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Inspite of the fact that primary education forms the foundation on which education at the secondary and tertiary levels rests, the issue of poverty is undermining its roles in Nigeria. In this paper, this issue of poverty of primary education was examined, from the perspectives of its history, scope, indicators, in terms of inadequacy of resource inputs (i.e. funds, facilities, and teachers), narrow curriculum, and limited access. The effects of the poverty, particularly on the other...

This review seeks to provide lessons to DFID and other stakeholders in the design of future pooled funds and coordinated delivery mechanisms, by drawing on the experience of the Basic Services Fund in South Sudan 20016-2012. It is not a comprehensive study: the results of many valuable lessons are available from the BSF web site1. BSF was launched in 2005, the year Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed, and has been managed by BMB Mott Macdonald since 2006. What began as a...

This study evaluated the design and delivery of an innovative teacher education programme that was intended to produce a prototype primary school teacher. The study was prompted by unprecedented resistance to the programme by the intended beneficiaries of the programme namely post-sixth form student teachers. The primary purpose of the study was to assess the adequacy and efficacy of the faculty based teacher education programme in transforming post-sixth form students into prototype primary...

AbstractThis study sought to explain why post-Advanced level students were resisting training to become primary school teachers. Up-to-date information with regard to pre service student teachers is of great significance to teacher educators who as developers of teacher education programmes ought to appreciate the concerns of prospective student. The data to address the inquiry was collected by means of the descriptive survey method comprised of a questionnaire, un-structured and structured...

A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted among 2820 pupils in 22 randomly selected primary schools in Kinondoni district, Tanzania. The objective was to identify the proportion of pupils who reported ever having had sexual intercourse, as well as sociodemographic and psychosocial factors and other sexual-related behaviours associated with heterosexual intercourse among pupils. About 13% (376) of participating pupils reported having had heterosexual intercourse. The proportion of...

Schools as learning environments are no longer viewed as formal organizations such as factories or manufacturing industries but as learning communities with a system of shared beliefs, values and norms amongst teachers, students and parents aimed at improved performance in national examinations. School culture and the roles played by principals, teachers, students and parents can hence determine the level of performance of each school in national examinations. School-based reforms geared...

Abstract A data set capturing stated preferences among freshly educated Tanzanian health workers with basic and more advanced education is applied to investigate how additional education affects willingness to work in rural areas. To control for selection into the additional education scheme, the two cadres are matched on propensity scores. It turns out that those health workers with advanced education would have been more likely to prefer a job in a rural remote area had they not received...

1 Mutwol Lawrence C.K., 2Cheserek Grace J. 3Boit John M & 4Mining Pacifica J.1 St. Patrick's High School, P.O Box 310 Iten.Department of Applied Environmental Social Sciences, University of Eldoret,P.O. Box 1125- 30100 Eldoret, Kenya.3 Department of Educational Administration and Management,Moi University. P.O Box 3900- 30100, Eldoret, Kenya.4 Department of Development Studies,Moi University. P.O. Box 3900-30100, Edoret. Kenya.Corresponding Author: Cheserek Grace JAbstractThe main purpose of...

Landscapes rarely reflect any one particular set of environmental conditions (process domain) or period of climate or geological change. Quaternary climate oscillations have left their imprint on desert landscapes such as the Sahara, where it is possible to define two main modes of desert behaviour since the Last Glacial Maximum, around 20 ka ago: an arid mode, dominated by ‘desert’ processes, and a humid mode, dominated by processes usually associated with semi-arid or temperate conditions....

AbstractThis paper examines the relationship between secondary school teachers' distribution of student responsibilities on the learners' perception of gender equality. It is based on a study conducted in Uasin-Gishu County in Kenya. The purpose of the study was to establish the relationship between the hidden curriculum and gender equality amongst secondary school students. The authors adopted a survey research design. The target population consisted of the accessible population was the...

Although Botswana has recently been categorised as an upper middle income country, it is burdened by a scarcity of resources, both human and technological. There are barriers to patients’ access to specialized care and healthcare providers’ access to medical knowledge. Over the past three years, the Botswana-University of Pennsylvania Partnership (BUP) has piloted four mobile telemedicine projects in the specialties of women's health (cervical cancer screening utilizing visual inspection...

Child malnutrition remains one of the health challenges that African countries have to deal with to remain on course to achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This study analyzes the impact of maternal education on child nutritional status in three African countries, based on data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), the 2010 Malawi DHS, with a sample of 4,563 children age 0-59 months; the 2009-10 Tanzania DHS, 4,821 children; and the 2005-06 Zimbabwe DHS,...

Owing to the fact that entrepreneurship is widely considered to be a mechanism for reducing unemployment, the purpose of the study was to assess whether final-year Commerce students in the predominantly rural provinces, the Eastern Cape Province and the Limpopo Province, have the intention to start their own businesses.The study draws heavily from entrepreneurial intent models and focuses on the relationship between three key variables, namely, exposure to entrepreneurship education,...

AbstractUniversity life is a challenging period especially for first year students who have to leave their familiar surroundings and settle in a new environment. The unfamiliar environment may have an impact on their personality, attitudes and behaviour. The purpose of this paper was to establish the dietary awareness and eating patterns of the young adults and how these affect their health since students should make informed decisions on their dietary patterns. The study is significant...

The study dealt with the degree to which Total Quality Management (TQM) could be the pathway to quality research supervision of the Postgraduate Diploma in Education programme at the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU). It is a qualitative study that purposively sampled its research participants who responded to questions that were raised using an open-ended interview. The study found out quality was about meeting customer’s expectations. TQM was perceived as a means of conforming to Postgraduate...

Black theology arising in the South African apartheid context as a collective theological, vigorous and subversive reaction to the injustices of a system claiming Christian justification will be presented. Some of the inhuman deprivations imposed on black people, especially the injustice that denied them their human rights; and the restrictions that made the attainment of a fullness of life impossible will be the first focus in this article. Two black theologians, namely the South African,...

This study presents two new, well-dated sedimentary pollen and charcoal records from high-altitude crater sites in the Virunga volcanoes, located in the Albertine Rift, central Africa, currently part of one of the world's most biodiverse areas. Here we argue that Holocene vegetation changes in a ca 8000-year palaeoenvironmental record from a crater swamp at an altitude of 3474 m and a ca 2800-year record from a crater lake at an altitude of 4127 m are linked to variations in both climate and...