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Abstract Background The Gambia is a male-dominant society in which the cultural norms empower husbands to decide when and where their wives seek care, yet they are not always involved in maternal health care services. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to design and measure the effects of antenatal health education on spousal participation in birth preparedness in Farafenni and satellite villages. Methods The study used a quasi-experimental design, and the participants were 300 spouses...

The research is based on answering the question about the possibility of applying the philosophy of distance learning in the Egyptian construction engineering education. It was concluded that, most students were more satisfied in face to face and written communication with teaching assistants, in addition other students through written and voice communication, besides they would like to receive their courses within off-campus notes, recorded lectures and classes attendance.

The study established the relationship between social intelligence, classroom discipline and interaction skills among teachers in technical colleges in Abuja, Nigeria. Two research questions were raised to guide the study and two hypotheses were formulated and tested at .5 level of significance.  The study used a survey method correlational research design. A total of 226 respondents comprising of 92 teachers form Federal Science and Technical College, Orozo, 87 from Government Science and...

Constraints imposed by the shrinking resources and the climate change dynamics necessitate a behavioral change to increase knowledge exchange and optimize resource utilization. Existing entrepreneurship and innovation practices are therefore undergoing transformation to adapt production systems to the post-COVID-19 reality of increased risks of calamities within a context of shrinking resources. This paper uses a knowledge-centered crisis management framework to examine how enhanced...

This chapter focuses on entrepreneurship education in one of Egypt’s top private universities, the American University in Cairo (AUC). In this chapter, the authors present an experiential learning course called Entrepreneurship Lab. This course has gained traction and is becoming the core of the entrepreneurship undergraduate program. With more students attracted to the course, it is required for entrepreneurship students in the business school, and it is also open to all disciplines in the...

This study investigates the influence of devolution and politics on the expansion strategies in public training institutions with reference to the Kenya Medical Training College. The specific objectives of the study are to: establish the influence of devolution of health services on the success of expansion strategies in the public training institutions and; determine the influence of politics on the success of expansion strategies in the public training institutions. This study is based on...

Tunisia’s agricultural system is central to the stability of the country, but it is also extremely prone to climate risks such as droughts and reduced or more variable rainfall. It is predicted that agricultural yields from key crops like wheat and olives will decline. These climate risks on Tunisia’s agricultural and wider food system can lead to socioeconomic instability and potentially cause security risks. Furthermore, these risks can have knock-on effects that cross national borders,...

Purpose School principals are presumed to be pillars of school health promotion implementation. Their understanding of their role could enhance school health promotion. This study aims to investigate how principals understood their role in school health promotion. Design/methodology/approach In this study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with six school principals who participated and completed the first cycle of the Continuous Professional Teacher Development programme that was...

With South Africa's tumultuous history and resulting burden of disease and disability persisting post-democracy in 1994, a proposed decentralization of heath care with an urgent focus on disease prevention strategies ensued in 2010. Subsequently a nationwide call by students to adapt teaching and learning to an African context spoke to the need for responsive health professions training. Institutions of higher education are therefore encouraged to commit to person-centered comprehensive...

Abstract Background Student enrolment processes and practices can affect the quality of pre-service training programmes. These processes and practices may have serious implications for the quality and quantity of students within health training institutions, the quality of education for prospective health workers and consequently health workforce performance. This study assessed current student enrolment processes and practices for nurses, midwives and community health workers within health...

Purpose: Despite the increasing concern about occupational stress, burnout and turnover intentions in society and in social service organisations especially among teachers in schools, results give evidence that teachers encounter several grades of stress and burnout in their occupation. This causes teachers to sometimes or most times harbour the intention to leave their job for other occupations. This study assessed the impact of occupational stress and burnout on turnover intentions among...

The study ascertained the extent business education lecturers considered pedagogic approaches for teaching entrepreneurship in the business education programme. Two research questions guided the study while two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The survey research design was adopted for the study with population and sample of 75 business educators in universities offering business education in South-East Nigeria. Data were collected using a 30-item structured...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the direct and indirect linkages between financial development and inclusive human development in African countries. Design/methodology/approach The study employs a battery of estimation techniques, notably: two-stage least squares, fixed effects, generalized method of moments and Tobit regressions. The dependent variable is the inequality adjusted human development index. All dimensions of the Financial Development and Structure Database of the World...

Objective To study the epidemiology and outcomes of delirium among hospitalized patients in Zambia. Methods We conducted a prospective cohort study at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia, from October 2017 to April 2018. The primary exposure was delirium duration over the initial 3 days of hospitalization, assessed daily using the Brief Confusion Assessment Method. The primary outcome was 6-month mortality. Secondary outcomes included 6-month disability, evaluated using the...

Housing value is a major component of the aggregate expenditure used in the analyses of welfare status of households in the development economics literature. Therefore, an accurate estimation of housing services is important to obtain the value of housing in household surveys. Data show that a significant proportion of households in a typical Living Standard Measurement Survey (LSMS), adopted by the Word Bank and others, are self-owned. The standard approach to predict the housing value for...

The study investigated the effect of virtual instructional tools on the learning outcomes of pre-service English language teachers in Nigerian Colleges of Education. The rationale of the study was hinged on the premise of virtual instructional adaptation in a post-OVID-19 era. The design for the study was a two- group pre-test post-test quasi-experimental design. The research design comprised pretest and post-test observations, treatment with virtual instruction and normal instruction in a...

The study investigated the effect of virtual instructional tools on the learning outcomes of pre-service English language teachers in Nigerian Colleges of Education. The rationale of the study was hinged on the premise of virtual instructional adaptation in a post-OVID-19 era. The design for the study was a two- group pre-test post-test quasi-experimental design. The research design comprised pretest and post-test observations, treatment with virtual instruction and normal instruction in a...

Abstract Sao Tome and Principe is a small insular country in the west coast of Central Africa. The small dimensions of the islands and the limited natural resources put these islands under highly vulnerable to climate change. To assess the possible future impacts and risks on their agricultural activities, the high-resolution 4-km downscaled climate change projections using Eta regional climate model are used. A crop risk index (CRI) is proposed to assess the risk of climate change on cocoa...

Abstract This paper explores the initial integration experiences of Syrian refugee children in schools in Canada. We conducted two focus groups with twelve Syrian refugee parents and three focus groups with eighteen children. Our research shows that Syrian refugee children experienced emotional barriers while struggling with their identity as Syrian “refugees.” Their low English proficiency, English only practice in classrooms and teachers’ low expectations further exacerbated the barriers...