Your search

ABSTRACTABSTRACTThe study sought to establish challenges faced, strategies used as well as opportunities available for the effective implementation of the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) curriculum in colleges in Botswana. Results showed that there are no significant differences in the way curriculum is implemented in public and private TVET colleges. Results further showed that curriculum implementation by TVET lecturers is significantly influenced by the microsystem,...

Educational statistics at the close of the Condominium, of government schools for boys and girls, show a greater disparity than is usual, even for underdeveloped countries. Education for girls, it was felt, should improve the quality of Sudanese family life. The standard of material comfort in the average home was low compared with that in Western Europe. Pharaonic circumcision was practised on young girls and it was the women who performed the operation. Girls were to be educated according...

In the southern Sudan, education, during the Condominium, was left almost entirely to missionaries. From the 1920s onwards the Government made small grants to missions in return for the right to advise and to promote some uniformity in educational techniques and objectives. Perhaps the greatest obstacle to missionary-educational work was the nature of the people themselves. The Nilotics with their inflexible way of life, bound up with their cattle complex, were notoriously conservative in...

Many chants celebrated the bravery of Muslim generals and the miraculous victories of hard-pressed Muslim armies. Moving scenes involving the conversion of hitherto implacable enemies of the faith, such as certain Quraish leaders, were evoked, and the growing strength of Islam in its early days was vividly brought out. The students began with the formal opening, announced the sura and verses from which their selections were taken, and then commenced the long, arduous task of recitation....

The production and reproduction of knowledge are important components of national development. As student mobility increases, globally and within Africa, so does the national diversity of students as they seek to further their postgraduate studies at the limited number of research universities in Africa. Knowledge migration is inevitably a relationship between nation states because migration is driven by push factors (such as the socio-economic conditions and opportunities) in the country of...

In many countries there was a multiplicity of African languages which made the choice of a vernacular difficult for educational purposes. In any case, for most parents English was the prestige language they wished their children to acquire and any education which did not lead to its early acquisition was often regarded as second best and even an attempt to hold the back Africans from advancement. At the same time English is being taught as a subject by means of courses and readers that are...

Amid the raging Covid-19 pandemic across the world and the debilitating tertiary teachers strike in Nigeria, this study’s objective seeks to examine the prevailing un-lived experiences of Nigerian tertiary students in e-learning. The study argues that Covid-19 has widened the digital divide between Nigerian universities and other universities in other parts of the world on the one hand and between public and private tertiary institutions in Nigeria on the other. This e-learning deficit is...

The purpose of this study was to explore students’ perceptions of tourism and hospitality career education in three universities that run undergraduate programmes in Ghana, namely: the University of Cape Coast (UCC), University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) and the University for Development Studies (UDS). Final year students totaling 128 students were contacted through questionnaire and results analyzed employing SPSS. The study revealed that 45% respondents from the UCC did not...

Abstract Cybertechnology has become a fundamental part of educational institutions, with the student’s routine to use these technologies to communicate, learn and play, causing a need for understanding the impact and general principles of ethical computer use in academia. However, the practice of cyberethics in these environments has presented many challenges for the institutions. This study, based on the theory of planned behaviour, examined the differences in ethical cyber behavioural...

An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org

Teacher absenteeism is one of the most troubling obstacles on the path toward universal access to learning opportunities at school. Over the past decades, studies have found that teacher absenteeism is particularly prevalent in certain parts of Africa. While Guinea-Bissau has not administered or taken part in regional or international efforts to systematically monitor and assess the rates of teacher absenteeism, the issue is noted in the 2017–2025 Education Sector Plan, which includes an aim...

Abstract Understanding the regional impact of future climate change is one of the major global challenges of this century. This study investigated possible effects of climate change on malaria in West Africa in the near future (2006–2035) and the far future (2036–2065) under two representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5), compared to an observed evaluation period (1981–2010). Projected rainfall and temperature were obtained from the coordinated regional...

Abstract Ilaje is a coastal settlement in Nigeria with a large number of its population depending on groundwater, through hand-dug wells, for domestic and irrigation use. Due to the vulnerability of coastal aquifers to contamination, for this study, 29 groundwater samples were analyzed for physicochemical parameters, major ions and trace elements to appraise the quality, pollution status and health risks of Ilaje water sources. Hydrogeochemical analysis revealed cationic, anionic and trace...

The research aims to assess the effects of climate change on the livelihood of people living around the coastal areas and coping strategies used. The study uses a quantitative method with semi-structured interview questionnaire and convenient sampling method and conducts a survey of coastal community residents in Banjul, Barra, Bakau, Tanji, Sanyang, Gunjur, and Kartong and uses a descriptive analysis. Majority of respondents are self-employed as fishermen, and fish dryers, fish smokers,...

Rapid urban expansion and the alteration of global land use/land cover (LULC) patterns have contributed substantially to the modification of urban climate, due to variations in Land Surface Temperature (LST). In this study, the LULC change dynamics of Kano metropolis, Nigeria, were analysed over the last three decades, i.e., 1990–2020, using multispectral satellite data to understand the impact of urbanization on LST in the study area. The Maximum Likelihood classification method and the...

Women music educators in Kenya have, for long-time, experienced inequalities while navigating the music education space. As pointed out by various feminist scholars in the west and Africa, the oppression of women is experienced in multiple ways on the basis of patriarchy, race, class and sexuality. Thus, this paper explores the determinants of marginalization of women music educators in the Kenyan music education spaces. It focuses on the experiences of women music educators to bring forth...