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There is countrywide a lack of relevant and necessary professional and tertiary institutions offering education and training in green building in South Africa. This causes a lack of awareness, knowledge and skill in green-building principles, which directly results in a lack in the introduction and implementation thereof on projects in the property-development industry. The purpose of this study was to determine whether tertiary institutions have started to incorporate green-building...

Before independence, in 1980, the education system of Zimbabwe was organised along racial lines. This organisation of education along racial lines disadvantaged Black Africans in the context of both access to and quality of education experience. The transition of the Black Africans from primary to secondary school appeared to be capped for both academic and non-academic vocational secondary school programmes. Upon attaining independence, the government of Zimbabwe embarked on educational...

This article describes how the authors use the theoretical construct of intersectionality and concepts relating to stereotyping in treatments of diversity and social equity in the public affairs classroom. The authors’ approach reflects their efforts in civil rights advocacy, which inform their teaching. Larger framing questions, of some pertinence to the interpretation and determination of public policy and programs, emerge. The authors’ focus is on intersectionality, stereotyping, and...

Maternal and Child Health Aides (MCH Aide) in Sierra Leone provide the majority of maternity services at primary care level. To formulate recommendations for improving the quality and scale-up of MCH Aides training an evaluation of all schools across Sierra Leone was undertaken. structured, direct observation of two randomly selected teaching sessions per school using pre-tested standardised review forms. Event sampling with random selection of timetabled sessions across all 14 MCH Aide...

I teach History from Grade eight to twelve thus I am privileged to see the whole high school syllabus (Curriculum and Assessment Policy CAPS) played out in my classroom. I have an Honours degree in History and I have been teaching for nine years. I have a data projector in my classroom with a computer and internet access. I am able to not only utilise textbooks as a pedagogical tool but the internet and YouTube. This is really amazing when we have to show learners cartoons and teach visual...

For nearly six decades, China-Africa education co-operation has made great progress laying a stronger foundation for a better partnership between the partners and, to some extent, the promotion of African capacity-building.Nonetheless, considering the cultural domination of the West in the world and a cultural crisis that both China and African countries are encountering, technique-oriented Sino-African education co-operation should be accompanied with a stronger co-operation on humanistic...

First of its kind in Morocco, in 23 public primary schools, we made a survey about learning disabled children and Arabic language learning difficulties. The survey was conducted in three different cities, in the school year: 2014–2015. 86 teachers and 2,304 students participated at the study and helped its success. The study consists on gathering, according to teachers' experiences, the famous mistakes encountered by the pupils while learning Arabic language and the different reasons behind...

A research project report submitted to the department of educational management, policy and curriculum studies, school of education, in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the award of the Degree of Master of Education.

This paper documents the results of the process of developing and selecting national standard climate change indicators for integration into two national monitoring and evaluation frameworks in Uganda: the Output Budgeting Tool (OBT) and the Local Government Assessment tool (LGAT). The OBT is used by the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED) to determine national development standard indicators that are monitored and reported across all sectors in the country. The...

This study presents compositional data for a statistically significant number (n = 180) of heated and quenched (recreated) carbonate melt inclusions trapped in magnetite and clinopyroxene in jacupirangite from Kerimasi volcano (Tanzania). On the basis of homogenization experiments for clinopyroxene-hosted melt inclusions and forsterite–monticellite–calcite phase relations, a range of 1000 to 900 °C is estimated for their crystallization temperatures. Petrographic observations and geochemical...

Abstract This paper describes the Neogene lava–sediment mingling from the Abu Treifiya Basin, Cairo–Suez district, Egypt. The lava–sediment interactions as peperites have been identified for the first time at the study area and can be used as paleoenvironmental indicators. The identification of peperite reflects contemporaneous time relationship between volcanism and sedimentation and this finding is of primary importance to address the evolutional reconstruction of the Abu Treifiya Basin....

Kenya is undergoing rapid urbanization resulting in changing lifestyles. Childhood dietary habits are changing and might result in childhood obesity and related health risks. Dietary habits learnt in early life are likely to be carried to adulthood. Nutrition knowledge and positive attitude are known to influence dietary practices. There is paucity of information on nutrition knowledge, attitude and practices of school-children in cities. This study established nutrition knowledge, attitude...

This research investigated the information literacy skills and competencies among incoming first-year undergraduate students at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA), Kenya. A total of 137 incoming first year undergraduate students for the 2013/2014 academic year were surveyed using self-administered questionnaires. Findings revealed that most or all incoming students: (a) had limited knowledge of strategies used to search for information; (b) possessed computer skills such as the...

A Research Project Submitted to the School of Education in Partial Fulfilment of the Degree of Master of Education in The Department of Educational Management, Policy and Curriculum Studies of Kenyatta University, December, 2015

This study examines how teachers mark and comment on pupils’ classwork in Tanzanian rural primary schools. It: examines the primary school teacher certificate and diploma curriculum to identify how these equip student teachers with the skills required to mark and comment on pupils’ classroom exercises competently; explores how teachers mark pupils’ class work; examines comments/feedback provided on pupils’ class work; and determines the implications of teachers’ feedback for pupil...

Abstract This study jointly investigates factors driving the processes of accessing and staying in school in sub‐Saharan Africa. We explicitly account for the fact that staying in school or its converse, dropping out, is observed only among children who ever attend school. We use data from Demographic and Health Surveys from 12 countries. We find that access to school is typically lower for females, rural youth, and those from poorer households. Conditional on having ever attended school,...

1.0 INTRODUCTION Information is a vital and an indispensable component of any academic environment. It makes effectiveness in any academic system. Both faculty and students need to use information daily in their various academic endeavors. For decades, faculty and students have actively used the library and its resources as their main information source. Alemna, (2000) states that centuries libraries have served as repositories of information and knowledge that have provided the vital...