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The issue of menstrual hygiene is inadequately acknowledged and has not received proper attention.Furthermore, It has not gained policy or program support.On the other hand, lack of adequate, safe and private sanitation facilities increase the suffering of pubescent school girls from health and psychosocial problems associated with the indignity experienced due to lack of a suitable place to change and dispose pads.Due to this, girls resort to use unhygienic practice or staying at home while...
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Major changes have characterized the Kenyan education system since independence, most significantly massive expansion at all levels and a transformation in its model from the 7-4-2-3 bequeathed by the British colonial government to the 8-4-4 system, the brainchild of President Daniel arap Moi. Although Kenya has scored great successes in expanding education access, the country appears unsettled on the education model best for it. Since independence, there has been an ongoing debate on the...
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Intention of public secondary school teachers’ to leave the teaching profession in favour of other work opportunities. The objective of the study include: The identification of teachers intending to leave the teaching profession, and Factors having the most influencing power to induce teachers to leave the teaching profession, Most influential factors which can change teachers intention to leave their teaching profession in fevour of others. The study employed both qualitative and...
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Uganda has been successful in broadening access to education. However, this achievement has been undermined by low literacy and numeracy levels and high drop-out rates. A political settlement perspective sheds light on the politics of education reforms. We find that there are weak political drives to implement quality- enhancing policies, first, because the formal and informal governance arrangements allow for a system of decentralised rent management that serves to appease lower level...
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Uganda has been successful in broadening access to education. However, this achievement has been undermined by low literacy and numeracy levels and high drop-out rates. A political settlement perspective sheds light on the politics of education reforms. We find that there are weak political drives to implement quality enhancing policies, first, because the formal and informal governance arrangements allow for a system of decentralised rent management that serves to appease lower level...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate how Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) Libraries can contribute to knowledge management processes using the Learning Management System, Blackboard, by embedding the librarian in the learning environment to support blended learning. Structured interviews were conducted at CPUT with eight lecturers involved in the Extended Curriculum Programme (ECP) in Faculty A and with one Faculty A librarian. One of the main findings indicated that...
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Rain-fed agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) provides major but highly climate-dependent sources of livelihoods. Recurrent dry spells and droughts can impact SSA’s agro-ecosystems in multiple ways, negatively affecting local social-ecological systems (SES). Droughts not only destroy crops and livestock and degrade natural resources but also impact a large variety of ecosystem services. However, ecosystems can also frequently be powerful agents for drought mitigation and resilient...
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Exceptional Minds, Unstated Exceptions: Intellectual Disability and Post-War Racial Liberalism in African American “White Life” Novels Stephen Knadler (bio) At the end of Zora Neale Hurston’s 1948 white life novel Seraph on the Suwanee, Arvay Henson proves her love to her husband Jim Meserve, Hurston’s aptly named figure of an individualistic New South, when she becomes the post-war domestic “seraph” in the suburban house. As Arvay discovers, in what she calls her “resurrection,” “Her job...
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This study investigated the linguistic and discourse characteristics of essays written in English by 45 advanced Tunisian EFL learners and the effects of the writing task (argumentative vs expository) on their essay features. The essays (N = 87) were analyzed in terms of fluency, grammatical and lexical accuracy, syntactic complexity, lexical richness, and use of metadiscourse markers. The results indicated that (a) the texts manifested global-level grammatical problems; (b) there were...
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Teacher empowerment has been the subject of considerable educational research in recent years, but the capacity of teachers in curriculum development especially in selection and organization of learning experiences has received limited empirical attention. The purpose of this study was to establish teachers’ perspective towards their involvement in selection and organization of learning experiences and implementation of secondary school curriculum in Kenya. The study employed descriptive...
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This paper is a preliminary study of the development of Islamic institutions of higher learning in Ghana, focusing primarily on the only existing institution, the Islamic University College, Ghana (IUCG), founded by the Ahlul-Bait Foundation of Iran.1 I offer a brief historical background on Muslims and secular education, including higher education, from the colonial period to the postindependence era. I then proceed to assess the operations of the IUCG, highlighting its success and...
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Background: Persons with physical disabilities experience unfavorable conditions in health care, education, employment infrastructure and recreational facilities. Persons with physical disabilities have encountered challenges in accessing health services, accessing the inbuilt environment. Likewise they have also faced economic exclusion, religious exclusion and social/moral exclusion. Laws have been enacted globally, in Africa and in Kenya and the latest universal law being the United...
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A Thesis in the Department of Adult Education submitted to the Faculty of Education in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Ibadan
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The study investigated statistical analysis of the main, Joint and individual effects of Kolawole’s Problem Solving (KPS) and conventional teaching methods (CM) on the academic performance and retention of senior secondary school students in Mathematics in Ekiti State, Nigeria.  The study also sought to find out whether teaching Mathematics with KPS method is gender and location biased.  The study adopted quasi-experimental pretest and post-test research design.  The population of the...