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Many studies show the efficacy of mental health applications to reduce several types of mental problems encountered by university students. Indeed, this type of mental treatment is not adopted at the national level. In this paper, we present the results of an online survey of acceptance of an assistive stress’ management application by Moroccan university students. A total of 421 medical students were invited to complete an online survey published in the official web site of the Faculty of...

Purpose In recent years, South Africa has continued to experience a high rate of young people who are not in employment, education, or training (NEET). The emergence of the concept ‘NEET’ affords researchers an opportunity to more closely examine the life situations and experiences of this population sub-group. The purpose of this paper is thus to further explore the life situations and lived experiences of people in South Africa who are NEET. Structuration theory is adopted to better...

This study examines patterns of ear advantage and attentional capacity among religious teachers of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church versus adults who are not religious teachers. Religious education, rooted mainly in Christianity and Islam, has a long history in Ethiopia. Most of such education has been practised through recitations and oral presentations, which demand perceptual vigour particularly on the part of the teachers. The present study employed a dichotic listening paradigm, using...

Chapter 4 is a case study of how changes in institutional factors may be used to offset the effect of parent’s education on children’s education by improving educational attainment of children. We use the extension of compulsory education in 2004 in Senegal from primary to lower secondary. This involves observing the marginal impact of the increase in the number of years of compulsory education on compulsory school completion (grade 10 completion) and on changes in post-compulsory grades...

The objective of this study was to examine the impact of social network usage on science students’ academic achievements in Ondo State’s senior secondary schools. The study was also to find the extent to which students under investigation used the social network platforms and the frequencies of their visits. In order to achieve this, a structured questionnaire was designed and administered to students from the three senatorial districts that made up the state. A multistage; which involved...

Given South Africa’s colonial and apartheid past, postgraduate supervisors are encouraged to explore decolonial and socially just ways of supervision. I draw on Freire’s adult education theory and Hackman’s tools of social justice education to reflect on transformative supervision workshops held at a South African university School of Public Health. Combining formal and informal evaluation, postgraduate students reported that the workshops facilitated collegiality and supportive...

Adjustment to the onset of disability has complex reverberations relating to both socially engendered disadvantage and the realities of functional limitation. Pre-existing ways of understanding disability can meaningfully shape this experience.This study aimed to provide an exploratory understanding of the experience of becoming disabled in a low-income, under-served, rural South African community. In particular, it was interested in how people with disabilities constructed their struggle...

This study attempted to investigate social justice issues in the education and management of students’ development. This study seeks to find the relationship between equal opportunity to learning, provision of basic needs, teacher preparation of lesson and students’ development in Kwara State, Nigeria. To achieve this aim, the researcher conducted a descriptive research with a quantitative approach to test the hypotheses. A proportional sampling procedure was used to select participants from...

Background: Double burden of malnutrition (DBM) is the co-existence of overweight/obesity and undernutrition. Rising prevalence rates of childhood overweight/obesity in Nigeria have been reported, whilst undernutrition continues to be prevalent. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence and distribution of underweight, stunting, thinness, overweight/obesity, and DBM among school-aged children and adolescents in two Nigerian States. Methods: This was a community-based cross-sectional study...

Data from sub-Saharan Africa show that many students leave school without the skills they need. To address this issue, it is important to understand what factors influence learning. According to the Heyneman and Loxley effect established in 1983, in low income countries school quality influences how much students learn more than those students’ backgrounds. Recent research suggests that this influential conclusion no longer holds, without discounting the possibility that this trend could...

This paper discussed the development of Ibadan School Library Digital Resource System for schools in Nigeria.The paper extensively discussed the evolution of library software from CDS/ISIS, TINLIB, GLAS, X-LIB and ALICE.The paper also considered strengths and weaknesses of library software developments in Nigerian over the years with specific emphasis on school libraries.The paper further examined the development of Ibadan school library digital resource system which is considered to be...

Abstract The World Health Disability Assessment Scale (WHODAS‐2.0) has widely been accepted as the standard measure of disability. However, psychometric testing is mostly performed in developed countries. This paper aims to assess the psychometric properties (reliability, validity) of the WHODAS‐2.0 among consumers of mental health services in Ghana. Two translators (expert in English language and Akan language) performed forward and backward translation of the WHODAS‐2.0 from English...

In line with keeping people safe, social distancing has become a civilised norm across the world. Compulsory lockdowns have meant that universities closed their doors to students and staff, thus causing widespread disruption across the higher-education landscape. Pharmacy education is no exception. As pharmacy educators from institutions in different countries, with an existing partnership, we have identified common challenges between our different educational environments and have benefited from sharing possible solutions

The COVID-19 Pandemic began in China at the end of 2019 and spread rapidly to become a global pandemic by the first quarter of 2020. Many death incidences were reported in a short time before it was being familiar to many nations in terms of practices for containment. In response, many countries had to close down education institutions, lockdown cities, and countries, and emphasize practices of new lifestyles and behaviors thought to guarantee safety. Eventually, students were the most...

Introduction: The increasing number of out of school children in Nigeria is very disturbing. It is observed that many school age children are out of school and are seen in the streets roaming about aimlessly during school hours without access to education. This disturbing trend is a complete negation of one of Nigeria’s philosophies of education which provides that education is a right of every Nigerian irrespective of gender, social status, religion, ethnic background and any peculiar...

The study examined the dynamics of leadership and teacher effectiveness in Universities. The uninspired roles played by university leadership for societal development seem to implicate the qualities of teacher effectiveness in teaching, research and community service. Teachers’ performance appears lower than expected as personal observation has shown in most institutions in Nigeria. The study adopted a correlational survey design. The sample for the study consisted of one thousand six...