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Purpose: The study aimed at finding out the extent to which Early Childhood Development (ECD) trainee teachers perceive the feasibility and challenges of online learning platforms and generate strategies for effective implementation. Approach/Methodology/Design: A case study design for which fifteen ECD trainee teachers from two Higher Learning Institutions in Harare were purposively selected in this qualitative study through online structured questionnaires and telephone interviews...

The study investigated the assessment of contemporary issues in development of Chemistry teaching among secondary school Chemistry teachers in Anambra State Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design was used for the study. The sample for the study comprised of 41 government Chemistry secondary school teachers. The sample is made of 22 male teachers 19 female teachers. The Chemistry teachers used were all active chemistry teachers in government own schools in the state. The instrument...

This study was carried out to determine the factors influencing decisions of smallholders on adaptation strategy to climate change in Nigeria and this is necessary as part of efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.The study used primary data with objectives that include assessment of the perception level of farmers to climate change; identify climate change adaptation strategies and to determine the factors influencing their choice of adaptation strategy using Multivariate...

The risk of co-infection with Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoni and the potential harmful effect on morbidity and control is enhanced by the overlapping distribution of both species in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the reported high endemicity of both species in Nigeria, studies on the spread and effect of their mixed infection are limited. Therefore, a cross-sectional survey was conducted among school children in two communities in South-west Nigeria to investigate the prevalence of...

Indiscipline among students in Nigerian schools remained a source of concern to stakeholders as it had caused a lot of mental, emotional and physical damage in the society. This study investigated perception of counsellors towards strategies in eradicating indiscipline in public secondary schools in Anambra State. To guide this study, three research objectives which centered on appropriate punishment, posting of guidance counsellors and use of behaviour medications techniques in eradicating...

There is an increasing number of visually impaired students in public universities in Uganda who face many challenges in the course of their studies. This chapter is aimed at investigating the benefits of an inclusive education for visually impaired students in Ugandan public universities. A cross-sectional design involving visually impaired students, lecturers, university administrators and non-visually impaired students was used. Data was collected using questionnaires, interviews and a...

Abstract Background: The improvement of maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes is an important part of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). MCH remains an important issue globally as the SDGs have not yet been achieved in most countries. Young women in universities are likely to experience unintended pregnancy due to the risky sexual behavior in tertiary institutions which is characterized by lack of condom and/or contraceptive use and coercion. Pregnant young women in an academic...

OPINION article Front. Educ., 27 July 2021Sec.STEM Education https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.710971

This chapter traces quality assurance systems during the pre-liberal, liberal and neo-liberal periods, good practices and challenges in their institutionalisation in higher education institutions in Uganda. Before the mid-1980s, the systems were based on institutional affiliations following the University of London Model, the Inter-University Council for East Africa and later on, with the collapse of the University of East Africa in 1970, a centralised control. From the mid-1980s,...

<p>Evaluation is an essential facet of education and plays a significant role in giving feedbacks to stakeholders. Pedagogy is not complete without learners’ assessment and. Objective tests are used extensively as test format in primary school. However, conception and making remains a challenge to most teachers. This cast doubts over the quality. To mitigate the issues about its quality, each test format should undergo item analysis or task analysis. This study sets out to evaluate...

Quality, in the simplest sense, means what is fit for purpose. In every organisation or institution, quality is an essential element for the achievement of goals and success. However, during the apartheid era in South Africa there was no quality education for black citizens. The agenda of the colonialist and the apartheid regime was to provide the indigenous people with inferior education so that they would continue to live in servitude. The result of inferior education is huge unemployment...

Purpose: The study aims to examine the integration of immigrant students from sub-Saharan Africa within the Tunisian system of higher education. Methodology/Approach/Design: This qualitative study was carried out among 100 students enrolled in the top three accessible multicultural private Tunisian universities. To analyse the relations between native immigrant students, we have devoted second criteria forming thus two case studies: there are two groups of students (a group of 50 Tunisian...

The study was aimed at ascertaining the science process skills acquired by senior secondary school Chemistry students in qualitative analysis in Enugu Education Zone. The sample was made up of sixty (60) secondary school students (SSSIII) from six (6) secondary schools. The design for the study was descriptive survey. The science process skills investigated were observing, experimenting, controlling variables, measuring, recording, communicating and inference using qualitative analysis. The...

Background Scholars have long emphasised the complexities and difficulties of educational policy transfer as educational systems develop path dependent.Purpose The case study of the Quality Physical Education (QPE) pilot project in South Africa aims to show that besides a lock-in effects in national educational policies, decoloniality, that is, a decreasing acceptance of policy approaches from the Global North in the Global South creates new transfer obstacles.Methods The case study employs...

In almost all field of human endeavour, there is need for consciousness on the cost of materials expended and analysis based on the individual items so as to reconcile the cost and the benefit for future adjustment leading to optimal goal realization. Education as one of the sectors of the economy is an essential tool in attaining great national growth and development hence there is extreme need for cost analysis which begets quality education. Cost analysis enables the educational planners...

The agenda for sustainable development 2030 has been established and approved by the general assembly of the United Nations in 2015. This agenda includes 17 goals adopted by several countries to promote the development of local communities by tackling and reducing the consequences of school dropout. The continent of Africa through the agenda 2063 endorses different aspirations that have to be met by the year 2063 to minimize the consequences of school dropout, which would lead to a peaceful...

This study investigated the prevalence and types of gang behaviour among Secondary School Students in Osun State. It also determined the influence of peer pressure on gang behaviour among the students. These were with a view to providing information on the predisposing factor of students’ gang behaviour. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. The population of the study comprised all students in public secondary school in Osun State. The sample size consisted of 895 public...