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Abstract This case study engages critically with the challenges of integrating research into an international development programme. Recognizing knowledge production is currently dominated by western and colonial systems of meaning–making, the case study also explores how development research can be less extractive and how it can promote more equitable forms of knowledge production. This is explored and illustrated through the ethical challenges raised in the Evidence and Collaboration for...

The study explored the influence of research mentoring on research publications output during COVID-19 in a selected Higher Education Institution (HEI) of the Eastern Cape Province as the incessant poor publications from the dissertations and theses of postgraduates upon completion of their studies prompted the researchers to want to understand the nature of the mentorship experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study was situated within an interpretivist paradigm which aided in the...

The human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) epidemic among young people persists to be a crucial public health issue around the world, with an estimate of 4,500 new HIV infections developing among young adults each year. The youth population in subSaharan Africa has expanded by nearly 100 million over the past three decades and the rate of HIV infection in young women and girls exceeds their male counterparts by three to one. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an innovative HIV preventative...

Introduction:The major objective of the study was to compare and contrast a U.S. and Zambian Ob/Gyn residency programme, using uniform metrics, as the basis for an initial exploration of perceived inequities in post-graduate medical education between lowand high-income countries.Methods: Measurements of the following procedures were used to indicate whether minimum standards had been met by trainees in their respective postgraduate programmes: vaginal deliveries; C-sections; abdominal,...

Abstract Most studies on metacognition have devoted attention to self-awareness, learning process and outcome. However, there is a paucity of literature on how earthquake risk perception affects students’ metacognition. This study assessed Senior High School (SHS) students’ earthquake risk perception and its effects on their metacognition in the Weija-Gbawe Municipality, Ghana. The study used a questionnaire collect data from 219 students proportionally from three (3) SHS (Ansong Senior High...

Abstract Background Health professions training in Tanzania has gradually adopted the competency-based curricula (CBC) approach that focuses on learners’ acquisition of competencies in knowledge skills and aptitude. Feedback from the graduates is crucial for improving CBC implementation and review to ensure that graduates acquire clinical competencies and thus improve patient care. Objectives To explore the teaching–learning experiences of medical and nursing graduates during their...

This study investigated the factors influencing children with mental impairment in acquiring quality primary education in Singida Municipality. Specific objectives were to determine the availability of specialist teachers to help pupils with mental impairment as to acquire quality primary education, to examine the availability of teaching and learning materials for teaching children with mental impairment, and to determine the perception of regular /ordinary teachers towards helping children...

Appraisal of body height (Bh) from leg length (LL) and other anthropometric parts of an individual is very important in the identification of human skeletal remains. The objective of this study was to develop a model for the estimation of Bhmale, Bhfemale and Bhcombined. The study was conducted in three selected tertiary institutions in Southwest Nigeria with a total of 324 students (162 male and 162 female) using the snowball techniques where the Bh and LL of the students were measured...

The first new political dispensation in South Africa encouraged scholars to study political communication with a renewed interest. At the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 275 students were involved in a survey to determine their future expectations and their sources of political information. It was found that the most negative expectations, which the students identified, included the following: more unemployment and poverty, the introduction of reverse discrimination,...

: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of mainstreaming among autistic learners on their educational experiences in primary schools in Nyamache sub-county, Kisii County, Kenya. The study specifically was guided to address the following objectives; to assess the effect of Peer Interaction on educational experience of learners with autism, to find out the effect of learner’s Self-management on educational experience of learners with autism, to assess the effect of Antecedent...

The Media Council of Tanzania report (2019) posits that there is lack of sound journalism practice is prevalent in the Tanzanian media environment. This state of affairs informs the gap that this study sought to investigate, in particular, trying to establish the role of supervisory bodies responsible for ensuring the quality of the courses offered by the various universities and colleges training Journalism in Tanzania and those responsible for enhancing media professionalism in the...

Female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) is a neglected manifestation of urogenital schistosomiasis caused by S. haematobium. The disease presents with symptoms such as pelvic pain, vaginal discharge and bleeding and menstruation disorders, and might lead to infertility and pregnancy complications. The perspectives of women with FGS have not been studied systematically. The aim of the study was to understand knowledge, experiences, and practices of women with FGS.We performed a qualitative study...

We examine how the Climate Change affected on the Agricultural Production , and how the impact of climatic changes on the productivity of the most important grain crops in Egypt, with the aim of determining the extent to which productivity has changed due to climate change in Egypt, using the Autoregressive Distributed lagged methodology (ARDL), where it was found that there is an inverse relationship between climate changes and the productivity of the most important cereal crops, a...

Despite a great deal of research on the relations between preschool executive functions (EF) and demographic variables such as age, sex and school variables (classroom organization and teacher behaviours including quality of educational instruction, planning, organization and teacher-learner relationships), not much is known about these associations in Zambian preschoolers. This study was aimed at examining the relations of executive functions to age, sex and school variables in 133 Zambian...

Abstract. Active fault data are commonly used in seismic hazard assessments, but there are challenges in deriving the slip rate, geometry, and frequency of earthquakes along active faults. Herein, we present the open-access geospatial Malawi Seismogenic Source Model (MSSM; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5599616), which describes the seismogenic properties of faults that formed during ongoing east African rifting in Malawi. We first use empirically derived constraints to geometrically...

The paper examined the need for a global partnership with TVET to ensure that the sustainable development goals set out by world leaders are convincingly achieved. The paper dwell on the three dimensions of SDGs identified during the declaration- economic, social and environmental. With respect to the economy, a case was made for adequate investment in the areas of agriculture and manufacturing. The need to establish a strong partnership with TVET institutions for the training of the...