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General Nursing Council recruitment and selection guidelines requires passing of an aptitude test by candidates wishing to train as nurses, a prerequisite that has been received with mixed feelings due to the high failure rate inherent with the test.The investigator therefore undertook the study to determine if there was any relationship with passing of the aptitude test and the performance of students during training.A purposive, retrospective review of records was done and IBM SPSS...

Management of Ghanaian public secondary boarding schools, particularly the coeducational ones is often faced with the problem of irregular attendance of female boarding students to the dining hall.Attendance to the dining hall is important because it ensures that the student is well fed and also benefits from the socialization and other experiences that attending dining hall sessions regularly bring.This action research was undertaken to identify and put in place specific strategies that...

The response to the development and growth of mobile phones in Africa has introduced new ideas in education, business, health, and banking needs of a country.Ghana has become a great place for mobile technology implementation to thrive as there are enough users to support the relevant technologies.In fact, the latest industry statistics released by the National Communications Authority state that, out of a population of 24.97 million, there are approximately 24.4 million subscribers on at...

The study evaluated the implementation of the Science-Technology-Society (STS) concept during science instruction in secondary schools and the possible constraints to its implementation and the possible solutions the identified constraints.The sample consisted of fifteen schools in Makoni District of Manicaland and involved all the Science Heads of department in the schools including five form four students per each sampled school.The total number of participants was ninety.Data was...

The investigation described in this dissertation aims at studying some aspects of spoken discourse which are discourse markers, and will consider in particular the production of those devices by EFL students of English as well as the effect of consciousness-raising tasks on improving discourse competence and communicative language performance of non-native speakers of English in Algeria. In this context a quasi experimental research was adopted consisting of two groups of twenty (20)...

The concept of Social and emotional learning (SEL) is instituted on the positive youth development which promotes the needs of youth to be addressed by building backgrounds that encourage outcomes conforming to school achievement, correspondingly sympathetic relationships with adults and peers, problem solving, and civic engagement amongst others.Much focus has been on students' achievement, thus passing examination and neglecting the other very important aspect of students' life which are...

Breeding for drought tolerance based on direct selection for high grain yield under drought has been hindered by the complex nature of drought tolerance mechanisms and the approaches used.Molecular marker-based approaches are a promising alternative.In this study, 30 rice (Oryza sativa L.) accessions cultivated in Nigeria were screened in a greenhouse for drought tolerance based on morphophysiological traits and assessed for DNA polymorphisms using SSR markers for possible marker-trait...

Background The aim of the study was to analyse trends in the relationship between mother’s educational level and mortality of children under the year of five in Sub-Saharan Africa, from 1990 to 2015. Data and Methods Data used in this study came from different waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) of Sub-Saharan countries. Logistic regression and Buis’s decomposition method were used to explore the effect of mother’s educational level on the mortality of children under five years....

The School of Oriental and African Studies, a college of the University of London, was established in 1916 principally to train the colonial administrators who ran the British Empire in the languages of Asia and Africa. It was founded, that is, with an explicitly imperial purpose. Yet the School would come to transcend this function to become a world centre of scholarship and learning, in many important ways challenging that imperial origin. Drawing on the School's own extensive...

<p><strong>Reason:</strong> The article ‘<em>Literacy lessons learnt from parents after attending a seven-week Home School Partnership Programme</em>' (DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajce.v6i1.291" target="_blank">http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajce.v6i1.291</a>)’ published on 30 June 2016 in the <em>South African Journal of Childhood Education</em> has been retracted by agreement between the authors (Dawn Cozett and Janet Condy)...

The rate of technological development across the globe is dramatic. The decreasing cost and increasing availability of ICT devices means that its users are no longer exclusively industry or government employees – they are now also home users. Home users integrate ICT in their daily lives for education, socialising and information gathering. However, using ICT is associated with risks and threats, such as identity theft and phishing scams. Most home users of ICT do not have the necessary...

Teacher effectiveness, in the eyes of learners, in the classroom is to a large extent determined by the atmosphere created by teachers’ classroom behavior especially the degree to which a teacher ‘carries the class along’ during lesson. Children are leading the way in demanding accountability from teachers and one important expectation is a classroom which is psychologically conducive for learning. Such classroom tends to induce from the learners desirable affective behaviors that are...

The prevalence of malaria parasite and antimalarial preventive measures among students of University of Lagos, Nigeria was carried out between November 2014 and February 2015.Blood samples were collected from 400 students (with age ranging from 15-46year) by finger pricking and analyzed microscopically and by Rapid Diagnostic Test kit.Semi-structured questionnaire probing into their knowledge of the cause of malaria, ability to recognize signs and symptoms, treatment seeking behaviour was...

Abstract Despite the importance of the ecological and agricultural aspects of severe droughts, no drought monitoring and prediction framework based on a land data assimilation system (LDAS) has been developed to monitor and predict vegetation dynamics in the middle of droughts. In this study, we applied a LDAS that can simulate surface soil moisture, root‐zone soil moisture, and vegetation dynamics to the Horn of Africa drought in 2010–2011 caused by the precipitation deficit in two...