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The study aimed at assessing how 13 environmental variables taken together predict students’ achievement in Chemistry as well as their relative contribution to the prediction. Two research questions were raised and stratified random sampling technique was used to select 94 Chemistry teachers and 600 of their Chemistry students for the study. Environmental variable Questionnaire 1 and 11 and Chemistry Achievement Test (CAT) were used for data collection and analysed using multiple...

The paper is on revamping Vocational and Technical Education in Nigeria for sustainable development. The paper discussed how the signs in vocational and technical education sub-sector are not encouraging for instance lack of qualified vocational and technical education teachers, lack of workshops, machines, hand tools and other infrastructures in view of the above, technical and vocational education is preached by various successive governments since independence in Nigeria institutions of...

Before the advent of colonial administration in Nigeria, Nigerians had their own kind of education, which was indigenous, in this system, every member of the society displayed the value of the system. Thus, honesty, respect, patriotism, communalism, hard work and so forth become characteristic hallmark of every member of the society. This paper, therefore, examines Nigeria’s values that have given way to the value of money, comfort and easiness. It traces the root cause of this value...

Knowledge about the concept and the application of benefit-cost analysis (BCA) and cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) can help policy makers to formulate and implement programmes that improve the lives of the citizens, especially the poor. This paper presents an example of a BCA and CEA of education interventions using data from the home-grown school feeding and the education assistance programmes, implemented in Nigeria, as well as information on impacts gathered through experts’ opinion. We...

As human manpower is an important asset for Mauritius, strategies are deployed and incentives are given to encourage lifelong learning. Thus, tertiary institutions in Mauritius are increasingly developing courses with the aim of reaching a larger student population through a flexible mode of learning. However, it is well known that distant learners' motivation fades away and that the rates of dropouts have not considerably decreased across the years. To give adequate supports to the distant...

September 01 2013 Representations of Africa in the Classroom Constanze Weise Constanze Weise Constanze Weise is a Visiting Instructor of African History at Dickinson College. coweise@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Constanze Weise Constanze Weise is a Visiting Instructor of African History at Dickinson College. coweise@gmail.com Online Issn: 1937-2108 Print Issn: 0001-9933 © 2013 by the Regents of the University of...

The study is curriculum practice related and it focuses on the challenges faced by Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges. Interviews and observations were used to collect data from participants working at Addis Ababa’s TVET in Ethiopia. The participants were deans of a private and a public TVET colleges, an apprenticeship training coordinator, trainers, trainees and supervisors. Some of the findings were the following: trade unions have not been involved in the...

Second International UV and Skin Cancer Prevention Conference, Berlin, 11-13 September 2013

Making the assumption that property rights might determine whether farmers adopt particular strategies, this study aims at modelling farmers’ decisions to adapt to climate change by focusing on their property rights – declined as institutional arrangements on land and rights on land – as well as their socio-economic and demographic characteristics. The case study took place in northern Benin (West Africa). In this zone, 308 farmers producing maize and adapting to climate change were randomly...

Making the assumption that property rights might determine whether farmers adopt particular strategies, this study aims at modelling farmers’ decisions to adapt to climate change by focusing on their property rights – declined as institutional arrangements on land and rights on land – as well as their socio-economic and demographic characteristics. The case study took place in northern Benin (West Africa). In this zone, 308 farmers producing maize and adapting to climate change were randomly...

Making the assumption that property rights might determine whether farmers adopt particular strategies, this study aims at modelling farmers’ decisions to adapt to climate change by focusing on their property rights – declined as institutional arrangements on land and rights on land – as well as their socio-economic and demographic characteristics. The case study took place in northern Benin (West Africa). In this zone, 308 farmers producing maize and adapting to climate change were randomly...

Making the assumption that property rights might determine whether farmers adopt particular strategies, this study aims at modelling farmers’ decisions to adapt to climate change by focusing on their property rights – declined as institutional arrangements on land and rights on land – as well as their socio-economic and demographic characteristics. The case study took place in northern Benin (West Africa). In this zone, 308 farmers producing maize and adapting to climate change were randomly...

Maxillary sinusitis is a frequent ear-nose-throat (ENT) infection. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of maxillary sinusitis in the ENT department of a teaching hospital in Cotonou, Benin, and to report the clinical findings, together with the results of complementary examinations and treatment outcomes.This was a retrospective descriptive analysis of patients seen at our hospital from January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2008 for maxillary sinusitis.Over the 5-year study...

The formulation and implementation of Resolution 6 of 1998 during the redeployment process has led to (un)intended consequences when promotional posts are filled in South African public schools. Redeployment was a process aimed at placing redundant and excess teachers in schools where they were mostly needed when learners migrated from poorly to well-equipped schools after the demise of apartheid education in 1994. The aim was to prevent the retrenchment of teachers by placing them where...

Broadcast media involve the transmission of information, ideas and opinions through the usage of electronic devices. The Open and Distance Learning (ODL) is becoming more and more relevant and accepted as a form of global education. Radio broadcasting was introduced in Nigeria during the colonial age in 1932. Since then, it has been used for social, political and mass education. This paper examines the roles of broadcast media for educational delivery in ODL using Nigeria as a case study. It...

This study assessed the relationship between the utilization of internet based information by secretarial teachers in the Nigerian Colleges of Education and the effectiveness of their lesson delivery. 250 secretarial teachers drawn from 58 accredited Nigerian Colleges of Education responded to the questionnaire that was divided into 4 parts. The questionnaire was used to obtain information on the respondents’ bio-data and computer use background, Teacher Information Technology Skill...

  This paper examines cultural pluralism, reconstructive education and nation building in Nigeria. The objective is to present the Nigeria case where cultural diversity and differences play major role in the life of the people. Thus, the paper highlights the Nigeria Federation as being hobbled by centrifugal tendencies and activities based on her ethnic grouping and consciousness. In this direction, it provides the problems and also addresses the problem of cultural pluralism that would...