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The recent Nine-Year Continuous Basic Education (NYCBE) reform has brought about a dramatic change in the provision of alternative lower-secondary education in the Republic of Mauritius. Whereas the previous prevocational education (PVE) programme allowed educators to make use of an aims-based curriculum to respond to the learning profile of children marginalised within the primary education system by formatively catering for their holistic development in an inclusive and integrated manner...

This report describes a pilot project which involved undergraduate medical students' clinical competence in psychiatry assessed through objective structured clinical examinations for the first time in Zimbabwe. The pilot describes how gaps in medical education can be addressed by collaborative partnerships that allow sharing of knowledge by local institutions and international experts.

COVID-19 effects have been felt in the education sector worldwide where schools, colleges, and universities were closed as a way to reduce the spread of the deadly pandemic and loss of lives. The Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education. advocate that no child should be left behind during the COVID-19 era, therefore gave a directive for universities to use other alternative means of teaching and learning to continuously provide teaching and learning to students during the series of...

This paper presents a descriptive analysis of the perceptions of Kenyan midwifery educators regarding the early impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the continuity of midwifery education.A cross-sectional online survey was conducted among 51 midwifery/clinical medicine educators from 35 diploma training colleges from all eight regions of Kenya. Educators' concerns and satisfaction regarding the delivery of training during the early phases of the pandemic were expressed as...

Whilst transition to primary school is a commonly experienced phenomenon for most children, some groups of children, including those with disabilities, are less likely to engage in the process because it can be very challenging for them and their families. This article presents evidence from a review of research looking at the transition of children with disabilities within early childhood and primary education in low income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. From the meta-aggregation, three...

Long before the period of colonialism, adult or community education was the means through which traditions, that is the body of principles and experiences that governed the African societies in their growth and development, were transmitted through generations. The traditional adult education lost its importance and place during the period of colonialism when rulers put the premium on formal and ‘school’ education to the exclusion of adult education to meet the bureaucratic and...

Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions frequently assume that students who learn positive WASH behaviors will disseminate this information to their families. This is most prominent in school-based programs, which rely on students to act as "agents of change" to translate impact from school to home. However, there is little evidence to support or contradict this assumption.We conducted a quasi-experimental, prospective cohort study in 12 schools in rural, southern Zambia to...

The Yemen Arab Republic is one of the least developed countries in the world. This is the direct result of a long period of tyrannical Imamic rule which was further exacerbated by the succeeding civil war. This chapter attempts a rapid survey of primary education during the last 20 years or so. The rapid development in primary education and the tremendous increase in the number of pupils joining schools have led to several problems which still face the country. In order to give a brief...

Teaching spaces are needed for direct or physical contact between lecturers and students. The degree of students’ satisfaction with teaching facilities and services provided in our universities are likely to influence their academic performance. This study examined the factors influencing students’ satisfaction with learning spaces in Osun State University, Osun State, Nigeria. A sample size of 591 respondents drawn from 300 level and 400 level in the College of Science, Engineering and...

The advent of COVID-19 precipitated challenges most of Africa were not ready to deal with, especially within higher education institutions, and severely impacted health professionals’ education (HPE) due to the extensive clinical component involved in HPE.

There is a global emphasis on the importance of providing quality early childhood education and care to all children. The issue of provision of quality early childhood education for arid and semi-arid regions of Kenya has received less attention as it contributes to the status of literacy of the whole population. This paper looks at the provision of quality education in public early childhood education centres also known as pre-primary schools in West Pokot County, Kenya. The study...

In the 1940s and 1950s some schools were established by private initiative. Many Yemenis migrated to Aden and those with appropriate residential qualifications attended Aden government schools. Until the 1962 revolution, modern public education was limited in both quality and quantity. Some educational institutions were founded during the second Ottoman occupation, including a teacher-training college and a technical school. A number of special features affect the working of the system. The...

<p>This study explored the level of peer acceptance of students with visual impairments and their perception of acceptance by their sighted peers in an inclusive setting in Ghana using the case study design. Twenty students with visual impairments and two resource teachers were sampled based on census sampling for the study. Interview data were coded and analysed using the thematic approach. The study indicated that students with visual impairments were accepted by their sighted peers,...

Birds communicate with their colonies through sound and inform them of potential problems like forest fires. The identification of bird sounds is therefore very important and has the potential to solve some global problems. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are sophisticated deep learning algorithms that have proven to be effective in image processing and in sound classification. This paper describes the work done to develop a tool using a deep learning model for classifying Mauritius...

The sudden transition to Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) during the COVID-19 crisis hindered small group student learning, including Supported Problem-based Learning (SPBL), in the undergraduate medical curriculum at the University of Cape Town. Consequently, a socially just and equitable online Remote SPBL model was needed to promote learning, social cohesion, track student progress, and render emotional containment to students experiencing crisis-related anxiety and social isolation....

This study aimed to explore post Covid-19 lockdown students’ satisfaction from some higher education institutions in Ethiopia. The study used descriptive and explanatory research designs. A total of 480 students were taken from twelve public Universities as a sample and 366 valid questionnaires were collected. Convenience and snowball sampling were used to select the employees from each University. Also, cross- sectional survey method was applied to collect data via a Likert scale...

The outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic worldwide urged educational institutions to come up with quick and effective alternatives to ensure students’ learning and academic year continuity. Morocco was no exception to deal with that situation. As a response to the pandemic, the Ministry of Education launched distance learning as a “new” mode for learning across the country. The objective of the current study is to investigate students’ attitude towards distance learning during the pandemic. Also,...

International climate finance plays a key role in enabling the implementation of adaptation measures. However, while there is a common metric for gauging the effectiveness of finance for mitigation – greenhouse gas emission reduction per unit of funding – no corresponding metric exists for adaptation. Instead, assessments of what works best in adaptation finance focus either on procedural aspects of funding modalities, such as equity in the allocation of funding, or on the extent to which...

Guided by social identity theory (SIT), this study considers how identification influences health seeking behaviours among college students in Kenya and the USA. The study sought to investigate how felt-connectedness among students influenced the health choices they made and the relevance of identification to health. Data were collected using responsive interviews with 22 students in a large Kenyan university and 21 students at a Midwestern university. The age of the participants from both...


 
 
 
 Objective: Salivary gland tumors are mostly slow growing and painless. Majorities are located in the parotid glands and are benign. Treatment of these parotid tumors may endanger the facial nerve. This study evaluated the clinical presentation and management of parotid gland tumors in Kaduna, North-west, Nigeria.
 Methods: This was a retrospective study of patients that were treated for parotid gland tumors at the Maxillofacial Unit of Barau Dikko Teaching...