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In Ethiopia, Aksum University professors, staff and administrators are building a brand-new journalism department, one that teaches core literacy skills, but also stresses responsible journalism, based on independence, accuracy, and verification. They are grappling with a rapidly changing landscape, desperately trying to keep up. They face political, environmental and technology challenges, plus a freshly imposed state of emergency, because of widespread civil unrest. This paper is baseline...

There is now a large literature discussing how mobilities are part of contemporary everyday power geometries and is a resource to which people have unequal access. This body of work has, thus, valorised mobility as a desirable good. Why some people choose immobility and what has to be mobilised to enable this immobility has received much less attention. This paper draws on interviews with international distance education students in Namibia and Zimbabwe studying at the University of South...

Many institutions across the world have been trying to upgrade/transform their educational systems to reduce the cost of learning with high comfort. Ethiopian education system is one of them, which is has been facing critical challenges to afford the education extensions & teaching facilities. This problem becomes critical to those who are Employees, disables and females with pregnancy or the learners who cannot join the classes on regular basis with traditional teaching learning processes...

Climate change vulnerability depends upon various factors and differs between places, sectors and communities.This study is aimed at analyzing smallholder farmers' livelihood vulnerability to climate change and variability in Kembatta Tembaro zone, Southern Ethiopia using the IPCC Livelihood Vulnerability Index approach.The approach estimates vulnerabilities by grouping nine major components into three categories of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity, using data collected from 508...

Assessment forms an integral part of the learning process in higher education where knowledge is tested and applied in various ways.While various methods are employed by assessors ranging from formative to summative assessments, a high degree of integrity is required from those tasked with assessing the students.Ethics, honesty and integrity are the forgotten pillars of assessment which often do not reflect in the assessment task but in the individuals tasked with ensuring academic...

Any successful classroom instruction at all level of education demands students' involvement in it.That is, the students must devote their time and effort for successful teaching-learning process.In this regard, the involvement of female students in their University level education is therefore taken as integral part of quality education.Hence, this study was aimed to analyze female students' involvement in communicative English Skills classroom instruction with particular reference to...

Any successful classroom instruction at all level of education demands students' involvement in it.That is, the students must devote their time and effort for successful teaching-learning process.In this regard, the involvement of female students in their University level education is therefore taken as integral part of quality education.Hence, this study was aimed to analyze female students' involvement in communicative English Skills classroom instruction with particular reference to...

In this study, authors explored major factors that undergraduate students in Botswana consider vital in influencing their higher education institution choice decisions.It was based on a survey of 300 admitted students at the Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, to which 91.33 % (274/300) of the sample responded.Data was collected using a questionnaire and analysed by coding and using Microsoft Excel package.Results show that the choice decision is based on a number of...

In order to address performance gaps in management of public primary schools and provision of quality education, the Ministry of Education periodically supports head teachers of primary schools to undertake induction courses in education management.One of the many induction courses supported and organised by the Ministry of Education (MoE) is the Induction Course in Educational Management (ICEM).ICEM is organised by Kenya Education Management Institute (KEMI) for head teachers of public...

This research work investigated impact of Relationship Education Training on the Management of MaritalDiscords among Young Couples in Nigerian Colleges of Education.Experimental research design was adopted for the study.The population for the study comprised of all young couples in the 85 accredited Colleges of Education in Nigeria.Eight Colleges were used as sample schools for the study and a total of 240 conflicted and devitalized young couples in the eight Colleges of Education served as...

In every professions, there are period for internship.Teaching profession is not left out.The student-teacher goes out for teaching practice for a specific period of time under the supervision of more experienced teachers.Among what is expected for the student-teacher to know is school records and record keeping.It is on this regards that this paper hinged on mentoring, the student-teacher on school records and record keeping for effective teaching practice exercise in Nigeria.To this...

Latest reports from WHO suggest that the Ebola virus disease outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, DR Congo, is serious and rapidly escalating. As of May 19, 2019, there were 1826 confirmed cases and 1218 deaths, making it the second largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease in history, with a case fatality rate of 66%—much higher than previous outbreaks.1WHO Regional Office for AfricaEbola virus disease. Democratic Republic of the Congo external situation report...

The purpose of this paper is to critically look at the theoretical and conceptual schools of thought of Talcott Parsons AGIL theory in relation to police training practices.It is realized that Parsons AGIL theory has a significant relation and application to police training practices.The researcher in related studies looked critically at the AGIL theory in relation to the curriculum, scope of training and the pedagogical practices employed by police training academies (A), the social...

Education has been pointed out as a tool for democracy, multiculturalism and diversity by the international development sector.This article has posed the problem formulation investigating how the Ethiopian Education policy and legal framework address and shape inequalities in the education system and primarily those related to gender.Currently, girls' education has also received great attention because, in the words of the United Nations, education is not only a right but a passport to human...