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Purpose/Objectives: To identify the information and stress-management topics of most interest to low-income, predominantly African American cancer survivors.

Community-based education and service (COBES) has been promoted to improve the education of health professionals, particularly in low-resource settings. However, few evaluations have been performed to guide program development.This study assessed student and educator perceptions and valuation of a Ugandan COBES program.We administered an internet-based survey to students, faculty, and site tutors associated with the Makerere University College of Health Sciences COBES program.255 surveys...

The research examined the existence of a knowledge sharing culture among academicians in Higher Learning Institutions (HLIs) in Zambia. It specifically sought to investigate knowledge sharing and identify factors that aid or hinder knowledge sharing activities among academicians. The exercise was carried out through a survey of 15 randomly selected colleges and universities in the country. The data was collected via self-administered questionnaires and interviews. The first involved the...

Africa Research Bulletin: Economic, Financial and Technical SeriesVolume 47, Issue 11 p. 18903B-18903C DJIBOUTI: Drought Appeal First published: 22 December 2010 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6346.2010.03599.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and...

In more recent years climate change impacts have been obvious around the globe. This non-contentious reality has resulted in various global initiatives to reduce climate change impacts. However, differences exist in opportunities and capacity to adaptation. This paper, descriptive in nature, draws heavily from literature and also uses 2002 Tanzanian population and housing census to identify and discuss major challenges and opportunities to climate change adaptation and sustainable...

Introduction Education as a philosophical concept has been difficult to define. What is education? What is Education meant to do in/ and for people and how do we know that education is taking place or has taken place? These are pertinent questions which are generally asked. Answers to these questions have over the time varied from one culture to another and even in the same culture varied over time. Generally, education and the educative process remain dynamic; consequently, the expected end...

This study examines ways and means of developing school libraries in Zambia. The inclination is towards secondary school libraries. The development of school libraries has been left far behind by rapid development of education that has taken place since 1964; the year Zambia became an independent state. School libraries are being recognised all over the world as being essential educational tools. In developed countries they are integral part of the educational programme. The educational...

The 1954 Brown v. School Board of Education case in Topeka, Kansas was a civil rights case that declared separate education as unequal and unconstitutional (Obiakor, Harris-Obiakor, Garza-Nelson, & Randall, 2005). This was significant because it had the goal of ending segregation in schools on the basis of race, and the vision of opening doors of advocacy for students with special needs (Blanchett, Mumford, & Beachum, 2005; Huefner, 2000). Today, it appears that equitable educational...

Scientist and science educators over the years have been focusing attention on how to improve science instruction in schools by going beyond the stereotypic methods of obtaining knowledge in science. There has been emphasis in science teaching and on students' active involvement in doing science. The Nigerian National Policy on education (2004) and the Biology curriculum sees biology as a practical and inquiry oriented subject that should be taught practically (involving students in the art...

Scientist and science educators over the years have been focusing attention on how to improve science instruction in schools by going beyond the stereotypic methods of obtaining knowledge in science. There has been emphasis in science teaching and on students' active involvement in doing science. The Nigerian National Policy on education (2004) and the Biology curriculum sees biology as a practical and inquiry oriented subject that should be taught practically (involving students in the art...

This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in public secondary schools in Ilorin to determine pregnancy outcomes among adolescents.Multistage sampling technique was used to select 521 respondents for the study.The research instrument was a semi-structured interviewer administered questionnaire.All respondents were between 10-19 years (Mean=15.84+2.269)with 53% being males.About one third (28.2%) of all the respondents were sexually active; 63.9% were males and 36.1% were...

This study investigated the extent, causes, and correlates of vulnerability to brain-drain among Ethiopian academics in higher education institutions (HEIs).The sample constituted a total of 103 faculty members (Females 9.3% and Males 90.7%) drawn from three colleges and four faculties affiliated to the Debub University.Data were collected through self-reported measures assessing vulnerability to brain-drain (external brain-drain conceptualized as intention to remain in a western country...

This paper focuses on the impact of investment in education on economic growth in Mauritius. It is an attempt to explore the extent to which education level of the Mauritian labour force affects its economic growth that is its output level. We have used the Cobb-Douglas production function with constant returns to scale where human capital is treated as an independent factor of production in the human capital augmented growth model. We expect to contribute to the existing literature by...

Constrained by inadequate bed ~paces for her teeming students population, the management of the University of Ibadan evolved a policy ensuring that, on the average, each undergraduate student is accommodated on-campus yin the first and final veal’s while intervening years are spent off-campus. The study investigated the effects of this students’ housing programme 011 academic performance. Faculty of the Social Sciences was randomly selected, front where all final year undergraduate students...

Often research on the professional development (PD) of staff is framed within a problem-based context that focuses on the PD-related problems experienced by staff. This study pursued a different approach by using the appreciative inquiry (AI) theoretical perspective to study the positive experiences of staff in respect of PD and their desire to improve the practice of PD even further. A qualitative study was carried out among four schools with maximum variance. The findings reveal the main...

Based on its versatility as a personal and direct medium of communication, short message service (SMS) provides a potentially useful avenue to higher educational institutions for marketing their programs to prospective students. However, the success of mobile marketing depends largely on its acceptance by the target population. This study explores antecedents to pre-final year high school pupils’ acceptance of South African universities’ SMS advertising. Results show that social influence is...