe District. Many International Conferences are suggesting that educating girls is one of the ways of achieving gender equality in education thereby helping in achieving Education for All in primary and secondary schooling. In Zambia, with many economic and social problems, this is a particularly pertinent issue.

The main rationale for the Education for All (EFA) movement and the Millennium Development Goal of achieving Universal Primary Education (UPE) by the year 2015 were premised on the belief that education is a channel of development. Provision of basic primary education for all was and is still regarded as critical in poverty reduction and as a tool to address inequality in society. This paper embraces an outcomes analysis of education attainments in Uganda to examine the strengths and...

The issue of policy implementation specifically on equality of education opportunities on access to university education was seriously neglected in Nigerian higher education research. Hence this study was motivated and intended to investigate the policy implementation on equality of educational opportunities on access to university education in Nigeria. This case study using Usman Danfodio University Sokoto as the context of study investigated the issue regarding to the policy on access to...

Worldwide children and adults with disabilities are prone to having fewer friends, are neglected and experience more loneliness than those without disabilities as it affects their self-esteem. This study aimed at establishing how physical disability affects self-esteem among adolescents. The study was based on the Social Learning Theory by Julian Rotter. The study objectives were to identify terms used to describe the disabled by the society and how they affect their self-esteem, find out...

Home economics education contributes substantially to economic empowerment of individual in the society through acquisition of appropriate skills, abilities and competences. The paper focuses on the needs for repositioning the senior secondary school home economics curriculum so as to cater for differences in talents, provide varieties of career opportunities available to students after completing their course of study through intensifying effort on practical aspect. Finally, paper also...

Neuroimaging features associated with vascular cognitive impairment have not been examined in sub-Saharan Africans. We determined magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features associated with cognitive impairment in a sample of Nigerian stroke survivors.Stroke survivors underwent brain MRI with standardized assessment of brain volumes and visual rating of medial temporal lobe atrophy (MTA), and white matter hyperintensities (WMH) at 3 months post-stroke. Demographic, clinical and psychometric...

In industrialized countries, progress is binge made in reducing emissions of greenhouse gases as a result of the Kyoto Protocol and through its flexible mechanisms. The Protocol links to the developing world, for example through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) which allows developed countries to offset emissions and has burst into life. Least Developed Countries have – or are preparing – National Adaptation Programmes of Action to Climate Change (NAPA) under the United Nations...

The aim of this paper is to study m-learning literature in order to propose and develop a privacy-preserving framework which can be used to foster sustainable deployment of mobile learning within open and distance education in Kenya.Location-based privacy in mobile learning is essential to retain users" trust, key to influencing usage intention.Any risk on privacy can negatively affect users" perceptions of a system"s reliability and trustworthiness.While extant studies have proposed...

This study aimed at measuring the level of quality of health services in government hospitals in Sudan from the point of view of patients and reviewers. The study was conducted on the major teaching hospitals in the state of Khartoum. Was chosen as soft sample of inpatients and outpatient, and the use of a questionnaire consisted of (22) is to measure the quality of health services where the level. The study found that there are fully aware of in patients and reviewers to levels of quality...

Agricultural extension in Senegal is critical to increasing agricultural production among the nation's smallholder farmers who make up 60 percent of the country's 14 million population. The paper argues that whereas the Government has recognized the importance of an integrated rural development approach to holistic development and urges extension workers to become development facilitators it fails to recognize the importance of providing these agents with training in development and...

The purpose of this study is to assess the professional competencies and training needs of extension agents for sustainable adoption of sawah (wet rice) method of cultivation in Nigeria. Using a pretested questionnaire, data were collected from one hundred and twenty extension agents of the Agricultural Development Programmes from six states where wet rice cultivation is adopted in Nigeria. The results reveal that extension agents need training in the areas of layout and design, site...

This article deals with the debate in education and law circles about the convergence of the two fields of knowledge in an area conveniently called education law. It recognises that there is no universal acknowledgement of the existence of such a discipline. 
 Although the article does not present a full scale analysis of the relationship between education and law, it does present some views emerging from the existence and functioning of two organisations in South Africa namely the...

Empowerment is a key element of popular participation in rural development projects. In this sense, it is crucial to know the different approaches capable of or with the potential to generate empowerment. This paper presents the results of a study done in the district of Boane, Mozambique, with the objective of evaluating the impact of the Farm Field Schools approach in terms of farmer, organizational and community empowerment. Data were collected through interviews of both farmers and...

Solid waste management (SWM) has become a global burning environmental issue influenced by rapid population growth, urbanization, socio-economic development and the consumerism syndrome of the complex society. Zambia, like many other countries, has not been spared from environmental challenges such as huge heaps of solid waste in undesignated places. Solid waste management in schools and communities desires knowledge, positive attitudes and active participation by all stakeholders. The aim...