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No AccessJun 2015Primary Education in Mainland Tanzania: What Do the Data Tell Us?Authors/Editors: Isis Gaddis, Johannes HoogeveenIsis GaddisSearch for more papers by this author, Johannes HoogeveenSearch for more papers by this authorhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-0590-5_ch2AboutView ChaptersFull TextPDF (1.1 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract: Explores the increase in Tanzania’s primary enrollment since the introduction of...

The Language in Africa Special Interest Group (LiASIG) of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) is a forum for applied linguistic research in Africa, and invites studies with both a micro and a macro focus. Researchers are concerned with how political, social and educational contexts affect the valuation and use of languages in Africa where multilingualism is the norm. Papers are presented at the SIG annual meeting and in the LiA track at BAAL conferences. The present review...

Today E-orientation systems are interested in helping learners to choose a suitable branch to their skills and preferences. In this context the research center within the University Hassan II Mohammedia Ain- Chock announced the appearance of MMSyOrientation project. This project focuses on the orientation of Moroccan student's education as a concern and a family, social, and political preoccupation. The student remains an educational system focus center, especially at the MMSyOrientation i...

Human capital refers to a broad range of knowledge, skills, and capabilities that are needed for life and work and that are typically build through quality education. Countries that fail to invest consistently in education often do not experience robust economic growth because investments in physical infrastructure, such as dams, roads, and airports as well as developments in other economic sectors such as banking or information technology, are often constrained and yield low returns in the...

Background: The variation in pharmacology teaching approaches influences the intrinsic student learning behaviours and impacts on acquisition of desired competencies, particularly in the setting of the new Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Namibia. Though the SOAP and PHARM notes have been used effectively in clinical pharmacy teaching, systematic approaches to strengthen the teaching of pharmacology have been limited. Objective: To determine the usefulness of the CRAMPS...

Nigerian education is suffering from acute shortage of fund. For decades, the funding of education has been the sole responsibility of the government. At national level in 2012, N4.9trn budget proposal was presented to the National Assembly and N426.53bn was allocated representing 8.7 per cent of the national budget to Education compared to 26 per cent international benchmark for developing countries. Not bearing in mind that some programmes like Vocational and Technical Education (VTE) are...

The aim of language teaching is for students to acquire comprehensive abilities in a foreign language (including listening, speaking, reading and writing) and even a comprehensive understanding. Language Teaching has been greatly considered in Nigeria as the basic tool for development. The reason is that language teaching is seen as a great investment to produce quality of human resources needed for productivity and development. But unfortunately language teaching in Nigeria is bisected with...

No AccessJun 2015Education Finance and Spending in Tanzania: Challenges and OpportunitiesAuthors/Editors: Oyin Shyllon, Arun R. JoshiOyin ShyllonSearch for more papers by this author, Arun R. JoshiSearch for more papers by this authorhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-0590-5_ch6AboutView ChaptersFull TextPDF (1.1 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract: Documents the extent of public and private education spending in Tanzania, with a...

FTC-based farmer training is an emerging extension strategy geared towards human capital development through need-based, hands-on practical training in order to facilitate agricultural transformation and rural livelihood improvement. Although, FTCs were established and made functional in the Tigray National Regional State and Alamata Woreda but, no systematic assessment of the positively deviated farmers training center. Hence, to alleviate this problem, educating this research was initiated...

The issue of underfunding of university education in Nigeria is a recurring one and cannot be glossed over. Under funding is viewed as bane of qualitative university education in Nigeria. This paper highlights the trend in establishment and funding of universities nothing that funding of education has remained one of the most challenging problems of universities and the government. It described the concept of quality education, how quality education is perceived in the Nigeria context and...

Introduction: Viruses are implicated in the etiopathogenesis of malignancies. There is a high risk of reactivation of latent viral infections in persons with HMs. The sero-prevalence of some of these virus has not been reported in our environment. Objective: To determine the seroprevalence of HIV, HBV and HCV in subjects with HMs; to establish if any its association with specific HMs and blood transfusion history. Method: This is an ambispective study conducted at the University of Benin...

The importance of vocabulary knowledge has gained much more attention in recent years. In order to increase the lexical knowledge, there have been many attempts by various researchers to find new vocabulary learning strategies. Data-Driven Learning (DDL) was introduced as a new vocabulary learning strategy by Tim Johns (1991) by taking advantage of online corpora. The present study aims to investigate whether this new approach is effective in vocabulary learning compared to traditional...

This article focuses on the first of the six Education for All (EFA) goal as conceived in Dakar, which calls upon countries to expand and improve comprehensive Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE), especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children. Strong early childhood foundations — including good health, nutrition and a nurturing environment — can help ensure a smooth transition to primary school, a better chance of completing basic education, and a route out of poverty...

HIV/AIDS has systematically permeated the entire Nigerian social fabric, affecting males and females in both urban and rural areas, as well as adolescent young people.

HIV/AIDS has systematically permeated the entire Nigerian social fabric, affecting males and females in both urban and rural areas, as well as adolescent young people.

Welcome to Annals of Global Health,Annals of Global Health is a peer-reviewed, fully open access, online journal dedicated to publishing high quality articles dedicated to all aspects of global health. The journal's mission is to advance global health, promote research, and foster the prevention and treatment of disease worldwide. Its goals are to improve the health and well-being of all people, advance health equity, and promote wise stewardship of the earth's environment. The latest...