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Climate change has direct influence on environment and human existence. Climate change has been a monster posing threat to the hydrological cycle, hence the flow discharge of rivers. Therefore, it is necessary to study its effects on the flow of rivers thereby producing measures to alleviating its effects. In this study, the effects of land cover and weather conditions between 1967 and 2017 on the flow discharge of River Ona were investigated by making use of the climatic data (rainfall and...

Globally, there is a growing belief that through women’s empowerment, the socio-economic well-being of many societies will be transformed. This article sought to investigate the effectiveness of these women’s empowerment programmes in fostering poverty alleviation in rural South Africa, using Diphagane village in Limpopo Province as a point of reference. The study employed the qualitative research approach. To facilitate an in-depth understanding of the specific area of focus, the study was...

This study was carried out to evaluate the antibiotic susceptibility pattern of bacterial isolates from dental caries patients attending the clinic at Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria. A total of 223 bacteria samples (Streptococcus mutans = 151; Streptococcus sobrinus = 36; Lactobacillus acidophilus = 22; Streptococcus salivarius = 10; Streptococcus mitis = 4) were collected from the patients. Antimicrobial sensitivity testing was done by single disc agar diffusion method...

This paper investigates gender-based segregation in education, jobs and earnings among African women in South Africa. By investigating these linkages, we aim to identify potential policy interventions that could affect some degree of de-segregation in the labour market and thereby reduce the gender wage gap. Using large, nationally representative labour force data samples of African workers, our findings confirm the existence of an earnings hierarchy reflecting a male dominance premium....

This essay draws on repeat landscape photography to explore and juxtapose different cultural and scientific understandings of environmental change and sustainability in west Namibia. Change in the landscape ecology of western and central Namibia over the last 140 years has been investigated using archival landscape photographs located and re-photographed, or ‘matched’, with recent photographs. Each set of matched images for a site provides a powerful visual statement of change and/or...

• Teacher quality, self-efficacy, and quality teaching, and relationship. • Self-efficacy differences - gender and qualification (0.39 ≤ Cohen’s d ≥ 0.49). • Teacher’s self-efficacy and contextual variables predicted quality teaching. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the roles of motivation and social context in education. This study tests a new research direction in these areas, based on sociological and psychological theories, examining the linkages between contextual...

A changing climate will have demonstrable effects on health and healthcare systems, with specific and disproportionate effects on communities in Africa. Emergency care systems and providers have an opportunity to be at the forefront of efforts to combat the worst health effects from climate change. The 2020 African Conference on Emergency Medicine, under the auspices of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine, convened its first ever workshop on the topic of climate change and human...

This study investigates the errors and the effects of the amount of using English vocabulary as adjectives ending with (ed-ing) presently used by the 2nd level EFL learners of the faculty of Education-Lowder, Abian University, Yemen. It explores the causes that prevent EFL learners and make them to commit many errors in using English adjectives words in their writings. The test was used as instrument of this study to get the required data. The subjects were sixteen EFL learners at Abian...

Most inadvertently, teenage girls in school fall pregnant. Over recent years, South Africa has seen an exponential increase in teenage pregnancy. A significant number of pregnant teenage girls end up dropping out of school as often they are unable to cope with the huge responsibility associated with pregnancy, and some schools are not supportive of pregnant learners. However, pregnant teenage girls still have the right to education. To make it methodologically sound, this study utilized a...

In this study, synchrotron radiation x-ray absorption spectroscopy was used to characterize natural volcanic ash from Mount Cameroon. The latter was employed to remove Fe3+ ions from aqueous solutions, as an option for its application in water treatment. The electronic properties and local structure of Fe adsorbed on the volcanic ash were investigated. The results show that the raw volcanic ashes and those used to adsorb Fe3+ are principally composed of magnetite, Fe(II) sulphate, hematite,...

The study examined students' perception of the teaching-learning practice at Debre Markos University, Ethiopia. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed, and 343 students (from first to final year) who were selected using a simple random sampling technique participated in the study. A questionnaire, focus group discussion, and document review wereused to collect data for the study. Data were analyzed using quantitative (frequency, percentage, mean, and one-sample t-test) and...

The fiercely waged, century-long conflict on the ground of historic Palestine between the Jews, who from the mid-nineteenth century have mainly immigrated from Europe, and the Arab Palestinians, who live there—and have been living there for centuries/thousands of years—primarily started in the educational field. With the establishment of the Technion Institute in 1912, the Political Zionist movement started to develop a higher education system (HES) that could deliver the human capital...

The public debate on the language of instruction in public education in Morocco was characterized by intellectual and political confrontations that affected the linguistic issue, identity, public education crisis and other issues. It has concentrated on two main streams, one of which fiercely defends the policy of Arabization, and another believes that this policy, in particular ,is first and foremost responsible for the failure of the educational system and the deterioration of its quality....

The quest for a just education has, since the existence of education systems, been a part of humanity’s central concerns. The impetus for this is due to the fact that schools and many other institutions of learning exist as miniature societies which mirror that which happens in broader communities. Educationists have, in many ways, been preoccupied with the question of whether institutions of learning are engaged in the ‘undesirable’ process of reproducing inequalities. This has further...

The central aim of this study was to assess the level of psychological problems among college students during school closure due to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic.Institution-based, cross-sectional study.Colleges in the Amhara regional state of Ethiopia.Participants were college students (N=422, >18 years) who were actively enrolled in the selected colleges preceding the survey.Data entry was done using Epi Info V.7.02 and data analysis was done using SPSS V.24.0. Variables with a p value...

This is the first of the two articles dealing with the implementation of the right to education in South Africa and Nigeria. The article examines the meaning and the process of implementation of the right to education as well as the general nature of states’ obligations under the international human rights instruments regarding the right to education. The article examines the measures put in place at the international level towards realizing the right to education. While this first article...

This is the concluding part of the two articles dealing with the implementation of the right to education in South Africa and Nigeria. While the first article examines legislative measures put in place towards implementing the right to education, this follow-up article examines the non-legislative measures, that is, administrative and other measures. The article also identifies some problems such as inadequate planning, poor implementation of policies, inadequate resources and commitments as...