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A key factor in providing quality education is the main language of instruction (M-LoI). This creates a challenging situation for education policymakers in post-colonial multilingual countries such as South Africa. Language-in-education policies must valorise indigenous languages and redress their exclusion in past education systems while ensuring access to any economic opportunities afforded by colonial languages. Public attitudes have a bearing on individuals’ interactions with language...
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This article shows comprehensive strata of questionnaires to be administered for the research on the dissertation topic: “The Influence of Poverty on Academic Performance of School Going Children: Western Rural District, Sierra Leone as a Case Study”. It covers three set of questionnaires for school–going student, teachers and parents. The questionnaire for the school-going pupils will be pre-tested and improved for final administration in schools in collecting appropriate data for final...
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Based on an ethnography of young women from China studying in Melbourne, this article explores participants’ experiences of living in a super-diverse city, and questions whether extant theoretical accounts of everyday multiculturalism are adequate to understand the experience of these residents. In 2016, Melbourne’s Chinese student community was rocked by a prolonged spate of mobile phone thefts that Chinese-language social media framed as ethnically targeted attacks on Chinese people by...
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This article examines the views of male and female learners regarding how Life Orientation (LO) sexuality education is taught at their schools. Learners in the study were selected from five former ‘Black’ schools in the Eastern and Western Cape Provinces of South Africa. Focus groups were used to identify what learners could recall about their LO sexuality education classes. The strong trend in the data speaks to how LO sexuality education implies a gendered, heteronormative and moralistic...
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In many low-income countries, persons with disabilities are consistently denied access to essential services, contributing to a high incidence of poverty among them. The Goal 1 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) exhorts countries to develop appropriate social protection to serve as a springboard to alleviate poverty among all persons. The government of Ghana has introduced Disability Fund to provide one-off financial support to persons with disabilities through its decentralised...
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On behalf of the Editorial Board, I am delighted to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of The Egyptian Journal of Medical Education (EJME), a new online, international, open-access, peer-reviewed, journal on all aspects of undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing Medical Education. EJME seeks to be a venue by which educators across all disciplines can publish methods, reports, and reviews on all areas of medical education, being basic science or clinically related. New...
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Since recently, the Bologna Process has been extending into Africa through the European ‘external dimension’ and the African lure as a model of higher education reform. The Bologna Process tools and methods are travelling beyond Europe in the form of an ‘à-la carte’ or as a wholesale model or both. Two contradicting views are in motion about the arrival of the Bologna Process in Africa: as a significant reform model opportunity and as a return to colonialism. However, due to internal and...
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The aim of this research study was to investigate students’ and teachers’ perceptions, challenges and practices of using English as sole medium of instruction. More specifically it was intended to examine the perceptions of teachers and students towards using English as a sole medium of instruction in public universities in North Western Ethiopia, to investigate factors that affect teachers and students not to use English as medium of instruction and to inspect the practices of English as...
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Field survey was conducted in south eastern Ethiopia to determine the disease intensity of chocolate spot and rust and to investigate the association of disease intensity (incidence and severity) with environmental factors and crop cultural practices. A total of 280 faba bean fields were surveyed in eight districts, and type of cropping system, weed management practices, crop growth stage, previous crop in the field, and sowing date were recorded. The associations of disease intensity with...
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The study aimed to identify the level of possessing creative teaching skills among a sample of faculty members in Algerian universities and to find out whether there were differences in the respondents’ assessment of the level of having creative teaching skills due to gender, years of service and academic rank. The study followed the descriptive analytical method. The sample consisted of (260) faculty members of four Algerian universities that, were selected in a simple random way. A...
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In the context of the quantitative approach to the evaluation of educational units there is an emerging interest in discerning the factors that affect the performance of a school. The data envelopm ...
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The purpose of this study was to explore the factors affecting teachers’ information communication technology (ICT) use for instructional purposes in secondary schools of South Gondar Zone, Ethiopia. To achieve the objective, descriptive survey design was employed.Both probability and non-probability sampling methods were used to select the participant of the study. Using both methods 303 teachers, 10 principals, 5 supervisors, and 4 district education office heads were selected....