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The study is titled "Influence of School-based Management Committees (SBMCs) on the Administration of Secondary Schools in Zaria Education Zone of Kaduna State, Nigeria".Seven objectives were set to guide the study.In line with the objectives, seven research questions and seven hypotheses were asked and formulated, respectively.Samples of 16 Principals, 139 Teachers and 10 officials of Ministry of Education were drawn from the population of selected Secondary Schools in urban and rural...

Introduction: Adolescents require opportunities to engage in occupations and need to have the requisite aptitude and agency to choose the occupations they want or need to engage in.Occupations are defined as the everyday activities that people choose to engage in individually or as groups that bring meaning and purpose to their lives.These occupations can be chosen or enforced.There is a paucity of literature around the occupations that adolescents in rural contexts choose and the meaning...

Informed by a social justice lens, this study aimed at exploring students’ experiences of the Writing Centre (WC) at a higher education institution in Johannesburg, South Africa. The WC is a division of the Academic Development Centre (ADC) in this institution. Post-1994, access to higher education (HE) has been at the centre of building an inclusive society, with an aim of widening access for students from previously disadvantaged backgrounds. While physical access into HE has improved for...

The contributions of all and sundry are salient to the global efforts in mitigating climate change-associated challenges. While global communities are rallying round to discuss the effects of climate change with millions of dollars being sunk into the process of mitigation, it is so unfortunate that the perceptions about the climate change menace is quite unwelcomed. The implications of such attitude manifest in the attitude towards the causative actions being noticed which seemed to be...

The contributions of all and sundry are salient to the global efforts in mitigating climate change-associated challenges. While global communities are rallying round to discuss the effects of climate change with millions of dollars being sunk into the process of mitigation, it is so unfortunate that the perceptions about the climate change menace is quite unwelcomed. The implications of such attitude manifest in the attitude towards the causative actions being noticed which seemed to be...

Background: The supportive learning environment can enhance impartating of knowledge and skills.
 Objective: To assess the learning environment at the School of Medicine of the University of Nairobi using the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure(DREEM) tool.
 Methods: A cross-sectional survey carried in 2019 out among medical students during their clinical years to obtain their perceptions about the learning environment at the School of Medicine of the University of...

This chapter proposes that the current dualistic system in universities is inadequate to discharge their mandate to narrow the gap with communities. In contrast, the Gandhian model, rooted in the life of its people and Ubuntu, with community building at its core, present potential opportunities to develop social responsibility.

This study explored how student engagement was related to perceived teacher autonomy support and self-determination skill expression among 145 Grades 9 through 12 African American high school students. First, we examined differences between male and female students’ engagement, perceived teacher autonomy support, and self-determination skill expression. Results indicated that male and female students did not report significant differences in the extent to which they were engaged in class,...

Modern Neurosurgery in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has its roots in the 1960s when Neurosurgeons from Europe set up Units in WestAfrica and East Africa. While it would be unfair to give credit to some individuals, and inadvertently not naming others, Prof AbdeslamEl Khamlichi (1) in his book, "Emerging Neurosurgery in Africa," quoting Professor AdelolaAdeloye (2), provided a valuable account:A French Neurosurgeon, Dr. Courson, set up the first neurosurgical unit in West Africa in Senegal in...

Infection with intestinal nematodes is of major public health concern worldwide, and school-age children and pregnant women are the principal victims. The present study was undertaken to provide baseline information on the status of gastrointestinal nematodes among school-age children in Bamendjou. Material and Methods. Four hundred and ninety-three (493) stool samples were collected from school children in six (6) different schools (two nursery, two primary, and two secondary schools)....

هدفت الدراسة الحالية الى تحديد مستوى شيوع فقر الدم بين أطفال تترواح أعمارهم من بين 6-11 سنة لأسباب غير الاصابة بالأمراض الطفيلية بين هؤالاء الأطفال. اشتملت الدراسة المقطعية الحالية على 1446 طفل من أطفال المدارس من كلا الجنسين وكانوا موزعين على ثلاثة مناطق ( خانيونس, غرب بيت لاهيا في قطاع غزة. تم تحديد مدى الأنيميا ( فقر الدم بين هؤالاء الأطفال بواسطة ايجاد متوسط الهيموغلوبين والذي وصل معدله الى 12 g/dl و هي مشابهة لمعايير منظمة الصحة العالمية. دلت النتائج الحالية على أن معدل شيوع فقر الدم...

The study’s purpose was to establish the relationship between digital credit terms and loan default/payment. The study execution was based on quantitative approach with primary data being collected from 254 sample of students of both graduate and undergraduate programs of the College of Business and Management Sciences of Makerere University. Correlation and regression was conducted and a dprobit model was used for estimation purposes. the results indicate that 79.5% of the respondents were...

Background Although adolescents are highly vulnerable to mental health challenges, they receive little attention, especially in developing countries. We investigated the mental health difficulties (MHDs) faced by adolescent students in four senior high schools in Ghana, their coping strategies and support systems. Methods In this convergent mixed-methods study, quantitative data was obtained using validated strengths and difficulties questionnaire to assess the mental health of 405...

One significant innovative technology to expand teaching and learning mostly in Distance Education is Learning Management System (LMS). LMS allow learning institutions to offer a larger number of courses online whether full or blended, by providing institutions with a digital space for numerous purpose which includes documentation, tracking and online training. However, for the relevance of LMS within an education context, distance learners’ attitudes towards the use of LMS must be...

The study investigated influence of some teachers‘ demographic variables and teaching effectiveness of secondary school teachers in Calabar Municipality of Cross River State, Nigeria. To achieve the purpose of the study, two hypotheses were formulated and tested. The Survey research design was adopted for the study. The sample consists of 170 teachers in ten public secondary schools in Calabar Municipality. The instrument used for data collection which was a questionnaire titled Teachers‘...

This study explores adaptation and farmer-led agricultural innovation strategies of smallholder farmers in Mbire District of Zimbabwe. Guided by explanatory sequential mixed methods design, 201 smallholder farmers were selected through multistage probability sampling technique and 18 participants were purposively selected. The instruments for the study included questionnaire and interview, which were analysed through basic descriptive and thematic analysis, respectively. The results show...

Purpose: The study assessed Tourism and Hospitality Students’ satisfaction with work-related learning (WRL) attachment using a two-stage extended model proposed by Taylor and Geldenhuys (2019). It also intends to determine if there are significant student satisfaction differences between males and females and between the students pursuing bachelor or diploma in Tourism and hospitality. Also, the study assessed if there is a moderation effect of a third variable (intermediate) on expectation...