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Universities and other tertiary institutions in developing nations around the world are facing major challenges in meeting the demand for increasing access to higher education (HE): limitations imposed by inadequate funding, poor infrastructure and sometimes lack of political vision, added to the demographic explosion, make it almost impossible for some of these developing nations to ensure access to all to higher education solely through the conventional face-to-face mode. In this context,...

The Education affair in Egypt is a Janus-faced case considered both as ‘local’ and ‘global’. There are local factors specific to this country - the Islamization of the Egyptian society’s moeurs - as well as elements of global and international nature, that insert the Egyptian education case in the larger analytical framework of Globalization. After highlighting how Egypt got involved in the global system by the application of new economic and neoliberal policies, the paper will focus on the...

We investigated the relationship between renal function, blood pressure variability (BPV), and nitric oxide (NO) in a group of African Americans with normal or mildly impaired renal function. 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring was performed, NO measured, and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) calculated in 38 African Americans. Participants were categorized as having normal (GFR > 90 mL/min per 1.73 m(2)) or mildly impaired (GFR 60-89 mL/min per 1.73 m(2)) renal function. Diastolic...

This study examines primary and nursery education in Nigeria as part of the government's efforts, to uphold her commitments to the provision of fundamental education to everyone. Pre-primary education refers to the education given in an educational institution to, children age 3 to 5 plus prior to their entering the primary schools, and this is faster in urban centres where industrialization has taken place, where government institutions and other forms of formal education have been set up....

This study looks at the effect of pay referent group on job satisfaction of teachers in Nigeria using Auchi Polytechnic Staff School as a Case Study. The study was carried out in Auchi Polytechnic among the teachers of the Polytechnic Staff Schools. The aim of the study was to find out if pay referent group can affect the satisfaction which people get from their job. The respondents included in this study, were randomly selected from the teachers in the Polytechnic Staff Schools....

While addressing the recent convocation ceremony of Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, the Minister of Education, Sam Egwu, assured the millions of unemployed and poor youth lacking employability skills that technical education would enjoy more government support in 2010 because of the role of technology in national development. Such a pronouncement is not new in Nigeria. Previous administrations have raised the people’s hope by painting glowing pictures of their development plans and...

The purpose of this research is to identify the tools available in the market that enable the acquisition of knowledge in educational institutions through effective use of information and communications technology (ICT). These educational institutes may be operating with formal classroom based teaching methods or in the distance-learning mode. The focus in this thesis is on the case of Botswana. The affordances and capabilities of ICT offer the potential to solve or mitigate various...

1. Education in transition Before 1994 education in South Africa was divided along racial lines. There were separate departments of education for whites, coloureds (people of mixed decent), Indians (people of East Indian decent), and blacks (black Africans). Education for white children was much better funded than any of the others. The quality of the education that white children enjoyed was also much better as schools were better equipped, teachers were better qualified and classes were...

This research is one of a series that attempt to unveil the various reasons why the numbers of women participating in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) education and careers in South Africa is significantly low compared to that of their male counterparts. The study is meant to establish if there exists a relationship between learning styles of ICT professionals and the choice of an ICT career and if there are visible differences in learning styles between men and women in ICT...

1 Abstract: Levels of zinc, lead and copper in the flesh of catfish: Clarias gariepinus, Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus and Tilapia: Oreochromis niloticus, Tilapia guinensis, were determined using Bulk Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer. Clarias gariepinus and Oreochromis niloticus were collected from a Fish farm in Ayobo, Lagos Nigeria, which was considered as reference site. Tilapia guinensis and Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus were collected from the Lagos Lagoon. The activities of superoxide...

Chemistry is very crucial for entrepreneurial skills development to students. But, the product from schools today seems to lack this competency. This paper therefore, examines chemistry Teacher education and entrepreneurship, and the factors that have militated against its effective achievement in colleges of education. It also makes some recommendations towards the improvement of chemistry for entrepreneurship.

The education of girls is a primary focus of development efforts in poor countries because female achievement, especially at the secondary level, is believed to have long-lasting and far-reaching economic effects. Complex multiple factors work against girls’ education in developing countries, including entrenched beliefs and practices that devalue female education. However, one simple contributing factor has recently been suspected of having an impact on girls’ remaining in school: poor...

We study how the returns to education in the adult labor market affect children's school enrollment. We show that when families are liquidity constrained, the expected relationship between higher returns and children's schooling is ambiguous. When liquidity constraints matter, the relationship can only be assessed empirically. For African-South African liquidity-constrained households, we find a positive relationship that is quite robust.

Although dropout is a huge concern in higher education in South Africa, little empirical research has been done to determine why it occurs more frequently in distance higher education than in contact higher education institutions. Even less qualitative research has been conducted in this regard. A qualitative research study was therefore undertaken to find the reasons for dropout in a teacher education programme (the Postgraduate Certificate in Education [senior phase and FET]) at the...