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Purpose The study aims to assess the views of archives and records management (ARM) professionals in Eswatini about massive open online courses (MOOCs). The purpose of this study is to explore the potential of MOOCs as open gateways for ongoing learning opportunities to scholars, institutions and academics across the globe. It explores the challenges of providing MOOCs in a developing country such as Eswatini. Design/methodology/approach The study was anchored on the interpretive research...

Abstract This article uses a refugee centred approach to explore experiences of belonging through higher education. It is based on fieldwork conducted during the fall of 2019 in Gaziantep, Turkey. This article aims to understand the factors that form refugees’ sense of belonging and the degree to which the contextualized experiences of refugee youths influence their sense of belonging in the university. Interviews with participants suggest that various autobiographical, relational, cultural,...

Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate factors that enhance or hinder teachers reactions to children's misbehaviours. Twenty one semistructured individual interviews were carried out with teachers. Grounded theory method was employed to analyze the data. The analysis of teachers' voices revealed that all participants of the study perceived children's sneaking out from home or playing truant as morally wrong and labeled it as misbehaviour. The findings also demonstrated that most...

Adolescents are rarely considered as a distinct group within research about refugees, and relatively little is known about the lives and experiences of adolescent refugees in Rwanda. Rarely are adolescents’ perspectives, experiences and opinions sought, and their participation in decision-making [educational, economic, political] is limited. Our data are drawn from qualitative evidence collected in three Rwandan refugee camps from individual and group interactions with male and female...

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Aim: To determine the effects of leaking septic tanks on groundwater quality in Owerri Municipal. Place and Duration of the Study: Department of Geosciences, Federal University of Technology Owerri, and Department of Chemistry, Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria, between January 2013 to May 2014. Methodology: Geophysical and geochemical analysis was carried out using chemical and geophysical analyses. Owerri Municipal is located within Longitudes 6o59’E to...

In order to conquer and subjugate Africans, at the 1884 Berlin Conference, European countries dismembered Africa by carving her up into pieces and sharing her among themselves. European colonialists also antagonised Africans by setting up one ethnic African community against the other, thus promoting ethnic consciousness to undermine Pan-African consciousness. European powers also imposed their own “ethnic” languages, making them not only “official”, but also “international”. Consequently,...

This study is part of larger South African project funded by the Department of Higher Education and Training and EU which focused on how practitioners listen to young children in early childhood care and education to encourage a sense of belonging and participation. The study was conducted at two early childhood care and education centres, one advantaged and one disadvantaged, where practitioners were interviewed about their views and experiences of listening to children. Data were analysed...

The aim of this study was to assess the epidemiology of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among the teaching staff of the University of Douala and determine their association with physical activity (PA) practice. The Nordic questionnaire was used to assess MSDs. Ricci–Gagnon questionnaire was used to determine the level of PA. We recruited 104 participants mean-aged 42 ± 8 years, 80% male. Previous 7 days and 12 months prevalence were 56.7% and 80.8%, respectively. The most affected body...

Motivated by the growing emphasis to influence young people’s post-study career intentions through entrepreneurship education, particularly in Africa where poverty and conflict have been associated with high youth unemployment, this paper articulates the effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention amongst students and graduates from two higher education institutions in conflict-torn northern Nigeria. By relying on systematic analysis following semi-structured...

The study compares two fee-free policies at the upper secondary level in Ghana on how they responded to access and the policymaking processes in education. Secondary sources of data were used, while Haddad and Demsky’s framework of education policymaking served as the theoretical basis for textual data analysis. The results show that Free Senior High School policy responded to the program output of an increase in access, unlike Progressive Free Senior High policy. However, the inconsistent...

Mountain environments experience more rapid changes in temperature than lower elevations. However, little is known about the climatic changes already observed in African mountains, or the adaptation strategies used by hunter-gatherer communities. Semi-structured interviews were administered to 100 Twa hunter-gatherers living around Mt Kahuzi in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo). We also organized 10 focus-group discussions with Tembo farmers living in the same area and we...

In this paper we use the simulation model developed by Hanushek and Woessman (2011) to assess the economic impact of a reform of the Moroccan education system that would improve the cognitive achievement levels of students, as measured by the PISA score tests. We consider three alternative scenarios to be compared to the economic situation without reform of the education system, referred as "status quo". Our work allows to predict future economic growth that Morroco would achieve through the...

Gender-based violence (GBV) perpetration is a severe problem among youths in schools and the community at large. As most studies focused on adults, this study aimed to investigate factors associated with GBV by male high school students in eastern Ethiopia. An institutional based cross-sectional survey was conducted with 1,109 male students aged 15-24 years in eastern Ethiopia in December 2018 using self-administered WHO Multi-Country Study on Women's Health and Life Events and UN...

Despite their socio-economic and environmental importance, agroforestry parks undergo various pressures which threaten their existence. The study objective is to study the sustainability of agroforestry parks in the municipalities of Gotheye, Tagazar and Torodi in order to find out which of the anthropogenic or climatic factors impacts them most. For this purpose, two types of data were collected, namely dendrometric data through a floristic inventory and rainfall data acquired from the...

University education is a critical arena for persons with disabilities in both qualifying for higher-level certificates and construction of identity that has a considerable effect on their active participation in national democratic citizenship. In Malawi, statistics show that there has been a steady increase of students with disabilities attending primary and secondary education. However, discourses surrounding disability at higher education (HE) level have received little research...

The study aimed to identify the effectiveness of a religious counseling program according to the Albert Ellis's theory and its effect in treating depression among Syrian students in Karak Qasabeh's schools, Jordan.To achieve the objectives of the study, the quasiexperimental approach was used, whereby the study individuals were randomly assigned to two groups: a control group who does not receive the counseling program and the other is experimental group to which the counseling program is...

This paper examines Libyan EFL higher education students’ perceptions of using their voice in the classroom. A qualitative study was undertaken targeting a group of 12 undergraduate university students majoring in English as a foreign language who were studying fulltime in a college of education at a university in Libya. The study was guided by the following aim: to explore the views and experiences of Libyan EFL higher education students regarding the use of their voice in the classroom....

The aim of the present study was to provide a national estimate for transmission of COVID-19 Cases in public and private schools in Benghazi city in the Eastern region of Libya. A multistage procedure was followed to obtain a representative sample of students and teaching staffs at randomly selected schools across the Eastern region of Libya. The resultant sample consisted of 101 schools, 808 students, and 202 staff members. Data were collected on age, sex, class, and symptoms of COVID19....