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Background This study investigated first the main cognitive abilities; phonological processing, visual cognition, automatization and receptive vocabulary in predicting reading and spelling abilities in Arabic. Second, we compared good/poor readers and spellers to detect the characteristics of cognitive predictors which contribute to identifying reading and spelling difficulties in Arabic speaking children. Methods A sample of 116 Tunisian third-grade children was tested on their abilities to...

The study assessed the use and impact of Information and Communication Technology in teaching and learning of health education in elementary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria. A survey design was used for the study. The data were collected using self developed structured questionnaire, the co-variates collected in the questionnaire were: availability of ICT, adequate personnel and availability of funds, test-retest reliability co-efficient of 0.76 while purposive and stratified sampling...

The East African Orogen involves a collage of Proterozoic microcontinents and arc terranes that became wedged between older cratonic blocks during the assembly of Gondwana. The Ediacaran–Cambrian Ambalavao and Maevarano Suites in Madagascar were emplaced during the waning orogenic stages and consist of weakly deformed to undeformed plutonic rocks and dykes of mainly porphyritic granite but also gabbro, diorite and charnockite. U-Pb geochronological data date emplacement of the Ambalavao...

The East African Orogen involves a collage of Proterozoic microcontinents and arc terranes that became wedged between older cratonic blocks during the assembly of Gondwana. The Ediacaran–Cambrian Ambalavao and Maevarano Suites in Madagascar were emplaced during the waning orogenic stages and consist of weakly deformed to undeformed plutonic rocks and dykes of mainly porphyritic granite but also gabbro, diorite and charnockite. U-Pb geochronological data date emplacement of the Ambalavao...

The East African Orogen involves a collage of Proterozoic microcontinents and arc terranes that became wedged between older cratonic blocks during the assembly of Gondwana. The Ediacaran–Cambrian Ambalavao and Maevarano Suites in Madagascar were emplaced during the waning orogenic stages and consist of weakly deformed to undeformed plutonic rocks and dykes of mainly porphyritic granite but also gabbro, diorite and charnockite. U-Pb geochronological data date emplacement of the Ambalavao...

The internationalization of tertiary education under the GATS has allowed the expansion of different forms of cross border tertiary education worldwide, including in Africa although with a lagged effect. However, due to some difficulties of commercial providers to settle in the African continent associated with the lack of resources, the outbound mobility of African students is the most common form of cross border education. Combined with the efforts of the African communities to promote...

The study examines the use of open access journals by graduate students of the University of Ghana. Using the survey method, a questionnaire was distributed to 200 graduate students being 5% of the target population of 3,974. The findings of the study show that the majority of students are aware of open access journals resulting in their high usage. Students indicated that open access journals increase developing countries' access to scholarly literature and promote the advancement of...

A common thread in contemporary research on principal leadership is the ways in which principals take important decisions. These decisions have become increasingly more complex in a system of school-based management. The concept of shared or distributive leadership becomes vital in this process. The purpose of this article, based on a comparative qualitative case study, was to explore how effective distributed leadership contributes to school improvement. Ethnographic interviews were...

The purpose of this study was to explore the learning style preferences used by accounting students at an institution of higher learning in South Africa. Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory (LSI) was used to identify the learning style preferences of the first, second and third year accounting students. A purposeful sample of 232 students was used in this study. The findings of the study revealed that students were mostly Convergers and the least popular group was that of Divergers. When the...

The main purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of English language proficiency on learners’ academic achievement in Mathematics, Economic and Management Science and Natural Science. The learners’ performance in the four mentioned subjects was measured through their end of the year (2013) results. A purposeful sample of 215 Grade 8 learners was used in this study. The results indicated that there was no relationship between learners’ English proficiency and their academic...

The study assessed the state of Emergency Preparedness in secondary schools in Kenya. This was motivated by the persistent media reports on insecurity and school violence, a fact that projects a grim picture that Kenyan schools are not the safe havens that the public might have thought them to be. The study was based on the Chaos Theory which offers lessons for managing periods of extreme instability in a system. Descriptive survey design was employed. Stratified and purposive sampling...

The study assessed the state of Emergency Preparedness in secondary schools in Kenya. This was motivated by the persistent media reports on insecurity and school violence, a fact that projects a grim picture that Kenyan schools are not the safe havens that the public might have thought them to be. The study was based on the Chaos Theory which offers lessons for managing periods of extreme instability in a system. Descriptive survey design was employed. Stratified and purposive sampling...

The study assessed the state of Emergency Preparedness in secondary schools in Kenya. This was motivated by the persistent media reports on insecurity and school violence, a fact that projects a grim picture that Kenyan schools are not the safe havens that the public might have thought them to be. The study was based on the Chaos Theory which offers lessons for managing periods of extreme instability in a system. Descriptive survey design was employed. Stratified and purposive sampling...

This article aims at evaluating linkages between selected local traditional knowledge (LTK) indicators with meteorological drought forecasting parameters in the Mzingwane catchment area of Zimbabwe. In addition, the article investigates possible ways of integrating selected LTK indicators with the meteorological drought forecasting parameters to improve applicability of meteorological drought forecasts at local level. LTK forecast data from trees and plants for 2012/2013 season was collected...

This study locates itself within the confines of qualitative research and draws on an interpretivist paradigm. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the student teachers? experiences when placed in a rural school to perform their Professional Practicum as part of their professional development. The placement of students at rural schools for their professional practicum was part of the Rural Teacher Education Project (RTEP). This project was a pilot project undertaken by a...