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This paper examines the effect of the subsidized students' loan on university enrolment in Ghana between 1988-2008 using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) framework. It was discovered that the subsidized student loan had positive and significant impact on university enrolment. Per capita gross domestic product (GDP) was also found to have a significant and positive impact on enrolment. No evidence was found that future earnings and foregone earnings influenced enrolment decisions....

This study was done at the University College Hospital Ibadan, Nigeria between January and June, 2006. It was designed to determine the incidence and prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus in conjunctivitis in the Ophthalmology clinic of the hospital as well as the antibiotic sensitivity profile to chloramphenicol. A total of 210 swabs were gram-stained and cultured bacteriologically. 158 were positive for bacterial pathogens while 26 were bacteriologically sterile. A total of 174 bacterial...

The purpose of this study is to investigate students’ ability to use different Internet search engines (ISEs) in Universities in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. To reveal the types of ISEs used, and identify the source through which students acquire the skills. The study adopted a descriptive survey method. Questionnaire and interview method was adopted to collect data. A total of 300 completed and returned copies were used for analyses using frequency counts and simple percentage to...

Objective. We aimed to determine factors influencing choice of a career in paediatrics by medical students in Kenya. Methods. A cross-sectional survey of 450 medical students from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, was undertaken using a questionnaire designed to assess their preferences with regard to future specialisation, and timing of and factors influencing this choice. The data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. Results. The response rate was 385/450...

Distance education institutions are moving towards adoption and use of Internet learning environment for complementary learning, for which is a reflection of changes in use of teaching/learning technologies. Because of its immediacy of interaction, Internet technology is increasingly being accepted as a good information resource as well as good instructional media. It was for this reason that the Open University of Tanzania (OUT) developed own web site and hoisted the Learning Management...

This paper focuses on Tunisia, which like other developing countries, has allocated increasing levels of resources to education, particularly higher education, mainly through public funding over the past few decades. In 2005-2008, public expenditure on education amounted to around 7.4 percent of GDP, with 2 percent allocated to higher education. However, in the last few years, the budgetary constraints have increased, and are likely to remain so in the near future. These budgetary...

This chapter examines international collaboration in distance education in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), focusing on efforts aimed at utilizing technology. It identifies a number of significant collaborative endeavors. The collaborative efforts observed have a similar goal of pooling together ICT resources and expertise towards improving educational outcomes. The prevalence of teacher education and training across the initiatives, in the context of the Millennium Development Goals, is noted....

Background: Efficient and effective performance on any job depend largely on good psychological well being of the workers as well as other factors such as conducive environment, good interpersonal relationship, adequate communication among staff and between staff and management, work load, remuneration and other physical and psychological boosting treatments. Aim: To examine the perceived causes of job stress among special educators in selected special and integrated schools in the West and...

This paper uses households’ data from central region of Sudan to examine the factors, which affect fertility. Thus, it examined the effect of parental education, income, mother age, residence area together with the effect of the interaction between fertility and child mortality, on fertility. Child mortality is instrumented on community and environmental health services, which are used as identifiers in the two-stage least squares estimation of the fertility function. The results suggest...

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is the educational process of achieving human development in an inclusive, equitable and secure manner which includes education for poverty alleviation, human rights, gender equality, cultural diversity, international understanding among other factors according to UNESCO (2004). The focus of Education for Sustainable Development is a world where everyone has the opportunity to benefit from quality education and learn the values, behaviors and...

Antimicrobial drug resistance seen among many gram-negative bacteria, especially those expressing the extended-spectrum β- lactamase (ESBL) enzymes that hydrolyze the expanded- spectrum cephalosporins has been on the increase. This has compromised treatment options and thus a threat to the containment of bacterial infections. To determine the existence of the extended-spectrum β-lactamase enzymes in Nnewi, 250 clinical isolates of members of the family Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas...

Motivating learners in university depends largely on those services, processes and procedures whose primary purpose is to enhance and maintain learners' physical, social, intellectual and emotional well-being. This study examined the situation of welfare services in the context of university education vis-a-vis students' perceived motivation to learning. The study involved public universities in South-Western Nigeria with different characteristics, such as curriculum focus, year of...

Objective: To determine awareness of pregnancy danger signs and nutritional education among pregnant women attending antenatal care clinics in six health centres in Kassala eastern Sudan. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of 388 pregnant women attending the antenatal care clinics in six health centres in Kassala eastern Sudan during July 2010. Structured questionnaires were used to gather the socio-demographic data first booking number of visits schedule/ timing of every visit provided care...

Background:Maternal mortality is on the rise in Nigeria with the North- East having the highest ratio, and Borno state records one of the highest maternal mortality ratios in the country. Objective:To determine the trends in maternal mortality in UMTH, identify the background socio- cultural factors, establish the major causes of deaths and determine avoidable factors. Study design:Retrospective study of maternal deaths. Methods: The case records of all recorded cases of maternal deaths...

The Areachap Group represents the medium- to high-grade metamorphic and deformed remnants of a Mesoproterozoic (ca. 1.24–1.30 Ga) volcanic arc that was accreted onto the western margin of the Kaapvaal Craton during the early stages of the Namaqua-Natal Orogeny. Few regional geochemical studies of the succession have been undertaken and despite recent geochronological work from throughout the outcrop belt there is still uncertainty as to the lateral integrity and correlation of the succession...

This study was carried out to ascertain the prevalence of anemia and the determinants among primary school pupils in a peri-urban community.The study is a descriptive cross sectional study of 141 pupils selected by a stratified sampling technique. Interviewer-administered semi-structured questionnaires were used to collect sociodemographic variables, nutritional habits among others. General physical examination, Packed Cell Volume (PCV) and anthropometric measurements for determining...