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Dryland smallholders are faced with the challenges of achieving resilience and agricultural sustainability. This is in addition to constraints such as lack of capital, inputs, and often poor extension services. The risk of extreme weather events poses a great challenge to food security in drylands as the impacts of climate change increases. This paper examines the challenges faced by smallholders and the limitations of traditional farming systems in Sudano-Sahelian zones amidst climate...

Response to the Letter to the Editor Regarding Our Feature “Burnout and Associated Factors Among Medical Students in a Public University in Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Study” [Response to Letter]

Despite the clear link between air pollution and health, research to investigate the relationship between municipal solid waste management and air pollution and health has not been prioritized. Such research may generate scientific information that would help reduce population exposure to air pollutants. This paper examines the case study of Accra in Ghana, a city dealing with serious waste management problems. The paper proposes a methodology to estimate the impact of waste management on...

The research examined school leaders’ opinions, attitudes, and performative actions toward teacher absenteeism. Existing research has primarily focused on interventions implemented by the Teachers’ Service Commission to curb teacher absenteeism, and yet since leaders are the main agents and their actions are context bound, their actual actions and insights should be accounted for when addressing absenteeism. Our study finds that though teacher absenteeism has been reduced, disheartening...

With the demise of apartheid following the advent of democracy in 1994, English language domination continues unabated in South African mainstream schools and institutions of higher learning. Consequently, the English language hegemony became a deficit to most students from less affluent backgrounds, learning the English language as the first additional. This situation follows as researchers agree that students learning English as First Additional Language (EFAL) battle with...

A Medical Acute Care Unit (MACU) was established at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital (CHBAH) to provide comprehensive medical specialist care to the patients presenting with acute medical emergencies. Improved healthcare delivery systems at the MACU may result in shorter hospital stays, better outcomes, and less mortality.The study's objective was to describe the demographics, diagnoses, disease patterns, and outcomes, including patient's mortality, admitted to the MACU at...

Value education is seen as one of the necessary tools for addressing moral deterioration in the South African society of today. The school is viewed as one of the key change agents in nurturing children into adulthood, where teaching of values can give the growing generation the needed moral development. The aim of this study is to explore teachers’ experiences on the integration of values education into learners in South African high schools. Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development was used...

Abstract Although the south Western Cape receives most of its rainfall between May and September, there are substantial rainfall events in some summers. These events are of interest in themselves as well as for their possible role in mitigating the frequent winter droughts that the region suffers from. Most recently, greater Cape Town suffered a devastating drought during 2015–18 known as the Day Zero drought due to the high risk of urban areas running out of piped water supply. Estimated...

Thesis Submitted to the Board of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment for the Requirements for the Conferment of the Degree of Master of Education in Early Childhood and Primary Education of the University of Kabianga

Background: Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of young people including those with disabilities is a major public health concern globally. However, available evidence on their use of sexual and reproductive health services (SRHS) is inconsistent. Objective: This study investigated utilisation of SRHS amongst the in-school young people with disabilities (YPWDs) in Ghana using the healthcare utilisation model. Methods: Guided by the cross-sectional study design, a questionnaire was used to...

Penile ring entrapment during self-sexual satisfaction is one of the rare cases in general and urologic surgery. When the penile shaft is entrapped in a metal ring, one risks possible complete loss of distal penis to strangulation and gangrene. We present management of a case of entrapped penile ring with penile strangulation in resource limited set up amidst absence of management guidelines. The case has been reported in line with SCARE criteria (1). A 43-year-old male presented after 72 h...

The aim of this theoretical article is to explain efforts at decolonising the Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education (PGDHE) curriculum at a university of technology (UoT) in South Africa. The main source of information was collected through relevant secondary data. The cost of continuing with Western knowledge organisation in the PGDHE programme destroys and undervalues African intellectualism, culture and literature, while imposing colonial language through prescribed texts. We argue...

Aspects of human life history and cognition, such as our long childhoods and extensive use of teaching, theoretically evolved to facilitate the acquisition of complex tasks. The present paper empirically examines the relationship between subsistence task difficulty and age of acquisition, rates of teaching, and rates of oblique transmission among Hadza and BaYaka foragers from Tanzania and the Republic of Congo. We further examine cross-cultural variation in how and from whom learning...

This article sought to investigate the implementation of curriculum through using student support services to enhance teaching and learning among students. The participants for the study were selected from students who registered for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education in Open distance e-Learning institutions. Data was collected from 20 students who were selected, using multi-stage sampling. Data pertaining to the experiences of these students were sought, using semi-structured...

Abstract Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) system is very crucial for service operations and competencies in Higher Education Institutions. Some studies show that SISP enhances competitiveness and improves operational efficiency. Currently, many Institutions of Higher Education all over the world are faced with a lot of significant problems that have hindered their implementation of useful programs such as strategic information systems that would promote quality teaching and...

The major contributors of challenges with teaching and learning of Euclidean Geometry relate to teaching pedagogy, teaching methodologies, students' lack of interest in Geometry, lack of understanding of many geometric concepts and lack of use of technology.The performance of students in high school Geometry, Grade 10-12, is poor.Students with high self-efficacy that is linked to interest, are more likely to make efforts to complete a task and persist longer in those efforts.The purpose of...

V. Manescu (Paltanea), D. Popovici, I.V. Nemoianu, G. Paltanea, B. DumitranaUniversity POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (ROMANIA)