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The aim of this paper is to present climate change health related effects that may pose a challenge for South Africa to attain South Africa’s plans to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SGD) 3. It examined South Africa’s preparedness to address the impacts of climate change in order to best achieve SDGs 3. Climate change is a challenging phenomenon, which has seen many people around the world being affected by its effects unaware and unprepared. Climate change affects weather patterns,...

This study reveals rainfall variability and trends in the African continent using TAMSAT data from 1983 to 2020. In the study, a Mann–Kendall (MK) test and Sen’s slope estimator were used to analyze rainfall trends and their magnitude, respectively, under monthly, seasonal, and annual timeframes as an indication of climate change using different natural and geographical contexts (i.e., sub-regions, climate zones, major river basins, and countries). The study finds that the...

Background: Schistosomiasis causes anaemia, stunting, and cognitive impairment in children, which impairs school performance. Government coordinated school-based preventive chemotherapy with donated praziquantel has been primarily used for schistosomiasis control in Ogun State, necessitating the need to monitor treatment coverage and its effect on schistosomiasis burden. Methods: We screened 422 pupils aged 1-14 years old for Schistosoma haematobium in June 2018 using the filtration...

The above book published by Professor Joseph Balogun, an accomplished clinician, researcher, educator, and administrator, who doubled as a participant-observer while working on this book, is a compelling masterpiece. As a former Senior Lecturer and Vice-Dean at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife three decades ago, a retired Distinguished Professor at Chicago State University, faculty, and administrator at several universities around the world, made Professor Balogun uniquely qualified to...

Soil is contaminated with various potentially harmful metals (PTMs). Therefore, the adequate protection of soil from contamination is imperative, as the soil is regarded as the primary cradle for living and environmental balance. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to assess the contamination level by PTMs in Touggourt city, where soil samples have been collected randomly from 18 sites. These sites included manufacturing companies and institutions belonging to the industrial region of...

The study assessed the undergraduate business education students' usage of social networking as a platform for entrepreneurship activities in North-west, Nigeria. Specifically, the study had five objectives, five research questions and five null hypotheses. The study anchored theory of Technology Acceptance Model of Ajzen and Fishbein's, (1980) and Division of Innovation Theory (DOI) of Rogers (1995). The study adopted a survey research design. The population of this study comprises of all...

This study examined the impact of financial development on inclusive growth in Nigeria using a time series data obtained from secondary sources between 1999 and 2019.Financial development was measured using broad money supply and domestic credit to private sector, while inclusive growth was measured from income perspective using per capita GDP and from expenditure perspective using household consumption expenditure.The data were mainly obtained from World Development Indicators data base for...

The aim of this paper is to explore the effectiveness of open distance learning in South Africa. Most developing countries in the world are facing challenges of expanding access to higher education. These challenges are even more acute in places of limited resources and capacity to provide quality higher education for an ever-increasing population. For many countries in Africa, distance education seems to be the only option to play a role in widening participation to higher education...

Basic education in Tanzania especially in rural schools is faced with diverse challenges that hinder effective teaching and learning. This situation requires immediate interventions from the government to improve basic education in rural schools. The purpose of this study was based on improving basic education in rural schools in Tanzania: lessons from China. This study employed secondary sources to collect data. The government of China used different efforts to improve rural education...

Climate change is one of the greatest threats to mankind’s survival in the twenty-first century, and has a number of consequences for the Nzoia River Basin's drinking water resources, including increased dry spells, flooding associated with heavy rainfall events, degraded water quality, and changes in water demand. This study examines the impact of climate change on drinking water resources in Nzoia River Basin, Kenya. A cross-sectional survey design was used in this study. Busia (lower),...

Purpose: Behaviour modification is considered a task of the home and the school. It is the duty of the school to nib in the bud any negative behaviour children pick from the home environment at the early grade level. This paper explores the impact and usefulness of messages from Traditional Ewe Folktales hereafter (TEF) in the training of early grade children in Ghana. 
 Methodology: This paper is a qualitative research. Primary data was collected from four separate storytelling...

Conversion of native lands into agricultural use, coupled with poor land management practices, generally leads to changes in soil properties. Understanding the undesirable effects of land-use and land-cover (LULC) changes on soil properties is essential when planning for sustainable land management. This study was conducted in Al Jabal Al Akhdar region, Libya, to assess the effects of land-use and land-cover changes on soil quality inferred by analyzing the relative changes in 17 chemical,...

In recent years, education in Morocco has undergone a curriculum reform that aims to place the student at the heart of educational activities, to make him/her an actor and responsible for his/her learning. Such reform requires changes in pedagogy and the practices of pedagogical actors. We conducted a qualitative study among 13 physics and chemistry teachers in Moroccan high schools to improve learning methods for solution chemistry. This study aims to understand why Moroccan students favor...

In recent years, education in Morocco has undergone a curriculum reform that aims to place the student at the heart of educational activities, to make him/her an actor and responsible for his/her learning. Such reform requires changes in pedagogy and the practices of pedagogical actors. We conducted a qualitative study among 13 physics and chemistry teachers in Moroccan high schools to improve learning methods for solution chemistry. This study aims to understand why Moroccan students favor...

Global warming poses a severe threat to food security in developing countries. In Ethiopia, the primary driver of low wheat productivity is attributed to climate change. Due to the sparsity of observation data, climate-related impact analysis is poorly understood, and the adaptation strategies studied so far have also been insufficient. This study adopted the most popular DSSAT CERES-Wheat model and the ensemble mean of four GCMs to examine the quantitative effects of adjusted sowing dates...

Active learning has gained fame worldwide since the rise of the student-centered approach, which aims at empowering the learner and promoting his ̸her autonomy and self-learning. In this respect, the Moroccan higher educational system is making tremendous efforts to valorize active learning, independence and develop learning strategies. This study aims to analyze the Moroccan university students’ attitudes towards this instructional approach as the latter has not gained fame yet in higher...

The concept of energy is one of the most abstract in physics. Indeed, many pieces of research have shown that learning the scientific concept of energy is very difficult and have pointed out the necessity of a progression throughout schooling, starting from preschool. In this work, we were interested in identifying representations by Moroccan learners of the 6th year of primary school related to the concept of energy. To do this, a written test was submitted to a sample of 228 learners. The...