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Young mothers in Kenyan public schools experience a high level of work-family conflict. Currently, there are no formal family-friendly policies, despite declining levels of extended family support and rising cost of hiring domestic workers. A total of 375 female teachers from three towns and Nairobi city filled open-ended surveys to examine the informal work-family balance support offered by the supervisors and colleagues, and suggestions to improve it. Open coding and content analysis were...

31Aug 2016 ATTITUDE OF STUDENTS/TEACHERS TO THE USE OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY(ICT) IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN AWKA, NIGERIA. Obiegbu , Ifeyinwa Rita Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

This paper investigates the underlying causes of financial mismanagement in public schools and focuses on the perceptions of various role players in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The various Departments of Basic Education in South Africa allocate funds to schools each year, and expect school principals and school governing bodies to manage it appropriately. The problem is that in some schools, the principals, teachers and school governing body members are perpetrators of various...

Potential impacts of climate change on surface water yields over the Sondu River basin in the western region of Kenya were analysed using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model with climate input data obtained from the fourth generation coupled Ocean-Atmosphere European Community Hamburg Model (ECHAM4) using the Providing Regional Climates for Impacts Studies (PRECIS) model. Daily time step regional climate scenarios at a spatial grid resolution of 0.44Ëš over the Eastern Africa...

Background: The present paper aims at establishing a minimum assessment protocol to estimate the prevalence of communication disorders, their severity and the correlation between identified communication disorders and oral communication activities among students. Material and Methods: A questionnaire was built using assessments published in current literature, which consists of 14 sections. The first section gathers demographic information such as age, gender, and level of education as well...

One hundred second-cycle school teachers in Ghana (average age 38) were surveyed to explore their access to and the use of information and communication technology (ICT) tools, and their level of competence.The Global Citizenship Survey instruments were adapted to collect the data.The study adopted the descriptive research design and data was analysed using descriptive statistics and Chi square test.The findings of the study showed that majority of the teachers have access to ICT tools such...

The study evaluated rural communities’ perception about climate change and their attitudes towards adaptation strategies in north Shewa, central Ethiopia-ware Jarso.A total of 139 farmers were sampled using stratified random sampling from three different agro-ecological zones and structured questionnaire, scheduled interview, key informant interview, focus group discussion and field observation were carried out for primary data collection and 33 years(1979-2012) of meteorological data...

Background: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited abnormality of the red blood cell characterized by chronic haemolytic anemia with numerous clinical consequences.Aims and Objectives: The objective of this study is to assess the level of awareness, knowledge and attitude to people living with SCD among undergraduate students of a tertiary educational institution in Abakaliki, South eastern, Nigeria.Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out was carried...

The Kenyan government through various polices has emphasised the teaching of English in all primary schools in Kenya.It is thus expected that when learners are exiting primary schools and entering secondary schools, they have acquired the Desired Competence Levels in listening in English.The present study was conducted with the aim of establishing the levels of competence in listening in English of the learners joining secondary schools in Kenya.Gender is a significant factor in the...

In Nigeria, medical students are trained in more didactic environments than their counterparts in researchintensive academic medical centers. Their conception of pharmacology was thus sought. Students who are taking/have takenthe medical pharmacology course completed an 18-question survey within 10min by marking one/more choices fromalternatives. Instructions were: "Dear Participant, Please treat as confidential, give your true view, avoid influences, avoidcrosstalk, return survey promptly."...

The literature on mother's education and child health casually observes some nonlinearities and also a threshold in the relationship. Even though this nonlinearity or threshold has significant bearing on policy matters such as quality of education, any rigorous attempt to address this issue is missing in the literature. With height for age z ‐score as a proxy for long‐run child health capital, regression results reveal that there are significant effects of mother's education on child health...

There are many ways to keep the memory of the late first African President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela alive and make a difference in the lives of communities. University of South Africa has a time to serve to inspire the communities. With regard to education and literacy, the university leads by example. College of Human Sciences Health Literacy Project is a community based initiative whose primary aim is that of empowering school age youth cricket players by providing health literacy...

In some low-income countries, low-fee private schools targeting relatively poor communities have sprung up in considerable numbers meeting growing demand. This is often the case where government is not providing enough school places, but also where parents could access government schools for their children but choose not to, due to perceived low quality of provision. This research study sought to find out if non-state schooling has developed to any considerable extent in the Mozambican...

This version is made available in accordance with publisher policies. It is an Accepted Manuscript that has been published In Kallaway, P. & Swartz, R. (Eds.) Empire and Education in Africa : The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective, pp. 271-297, in the series History of Schools and Schooling. Please cite only the published version using the reference above.

This version is made available in accordance with publisher policies. It is an Accepted Manuscript that has been published In Kallaway, P. & Swartz, R. (Eds.) Empire and Education in Africa : The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective, pp. 271-297, in the series History of Schools and Schooling. Please cite only the published version using the reference above.