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Newly qualified teachers in South Africa will soon be required to prove themselves in the classroom before they get a license to teach. This is one of a number of initiatives to be spearheaded by the South African Council of Educators (SACE) in order to improve and ensure the quality of new teachers entering the profession and to guarantee their readiness to meet the requirements of 21st century teaching. Several studies emphasise the importance of nurturing reflective teaching during...

This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child-, mother-, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design a prototype drought-contingent targeting framework that may be used in scarce-data contexts. To accomplish this, the paper: (i) develops simple and easy-to-communicate measures of drought shocks; (ii) shows that droughts have a large impact on child...

Concentrations of six heavy metals such as Fe, Pb, Cu, Cd, Ni and Zn in dry atmospheric deposits weekly collected through 20 sample sites from Sfax solar saltern during two successive sampling campaigns, selected from a long time monitoring, have been examined in order to evaluate their contamination levels as well as their human health risk; such concentrations (expressed in mg/kg) have shown that Fe varied from 7006.24 to 7856.45, Pb from 8.64 to 344.45, Cu from 9.33 to 298.67, Cd from...

One of the growing pillars in support of critical insights to management education is the United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME). This paper follows on a study conducted on a South African business school’s experience with the PRME as a mechanism to transform business education. Apart from tracking progress regarding PRME, the study also aimed to identify the South African grasp of a transforming management education. In-depth interviews were conducted on the...

The lower Eocene carbonate deposits of the northwestern Tunisian basin is represented by shallow-marine carbonate series composed of abundant coarse-grained deposits including conglomerate, coquina-bearing limestone, coarse-grained calcarenite and glauconite-rich marl, interbedded within a fine-grained limestone and marl succession. Sediment composition, sedimentary structures, and spatial geometry of beds allow us to interpret such deposits as generated by storm while lateral transport was...

Abstract Drought is one of the important phenomena resulting from variability and climate change. It has negative effects on all economic, agricultural and social sectors. The objective of this study is to rapidly detect climate dryness situations on an annual scale at the Mellah catchment (Northeast Algeria) for periods ranging from 31 years through the calculation of: the standardized precipitation index ( SPI ), the standardized Streamflow index ( SSFI ), the standardized temperature...

This paper examines the perception of Korean phonemes by Egyptian learners of Korean and presents the learnability gradient of Korean consonants and vowels through High Variability Phonetic Training (HVPT).50 Egyptian learners of Korean (27 low proficiency learners and 23 high proficiency learners) participated in 10 sessions of HVPT for Korean vowels, word initial and final consonants.Participants were tested on their identification ability of Korean vowels, word initial consonants, and...

Abstract The development of renewable electricity in Africa could be massive in coming decades, as a response to the rapid rising electricity demand while complying with the Paris Agreements. This study shows that in the high-resolution climate experiments of CORDEX-AFRICA, the annual mean solar potential is expected to decrease on average by 4% over most of the continent by the end of the century, reaching up to 6% over the Horn of Africa, as a direct result of decrease in solar radiation...

Historians have frequently suggested that droughts helped facilitate the African slave trade. By introducing a previously unused dataset on 19th century rainfall levels in Africa, I provide the first empirical examination of this hypothesis. I find a strong negative relationship between rainfall shocks and the number of slaves exported from a given region. I also find that extreme temperature shocks in either direction increase slave exports. Building on the detailed qualitative work of Dias...

Climate change is threatening cocoa production in West Africa and guidance towards site-specific adaptation is required. We developed recommendation domains with common degree of impact requiring incremental, systemic or incremental adaptation effort to provide decision support for interventions to scale out adaptive practices. We used Random Forests to divide the cocoa production belt into four zones with distinct climatic features under current and future climate conditions. To make model...

Abstract This paper presents the results of a case study that analyses the critical factors that influence the implementation of professional health education via blended learning in Dadaab refugee camp. It explores innovative solutions to the issues facing refugees looking for professional health training, namely the health workforce shortage and lack of training opportunities. It outlines social and political factors that impact professional health education for refugee youth. It outlines...

Abstract Disability is a crucial health and social concern in sub‐Saharan Africa, where a high prevalence of disabling diseases is compounded with insufficient care provision. There is a need for detailed analysis of the disability patterns. We provide a gender‐specific picture for the population in peripheral Ouagadougou (Burkina‐Faso), based on six disability dimensions following the United Nations’ recommendations. We computed disability‐free life expectancy (LE) using the Health and...

Background: Group A Streptococcus (GAS) skin infections can lead to invasive sepsis, poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis, and potentially rheumatic heart disease (RHD). Within a study to identify predisposing factors of RHD in Ugandan schoolchildren, we determined the prevalence of skin infections and assessed the clinical features and antibiotic susceptibility of GAS skin infection. Methods: Cross-sectional study conducted at 3 urban primary schools in Western and Northern Uganda in March...

There has been a progressive increase in hypertension among children and adolescents over the years. Hypertension in childhood is influenced by various risk factors including; childhood obesity, lifestyle and hereditary factors. This study is aimed at assessing the prevalence of hypertension and elevated blood pressure (BP); as well as the associated factors to hypertension among primary school children in a rural setting in the, Centre Region of Cameroon.A cross sectional study was carried...