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The purpose of this study was to investigate the implementation of competency based teaching approaches in education in Morogoro Teachers' Training College Tanzania.A total of 78 pre-service teachers from Morogoro Teachers' Training College participated in the study.To draw an understanding of the extent to which pre-service teachers were well trained to implement competency based teaching approaches in their teaching, a questionnaire was administered to all 78 pre-service teachers, and 46...
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The fundamental aim of forming a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is to improve the provision of public services generally and in terms of quality and accessibility in particular.Unfortunately, realizing this aim as effectively as desired has eluded many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.This has particularly been witnessed in the higher education sector.Despite the existence of PPPs in this sector, the quality and accessibility of higher education has continued to fall short of stakeholder...
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A Zimbabwean university recently introduced a Virtual and Open Distance Learning (VODL) programme to train science teachers to deal with the critical shortage of science teachers in one province.Thirty percent of the students withdrew from the programme within the first year.The study sought to determine the students' coping strategies for challenges experienced by the seventy percent who remained in the programme.Questionnaires and focus group discussions were used to collect information...
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Every country invests in formal education to develop and empower its citizens with the capacity needed to practically work and transform their surrounding environmental resources into productive employment after graduation.The high and growing rate of graduate unemployment in Uganda suggests however, that most of the formal education graduates are not practical enough to turn their local environmental resources into gainful work and effective contribution to national development.It is argued...
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Abstract: The Mount Bar Le Duc volcanic crater is a remnant of 0.7 ha of native vegetation found within a larger disturbed and fragmented area of nearly 300 ha. A checklist of both native and alien plants was compiled for this study area. Botanical surveys carried out from 2011-2012 at this volcanic crater showed a total of 68 species of native plants from 42 families distributed on 62 genera. Of this, 48 species were angiosperms (30 families, 45 genera) and 20 were pteridophytes (12...
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The world over, higher education institutions (HEIs) have invested heavily in the promotion of computer and information technology (CIT).In many HEIs in Sub-Saharan Africa, however, a disturbing dilemma pertains to the low adoption of the technologies, in spite of the enormity of the investment that the institutions have made in their promotion.Grounded on the propositions of the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model, this study examined whether this dilemma is due to the way the institutions...
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In the South African educational domain, there are an increasing number of initiatives which attempt to address the inequities in the system by providing support in an African language at various levels. Many of these initiatives use translation of texts in various subject areas as a major method of support which necessarily involves terminology development. This article puts forward the argument that although linguistic and conceptual development are inextricably linked, provision of...
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A male of the new species Stygiopontius senckenbergi belonging to the family Dirivultidae Humes & Dojiri, 1980 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) and endemic to deep-sea hydrothermal vents, is described from a raised fault block structure south of Edison seamount of the New Ireland Fore-Arc system (Papua New Guinea). The copepods were collected in by box-corer during cruise SO-133 of the RV ‘Sonne’ at a depth of 1610–1625 m, 3°19′S 152°35′E. The new species belongs to a group of eight species...
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Online reputation management (ORM), a component of e-marketing, has grown so fast over the past few years and has become increasingly significant to internet users. The permanence of the content generated on the net, mainly on social networks, has become a huge issue to consider. Because they live in this digital age, digital natives have a major responsibility in the way they create content and handle their reputation online long before beginning their job hunting. To clarify the matter,...
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The present study examines the effect of explicit instruction in three selective reading strategies on reading comprehension in English as a foreign language (EFL).The study addresses the following questions: A) Does explicit instruction in text structure help students identify discourse organization patterns?B) Does explicit instructional reading strategy in EFL develop reading comprehension?C) Is there a direct correlation between discourse organization knowledge and reading development?D)...
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Background: Echocardiography remains a key noninvasive cardiac investigative tool in the management of patients, especially in a developing economy like Nigeria. In this study, we investigated the indications for transthoracic echocardiography and spectrum of cardiac disease found in patients referred to our cardiac unit for echocardiography. Methods: A prospective two-dimensional, pulsed, continuous, and color-flow Doppler echocardiographic evaluation was done using the transthoracic...
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The persistent poor achievement being recorded in Social Studies at the primary school level in Nigeria has been attributed to inadequate instructional resources and the use of lecture methods which do not promote active participation of pupils in the teaching-learning process. Most previous studies have not explored the use of Three Dimensional Puzzle-Based Strategy and Paper and Pencil Puzzle-Based Strategy especially in Social Studies classroom which encourage active pupils’...
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<h3>Background</h3> Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and Human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune-deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) are global problems and currently over 100 million STIs occur each year in people within the 15–24 age bracket. Young people between ages 15 and 24 also account for more than fifty (50) percent of all HIV infections throughout the world. <h3>Methods</h3> A survey research questionnaire made up of three trajectories including sexual behaviour scale,...