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The paper uses data from a household survey of three rural communities and interviews in the Mfantseman Municipality in the Central Region of Ghana to investigate the costs incurred by households that choose either fee-free public schools or low-fee private schools. The paper shows that both provisions impose costs that place those with lower household incomes at a disadvantage since the poorest cannot afford the costs for several children. Although fee-free public education has led to the...

In Kenya, English is the medium of instruction in schools and the official language of the country, although the majority of the learners are first additional language speakers of English. The study on which this article is based aimed to assess grade 10 Kenyan learners’ proficiency in English by examining their performance in comprehension and vocabulary on the basis of three tests incorporating multiple choice and interpretative questions. The data were collected from 422 grade 10 learners...

Performance in Kiswahili subject in KCSE has not been impressive nationally for a long period.The purpose of the study was to establish factors that influence preparation and utilization of instructional media in teaching Kiswahili in selected public secondary schools in Kenya.Dale's cone of experience formed the theoretical framework of the study.Descriptive survey research design formed the basis of the study.The study population comprised of 28 head teachers, 90 Kiswahili teachers and...

A survey was carried out to investigate the level of teacher motivation, the association between teacher motivation and language learning and teaching, as well as the factors that could impact on them in two states in the Nigeria federation. This study became necessary in order to assess the impact that government efforts, particularly the use of salary incentives, have made in restoring standards in the school system. The view is held that there has been no commensurate improvement in...

The information technology educational programs at most universities in Egypt face many obstacles that can be overcome using technology enhanced learning.An open source Moodle eLearning platform has been implemented at many public and private universities in Egypt, as an aid to deliver e-content and to provide the institution with various possibilities for implementing asynchronous e-learning web-based modules.In this paper the use of web-based education through cloud computing is...

Teaching at a distance is a new phenomenon in Zimbabwe. Many questions seem to be raised by academic pundits each time they hear the mention of teacher education by Open and Distance Learning. Some tend to question the quality of the products, while others appear to raise doubt about the credibility of the qualifications. This paper focuses on interrogating ways of enhancing the search for quality assessment in Open and Distance Learning at undergraduate level Teaching Practice at the...

In the Zimbabwe education system, there are comprehensive programmes in the area of supervision. These programmes are offered by different institutions. Regrettably, none of these programmes has been extended to cover supervision of specialist teachers teaching in special schools, resource units and special classes. Determining the effectiveness of supervision of these teachers was the thrust of this research study. The study was carried out in two provinces of Mashonaland East and Harare. A...

The Toyota Production System (TPS) has been cited as being the pinnacle of continuous improvement approaches in manufacturing organisations, and many models of the TPS are well known.However, some authors question the effectiveness of established approaches, and propose Bateson's theory of learning [1] to be an effective way to explain phenomena like the TPS.This paper investigates the degree to which TPS elements are found in selected South African organisations.It constructs a model of the...

Students' loans in financing higher education in Tanzania have been subjected to many researches.However, less information is available on how the success of students' loans in financing higher education can be revealed.Therefore the purpose of this study is to examine the factors indicating the success of students' loans in financing higher education in Tanzania.Using data collected from a larger cross sectional survey in Tanzania, this study found that students loans in financing higher...

This paper highlights the importance of music education to the Nigerian educational system. It identifies the prospects, problems and proffered possible solutions to them. In achieving its objectives the study uses ethnographic and qualitative methods with simple percentages for eliciting and collation of data. The paper suggests that the society, the curriculum planners, and the government have much to do so music education is appreciated in Nigeria. It proposes as part of its...

Nigeria and the rest of African nations, despite the fact that they produce less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions, are considered the world’s most vulnerable regions with regard to the effects of climate change due to the fragility of their economies. However, it is still very difficult to assess the extent of such changes and the specific environmental impacts particularly on water supply and management over most Africa nations due to poor technological development and inadequate...

This study seeks to critically investigate the contribution of the School for Life (SfL) model of complementary education programme (CEP) in providing access to quality basic education in the Northern Region of Ghana. In so doing, it aims to examine the linkage between the SfL curriculum and pedagogy, and that of the Ghanaian lower primary school. This will enable a better understanding of the knowledge and skills that CEP graduates attain to enable them to integrate into formal education....

Using data from three household surveys, we review whether growth in Mauritius was inclusive and discuss the incidence of public expenditures and taxes. Generally, Mauritius enjoys an even income distribution and low rates of poverty. Nevertheless, over the 2000s, despite overall progress, the benefits of growth appear to have become more skewed. Employment income is the main contributor to inequality in Mauritius. Social protection expenditures reduce poverty and inequality, but could be...

The present research attempts to investigate a certain linguistic feature which the researcher believes to be characteristic of contemporary colloquial Arabic discourse, viz. the use of certain linguistic techniques and/or tricks, whether consciously or unconsciously, to avoid the use of a harsh description of a given situation, to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing duties and questions, or even to elude responsibility altogether.All the above-mentioned may fall under the umbrella of...

A growing concern in our world today is air pollution. Carbon (II) Oxide, an air pollutant has been reported to contribute to a large number of poisoning deaths. The magnitude of the health hazard due to carbon (II) Oxide, both fatal and non-fatal, is huge and poisonings are probably more prevalent than is generally recognised. The aim of this study was to determine the level of human exposure to Carbon (II) Oxide and also to identify the major source of Carbon (II) Oxide emission within the...