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This article arises out of a broader study into the contextual influences on the professional development of academics as teachers in higher education in South Africa. Using Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis we examine the website of a ‘research-led’ South African university. We examine the choices made in the use of website space and the presence and absence of texts which refer to teaching or the development of teaching. We compare these choices with those made about portraying...

This paper engages with literature on flexible learning and teaching in order to explore whether it may be possible, within the South African context, to have flexible learning and teaching provide a third way which goes beyond the current practice of full-time/part-time provision. This binary classification of students is a proxy for day-time/after-hours delivery.  The argument is made that effective, flexible learning and teaching requires a fundamental shift in thinking about learning and...

Using a set of up to 12 International GNSS Services (IGS) receivers around the East African region, we present the formation of the peak of ionospheric Equatorial Ionization Anomaly during the geomagnetic storm of 13th November 2012. The diurnal pattern of total electron content (TEC) shows a strong negative storm during the main phase of the storm. Latitudinal variation of TEC shows development of strong Equatorial Ionization Anomaly (EIA) on the recovery phase. Evidence in terms of...

Background: Unintended pregnancies among adolescence become crucial health problem for all countries especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Eventhough different prevention strategies were applied across the world, the problem still increasing in Africa, particularly in Ethiopia. Objective: To assess the magnitude and associated factors of unintended pregnancy among preparatory school students in Addis Ababa. Methods: School based cross-sectional study was employed. For descriptive...

<p>Recent reforms of science education in the modern world have shown an increased need for culturally and contextually responsive science education in non-western countries. Despite the initiatives, there has been little discussion about the problems of irrelevance, ineffectiveness, and dis-functionality of western science education in non-western contexts, especially Africa.This review examines science education (SE) practices as experienced in non-western contexts. Drawing insights...

Basic education in Kenya is provided through Formal and Non-Formal Education Institutions. The Non-Formal Institutions, that provide basic education are the Non-formal primary schools (NFSs), which offer the regular school curriculum and Non-Formal Education Centres (NFECs), which follow a non-formal basic education curriculum. The formal school system is not able to provide access to all learners, especially those from urban informal settlements resulting to enormous growth of NFSs. Despite...

Worldwide cervical cancer is one of the more common forms of carcinoma among women, causing high morbidity and high mortality. Despite being a major health problem in Tanzania, screening services for cervical cancer are very limited, and uptake of those services is low. We therefore conducted a study to investigate utilization of cancer screening services, and its associated factors among female primary school teachers in Ilala Municipality, Dar es Salaam.We conducted a cross-sectional study...

Amidst reports that there was very little integration of Communication Information Technology (ICT) in curriculum delivery in many secondary schools in Kenya, it was reported that one secondary school was using ICT in instruction and practicing learner centered instructional approaches and there was improved learning outcomes.The school's mean score in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education had improved from 6.2 to 8.4 between 2007 and 2013.This study teacher computer literacy levels,...

The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), defined ICT as the range of technologies that are applied in the process of collecting, storing, editing, retrieving and transfer of information in various forms (UNESCO, 2002). The Kenyan government’s commitment to the integration of ICT in education has been articulated inthe National Policy of ICT of 2006. This study sought to establish the institutional and headteacher factors influencing adoption of Information...

Other names of online education are e-learning, cyber schools or distance learning, which are distinct from face to face traditional education because students do not need to visit an actual classroom and listen to an instructor talking to them. Online education is a classroom on the internet that engages and assists students to study in their own free time. It is self-directed learning. The internet has become a major educational technological advancement tool in society and the...

This paper investigates the impact of early childhood care and education on subsequent educational attainment in Egypt. Comparisons between siblings are used to control for selection and duration analysis methods are used to account for the presence of current students in the data. These methods are compared to OLS to demonstrate the importance of accounting for both observed and unobserved heterogeneity and for students who have not yet completed their schooling. Early childhood care and...

Introduction The challenges facing Language Policy and Planning (1) in Namibia are the product of a range of historical factors over a period of more than twenty years. As the Ministry of Education and Culture Namibia ('Towards Education For All: A Development Brief for Education, Culture and Training', 1993, p.2), Nujoma (in'Towards Education For All: A Development Brief for Education, Culture and Training', 1993, p.2) and Maho (1998) all discuss, the apartheid system of Bantu education...

Progressive policies protecting women's rights to make reproductive decisions and the recent increase in literature exploring female sexual agency do not appear to have impacted on more equitable sexual relations in all contexts. In South Africa, gender power inequalities, intersecting with other forms of inequality in society, pose a challenge for young women's control over their sexual and reproductive health. The article focuses on a group of young Coloured South African women's...

Abstract This study was carried out to examine constraints to sport participation among female secondary school students in Hlanganani rural area, Limpopo Province, South Africa. A total of 101 female students aged 17–24 years from four secondary schools were recruited to participate in the study. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. Results indicated that the dress code, lack of energy, lack of family support and family commitment were identified as major constraints...