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The research was conducted to assess the level of heavy metals contamination using single and integrated pollution indices in soils around municipal solid waste dumpsites of Kano Metropolis, Kano State, Nigeria. Forty two soil samples were collected from seven municipal solid waste dumpsites of Kano metropolis using circular plot method. A stainless hand auger at a depth of (0 to 15) top soils and sub-surface soils (15-30cm) depth were collected and analyzed with Flame atomic absorption...

The world has witnessed major changes in delivery modes in education due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Being no exception, Morocco declared a full lockdown in March 2020, and this resulted in the use of online platforms to cope with the new situation. The platform that was adopted by the Moroccan Ministry of Education was Microsoft Teams (MT). Hence, the current paper investigated Moroccan high school EFL teachers’ use of the platform accounting for their age, gender, anxiety, and attitudes...

The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of teachers on the development and implementation process of the History 2167 syllabus reform in Zimbabwe. Successful implementation of syllabus reforms depends on teachers’ ownership and knowledge about the reform ideas. Teachers are the closest individuals to the circumstances of the decisions made and their role as implementers gives them a significant influence on curriculum decisions. However, studies on syllabus development and...

In 1994, as soon as South Africa became a democratic country, the first step taken by the new democratic government was to introduce various transformative constitutional and legislative interventions that sought to redress all the past apartheid discriminatory laws. This paper looks at these interventions by critically showcasing how they are being used to transform and reform land by ensuring inclusivity and equity in South Africa where the previously denied, disposed and segregated Black...

The study detailed in this paper examines the role of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) in the transnational policy-making landscape in relation to African fragile and conflict-affected states. Data collection was based on content analysis of a corpus of documents – Education Sector Plans (ESPs)/ Transitional Sector Plans – examining to what extent the main categories identified in the literature concerning global education policy and international development, emerge from the...

South Africa (SA) has a decentralised education system. It is generally assumed that decentralisation improves the effectiveness and efficiency of education by responding to the needs, values, and expectations of both local and rural communities. A large part of SA could be described as rural and a large number of learners attend rural schools. This makes rural education a significant part of the South African education context. With education being decentralised, and with decentralisation...

Few epidemiological data describe the prevalence of blindness and visual impairment in Senegal. Data from West African studies estimate blindness prevalence between 1.2 - 3.4% and that of visual impairment between 10.4 - 17.1%. IRIS Mundial (IM) is a non-governmental organization collaborating with l'Association St-Louisienne pour la Vue (ASV) to develop eye care in Senegal.Describe the relative importance of and causes of blindness and visual impairment in a population consulting for vision...

Bu çalışmanın amacı Türkiye’de yaşayan Suriyeli öğrencilerin Türkçe öğrenme yaşantılarını, Türkçe öğrenme amaçları ve süreçte yaşadıkları sorunlar bağlamında incelemektir. Çalışmada nitel araştırma yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Nitel araştırma desenlerinden durum çalışmasına uygun olarak tasarlanan çalışmada veriler, araştırmacı tarafından geliştirilen yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formu ile toplanmıştır. Araştırmanın örneklemini 2017-2018 öğretim yılı bahar döneminde Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi...

Background: Globally, training programs have adopted several strategies in response to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, including re-organizing the provision of care and safeguarding the wellbeing of trainees. This study aimed to describe the effects of COVID-19 on surgical training programs in Africa. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey through online questionnaires distributed via email to all College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) trainees and...

Rice farming is highly dependent on environmental factors such as rainfall and temperature. Rice yield is affected by changes in these climatic elements. Rice farmers’ perceptions of the changes in climate are important determinants of the management practices they use in reducing the effects on rice production. This study assessed the perceived effects of climate change on rice production among farmers. A multistage sampling procedure was used to obtain a sample of 522 farmers. Data were...

Cooperative learning is an effective teaching strategy that maximizes student’s learning. A descriptive study involving 219 nursing students and 27 teachers used a self-administered questionnaire to determine the approaches of cooperative learning and perceptions of nursing students and teachers in Bamenda. The study set to assess the use of cooperative learning in Bamenda-Cameroon, identify the techniques implemented, highlight its achievements, challenges and describe students’ and...

Teacher evaluation is a formal and systematic process of examining teacher performance and effective teachers are expected to demonstrate competence in subject matter as well as perform high levels of teaching skills. In the modern era, there has been a tremendous increase in interest regarding students’ ratings of instruction and this topic has been the subject of a substantial body of research spanning approximately 70 years. The main objective of this study was to investigate the...

Repositioning Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for Empowering Nigeria Youth for enhancing National Security. This paper focused on repositioning Technical and Vocational Education and Training for Empowering Nigeria Youth for enhancing National Security. It examined briefly the concepts of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), it also initiated several youth empowerment programmes through TVET, but a lot of these programmes lack structure and their...

This study investigates the ICT skills of Undergraduate students in relation to their expectations on Blended learning amidst coronavirus pandemic as they return back to the schools in University of Maiduguri, Borno State. The study adopted survey research design. The population of the study consisted of undergraduate library and information students.Two research questions and one hypothesis were used for this study. Questionnaire was employed as instrument for data collection. Multistage...

This study assessed teachers’ attitudes implementation of secondary schools Physical Education curriculum in Nigeria. To achieve this purpose, purposive sampling technique was used to select the samples from the Six Geo- political zones of the country. The population for the study was all secondary schools of Fifty Four thousand Five hundred and twenty- one (54,521) with sample size of Six hundred and Fifty six (656). The data collected were statistically analysed using descriptive...

To empower Moroccan students to join the rapidly growing globalized world, the Ministry of education, through multiple official documents, incessantly calls for culture incorporation in the teaching of foreign languages. While the existing research studies on culture in the Moroccan EFL context have considerably revolved around textbook analysis, no study known to the researcher, has explored the real classroom practices of culture teaching in Moroccan secondary schools. Hence, this study...