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Public expenditure in education has either remained stagnant or shrunk in real terms in most developing countries over the past years despite the significant fiscal resource allocation to education. Although current education reform policies in Kenya encourage potential contributions of households and private sector players, the issues affecting private sector investment in secondary education have not been assessed adequately. The purpose of this study is to establish the influence of...
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The aim of this journal article is to discuss the findings of the examination of the influence of service quality strategy on the growth of private secondary schools in Gilgil Sub-County, Kenya. Schools across the country are making increased use of growth-based performance measures in evaluation growth. Performance metrics that are directly tied to growth include enrollment, infrastructure, teacher population, increased subject choice, number of classrooms among others. Specifically, the...
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The purpose of this study is to establish the influence of productivity strategies on growth of private secondary schools. Private schools in Kenya need to focus on target marketing their efforts to the niche markets of specific identifiable customers. There are many important elements to consider in defining the marketplace, but the bottom line is customer needs. There are no absolutes in marketing for private schools. A marketing mix that works for one school may fail miserably for...
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The burden of HIV/AIDS, has resulted in a large number of children being orphaned. Orphanhood is a devastating experience to most children, and remarkable changes in their daily lives occur as a result of their loss of their parents. Although the need to support AIDS orphans is acknowledged in society, often the assistance given is based on a one-size-fits-all approach, and there is a paucity of studies on the nature of the specific assistance and support given to AIDS orphans, and the...
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Globally, various climatic studies have estimated a reduction of crop yields due to changes in surface temperature and precipitation especially for the developing countries which is heavily dependent on agriculture and lacks resources to counter the negative effects of climate change. Uganda's economy and the wellbeing of its populace depend on rain-fed agriculture which is susceptible to climate change. This study quantified the impacts of climate change and variability in Uganda and how...
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Climate variability can affect economies directly through its impact on agricultural output, and indirectly, through its effect on the activities of down-stream industries and household welfare. This paper uses a Computable General Equilibrium model with a disaggregated agricultural sector to analyse the impact of a drought on the Ugandan economy. The losses were assessed with respect to GDP, agricultural output, employment, the trade balance and household consumption. The drought effects...
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This paper presents the first continuous pollen record from the southern Namib Desert spanning the last 50,000 years. Obtained from rock hyrax middens found near the town of Pella, South Africa, these data are used to reconstruct vegetation change and quantitative estimates of temperature and aridity. Results indicate that the last glacial period was characterised by increased water availability at the site relative to the Holocene. Changes in temperature and potential evapotranspiration...
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This exploratory study investigated the perceptions of staff and students about the Action Learning implementation of Action Learning in higher education. Using judgemental sampling, a qualitative approach was adopted to collect primary data. Action Learning focuses on working with realistic life challenges of groups of students, supported and encouraged by a skilled facilitator to reinterpret the dated information and create new knowledge. A thematic approach was employed to analyse the...
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Qualitative and quantitative approaches were used in this study to evaluate the role played by Student Instructors (SIs) in enhancing learning at a South African university. Four quarterly in-depth interviews were conducted with SI supervisors and 4 quarterly reports on the students’ academic performance made. Two different samples were selected and used thoughout the year. These groups were made up of 58 randomly selected first year Information Technology teacher (IT) education students and...
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There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money-metric measures) do not take into account out of pocket payments of health care. Significant household health spending would overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure. The present working paper uses Luxembourg Income Study Center data to explore the impact of household health payments on...
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This paper sought to examine the challenges encountered in the effective implementation of practical aspects of teaching and learning at Zimbabwean primary school level. For too long, academic knowledge has been prioritized at the expense of practical aspects of education. Noble policies continue to be made but the researchers are irked by the wide gaps that exist between policy intents and policy implementation. Learners are expected to grasp the meaning and practical relevance of facts....
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Abstract The current study aimed to The relative contribution the habits of mind and their relation with the emotional intelligence among female students of the Primary and High schools in Ibb city in Yemen. It also intended to find out if there are statistically significant differences in habits of mind in the variable of the level of the study. The study sample consisted of (466) female students, To achieve the objectives of the study, the researchers built a measure of the habits of the...
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The study examines the performance of 60 Egyptian ESP students in listening comprehension based on two different types of listening materials, namely aural and audiovisual listening materials.It also discusses how Egyptian ESP students can vary in their perception of aural and audiovisual listening materials.Data were collected by using two sets of international listening tests as pre and post tests, namely Allan's Oxford ( 2004) placement test and Cambridge listening test (2015).Findings...