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The dawn of a democratic South Africa in 1994 established a society entrenched in Human Rights milieu. As such, public schools are meant to align their policies with the rule of the law. Particularly, section 10 (1) of South African Schools Act, 84 1996 (hereafter SASA) respectfully prohibits the administration of corporal punishment directed at a learner in public schools. The subsequent section 10 (2) of SASA admonishes that any person contravening section 10 (1) of SASA is liable on...
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The purpose of this book is to explore the role of international higher education as a vehicle for Africa’s current development trajectory. The basic premise is that higher education in general, and its international dimension in particular, can play a central role in strengthening and sustaining Africa’s growth; particularly with respect to advancing progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Africa faces diverse challenges and higher education institutions have...
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The economic reports on income inequality, poverty, and other welfare indicators are relevant if it was supported by the evidence of income traps because rural households in developing countries were frequently hit by several shocks. This study intended to investigate the households' vulnerability to covariate and idiosyncratic shocks in Ethiopia using three waves of the household panel survey for the period of 2011–2016. The study applied a three-level mixed effect model for analysis. The...
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To control ticks carrying the emerging Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in Turkey the government is introducing thousands of exotic helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris). However, not only do these birds eat negligible numbers of ticks, but they are also excellent nurseries for the young of Hyalomma marginatum ticks, the best vectors of CCHF.
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Teaching low proficiency students to write whole texts is often fraught with difficulties. The latter has to create a text that is both rhetorically and linguistically appropriate. As a result, the teaching of writing tends to be taught in a way that focuses at the sentence level and these learners often have minimal, if any, awareness at the level of complete texts. Thus, in order to empower ESP students with the consciousness to recognise rhetorical and linguistic features that are used to...
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Education is considered to be the bed-rock of development of any nation; hence the call by governments for “education for all”. However, certain developments over the past years seem to be militating against this vision. Notable among them is the craze for the so-called fashion which has resulted in nudity among the teaming youth on Ho Polytechnic campus. This paper therefore sought to investigate the impacts or effects nudity or indecent dressing has on the academic performance of Ho...
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The use of ICT in virtually every aspect of life today has made the computer an indispensable tool in the world. However, many teacher educators in Kenya are still not conversant with even the simple day-to-day computer operations. Kenya plans to achieve newly industrialized status by the year 2020 and to do so most of its citizenry needs to be computer literate. The study looked at the challenges facing the integration of ICT in teacher education at Moi Teachers’ Training College – Baringo,...
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This study attempts to investigate whether there is a direct relationship between attendance and academic performance by both lecturers and students. The study used both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods, utilizing a cross-sectional survey design. The findings of the data collected suggests that the null hypothesis was rejected since the computed significance value was larger than the popular significance value (sig =0.05); accepting the research hypothesis to the effect...
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University for Development Studies, P. O. Box TL 1350, Tamale, Ghana. Email: attiahjoseph@yahoo.com Aristotle a renowned educationist once said that those who want to teach must cease not learning. This quotation is quite relevant for the implementation of the Quality Improvement in the Primary Schools (QUIPS) programme. This sterns from the fact that a lot of barriers were identified from the education reforms in 1987 stretching from poor education systems, inadequate trained teachers, lack...
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The research that this article reports on investigated the incidence of learner discipline problems, the effect of them on teachers, the teachers' methods of maintaining discipline and the effectiveness of those methods in one township, namely Jouberton in Klerksdorp, South Africa. The experiences of both teachers and learners were surveyed. It was found that discipline at the school is far from satisfactory and problems with discipline are more serious than the international norm indicates....
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Subsistence food production is the most important part of PNG agriculture, providing most of the food consumed in the country, with an estimated 83% of food energy and 76% of protein. Women play a crucial role in agricultural development, including main crop production, livestock production, horticulture, postharvest operations and fishing. Women in the horticulture industry in Central Province are no exception. Hence, in an attempt to increase the supply of vegetables into the Port Moresby...
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The Balanced Scorecard has been accepted by the business world as a promising tool for the performance measurement of an organization at the firm level, this study sought to explore its influence on organizational performance in selected institution of higher learning Kenya and in particular at the University of Nairobi * . The factors considered in the study includes: the influence of customer knowledge, financial performance, internal business processes and business perspective on...
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The main purpose of the study was to examine school related factors and circumstances that lead to students dropping of rural day secondary schools from Zhomba cluster in Gokwe district, Zimbabwe. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of twenty students who had dropped out of school in the past year participated in the study. These were purposively sampled from five schools randomly chosen from nine secondary schools in the cluster. Data were collected...