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High rates of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections play a major role in the physical, mental, and emotional health of young people. Despite efforts to provide sexuality education through diverse channels, we know little about the ways in which young people perceive school- and community-based efforts to educate them about sexual health. Forty-eight African-American young people participated in six focus groups to discuss their sexuality education experiences. Three major themes...

At present in Yemen the neonatal mortality rate stands at 12%. A contributing factor is that when abnormalities arise during labour in rural areas, there is an absence of trained medical staff to manage complications. Consequently, childbearing women are expected to travel long distances to hospitals to receive Essential Obstetric Care (EOC). This paper presents a debate over whether vacuum delivery should be introduced into the education curriculum of community midwifery courses in Yemen....

The success of quality assurance in higher education depends on how well it is organised and the extent to which the stakeholders accept and own it. Indeed, how academicians perceive themselves, their profession, and others in the profession is reflected in their practice which in turn affects the quality of education being provided. Therefore, this paper is based on a study that investigated how expertise in various academic disciplines can be combined with expertise in the pedagogical...

The Burkinabe education system is regulated by the Education Orientation Law passed in 2007 which defines the objectives of formal, non formal, informal and specialized education and proposes ways of reaching them (Burkina Faso, 2007). Formal education comprises Basic Education, Secondary Education and Higher Education. Basic Education includes three years of pre-school, six years of primary school and three years of post primary education. It is in principle free and compulsory for all 6-16...

Physical and emotional violence against adolescents is a neglected, but growing problem globally. Violence against adolescents negatively affects the victim in terms of physical health, school attendance and performance and social adjustment. The literature on the prevalence and associated factors of bullying against adolescents is sparse in southern Africa outside South Africa. Such data are even sparser for Malawi. The current study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of self-reported...

That the police have the onerous duty of maintaining law and order in society is not in contention; however, the extent to which the public are satisfied with police maintenance of law and order varies from society to society. There has been very little research on views about policing in Nigeria. Based on survey data collected from 758 college students, this exploratory study compares and contrasts college students' views of policing in Nigeria and the USA. The results uncover both intra-...

This article is impelled by the author's different experiences of teaching Islamic law at Bayero University Kano, Northern Nigeria and the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. These two places represent two opposing jurisdictions in that the former is predominantly Muslim-populated and it applies Islamic law within a hybrid legal system while the latter is a non-Muslim, Western and secular state. The article contrasts the approaches to teaching Islamic law in these jurisdictions and points...

Sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) are a major public health problem. It has been established that they enhance the transmission of Human-Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The purpose of this study was to determine the level of knowledge possessed by high school learners about STIs. A quantitative, descriptive study was conducted at two high schools in the Blouberg municipality in the Capricorn district of Limpopo Province, South Africa. Data were collected from 298 randomly selected male...

This study assessed farmers’ perceptions and adaptation to climate variability and change in Doba District, West Hararghe, Ethiopia. The study also investigated determinant factors influencing adaptation strategies to climate variability and change. The study followed a multistage stratified random sampling procedure. Data collected from 160 sample households was used in this study. Descriptive statistics were employed to assess perceptions among gender and social groups while the...

Over the past two decades Tanzania has experienced an increase in the number of vulnerable children and it has become a major issue of concern among educators, researchers, policymakers and communities which are highly impacted by this phenomenon.Due to the complexity of vulnerability among school children in Tanzania, this paper focuses on vulnerable children defined as being at high risk of either dropping out of school or facing academic failure due to vulnerable conditions which include,...

The Lesotho Junior Certificate results between 2003 and 2006 indicate that in the rural secondary schools of Lesotho the pass rate ranged from 51% to 58%. These figures are low compared to those in the urban schools for the same years which ranged from 70% to 72%. In addition, the Teaching Service Department shows that there was 40% of unqualified teachers in these rural schools in 2003 and 35% in 2007. There seems to be a correlation between the high numbers of unqualified teachers and low...

The fall of apartheid brought promises for education progress in South Africa, but much of it remains unrealized, especially in small and rural towns.

The South African constitution enshrines the right to education for everyone, but the reality is that, almost 20 years after the transition from apartheid to democracy, the country's education system remains highly differentiated. Schools that serve the majority of poor and previously disadvantaged blacks suffer from systemic inefficiency and dysfunction, while the schools that serve the rich and affluent classes--black and white--are stable and efficient in their delivery of solid...

This study investigated the information service delivery to the visually impaired. Persons in the vision loss encountered by persons with visual impairment which limits them from the opportunities to access information especially those available in print. Scientific and technological innovations have however brought about various information communication devices that can convert print to speech for them to hear and also convert print to Braille for them to feel. Other devices include...

A research report submitted to the College of Applied Economics and Management Science in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Award of a Degree of Bachelor of Human Resource Management Of Kampala International University