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Abstract This study explores the perceived influence of climate change on the health of Hamer pastoralists and their livestock in south-western Ethiopia. A combination of focus group discussions and key informant interviews were conducted with Hamer communities as well as local health workers, animal health workers and non-governmental organisation (NGO) staff. Thematic framework analysis was used to analyse the data. Reductions in rangeland, erratic rainfall, recurrent droughts and loss of...

Introduction and BackgroundEducation remains the only viable vehicle for empowering citizens with necessary skills, attitudes, and values for personal and national development.Effectiveness and efficiency in education system is critical in ensuring a country achieves Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).UNESCO report in 2017 calls for all stakeholders in the education sector to adopt strategies that ensure competency-based learning in primary and secondary schools.Studies by Ali, Zubair, &...

The Covid‑19 pandemic has led to changes from traditional face-to-face teaching and learning to online systems. These changes have resulted in a concerted focus by local and international scholars on how some students are disadvantaged from accessing pedagogy due to a lack of resources and supportive living conditions that enable meaningful off‑campus learning. Simultaneously, disabilities in higher education is getting international attention, too, highlighting how students with...

The use of drugs has become more rampant today than at any other time. In learning institutions, especially secondary schools, the use of drugs has resulted in poor concentration in classwork, high rate of absenteeism and failure in exams leading to poor academic performance. The purpose of this study therefore was to: establish the prevalence of drug use among students in Teso South Constituency, establish the causes of drug use and identify the effects of drug use on academic performance...

Abstract This article analyses the complexities of religious identity and stakeholder discourse concerning religious education (RE) reform in Scotland and Malawi. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concept of ‘social space’, it explicates the extent to which religious identity and conflicts over symbolic power in the social space of RE reform engender polarised debates imbricated by entrenched ideological positions because agents’ discourse in the social space draw on elements of their particular...

Introduction and BackgroundTanzania like many other developing countries on the globe is striving towards providing quality education so that those who benefit from the education offered can come to the realization of their potentials and so be able to contribute to the betterment of their own life and the life of their communities.One way of achieving this endeavors, is through quality assurance activities.Quality assurance is generally understood as a process of monitoring the curriculum...

Background: Smartphone addiction is an increasing problem among university students worldwide. Excessive smartphone use can lead to unfavorable outcomes such as social isolation and poor academic achievement. Assessing the utilization of smartphones among students at the university level is extremely necessary. Objectives: The study aim was to investigate the prevalence of smartphone addiction among medical students and to assess its relationship with sleep quality. Methods: A...

Abstract This study investigated the intensity, trend and spatio-temporal variability of meteorological drought in the Lakes’ Region of Ethiopian Rift Valley using monthly rainfall and maximum and minimum temperature records for the period 1986–2019. Reconnaissance Drought Index (RDI) was employed to generate the intensity of drought at 3 and 12-months timescale. Mann-Kendall trend test was used to determine the trend of the changes in the RDI time series. The spatial extent of droughts has...

The objective of the study is to determine the preparedness of both teachers and learners in implementing the revised History curriculum in secondary schools (grade 8-12) since the introduction of the revised curriculum in 2017. Jess, Carse, and Keay (2016) discovered that teachers must be prepared and trained in order to accomplish the objectives of a curriculum; the authors' attention was on the curriculum-development process and the educator's role. Teachers are familiar with classroom...

The objective of the study is to determine the preparedness of both teachers and learners in implementing the revised History curriculum in secondary schools (grade 8-12) since the introduction of the revised curriculum in 2017. Jess, Carse, and Keay (2016) discovered that teachers must be prepared and trained in order to accomplish the objectives of a curriculum; the authors' attention was on the curriculum-development process and the educator's role. Teachers are familiar with classroom...

Like the rest of the developed world, African nations are now subject to consumerist tendencies of the global economic architecture and activities, which excessively exploit natural resources for profits and are at the centre of what this article describes as ‘disharmony between nature and humanity’. The exploitative nature of consumerist tendencies requires healing and restoration as it leads towards unpredictable and destructive weather patterns in which the relationships between human...

The Covid‑19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on faculty and student affairs practitioners which has changed the future of higher education worldwide. This reflective practitioner account looks into its impact on practitioners working in student affairs, some of which is not immediately visible, but unfortunately very significant and will surface in the medium and long term. There has been tremendous uncertainty for Student Affairs practitioners as a result of disruption from...

Background of the StudyHuman resource management practices are key components of performance in almost all organizations.In any organization, the employees must be treated as a valuable asset.The organization mission will be achieved in a better way if the skills of the workers are developed.In the present competitive environment, the success of any organization depends on the caliber of their human resources and their programmes (Rehman, 2011).Academic performance is a threshold assessment...

The realities of stakeholders' participation in school management to enhance the learners' academic achievement has continued to attract some debates from a range of stakeholders.Regardless of such debates, governments have continued to uphold the policy position and support the implementation of stakeholder involvement in school management.Yet some stakeholders' mixed reactions point not only to the possibilities of policy failure but also their lack of a clear understanding of its...

Education is unarguably the life-transforming agent for development of any society.To the extent a people is educated, to that extent is its level of development.Africa as a continent is no exception to this universal certitude.Africa, a continent duped the richest in the world's array of mineral resources is paradoxically tagged the world's one of most impoverished continents.Little is there to be seen as far as translating this wealth for the development and growth of the continent.Thus,...

Background: Feedback was the backbone of educational interventions in clinical settings. However, it was generally misunderstood and demanding to convey out effectively. Nursing students were not confident and did not feel free to practise clinical skills during practical placements because of the nature of the feedback they received whilst in these placements. Moreover, they experienced feedback as a barrier to completing practical workbooks. Objective: The purpose of this article was to...

The biotolerance of water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica) to heavy metals was investigated in the Agodi Reservoir and its supplying source, the Ogunpa River, to examine the impact of aquatic pollution. I. aquatica was collected monthly from the Ogunpa River and the Agodi Reservoir. Atomic absorption spectrophotometry was used to analyse the concentration of heavy metals in the samples. A box plot was used to evaluate the tolerance of the plants to heavy metals and ecological risk quotients (ERQ)...

Literature ReviewMotivation is a process which starts with needs which set up drives which help in acquiring incentives/goals.Drives are action oriented while incentives are those things that alienate needs.According to Marques, (2010), motivation is what people need to perform better and can work if the right person, with right skills, right qualification, right drive, and right experience are placed in charge of the task at hand.Research conducted by Guajardo (2011) in Low Income Countries...

Traumatic tooth avulsion presents a challenge with regards to its prompt intervention as the ultimate outcome of an avulsed tooth that occurred in any child is dependent on appropriate emergency interventions. The aim of this study is to evaluate the awareness, level of knowledge and attitude towards pre-hospital tooth avulsion care among primary school teachers in Benin City, Edo state, Nigeria. A descriptive cross-sectional questionnaire-based study. Self-administered questionnaires were...