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During and soon after the #feesmustfall and decolonisation student protests in South Africa, the decolonisation topic invaded the academic world in the country. There seems to exist a heterogeneity of viewpoints regarding what decolonising higher education entails. A search for systematic reviews on this topic did not yield any results. Such reviews can reveal what we currently know, what we do not know, and guide the knowledge production process going forward. This article analyses...

History and present realities have presented a dual diachronic relationship between women in higher education and gender inequality. In quintessence, women are and continue to be faced by gendered disparities and practices by institutions of higher learning, coupled with the overarching demand of academic work vis-à-vis family responsibilities. The advent of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has presented new and continuing academic and social implications for women in academia. This...

Intersectionality is gaining credence in explaining the complexities in rural women’s vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. This study is framed on the assumption that rural women are likely to be affected differently by climate change due to cultural differences. The life history approach was utilised to conduct empirical research in the Bamenda Highlands Region, Cameroon on ethnicity and differential effects of climate change among female farmers in the communities of Kom and Oku...

Against the backdrop of the challenges bedevilling the African youths, including limited job opportunities, skills limitations and mismatch, the study used agriculture students of the Federal University of Technology Minna, Niger State, Nigeria to unearth the entrepreneurial skills acquired by students; assess Students’ Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) and ascertain their job preferences. The study deployed mixed analytical tools comprising descriptive analyses, Likert perception...

In this article we present a comparative and qualitative study of the phenomena observed in the development of writing by L2 adults of Moroccan origin who are becoming literate in Spanish. Writing samples were gathered in Granada, Spain, and analyzed using a theoretical framework based on the classification of stages of Spanish L1 children’s development of writing as presented by Ferreiro and Teberosky (1979). The results suggest that L2 adults go through the same stages in learning to write...

P. Cuamba 1, A. Moreira2, A.C. Amaro2 1Eduardo Mondlane University (MOZAMBIQUE) 2Aveiro University (PORTUGAL)

Vegetable intake is far below recommendations among African-American adolescents living in economically-underserved urban areas. While the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) helps overcome access barriers, vegetable intake remains challenging and novel interventions are required. A two-year, multi-phase, school-based intervention was conducted at an urban, economically-underserved, and predominantly African-American high school in Baltimore, Maryland to determine whether...

Water in the Gareat El Tarf basin, is affected by climatic and economic constraints; while its development is based on the agricultural sector, which creates pressure on water resources. The objective of this study is to analyse the performance of the national water plan to accompany this policy, and the impact of climate change on water resources. The methodology adopted is the application of the WEAP(Water Evaluation and the Planning)software, in order to build a model for the allocation...

Students' personal hygiene helps maintain health and promote good academic performance. When health facilities are insufficient, this hygiene can be difficult to achieve. We wanted to analyse the determinants of personal hygiene in schools in the northern region of Côte d'Ivoire.The retrospective cross-sectional study brings together data on 2,035 schoolchildren recruited from thirty schools in northern Côte d'Ivoire. Indexes on personal hygiene were constructed and analysed in comparison to...

School dictionary is one of the tools for language teaching to foreigners. It provides the foreign learner with linguistic vocabulary along with its etymological, social and figurative meanings. It develops his communication skills, especially if the dictionary is designed for foreigners, written according to the standards and principles of language teaching to non-native speakers; it contains words that correspond to the age and age group, and to the objectives of Arabic language teaching....

Nine Year Basic Education Policy Interventions and Students’ Enrolments Rates at Lower Secondary Level: A Lesson from Rwanda

Volcanoes are complex systems that evolve in space and time as a result of their eruptive activity. Volcanic eruptions represent the ultimate expression of a complex interplay between internal and external processes that span across different time scales. Deciphering how internal and external processes interact at the time scale of eruptions may provide key insights on the temporal evolution of eruptions and also help to better evaluate associated volcanic hazards. Studies of the tidal...

This study examined the influence of student-related variables like peer influence, parental income and self-esteem on the academic outcome of Social Science Education Students in the Department of Social Science Education in University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was used for the study; while the purposive sampling technique was used in selecting 150 undergraduate students for the study. A 20-item Student-Related Variables Questionnaire (SRVQ) and a 60-item...

Resume La majorite des etudes et des analyses menees en termes discrimination de genre sur le marche du travail aboutissent que les hommes et les femmes ne sont constamment pas domiciliees a la meme enseigne. La presente etude s’est interrogee sur l’ecart salarial entre les hommes et les femmes au Maroc, mais cette fois exclusivement au niveau des diplomes de l’enseignement superieur a savoir comment leurs aptitudes sont appreciees sur le marche d’emploi. Dont l’objectif principal est de...

We have worked to develop a Clinical Information Network (CIN) in Kenya as an early form of learning health systems (LHS) focused on paediatric and neonatal care that now spans 22 hospitals. CIN’s aim was to examine important outcomes of hospitalisation at scale, identify and ultimately solve practical problems of service delivery, drive improvements in quality and test interventions. By including multiple routine settings in research, we aimed to promote generalisability of findings and...

This study examines skills acquisition and labour market opportunities for graduates of public universities in Cameroon. Four research objectives and one hypothesis guided the study which examined the extent to which social, technical, conceptual and entrepreneurial skills acquired by graduates enhance their employability. The population of the study consisted of 79 graduates with bachelor’s degree, including 29 employers. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS 2.3) was used to...

Background Superficial fungal infections (SFIs) are prevalent among schoolchildren and result in significant morbidities that may lead to school absenteeism or school drop-out and hence setback in the education of the child. Differences exist in the epidemiology and pattern of SFIs among children in various geographical locations. Community-based studies on diseases are a true reflection of their pattern in that locality. There are no recent studies on this regard in south-east Nigeria...

Measles is a serious respiratory disease that is spread easily through coughing and sneezing of the measles virus for which humans are the only reservoir. Even though prevention and elimination strategies had been implemented, the outbreaks of measles infection quietly occur in different parts of the world. As of November 2019 a suspected measles outbreak was reported from Tepi campus student's clinic. We investigated the outbreak to determine its possible sources, control measures and...