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This paper looks at the influence of school leadership practices on girls’ completion rate in public primary schools in Kimilili Sub County, Kenya. The study was conducted in light of increased number of girls dropping out of school before finishing off class eight. Furthermore, statistics shows majority of girls have absenteeism and truancy behaviour which result to incidents of repetition and drop outs before finishing grade eight. Therefore, the study collected data from selected public...

To reduce the impact of solid waste on the natural environment, in particular its effects on water resources, Morocco has made great efforts to manage them. Indeed, in the framework of the National program for household waste, about twenty controlled landfills or landfill and recovery center (CEV) have been built to mitigate the pollution and nuisance of existing wild dumps. However, these controlled landfills remain an alternative whose environmental impacts are difficult to control. Thus,...

Globally, it is desirable to have fair and transparent student admissions into both public and private universities, colleges and schools. A case in point, in Tanzania 35% of students enrolled each year in higher level learning institutions and technical education are from Advanced Level (A-level) private schools. Of concern is that, this paper confirms and quantify that 93.5% of admissions into A-level schools were performed on paper based. Such admissions were characterized by multiple...

The study is an explanatory qualitative research that seeks to investigate the processes of Ethiopian primary school principals’ selection and training for professionalising principals. The participants are seven faculty members, 11 school principals and five education officials. Data are collected through semi-structured interview, focus group discussion and document analysis that are analysed thematically. Findings of the study show that the denial of principalship to professional...

World Food Programme (WFP) and the Kenyan Ministry of Education introduced school feeding programme in targeted pre-primary and primary schools in 1980. However, its effects in promoting pupils’ class participation in early childhood are not clear. The objective of the study was to assess the pupils’ class participation in ECDE centres with a school feeding programme and those without. The study also sought to test out the following null hypothesis (Ho1): There is no statistically...

The study investigates the accessibility of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) services to youths with hearing impairment in Masvingo District.Hearing influences nearly every aspect of our daily lives, from our ability to access services to the quality of our relationships.Youths with hearing impairment often struggle with significant health disparities due to poor communication competences.The qualitative approach was used and the descriptive survey design was adopted for this...

The use of broad consent for genomics research raises important ethical questions for the conduct of genomics research, including relating to its acceptability to research participants and comprehension of difficult scientific concepts. To explore these and other challenges, we conducted a study using qualitative methods with participants enrolled in an H3Africa Rheumatic Heart Disease genomics study (the RHDGen network) in Zambia to explore their views on broad consent, sample and data...

This study investigated the management of teachers’ social intelligence as a correlate of their productivity in secondary schools in Rivers State, Nigeria. The study adopted a correlation research design. The population of the study consisted of 6850 teachers from the 247 public secondary schools in Rivers State. A sample of 1185 respondents was drawn from the target population of 6850 teachers in senior secondary schools in Rivers State. Stratified random sampling technique was used. Two...

Purpose: The mass media have been described as an important institution in educating society about persons with disabilities and in facilitating their acceptance. However, calls to project a positive public image of persons with disabilities and to develop an inclusive society have coincided with the neo-liberal approach to policymaking, whereby government plays a minimised role in the provision of basic services to citizens. Although the extant literature from advanced countries has found...

This research paper aims to promote environmental knowledge and behavior in the Moroccan school through the syllabus of science at the level of the Moroccan middle School.As a first step, a comparative multi-case study was conducted.It is intended for students from four middle Schools who belong to four different socio-environmental backgrounds.The survey was conducted through questionnaires which consist of four sections; the learning methods, the teaching aids, environmental knowledge, and...

Soil characterization is a vital activity to develop appropriate and effective restoration protocols for mine wastelands while insights into the total content of heavy metals in the soil is an important step in estimating the hazards that the metals may pose to the vital roles of soil in the ecosystem. This study addressed the following research questions: (1) To what extent do the physico-chemical characteristics vary between mine waste sediments and the nearby forest soil? (2) Are the...

Soil characterization is a vital activity to develop appropriate and effective restoration protocols for mine wastelands while insights into the total content of heavy metals in the soil is an important step in estimating the hazards that the metals may pose to the vital roles of soil in the ecosystem. This study addressed the following research questions: (1) To what extent do the physico-chemical characteristics vary between mine waste sediments and the nearby forest soil? (2) Are the...

The need to produce competentgraduates for effective performance in the global workplace necessitated this study to determine the extent of utilization ofe-learning resources in business education programme in southeast Nigerian universities. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The population of the study was 50 business education lecturers from the universities offering business education programme in South-East Nigeria....

Background: Disasters are a global problem, concern every community and no community is immune from it, schools all over the world suffer from disasters, which affect children health and safety. Teachers play essential roles in child protection so, teachers’ training is very significant for effective school disaster management. The study aimed to evaluate. The effectiveness of implementing a training program on the performance of primary school teachers in Al Malikeyeh regarding disaster...

Background: Bamboos are perennial grasses classified under family Poaceae and subfamily Bambusoideae and are among the fastest growing plants on earth. Despite ecological and economic significances, Ethiopian lowland bamboo ( O. abyssinica ) lacks global gene expression under abiotic stress. Methods: Plastic pot germinated seedlings of O. abyssinica were subjected to 200 µm NaCl and 25% PEG-6000 (Poly Ethylene glycol) to induce salt and drought stress, respectively. Using the Illumina...