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The study was carried out on Supervision of Agricultural Programmes as a Panacea for Teachers' Capacity Building for job effectiveness in Secondary Schools in Rivers State, Nigeria.A population of 1420 teachers in Secondary Schools in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of Rivers State was used for the study.Purposive Sampling Technique was used to select 52 Agricultural Science teachers as the study sample.Two research questions guided the study.The Instrument for data collection...

Volume 46 Number 4 Suplement - SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT ON THE INAUGURAL RESEARCH AND MENTORSHIP SYMPOSIUM FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS AND JUNIOR DOCTORS IN ZAMBIA

Social phobia is a mental health problem that has been repeatedly linked with adolescents. This study therefore investigated the efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT) on social phobia among secondary school adolescents in Oyo State, Nigeria. The study adopted a pretest – posttest control group quasi experimental design. The sample comprised of 104 secondary school adolescents identified with some levels of social phobia from the two randomly selected schools among the three...

Knowing about serious health-related problems is an essential gateway towards prevention, treatment, and care about oneself. This study presents fndings on pupils’ knowledge and skills about pregnancy and pregnancy control measures in the integrated sexuality education contents. The study was conducted through mixed method approach drawing a sample of 204 respondents from two districts in Morogoro Region, Tanzania. The data were collected through structured interview and focus group...

Teacher absenteeism is of concern in today's developing educational climate.In South Africa, where education itself is a contested terrain, and decades of disadvantage still impact resources and skills, despite democracy, it is a compelling challenge.This paper, based on a study of how independent primary schools in Gauteng, South Africa, manage teacher absenteeism, offers an analysis of the management practices employed so that some lessons can be extrapolated.The paper draws from real...

The aim of this study was to assess the level of physical fitness and sedentary children with disabilities included in Kinshasa. One hundred-thirty children were included in this study, 70 with intellectual disability (ID, age: 12.4 ± 4 years) and 60 without ID (age: 11.6 ± 4 years). Flexibility, explosive strength, grip strength, abdominal endurance, and cardiorespiratory endurance tests were used. They are supplemented by the measurement of anthropometric characteristics. Measurements of...

The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for administrative activities is becoming increasingly significant in higher education institutions today.ICT within this context refers to technologies such as computers, mobile phones, projectors and radio.They are a diverse set of technological tools and resources used to communicate, to create, disseminate, store and manage information (Toro & Joshi, 2012).Administration, according to Hornby (as cited in Onyije & Opara, 2013), is...

Abstract Background: As most low and middle-income countries seek to achieve universal health coverage targets, there is an ever-increasing need to train human resources with the required core skills and competencies. This study reports on the needs assessment conducted to understand postgraduate training needs for three selected public health disciplines – Health Policy and Systems, Health Economics, and Healthcare Management and Planning – at the University of Zambia. Methods: The study...

24Dec 2019 EFFECTS OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) ON GIRLS EDUCATION PERFORMANCE IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS A CASE OF WEST POKOT SUB COUNTY, WEST POKOT COUNTY KENYA Susan Chematui , Ezine Enos , Simiyu Kefer , Ben Malesi , Salome Awinja , Rose Kisaka , Kellways Nyamanga , Maurice Mwalo , Murunga Joseph , Daniel Wamalwa , Beatrice Watiti and Nalondo Phanus Med Student (Leadership, Administration and Management) Northwestern Christian University Florida, USA

Abstract Accessing finances for housing has been a major problem for people on low-incomes and this has been weighing heavily on them as they try to access housing. Financial institutions in the city of Bulawayo are failing to come up with financial products that suit low-income clients. There are an estimated 110000 low-income residents among the estimated 250000 residents of Cowdray Park low-density residential area in Bulawayo. This has also affected their right to the city as they have...

This article explores the development of heteronormativity and the construction of masculinities at a township primary school in South Africa. In this study, boys and girls chastise homosexuality yet maintain their male-to-male and female-to-female social bonds. Homosocial or male-to-male social bonds have a bearing on the construction of male identity. It is argued that homosocial relationships serve as a means through which certain boys negotiate and exhibit their masculinity in a process...

Niniejsze opracowanie stanowi przyczynek do refleksji nad rozwojem i rolą szkolnictwa wyższego w Afryce. Analizie poddano wzrost całkowitej liczby studentów w uniwersytetach państwowych na Madagaskarze od 1960 r., od kiedy to ośrodki szkolnictwa wyższego uzyskały status uniwersytecki. Statystyki wskazują ogólnie na wzrost liczby personelu. Czynniki polityczne, demograficzne, socjologiczne i gospodarcze przyczyniły się do procesu umasowienia ośrodków uniwersyteckich. Zanalizowano również...

Educational psychology professionals working in highly unequal societies require training that prepares them to resile professionally irrespective of on-going hardship and a lack of policy-level support.Educational psychology professionals who had participated in a school-based intervention study in a remote high school during their training at university-level were sampled to generate retrospective data on their work engagement experiences during the school-based training.A third of the...

Appendicitis is the leading cause of surgical admission in most hospitals in Nigeria and the removed appendix, a frequent surgical specimen in most routine histopathological laboratories in Nigeria. The aim of this study is to audit the appendectomy procedures in Benue State University Teaching Hospital. Sixty-two appendices removed for acute appendix in Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Makurdi, Nigeria middle belt, over an 8-year period were analyzed. Twenty-eight (45%) were found...

The use of Building Information Modelling (BIM), for construction processes, is on the increase across the globe.This paper aims at exploring the training needs of the Nigerian construction professionals in the adoption of BIM.The study was carried out through a qualitative research design and a structure questionnaire survey administered on selected construction professionals in Nigeria.A total of 285 questionnaires were distributed among the sampled respondents out of which a total of 212...

This paper was aimed at providing the pollution status of Jabi Lake, FCT Abuja. 13 parameters were tested from raw water collected four sampling points. The physicochemical parameters were measured using Hanna multiparametric meter, while transparency was measured using Secchi disc. Dissolved oxygen, Biological and Chemical oxygen demand were measured titrimetrically using standard method. The concentrations of the metals were determined in triplicates. Flame atomic absorption spectrometer...