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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...

The air inhaled by people is abundantly populated with microorganisms which also are called bioaerosols. Bioaerosols is a colloidal suspension, formed by liquid droplets and particles of solid matter in the air, whose components contain or have attached to them viruses, fungal spores and conidia, bacterial endospores, plant pollen and fragments of plant tissues. They account for 5-34 % of indoor air pollution.A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the bacteriological concentration...

Background: The air inhaled by people is abundantly populated with microorganisms which also are called bioaerosols. Bioaerosols is a colloidal suspension, formed by liquid droplets and particles of solid matter in the air, whose components contain or have attached to them viruses, fungal spores and conidia, bacterial endospores, plant pollen and fragments of plant tissues. They account for 5–34 % of indoor air pollution. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the...

Thirty-four Zimbabwean Advanced level students at a Catholic run boarding school were surveyed in regards to their perception of having distance education at high school level.The country is experiencing an increase in technology use, resulting in calls for the introduction of online education through distance learning (Bukaliya & Musika, 2011).The purpose of this survey study is to investigate the attitudes and perceptions of high school students in Zimbabwe towards distance...

This study aims to identify the relationship between three dimensions of epistemological beliefs (Simple knowledge, Certainty of knowledge, Quick learning), and learning goal orientation, in predicting deep knowledge acquisition approach among preservice teachers.We conducted a quantitative correlational study with 418 pre-service teachers from colleges of education in Northern Nigeria.In conducting Pearson correlation and regression analyses, we found there is a significant relationship...

The purpose of this study was to investigate teachers' perceptions on the influence of selected instructional factors on pupils' acquisition of competency skills in pre-school centres in Keiyo South Sub County in Elgeyo-Marakwet County. This study was guided by Piaget cognitive development and functionalism theory of learning. The research design for the study was descriptive survey. The target population for the study comprises of all 60 pre-primary schools in the Sub County with a total of...

<div><p><em>The labour market in most developing countries in Africa has experienced challenges of qualified human resource to carry out their desired functions. The academic institutions are supposed to produce graduates who would readily fit into the job market. The TVET institutions were designed to produce graduates with technical skills to work in the industrial sector and other sectors of the economy in order to accelerate economic development. However there have been...

This article analyzes how central features of focused ethnography produce knowledge on teaching and learning history in conflict zones. In particular, it argues how five specific challenges of research in conflict zones are addressed through the methods of video observation, ‘hanging out’, and interviews, which are all central methods in focused ethnography. Through empirical examples from fieldwork in South Sudan, the article illustrates how the challenges of restricted access,...

This study investigated the relationship between computer anxiety and the Internet satisfaction of secondary school students in Lagos State. This study adopted the ex-post-facto type of survey design. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection from 637 respondents across the 12 education zones in Lagos State. Inferential method of data analysis such as Pearson Product Moment Correlation and multiple regression analysis were adopted in analysing the research questions. A vast...

The study focuses on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for post-2015 education in sub-Saharan Africa, by examining the current conditions and future trends of ICT and its integration in education.Through secondary data and semi-structured interview, it is mainly centered on the question whether Sub-Saharan Africa could ensure "access and inclusion" by 2030.The study indicated that the current low development of ICT interweaved with the socio-economic and political conditions of...

The focus of this paper is the experience of the lecturers and the e-tutors in implementing e-tutoring in the course "Visual Programming 1" at the University of South Africa. The topic of this paper is relevant because, presently there are few published studies on the topic of e-tutoring implementations in developing country contexts. The study subjects were the lecturers, and etutors in the course. Quantitative and qualitative data was collected in order to assess improvements after...

This paper traces the development and current situations of higher education in China and Kenya. This paper calls for rethinking on how to address increasing demand for access and quality through creating a conducive environment for learning and researching for both students and faculties. The paper presents a comparative study where China has been used as an example of a country that experienced rapid growth in access to higher education and economy in the last two decades. As the higher...

This paper traces the development and current situations of higher education in China and Kenya. This paper calls for rethinking on how to address increasing demand for access and quality through creating a conducive environment for learning and researching for both students and faculties. The paper presents a comparative study where China has been used as an example of a country that experienced rapid growth in access to higher education and economy in the last two decades. As the higher...

Abstract. In the West African drylands, SOC sequestration is seen as one of the prominent strategies to both enhance the resilience of agro-ecosystems and mitigate global greenhouse effects. However, there is a dearth of baseline data that impede the design of site-appropriate recommended management practices (RMPs) to improve and sustain SOC accrual. In this study, the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF), a nested hierarchical sampling design was used to assess SOC and its...

This study examines the causal relationship between warming temperatures and armed conflicts in the developing world, and specifically, in Syria. The goal is to find and establish a correlation between the two factors and to understand how their complex dimensions might be influenced by the political, economic, social and environmental context in which they take place. This has been done by examining studies from Africa and the ongoing war in Syria, where resource scarcities resulting from...