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This study explored Yemeni dentists’ and dental students’ knowledge about the associated factors, approaches to diagnosis and preventive methods of dental erosion (DE), as well as any associations between DE awareness and some potentially related variables. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to general dental practitioners (n = 323) in Sanaa and to fifth year dental students (n = 97) at the University of Science and Technology, Sanaa, Yemen during the period from July to...

enterprise initiatives are presently one of the country's national agenda, in the expectation that they will provide unconventional means of profitable engagement.

This paper examines the influence of teachers' learning styles on their classroom teaching and learning practices.The reported mixed method study was conducted in various school districts in a large province in South Africa.The data was collected with the use of questionnaires administered to primary school natural science teachers and classroom observations made during a science lesson.The study examined the preferred learning styles of primary school science teachers.It then investigated...

Abstract. The fate of seasonal rivers ecosystem habitats under climate change essentially depends on the changes in annual recharge, which related to alterations in precipitation and evaporation over the river basin. Therefore the change in climate conditions is expected to significantly affect hydrological and ecological components, particularly in fragmented ecosystems. This study aims to assess the impacts of climate change on the streamflow in Dinder River Basin (DRB), and infer its...

2Greenspring Consulting, Benin City, Edo State Nigeria. Re-engineering agricultural education is the re-thinking and radical redesign/ renovation of agricultural education concepts, policies, structures and strategies aimed at achieving dramatic improvements in the performance of agriculture; and reflecting current changes in human and society development. This work reviews the present structure of agricultural education and practice in Nigeria; identifies the needed changes in the...

Health professionals' education is undergoing enormous transformation internationally and also in Rwanda.We present the contribution of a Social and Community Medicine program at the University of Rwanda to this new era of community oriented, people centred and socially accountable health professionals' education.

Health professionals' education is undergoing enormous transformation internationally and also in Rwanda.We present the contribution of a Social and Community Medicine program at the University of Rwanda to this new era of community oriented, people centred and socially accountable health professionals' education.

The aim of this paper is to investigate the involvement of parents in the school administration of farm schools in South Africa. An argument is presented that although the involvement of parents in the administration of schools in South Africa is taken as a fait accompli, the reality is that in farm schools, this still remains a wishful thinking. The empirical method was used to obtain information from parents about their involvement in the administration of farm schools. The findings...

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument for assessing junior secondary school Mathematics classroom environment as it affects teaching and learning of Mathematics in Enugu State. Instrumentation research design was adopted for the study. The sample of the study consisted of 1710 students drawn from the population of 43,540 Junior Secondary 1, 2 and 3 students for 2010/2011 academic session in the 75 public junior secondary schools in Enugu State. The instrument...

Background: Investing in health professions education is widely known to improve the overall health outcomes of a community, with collaboration as a strategy.Umuganda is a Rwandan concept of community collaboration.Objective: This article describes several recent milestones in collaborative development of health professional education at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, towards more socially accountable education.Methodology: Literature review and personal...

Background: Investing in health professions education is widely known to improve the overall health outcomes of a community, with collaboration as a strategy.Umuganda is a Rwandan concept of community collaboration.Objective: This article describes several recent milestones in collaborative development of health professional education at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, towards more socially accountable education.Methodology: Literature review and personal...

Ethnographic and archaeological data from the Mapungubwe landscape show that rainmaking deposits on hilltops, along with burnt grain bins in ordinary villages, represent cultural responses to severe drought by Iron Age agricultural communities. In ordinary villages, burnt granaries were the result of cleansing rituals, rather than violence or natural causes. A total of 13 episodes of severe droughts were previously documented in hilltop and village deposits. New climate proxy data from...

This paper examines the influence of teachers' learning styles on their classroom teaching and learning practices.The reported mixed method study was conducted in various school districts in a large province in South Africa.The data was collected with the use of questionnaires administered to primary school natural science teachers and classroom observations made during a science lesson.The study examined the preferred learning styles of primary school science teachers.It then investigated...

This paper examines the influence of teachers' learning styles on their classroom teaching and learning practices.The reported mixed method study was conducted in various school districts in a large province in South Africa.The data was collected with the use of questionnaires administered to primary school natural science teachers and classroom observations made during a science lesson.The study examined the preferred learning styles of primary school science teachers.It then investigated...

The aim of this study was to investigate teachers' perceptions of the impact of Continuing Professional Development on promoting quality teaching and learning.This study adopted a mixed method approach using both quantitative and qualitative research designs.Closed-ended self-administered questionnaires and interview schedule were used to collect data.Two hundred teachers were sampled through simple random sampling procedure to complete the questionnaires, while ten teachers participated in...

This paper examines the influence of teachers' learning styles on their classroom teaching and learning practices.The reported mixed method study was conducted in various school districts in a large province in South Africa.The data was collected with the use of questionnaires administered to primary school natural science teachers and classroom observations made during a science lesson.The study examined the preferred learning styles of primary school science teachers.It then investigated...

This paper critically examined the current status of the teaching of psychology in Nigeria fifty years after the discipline was first taught in a Nigerian University. With around thirty departments across the nation’s universities, there is no indication that an indigenous approach to the teaching of the discipline has evolved. Secondly, there is a gradual decline in the level of adherence to universal values underpinning the teaching of psychology as a science in the country. The teaching...

This paper is a report of a study carried out to examine how information and Communication Technology (ICT) and teachers' performance in terms of lesson preparation and delivery in primary schools in Ogoja Education Zone of Cross River State, Nigeria.To achieve the purpose of the study, one research question was formulated to direct the study.Ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study .A sample of six hundred and twenty teachers was randomly selected for the study.The instrument...