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Zimbabwe is currently struggling with a persistent energy crisis that has been exacerbated by a drawn out economic meltdown. Unplanned electricity outages and scarcity of petroleum products are now the order of the day. Electricity shortages have been a perennial challenge for the whole region of Southern Africa since 2008. As far as petroleum products are concerned, the country has been battling for the past several years to fend off a virtual drying up of fuel stations and reserves....

Transition is a period of change in life that usually involves considerable social and emotional adjustment as well as challenges to many; most especially students transiting to secondary school.As a result of this, some students suffer setback in their academic performance and interpersonal relationships which may further lead to truancy, absenteeism and early school dropout.These jeopardise their future career, employment opportunities and life chances.This study was carried out to...

This study identified adaptation strategies adopted by the processors in the study area and also assessed factors affecting adaptation strategies to climate change in cassava processing in South West, Nigeria. Descriptive statistics was used to identify adaptation strategies used by cassava processors while multivariate probit model was employed to determine the factors affecting adaptation strategies engaged by farmers. Adaptation strategies adopted by processors include monitoring weather...

Western Kenya Counties continue to experience a mirage of challenges brought about by devolution hence unable to provide sufficient resources for competency training in the county so as to provide better services to the citizen. Therefore, this study establish the effect of work-life balance on organization performance in County Governments of Western Kenya. The study was anchored on Spillover and work boarder theories. Positivism paradigm philosophy formed the basis for study design. Mixed...

The Republic of Djibouti has an area of 23,000 km2, a coastline 370 km long and a population of 820,000 inhabitants. It experiences an arid climate characterized by high daytime temperatures and low and irregular rainfall (average of 140 mm/year), resulting in continuous periods of drought. These difficult climatic conditions and the absence of perennial surface water have progressively led to an intensive exploitation of groundwater to meet increasing water demands in all sectors (drinking...

The aim of the current paper is to explore the attitudes of teachers, students, and institutional leaders toward m-learning and student engagement within Algerian context.Researches explain such practices bear traditional approach and overlooks modern teaching methods such as mlearning.That is why the research output of exploring student engagement in respect of mlearning was obtained from the following aims (1) To evaluate the current practice of English language teaching within Algerian...

In generalized epidemic settings, strategies are needed to prioritize individuals at higher risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition for prevention services. We used population-level HIV testing data from rural Kenya and Uganda to construct HIV risk scores and assessed their ability to identify seroconversions.During 2013-2017, >75% of residents in 16 communities in the SEARCH study were tested annually for HIV. In this population, we evaluated 3 strategies for using...

Teachers in protracted (violent) crises are to varying degrees expected to fulfil a multiplicity of functions such as facilitating learning outcomes, providing conflict-sensitive education, attending to traumatised students and representing the state. At the same time, they are often underpaid, receive little training and might themselves experience various forms of violence. An increasingly popular analytical frame is teacher well-being, which undoubtedly highlights important outcomes. We...

Background: There is considerable agreement that learning to teach is optimised when coursework learning is combined with quality practice learning experiences in schools.Aim: The main aim of this study was to explore the views of a group of student teachers on their practice learning experiences in a ‘teaching school’ (TS) and in the other schools where they were placed for school experience.Setting: The study was conducted at a rural campus of a South African university.Methods:...

School dropout negatively affects many children living in poor communities of South Africa. Those who drop out of school are usually blamed by people around them for leaving school. However, this article stresses that school dropout can be caused by many factors that are beyond the control of an individual who dropped out. The article is written from the perspective of a person who longs to see the church as a tangible Good News agent in society. He dropped out of school twice in his life,...

Effective lesson planning promotes good teaching and the implementation of curriculum policy. Lesson planning enables teachers to determine appropriate lesson objectives, teaching and learning activities, and teaching methods. Effective lesson planning stimulates teachers to evaluate their instructional strategies and to reflect on how to improve their teaching. Action research was conducted in this study to improve the ways in which participating third-year pre-service teachers planned...

Learner readiness enhances academic achievement and predicts children’s performance in the near future. Children who are ready are less likely to experience behavioural and emotional problems and score higher in reading, mathematics and fine motor skills than those who are not ready. However, teachers are still struggling with learners from preschool who are not well prepared for grade one. This paper provides empirical evidence of the influence of teacher characteristics on learning...

Most curriculum components of archival graduate programmes consist of contextual knowledge, archival knowledge, complementary knowledge, practicum, and scholarly research. The practicum, now commonly known as experiential learning in the global hub, is now widely accepted in library and information studies (LIS) education as necessary and important. It is through experiential learning that, over and above the theoretical aspects of a profession, students are provided with the opportunity to...

Type 2 diabetes is a non-communicable disease that is mostly associated with modern lifestyle changes, which include, but not limited to physical inactivity, poor diets and obesity or obesity.Though over the past decades, there has been a lot of medical progress and innovations in the treatment and management of the disease, its prevalence is still increasing at alarming rates.Evidence-based management and prevention strategies are very much needed to prevent the debilitating progression of...

HIV is increasingly recognized as a chronic illness which may result in episodic disability related to the effects of the virus, side effects of medication, co-morbidities and consequences of aging. Little is known about the episodic disability experiences of people living long-term with HIV in resource-limited countries, which is best understood by following people over time. This qualitative longitudinal study examined the episodic disability experiences and the applicability of four types...

The land reform process in Zimbabwe gave birth to a new type of school known as a satellite school, which emerged due to community requests (in areas populated by land reform beneficiaries) and an inability by government to adequately fund new schools that communities required. Various studies on the emergence of satellite schools have mainly focused on the challenges faced by satellite schools. This article explores nhimbe (“work party”) and allied reasons specifically amongst the land...