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Shortage of computing skills is a global concern as it affects national development and business success. Yet, despite high job availability and high salaries in computing professions, insufficient numbers of students are choosing to study the various computing disciplines. This South African study looks at the Information Systems (IS) major which is misunderstood by high school students. This retroductive case study identifies the events which lead students to change their major to IS. The...

This study aims to assess the effect of education language (Arabic or French) on the probability of being self-employed in Chad. Mainly, we make use of a recursive bivariate Probit model and matching techniques to assess the effect, as well as to remedy to the endogeneity problem. Overall the analysis suggests that youths with Arabic-language education are more likely to be self-employed, however, most of them specialise in modest informal micro-enterprises. These results can help to shed...

This study aims to analyze smallholder farmers’ perceptions and responsiveness to climate disturbances in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso. The quantitative and qualitative research tools were used in this study including individual household survey and focus group discussions to collect the data from 133 household heads. The study respondents were randomly sampled by selecting 10-15% of the total households from five villages within three provinces in the Sahel region, namely Oudalan, Seno...

Disability prevalence data are important to improve efforts to remove or minimize disabling barriers and provide services to allow people with disabilities to take part in community life.There is however a lack of reliable data on disability in the districts of Rwanda.This study aims to describe the profile of disability in terms of prevalence, age, gender distribution as well as activity limitation in Rwanda.A door-to-door survey was conducted in all the households in villages from three...

The purpose of this study is to systematically review the TQM milieu to identify the key dynamics of TQM infusion into management consulting professional training in Ghana. Systematic review of current literature significantly hinged on synthesis, inference and finally typified by innovative frameworks for implementation. The study unfolds the key dynamics of TQM implementation focusing on “hard” and “soft” enablers, benefits of TQM implementation and innovative frameworks for TQM infusion...

<p>The national government in Malawi implemented an outcomes-based curriculum reform in 2007. To facilitate implementation, new textbooks were developed for the primary school curriculum. This study intended to explore teachers’ use and perception of the new Expressive Arts textbooks. The participants consisted of 192 Expressive Arts teachers, grades 5–8, selected by purposeful sampling. Data were collected through questionnaires and semistructured interviews. It was found that...

Africa remains the epicenter of the global HIV and AIDS epidemic. At present, UNAIDS estimates that nearly 17 million children have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS (Joint United Nations Programmed on HIV/AIDS, 2010). In Zambia, where estimated HIV prevalence is 13.5% as of 2009, mortality and protracted illness from AIDS have created a generation of children that are HIV/AIDS affected often cared for by chronically ill caregivers. A direct association exists between the increased prevalence of...

Refugees do heavily rely on (social) media before and during migration, as the article by Anke Fiedler in this GMJ special issue impressively demonstrates. But what happens after refugees have reached their country of destination? Some become media producers like our interviewee, media and social media activist Monis Bukhari from Syria. He is the founder of Syrisches Haus (Syrian House) in Germany, an information platform from and for fellow Syrians who arrived here as refugees. This...

<p>Qualities required to provide managers of what make them effective in their actions and behavior within the organizational structure generate, perpetually, the interest of researchers and professionals. Notwithstanding the prevailing conceptions, with reference to the subject of our research, make no consensus between the different stakeholders involved, among others, the college business students. This article is seeking clarification of the business students’ perception about the...

This study sought to establish what mismatch challenges, contradictions and tensions novice pre-service teachers faced as they started teaching in secondary schools in Tanzania and Malawi. Using the qualitative approach, through snowballing methodology, 19 teachers were interviewed using purposive non-random probability sampling in universities in Chin. These were students who had gone through pre-service teacher education and had been teaching in Tanzania and Malawi. All the participants...

The delivery of housing to low income citizens across South Africa reflects the state’s realisation of citizens’ social rights to housing and can help to strengthen a citizen’s sense of belonging. Additionally, through the very processes of housing delivery, such as decentralised mechanisms with strong community participation, principles of inclusive citizenship are forged and enacted. However, it is argued in this paper that because housing allocation is devolved and power granted to local...

This paper reports on selective findings from a larger qualitative PhD study of 30 adult herders in Lesotho. It uses theories of identity and social capital to examine their life histories and educational needs in order to inform the national Non-Formal Education (NFE) policy. The key findings of the study were that the herders demonstrated two distinct identities – public and private. Their public identities were reflected through themes of culture which included notions of masculinity and...

Despite the growth of adaptation plans and action by municipalities, there are limited examples of opportunities for effectively mainstreaming climate adaptation into policy and practice in local government. This paper uses the experiment of co-producing an adaptation plan for a small municipality in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, to illustrate how opportunities were leveraged. The findings suggest that a shift from strengthening the science–policy interface to the knowledge–policy...

The 21 st century is challenged by the problem of environmental degradation and hence is preoccupied by efforts geared towards the protection of the environment. A major target group is young children in schools. The universal basic education policy in Nigeria seems not to mainstream environmental literacy in the curriculum, therefore this study aims at assessing the level of environmental protection awareness of young children in Nigeria. The study employed the use of descriptive survey...

This paper studies the impact of the child support grant on school enrolment in South Africa. It is based on the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) data set for South Africa for the year 2008. Using the probit model, the author find some encouraging evidence to suggest that indeed the child support grant helps in the way of improving school enrolment in South Africa. More specifically, the author found that the child support grant increases school enrolment by about 10 percentage points

Students with visual impairment do experience discrimination, stigmatization, neglect and isolation from significant others around them. These unsavory experiences do have significant impact on their normal learning process. Although several studies have been conducted on the teaching and learning of students with visual impairment, little or no attention is paid to the impact of certain factors affecting their academic achievement. This study, therefore, examined the influence of...

Despite Tunisia’s remarkable transition from dictatorship to democracy following the Tunisian Revolution, only a few of the hotly debated articles in the country’s new constitution have been analyzed by scholars. This article examines one of those under-analyzed constitutional provisions: Article 39, on education, whose language on religious and national values was repeatedly contested throughout the two-year drafting process. Using internal National Constituent Assembly documents and...