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Objective To provide a comprehensive understanding of neurology training from the sub‐Saharan African perspective. Methods A 40‐question survey was distributed to attendees of the 7th annual sub‐Saharan African neurology teaching course in Khartoum, Sudan (2015). Themes included the student body, faculty, curriculum, assessment and examinations, technology, and work hours and compensation. Results Of 19 responding countries, 10 had no formal neurology training programs; Burkina Faso,...

Orientation: Job crafting can result in a number of positive outcomes for teachers, such as increased meaningfulness and engagement at work. Increased work engagement and psychological meaningfulness may yield positive benefits for the practice of teaching, thus highlighting the pivotal role of job crafting.Research purpose: The study’s aim was to investigate the relationship between job crafting and subjective well-being amongst South African high school teachers. Subjective well-being...

The Higher Education is an important and basic stage of building a society and the global trends in education by the e-learning process. It is about collaborative resources building, research, feedback, by supporting creativity, flexibility and individuality. This paper presents the e-Learning experiences of technology and strategy in the effort to implement a competency educational program, in Syria and Turkey, with focus on higher education. It aims to improve the electronic teaching...

Orientation: Personal growth initiative (PGI) is an important characteristic of workplace counsellors. Industrial and organisational (I-O) psychologists often assist employees with counselling for work-related and personal problems, and therefore PGI is an important research topic for this profession.Research purpose: The purpose of this study was to measure the PGI of I-O psychology students in a higher education institution in South Africa, as well as to explore differences in PGI between...

At the conclusion of a three-day meeting held in December 1968 at St Francis’ College, the Catholic high school in Mariannhill, half-way between Durban and Pietermaritzburg, a group of black students – representing ‘Non-white Universities, University Colleges, Seminaries, Training Colleges and other centres of higher learning’ – announced their decision to launch a new student movement.

Background Disability affects approximately 15% of the world’s population, and has adverse socio-economic effects, especially for the poor. In Rwanda, there are a number of government compensation programs that support the poor, but not specifically persons with disability (PWDs). This study investigates the relationship between poverty and government compensation on disability among working-age adults in Rwanda. Methods This was a secondary analysis of 35,114 adults aged 16 to 65...

Linguistically diverse ethnic groups settled in mining towns in Zimbabwe where employment opportunities were high. As a result of this economic-motivated migration which engineered a diverse population, conflict in the language domain characterises primary schools that are administered by mines. This study aimed to investigate how conflict in the language domain can be reduced. A phenomenological research design was used. A sample of 38 participants consisting of three school administrators,...

Abstract. The present study aims at reconstructing past climate changes and their environmental impacts on plant ecosystems during the last 6000 years in the Middle Atlas, Morocco. Mean January temperature (Tjan), annual precipitation (Pann), winter (Pw) and summer (Ps) precipitation, and a seasonal index (SI) have all been quantified from a fossil pollen record. Several bio- and geo-chemical elements have also been analysed to evaluate the links between past climate, landscape, and...

This study was carried out to identify coping measures required by farmers in managing climate change stress for effective agricultural production in Abia State, Nigeria. Design of the study was descriptive survey. The study was carried out in Abia State. Two research questions guided the study while two null hypotheses were formulated and tested. Population for the study was 1,009 made up of 768 farmers and 241 extension agents in Abia State. Sample for the study was 302 made up of 230...

Asymptomatic bacteriuria, a form of urinary tract infections that involves isolation of a specified quantitative count of bacteria in an appropriately collected urine specimen obtained from a person without symptoms or signs referable to urinary infection is common, but the prevalence in population varies widely with age, sex and the presence of genitourinary abnormalities.This study therefore aimed at investigating the prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria among selected students of...

For farmers in rural Africa, climate change could significantly alter the natural environment, leading to a loss of income, food security and well-being; however, much remains unknown about the way a change in climate may affect a person's decision to migrate away from their home. Using a framework based on migration aspirations and capabilities, this paper examines how climate stresses (such as droughts that cause a long-term decline in harvests) and climate shocks (i.e. acute food...

Stress is part and parcel of living.The fact that one is living implies that he is experiencing some amount of stress.This means that stress affects performance.It is on this basis that models have been developed to measure levels of stress among employees.This study sought to investigate the levels of stress among public secondary school teachers and its implication on students' academic performance in Kakamega North Sub-county, Kenya.This study employed the descriptive survey research...

Remotely sensed rainfall is increasingly being used to manage climate-related risk in gauge sparse regions.Applications based on such data must make maximal use of the skill of the methodology in order to avoid doing harm by providing misleading information.This is especially challenging in regions, such as Africa, which lack gauge data for validation.In this study, we show how calibrated ensembles of equally likely rainfall can be used to infer uncertainty in remotely sensed rainfall...

This study investigates intra household level decision-making in two rural districts in the Mt Elgon region. Data was collected from 442 respondents using a household survey. Pearson Chi-Square (χ2), Multinomial and logistic regressions were used to understand the gender dimensions of decision making and barriers to climate change adaptation. The study demonstrates that coping and adaptation decisions within households are undertaken either as sole or joint decisions. Sole decisions are made...

"Spanish education in Morocco, 1912–1956: cultural interactions in a colonial context by Irene Gonzalez Gonzalez." History of Education, 46(1), pp. 134–135

Abstract The need to use palm surface area (PSA) in ergonomics, burn therapy, thermal physiology, and medicine necessitated the studies on its determination. The purpose of this study was to determine the PSA of students in a tertiary institution in Nigeria, propose a model to obtain the PSA, and use the neural network to reflect the effects of age, height, and weight on PSA. A total of 400 students comprising of 185 male and 215 female students aged between 16- and 25-years old were used...

The present study is an outcome of a concern for the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Libyan schools. Learning of a foreign language is invariably linked to learners building a good repertoire of vocabulary of the target language, which takes us to the theory and practice of imparting training in vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) to learners. The researcher observed that there exists a divergence in theoretical knowledge of VLSs and practically training learners in...