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The Obama Administration's Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Program (U.S. Department of Education, n.d.) has refocused national attention on early childhood education and the importance of school readiness for low-income, African American children who, relative to their White peers, are disproportionately at risk for being unprepared for the transition to kindergarten (Lee, Autry, & Williams, 2008; Lee & Bowen, 2006). The transition to kindergarten is a critical developmental period,...

Vulvar carcinoma is not a common gynaecological cancer seen in UBTH. It has never been reviewed in detail. This is a 10 year retrospective review of vulva carcinoma in UBTH to study the incidence, socio-demographic characteristics and management modalities used in vulva carcinoma in UBTH. Case notes, ward registers and histopathology logbooks were used in collecting data.12808 gynaecological cases were admitted in UBTH in the ten years reviewed. 494 were patients with gynaecological...

A final report from the 'Voices of Pacific children with disability: Identifying the needs and priorities of children with disability in Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea' research project.

This study compared the quality of teachers and the state of facilities in foreign (American, British, French, Italian and Turkish) and public (Nigerian) schools with a view to extracting innovative strategies that will improve on the latter. Two questionnaires and an inventory were administered to 552 respondents comprising teachers and students. Responses obtained were analysed using simple percentage, mean and t-Test. The results showed that the quality of teachers and the condition of...

The performance of students in Kiswahili subject is of crucial importance to everyone in Kenya since it is a media of communication in public institutions and other sectors of the Economy. More so Kiswahili serves as a national language of Kenya thus one of the language requirements for pursuance in any Diploma or Degree courses.  Based on this fact, this paper is set to examine the effect of the level of motivation of teachers of Kiswahili on student performance in Secondary Schools in...

Air pollution from rapid industrialization and the use of energy have led to increasing deterioration in environmental quality which poses serious challenges to human health. This study estimated the effect of industrial pollution on public health in Nigeria using time series data sourced from World Development Indicators (WDI) data from 1971-2011.. The stationarity tests reveal that except for GDP growth which was stationary at its level, all other variables were stationary at first...

There is directly effect of climate change on natural environment,and interaction with whole society development. The development of North Africa is also facing this challenge. With the background of global climate change,the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of socialeconomic developing and related social conflicts have become the focus of attention of most of countries worldwide. Agriculture is the economic pillar for Morocco,and it is main way of livelihood for poor people....

For a nation like Ghana to develop, it is necessary to pay much attention to Vocational and Technical Education. This is so because school programmes that place emphasis on theory courses or humanities are no longer useful to the nation.Graduates who offer such programmes find it very difficult to secure employment in the Ghanaian job market leading to a lot of frustrations on their part in the quest of seeking for non existing jobs. A clarion call therefore from the government of Ghana to...

The study investigated effects of insurgency on girls’ education in north eastern region of Nigeria. Girls’ education is paramount to the national growth and societal development in Nigeria. However, achieving education for all Nigerian girls, the north eastern region need a safe, secured teaching and learning environment. The study examined the historical perspectives of previous insurgent groups in Nigeria. The sample for the study was 180 teachers of primary and secondary schools,...

The aim of the study was to examine the importance of reliability and validity as necessary foundation for fair assessment. The concepts of reliability, validity, fair assessment and their relationships were analysed. Qualities of fair assessment were discussed. a number of recommendations were made to make assessors be more cautious in award of marks or grades.

One fundamental problem bedevilling education in Nigeria generally and secondary education in particular is how teacher professional development and motivation can be more meaningfully and vigorously pursued as to lead to teacher optimal productivity. A key answer to this problem lies in reassessing the commitment of stakeholders in the education sector. How much commitment to teacher professional development and motivation has been exhibited by government, educational institutions, the...

This study was intended to assess the school climate and leadership practices of school principals in four selected secondary schools of Eastern Hararghe zone. The purpose of this study was to look into the depth of the nature of the existing school climate and the principals’ leadership practice. The review of literature tried to overview the concept of school climate, leadership style and school leadership performance. It suggests school climate can affect many areas and people within...

Fraud and corruption are gargantuan twin brothers that have limited the growth and infrastructure development of many nations and led many firms to the road of bankruptcy. Detecting fraud has become a high priority in the accounting profession and the failure of statutory audit to detect, prevent and reduce misappropriation of corporate fund give rise to the profile and need of forensic accounting in Nigeria. Accounting programs around the world have been revising their curricula to include...

Located at the eastern-most point of the New Guinea islands, Bougainville comprises two large and many smaller islands. It has a population of approximately 200,000 and over a dozen different languages. A province of Papua New Guinea since 1975, Bougainville is now an autonomous region within the country, the result of a nine-year revolt that left tens of thousands killed, a divided and traumatized population, degraded infrastructure, and a shattered economy brought on by the collapse of its...

Correct conceptualizations of genetics and genomics are central to understand many aspects of the STEM disciplines as they provide the foundational building blocks for later work in the life sciences.Our study of 435 African American college students investigated the use of culturallyrelevant memes transmitted using multiple intelligence (MI) modalities to convey core genetic and genomic information as an alternative to the traditional teaching approaches.We observed that this approach...