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In many sub-Saharan African countries, the endorsement of the 1990 Education for All (EFA) and the 2000 Millennium Development Goals agreements have resulted in the introduction of ‘fee-free’ education policies in recent time. Yet, in 2015 it is becoming unlikely that education for all will be attained, as it has not been achieved through previous pledges. Using a ‘processual analytical approach’, this paper examines literature from disparate sources to exemplify challenges faced by...
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This paper highlights the potential benefits of software application to teaching and learning of synonymy in higher education. Synonymy is often misconstrued as a ubiquitous area of knowledge among language teachers and learners. However, further scrutiny reveals limitless possibilities which teachers appear to have taken for granted, especially in their use of technology in the teaching process. The research methodology comprises questionnaires administered to English language teachers in...
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This study is designed to assess evaluation techniques used by Social Studies teachers in classrooms.The study adopted a survey research design utilizing questionnaire and observation of actual classroom teaching.Three hypotheses were addressed in this study.A sample of 173 teachers were randomly selected from 150 junior secondary schools in ten local government areas of Edo state.Out of the 173 teachers, 50 teachers were randomly selected for classroom observation.Data was collected and...
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GPS data obtained from two equatorial stations of Ilorin (geographic Lat. 8.53°N, Long. 4.57°E and geomagnetic Lat. 10.57°N, Long. 78.56°E) and Toro (geographic Lat. 10.12°N, Long. 9.12°W and geomagnetic Lat. 11.36°N, Long. 83.35°E) have been used to study the response of vertical TEC to four geomagnetic storms which occurred during 22–23 Jan, 23–26 Jan, 6–8 March and 8–11 March in the year 2012. Three of these events were in the category of moderate storms (−50 > Dst > −100 nT) while the...
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Recent reports indicating that large portions of land (estimated 50-80m hectares) have been bought by international investors in middle- and low-income countries, with roughly two-thirds of those purchases occurring in sub-Saharan Africa, calls for a cursory appraisal of the implications of the trend of land grabbing for West African food security. This study reviews cases of land grabbing by foreign investors in West Africa, identifies the possible drivers of large-scale land acquisition by...
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Fine Art has suffered tremendous neglect in schools within and outside Nigeria due to misconstruing of the benefits of the subject by policy makers and even parents who dissuade their wards from spending time in artistic creations. Despite the lofty position which the national policy on education gave to it in the policy of Nigerian education, Fine Art is not always found in the time table of most schools. Pedagogical approaches often used by teachers have often proved inadequate leading to...
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Verbal and non-verbal interactions that occur daily between teachers and headteachers, teachers and pupils, and among pupils can generate conflict that may adversely affect teaching, learning, and schooling effectiveness. Little attention is, however, paid to the quality of relationships that exists between teachers and pupils, among teachers, among pupils, between teachers and their school heads, and between schools and their local communities. This study sought to investigate conflict...
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By the end of today another 25,000 young children will have been robbed of their childhoods, cheated of their right to an education, exposed to life-threatening health risks, and set on a road leading to a life of servitude and poverty. child marriage is a hidden crisis. Because the victims are overwhelmingly young, poor and mostly female, their voices are seldom heard by governments. Their concerns do not register on the agendas of global summits. But child marriage is destroying human...
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To study the risk factors associated with preterm delivery in two busy obstetrics centers in Ouagadougou.This prospective case-control study included 115 women with preterm deliveries and 230 control patients, or two controls per case, recruited from January through June 2011. The study took place in the maternity and neonatology departments of the University Hospital Center Yalgado-Ouédraogo (UHC-YO) and the Saint-Camille medical center, in the same city. Stillbirths were excluded from the...