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The attraction and retention of teachers in Zimbabwe is a problem not only unique to Zimbabwean schools, but all over the world.The problem is more pronounced in rural areas where resources are scarce, hence the tendency to repel teachers.Although the problem of teacher turnover is real, there are teachers who have remained in the profession for many years.The aim of the study is to find the factors that have influenced teachers to remain in teaching in rural Zimbabwe.Participants (n = 6) in...

A Thesis submitted to the Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Climate Change and Land Use APRIL 2015

The overarching purpose of this study was to ascertain the prevalence of maternal and infant/child health indices that have an established link to childhood disability (CHD) and their association with socio-economic status (SES) in Kenya. Data were drawn from the 2008/2009 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey. Descriptive and weighted Pearson’s chi-square tests were conducted to determine the characteristics of respondents and differences in the proportion of the disability risk factors by...

Research studies have pointed to inequality in access to formal Education in Nigeria in favour of the male; despite the nation's commitment to equality of all, irrespective of race, sex or gender as buttressed by section 18, of the 1999 Nigerian constitution.This situation has grave implications for national development in Nigeria.The enlarged access to qualitative and functional educational opportunity for all, boysCopyright © IAARR, 2015: www.afrrevjo.netIndexed African Journals Online:...

Cette recherche exploratoire a eu pour objectif d’analyser les usages des etudiants ivoiriens en matiere de telephonie mobile et de tenter de comprendre dans quelle mesure cette technologie peut etre un outil au service de l’education. Les resultats montrent d’abord que le telephone portable est un outil privilegie d’acces a l’information dans le cadre academique pour les etudiants. D’autre part, il constitue un veritable instrument de travail pour se substituer au manque d’ordinateur...

Investigations into the factors that affect management of educational facilities on students 'enrolment have attracted the interest and concern of researchers, universities administrators and planners as well as stakeholders in educational sectors in Nigeria.Different factors are capable of influencing the enrolment of students in the Nigerian Universities.Such factors range from the school library, school building, uncondusive classroom environment and the school laboratory.The Study...

In large parts of the world, a lack of home tap water burdens households as the water must be brought to the house from outside, at great expense in terms of effort and time. We here study how such costs affect girls’ schooling in Ghana, with an analysis based on four rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys. We address potential endogeneity issues by building an artificial panel of clusters using GPS coordinates. Our results indicate a significant negative relation between girls’ school...

Dramatic education is an all-inclusive academic discipline which uses as tools branches of learning that bear upon the dramatic impulse.It utilizes eclectically each and every single discipline into one unified body of knowledge, so that it can help man to comprehend the nature of experience.Educational drama or Dramatic education is as old as education itself.In the course of history, both have been periodically reviewed, refined and ultimately codified into a set of principles for use in...

In Nigeria, the Universal Basic Education (UBE) is the foundation of the education system.The implication of this is that the overall success or otherwise of the educational system delivery will depend, to a large extent, on the functionality of the basic education scheme.The rationale for this paper is based on the fact that the Education for All (EFA) target by 2015 and a cardinal objective of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) is for member countries to provide functional basic...

Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease composed of multiple subgroups with different molecular alterations, cellular composition, clinical behaviour, and response to treatment. This study evaluates the occurrence of the various subtypes and their clinical and pathological behaviour in the Ghanaian breast cancer population at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH). Retrospective review of case notes of patients who had completed treatment for breast cancer at the KBTH within the last 5 years...

The aim of this study was to investigate teachers' perceptions of the impact of Continuing Professional Development on promoting quality teaching and learning.This study adopted a mixed method approach using both quantitative and qualitative research designs.Closed-ended self-administered questionnaires and interview schedule were used to collect data.Two hundred teachers were sampled through simple random sampling procedure to complete the questionnaires, while ten teachers participated in...

Team projects in undergraduate engineering programs are critical sites for professional skills development.Team projects allow students to try on professional roles as they interact with peers and faculty on projects designed to simulate engineering work.Also, engaging in engineering activities such as team projects can help students establish a sense of identity within their field, which in turn influences their persistence through college and into a career.Moreover, team projects intersect...

The paper investigated the implications of the transcription systems of the English vowels for the Nigerian learner of English. It did a comparative analysis of some transcription systems of the English vowels. It found that many of the scholars of English phonetics tend to write out the symbols of the English sounds in different forms, largely dependent on their regional background. This, it was observed, usually leads to a multiplicity of symbols to represent the same sound. The paper...

This paper investigates the IL competence of the final year undergraduate students at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria; identifying their information needs and ability to satisfy such needs, exposure to IL programmes, strategies employed and the challenges faced. The survey research design was adopted. From a study population of 5,867, a sample size of 1,205 (20.58%) was drawn, using purposive sampling technique. Questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection which had 6...

The aim of this study was to investigate teachers' perceptions of the impact of Continuing Professional Development on promoting quality teaching and learning.This study adopted a mixed method approach using both quantitative and qualitative research designs.Closed-ended self-administered questionnaires and interview schedule were used to collect data.Two hundred teachers were sampled through simple random sampling procedure to complete the questionnaires, while ten teachers participated in...

The purpose of this study is to develop a factor model describing factors affecting mathematics performance in Tanzania’s secondary schools.  The factors were first identified by first administering structured questionnaires to 520 secondary school students with designed variables therein.  Factor analysis/principal component method was used to identify the underlying factors affecting students’ performance in mathematics.  It was revealed that lack of interest while studying mathematics,...

Miguels research interests involve image processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, wavelets, and image and video compression.She is passionate about active learning and strategies to improve electrical and computer engineering education, as well as increasing the number of women in engineering.

This study analysed the effect of cost on choices by international students to study in private Ugandan universities. The analysis indicated that fees policy contributed 17% to the way cost was considered. The relationship between fees policy and choice was 36%, implying that fees policy also influenced choices of a university. The purpose of the study was achieved because it was shown that cost influenced up to 75% of the choice of a University. The study proposed adopting an Activity Based...