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Following the fast track land reform programme, Zimbabwe needs more agricultural graduates to provide extension, training, research and development and ensure food security and national development. However, despite the general increase in enrolments in universities, the prospects of satisfying this requirement are not promising as the share of students opting to study agriculture at undergraduate and postgraduate levels has reportedly been declining. The objective of this study was to map...

Evaluating a coursebook is an important task that should be carried out from time to time.The current study is a predictive evaluation of Blue Skies 6 aimed to decide whether itis suitable for Yemeni students in the primary grades or not.The researcher a adopted a checklist to conduct the evaluation of the textbook in hand.The checklist isbased on Cunningsworth (1995), Nunan (1991), Sheldon (1988), Williams (1983) and Harmer (2001).The researcher concluded that Blue Skies 6 being taught at...

Purpose – Uniquely among the built-environment professions in the country, professional valuers in South Africa until recently did not require to have a university degree. The vast majority of professional valuers therefore, especially at senior levels, hold the national diploma as the highest academic qualification. There is evidence to suggest that many regard this state of affairs as unsatisfactory. Given the foregoing, the purpose of this paper is to answer two interrelated questions,...

The importance of competency based learning cannot be ignored, considering the role it plays for effective learning and development of skills necessary for successful performance in a job. This paper attempts to review some conceptual issues on competency base learning, such as competency assessment and stages of its implementation. The paper further explained the applicability of the competency based learning in Nigerias colleges. The paper concludes by offering some recommendations, such...

With the main objective to analyze the effectiveness of Zambia competition commission in providing consumer rights information to first year students of Library and Information Studies at the University of Zambia, the study randomly drew a sample of 30 students. 30 questionnaires were self administered. Responses were coded manually and analyzed using software- Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Found that students were aware of their rights but were not confident enough to...

This paper assesses head teachers' and teachers' perception of the role of instructional supervision within the school environment based on a study conducted in Eldoret West District, Kenya. This study utilized the descriptive research design and was guided by the theoretical framework based on Kolb's experiential learning cycle as developed by Kolb, Rubin and McIntyre in 1974. It targeted head teachers and teachers in both public and private secondary schools in Eldoret West District. To...

A diploma is one of the indicators for the measurement of the educational level of an individual. In Cameroun, it remains a good distributed within the working population age with the young population accounting for an average of 43, 6% of the total population. With this, one predicts a high potential school request. In this respect, the Sectorial Strategy of Education, which arises from the Document of Strategy for Growth and Employment (DSCE) set-up by the Cameroonian Government, stresses...

In Ethiopia many women do not practice appropriate complementary feeding (CF). The Health Belief Model (HBM) asserts that change in behavior is determined after consideration of severity, benefit, and barriers to change. This study examined the effectiveness of 3 months of HBM-based education compared to the traditional (didactic) method on CF practices of mothers, with no education as control, using three randomized groups. One hundred sixty-six mother-infant (6-18 months) pairs were...

Persons with disabilities (PWDs) constitute about 15% of the world population and 5% of Cameroon population. Persons with physical disability have been identified as one of the vulnerable groups to HIV due to several challenges posed by their disability. They represent one of the largest and most underserved population, have an unmet needs for health including HIV services, and have historically been excluded from HIV planning and programming largely due to perceptions that they are not at...

Retention of students in secondary schools is an important move as it gears towards the fulfilment of convections which advocates for Education For All (EFA). Many of the studies already conducted have examined the theories that relate to student departure/retention more than the role of institutions in students' retention. As such, the author sought to examine the administrative strategies employed by various school administrators to guarantee secondary school students' retention in Aldai...

Although a variety of etiological factors have been implicated in some salivary gland tumours, most salivary gland neoplasms are idiopathic making it difficult to explain the striking epidemiological differences in their global distribution.This study was carried out to determine the prevalence and the distribution pattern of salivary gland neoplasia in Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos and to provide data for comparison with other epidemiological findings in different...

In this study the factor structure of the Death Obsession Scale (DOS) was examined using confirmatory factor analysis. Data used consisted of DOS reports of 328 Black African students. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that two- and three-factor models obtained among female and male African students, respectively, provided the best fit to the data. The two factors in female African students were Death Rumination and Apprehension, and the three factors of their male counterparts were...

To identify the indications for tracheal intubation in the emergency department of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital and problems encountered with the view to improve patient outcome.A one-year prospective observational study of endotracheal intubation in the emergency room (ER) of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Data collected included indications, methods, success rates, use of drugs and complications of intubation.Ninety-four patients underwent endotracheal intubation....

Basic Life Support in Obstetrics (BLSO®) is a novel, simulation-based, emergency obstetrics training program for health care workers who perform deliveries infrequently, such as paramedics and nurses.Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO®) is intended for regular maternity care providers such as physicians and certified nurse midwives.This paper describes a pre/post study of 111 learners in two ALSO and two BLSO courses taught in Addis Ababa, Bonga, and Jimma, Ethiopia in October,...

Abstract This article examines the activism of militant Catholic African students in France in the 1950s. Largely left out of the historiography of the period, they developed a unique perspective on Africa's future, informed by their dual (and often fraught) identity as Africans and Catholics. They undertook a strident campaign to convince French Catholics and the Church hierarchy of the necessity of decolonization, trying to change the Church from the inside.

In this paper, we develop and apply a multi-dimensional vulnerability assessment framework for understanding the impacts of climate change-induced hazards in Sub-Saharan African cities. The research was carried out within the European/African FP7 project CLimate change and Urban Vulnerability in Africa, which investigated climate change-induced risks, assessed vulnerability and proposed policy initiatives in five African cities. Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) was used as a main case with a...

Environmental problems have been one of the major challenges facing humanity. Nigeria, like many other nations has put in place environmental related programmes and policies in the quest to restore environmental quality and to sustain it. But despite these Programmes much has not been achieved. The question is what could be responsible for this failure? Is it as a result of natural phenomena or manmade? This paper therefore, examines the dimensions of environmental degradation, and the...