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Purpose: Present evidence of the Mind Mapping (MM) value, for better teaching, learning and researching.Improve understanding about the effectiveness of using MM in medical education in Sudan. Methodology:The literature was gained by searching library databases (PubMed, PsychINFO, MEDLINE and EMBASE).It is a summary of both conceptual and empirically published literature on the uses of MM in medical education.Findings: MM promotes meaningful learning; boosts teaching confidence and...

Tunisia faces major problems of unemployment or precariously employed. As in many countries, entrepreneurship has also found its way into higher education in Tunisia. It is often said here as elsewhere that the universities have a crucial role as potential drivers for a locally inspired and contextualised promotion of entrepreneurship. Today, the graduate business start-up support arrangements within the universities or at the public promotion agencies are strongly focused on the early...

Web Based Career Guidance is very important to our Educational System. We have an existing Manual Career Guidance System with human counselors in charge, but this system is plagued with the following problems: few number of human counselors, unavailability of a counselor in a good number of schools, few number of counselors attending to students during school hours and the office of a counselor in schools are so unpopular that students hardly meet them for career counseling. We have been...

An understanding of rural communities is fundamental to effective community-based rehabilitation work with persons with disabilities. By removing barriers to community participation, persons with disabilities are enabled to satisfy their fundamental human needs. However, insufficient attention has been paid to the challenges that rural community disability workers (CDWs) face in trying to realise these objectives. This qualitative interpretive study, involving in-depth interviews with 16...

In South Africa, HIV/AIDS remains a major public health problem. In a context of chronic unemployment and deepening poverty, social assistance through a Disability Grant (DG) is extended to adults with HIV/AIDS who are unable to work because of a mental or physical disability. Using a mixed methods approach, we consider 1) inequalities in access to the DG for patients on ART and 2) implications of DG access for on-going access to healthcare. Data were collected in exit interviews with 1200...

Recent trends in global circumstances have focused on one goal of educating every child on the globe. The growing problems of quality manpower shortages, international circumstances, and advancement in the sciences, professional and specialized fields have contributed to the increasing awareness of the importance of modifying academic achievement of underachieving students. In today’s society, according to Howard and Solberg (2006), education is highly valued and a necessary prerequisite to...

This study assessed information seeking behaviour of Health Information Management Students, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex (OAUTHC), Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria by means of survey research design. Information seeking behaviour was operationally defined in this study as the totality of human behaviour in relation to sources and channels of information including active and passive information need, information seeking and information use. A total of 119 students out of...

Research is essential to identify and prioritize health needs and to develop appropriate strategies to improve health outcomes. In the last decade, non-academic research capacity strengthening trainings in sub-Saharan Africa, coupled with developing research infrastructure and the provision of individual mentorship support, has been used to build health worker skills. The objectives of this review are to describe different training approaches to research capacity strengthening in sub-Saharan...

Background. Ethiopia has one of the lowest HIV prevalence rates in East Africa, but there are still more than one million people estimated to be living with HIV in Ethiopia. This study was aimed at assessing the comprehensive HIV/AIDS knowledge and sexual behavior among university students. Methodology. A cross-sectional comparative study was done with quantitative and qualitative data collection with a stratified sampling technique. The quantitative data were edited, coded, entered, and...

Helminth infections are a major public health problem, especially in the tropics. Infected individuals have an altered immune response with evidence that antibody response to vaccination is impaired. Hence, treatment of helminth infections before vaccination may be a simple intervention to improve vaccine immunogenicity. In the present study we investigated whether a single-dose antihelminthic treatment influences antibody responses to a seasonal influenza vaccine in primary school children...

Inevitably, life in the twenty-first century globalised world brings people into contact with "others".Through these contacts, the need for interactions demands that these people find different ways of understanding one another to generate knowledge.In order for them to achieve this objective, they need a strong and coherent medium.First additional language education has been developed in South Africa to unravel as well as address challenges posed to competence in intercultural...

In the last two decades, the global community and government of several countries have made heartening investments in promoting access to education in developing countries. It is estimated that since the reaffirmation by world leaders and development community to achieve education for all by 2015 in Dakar, Senegal, governments and donors have invested about US $ 15 billion annually in education. Despite the huge financial investments, empirical evidence shows that education outcomes remain...

This study investigated the Counselling strategies for curbing "Examination Malpractices" in Secondary Schools in Enugu State Nigeria.The researcher used three research questions.The Design used was a descriptive survey design.Sample consisted of 335 respondents comprising principals (N= 19), PTA secretaries (N =19), teachers (N=276) and Counsellors (N=21) selected through stratified random sampling.A researcher-developed questionnaire containing 27 items was validated by experts, subjected...

Inevitably, life in the twenty-first century globalised world brings people into contact with "others".Through these contacts, the need for interactions demands that these people find different ways of understanding one another to generate knowledge.In order for them to achieve this objective, they need a strong and coherent medium.First additional language education has been developed in South Africa to unravel as well as address challenges posed to competence in intercultural...

This study examined probable causes of friction between Principals and Mathematics teachers in secondary schools and the consequences of the friction on students' achievements in mathematics. The study also sought to identify the strategies that could be adopted to reduce friction so as to enhance the synergy between principals and mathematics teachers in secondary schools. A survey was conducted on one hundred and three (103) mathematics teachers and thirty -seven (37) principals using...

The study investigated the teachers’ use of secondary school libraries in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State. The sample population was one hundred and ten including teachers and school Librarians from four selected secondary schools and colleges in the local government area. Questionnaire was adopted as data collection instrument and complemented with interview. The library activities were also observed to fully discover the level of teachers’ patronage. The data was analyzed using...