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Background. Competency-based and interprofessional education are increasingly favoured approaches for training health professionals (HPs) to meet patient and population needs. The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) and College of Health Sciences (CHS) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, SA, specified a requirement for a core competencies framework to be incorporated into all HP programmes in 2014. Objectives. To explore teaching, learning and assessment of...

Eswatini, as the rest of southern Africa, is being frequented by drought over the last decade, and modelling experts are predicting that drought years will become more and severe. The expected increase in extreme climatic events makes the use of drought indices essential for drought monitoring and early warning. To enable Eswatini to better prepare, analyse and respond to drought, this study analysed the use of Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Standard Precipitation Index...

As climate change adaptation is becoming a recognized policy issue, the needs are growing about quantitative economic evaluation of adaptation-related public investments, particularly in the context of climate finance. Irrigation, which enhances and stabilizes water supply for farming, is a potential means of climate change adaptation, but attempts of economic evaluation of its effectiveness as an adaptation measure are few in part because such assessment requires an integration of various...

Background/Objective: Protein C (PC) is a vitamin K – dependent coagulation inhibitor produced in the liver. Acting together with its cofactor, protein S (PS), activated PC inhibits activated factors V and VIII thus downregulating thrombin generation which may predispose to inappropriate clot formation. This study aimed to ascertain the role of protein C deficiency in the development of ischaemic stroke in order to establish its relevance in stroke management in our...

Abstract Understanding the long‐term variability and change in climate variables is critical for the sustainable management of water resources. This research aimed to project and analyse climate change in the Awash River Basin (ARB) using bias‐corrected Global and Regional Climate Model simulations. The analysis included a baseline period from 1986 to 2005 and two future scenarios (2050s and 2070s) under two representative concentration pathways (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5). Following the evaluation...

Purpose Although street-connected children with communication disability have been identified in Western Kenya, little is currently known about the impact of communication disability on this group. In order to inform future service development, this qualitative study sought to understand the experiences, views and needs of street-connected children with communication disability, and of their caregivers at home and at school.Materials and methods 13 children, 12 caregivers and 12 school-based...

Background. Depressive and anxiety disorders occur at very high rates among medical students. For instance, an international review and meta-analysis estimated the overall pooled crude prevalence of depression or depressive symptoms at 27.2%. However, South African (SA) data are very limited. Objectives. To determine rates of depression and anxiety among medical students and to examine the associations with various sociodemographic variables (biological sex, gender identity, household...

Purpose: This paper explores the main factors that influence farmers in acquiring agricultural knowledge and adopting technologies with the aim of better understanding the agricultural innovation systems in West Africa.Design/Methodology/Approach: We use data collected between 2013 and 2014 across rice hubs in five West African countries: Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Nigeria and Togo. In total, 499 household heads were surveyed using a stratified random sampling technique. Data are analyzed...

In 2002, a Ghana Education Review Committee identified that lack of environmental literacy hinders sustainable development (GMoE, 2007) and the 2007 Educational Reforms recommended integration of environmental education (EE) into basic and secondary schools. Although sustainability appears in environmental and sometimes political discourses in Ghana, most citizens are still not environmentally conscious. Permanently tied and yet often not attended to with regards to EE, are teachers who are...

The study examined the achievement motivation as predictor of academic achievement among Senior Secondary School II students in Edo State, Nigeria. The sample of the study consisted of 698 students who were randomly sampled from the population of 27,937 students in pubic secondary school II students in Edo Sate. The sample size was 2.5% of the entire population, which was drawn, using the multi-stage sampling technique. There are eighteen Local Government Areas in Edo State, divided into...

The article critiques the tendency in the field of international education to theorize internationalization around the impacts of and policy responses to globalization in local contexts. The central argument of the article is that South Africa’s history and development prospects are so intricately bound up with those of its neighbors in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region that it would be misleading for the country to be talked about in just national/local and global...

Many parts of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are prone to land use and land cover change (LULCC). In many cases, natural systems are converted into agricultural land to feed the growing population. However, despite climate change being a major focus nowadays, the impacts of these conversions on water resources, which are essential for agricultural production, is still often neglected, jeopardizing the sustainability of the socio-ecological system. This study investigates historic land use/land...

From a Critical Race Theory perspective (Ladson-Billings & Tate, 1995), this study examined the perceptions of experiences of African-American students enrolled in two different continuation high schools (a traditional continuation school and a non-traditional continuation with a residential component attached). This was done to measure success from the students' point of view. Students who are at-risk of failing in the education system are often enrolled in alternative education programs,...

Entrepreneurship education and training is systematic and recognize field of study that serves a catalyst for sustainable development, economic growth and social well-being of the society. In Nigeria technical colleges are designed to address the issue of job creation, youth employment, self-reliance, skill development and increase productivity so as to compete with the current opportunities and challenges in the labor market and the movement towards 4.0 IR for integrity. Unfortunately most...