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This research investigated the influence of principal's supervisory demonstration strategy on teachers' job performance in Cross River State, Nigeria.Respondents involved six hundred and sixty (660) teachers and three thousand, three hundred senior secondary school students which were randomly selected from two hundred and thirty two (232) secondary schools in Cross River State.Data was collected with Principals' Instructional Supervisory Strategies Questionnaire (PISSQ) and Teachers' Job...

Background : Psychiatric patients are considered high risked group for Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. This has been found to be as a result of poor judgment and irrationality associated with some of the disorders. However, there is dearth of literature on the prevalence of HIV infection among psychiatric inpatients in this part of the world, hence, the need for the current study. Objectives : The study aimed to determine the prevalence of HIV infection among psychiatric...

Mauritius has Type 2 Diabetes mellitus as public health issue, whereby unhealthy modes of eating and sedentary lifestyles are factors to be addressed in the primary prevention of the disease among the youth.This study was thus designed to investigate the prevalence of Leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) among university students in Mauritius and to explore their motivations and constraints to engage in LTPA, using the ecological model of health promotion.Data were collected from a...

Across the globe, NGOs from developed countries are conducting education programmes in developing countries together with local partners with the aim of supporting the implementation of education f ...

The magnitude of child mortality in Nigeria shows that child healthcare demand has not been significantly addressed by the policy makers. As a result of this, this study examined the impact of parental education on child health care in Nigeria. The study adopted the use of the Multinomial (MLM) estimation techniques in the attempt to determine the influence of Parental education on child Health care. Our result revealed that having some education is associated with a higher likelihood of...

Following the curriculum review of 2002, Kiswahili oral literature has been given prominence by the Kenya Institute of Education (KIE). It was examined for the first time at the end of 2006 by the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC). The study assessed the implementation of the Kiswahili oral literature syllabus in secondary schools in Kenya based on Gagne's conditions of learning theory, which states that effective learning only occurs in specific conditions. The study employed...

Via the evocation of two personal narratives of lived experiences of/with youth in South Africa, the paper addresses issues relating to youth, unemployment, education and structural injustice. These narrative vignettes reflect events of injustice that occur within the human sphere and fall within the interstices between competing discourses as sites of struggle for meaning and supremacy. It is here where the lived effects of unjust political structures can be witnessed as violent assaults on...

Secondary school teachers, as employees, play a great role in the education system of Tanzania. Their importances made me to conduct a study upon them so as to investigate the important aspect of training and development programmes as they sharpen their understanding hence motivate them and enhance students’ performance abilities. The study aimed at investigate the effects of teachers training and development to students’ performance in Tanzania Secondary schools, determining the extent the...

The English curriculum is significant in schools in Kenya because of the importance of English Language as the medium of instruction in schools in Kenya from upper primary school and beyond. Further, English is the official language in Kenya. Oral communication skills which comprise listening and speaking skills form the backbone to the teaching of English. They facilitate the acquisition of other language skills: reading and writing. This paper is a report on a study on the teaching of oral...

Since Kenya attained independence in 1963, various curriculum reforms and educational policies have been recommended. Examples are the 8:4:4 system of education (1985), the cost sharing strategy in education (1988), the Free Primary Education (FPE) policy (2003) and the Subsidized Secondary Education policy (2008) among others. The aim of the curriculum/educational reforms in Kenya has been to achieve national development. However, we find that the process of policy implementation is always...

This paper investigates the phenomenon of code-switching (CS) in three schools in Kigali City, the capital of Rwanda, an essentially monolingual country with Kinyarwanda as the mother tongue of all Rwandans and French as a second language. In schools, both these languages served as mediums of instruction until 2009, when there was a sudden move by the government of Rwanda to introduce English as the sole medium of instruction in all schools, catching both teachers and students unprepared for...

As a contribution to guide policy planning, effective climate change adaptation options to enhance maize production in Ghana were examined. The Agricultural Production Systems Simulator crop model, coupled with statistical downscaled climate scenarios of 9 general circulation models (GCMs) and farmer practices, were used to device adaptation options in the near future (NF) period of 2046–2065 based on IPCC A2 emission scenario at local scale level in Wa and Wenchi agricultural areas of...

One of the current trends in public library service provision is the  introduction of Learning Centres in addition to the traditional services provided. It is in the light of this that this study sets out to find out how feasible it is to establish learning centres in public libraries in Ghana and their possible influences on user patronage. In this regard, 220 patrons were sampled in addition to 6 librarians using accidental and purposive sampling methods respectively. While questionnaires...

In the light of the escalation of sectarian tensions during and after Mubarak's reign, the predicament of the Arab world's largest religious minority, the Copts, has come to the forefront. This book poses such questions as why there has been a mass exodus of Copts from Egypt, and how this relates to other religious minorities in the Arab region; why it is that sectarian violence increased during and after the Egyptian revolution, which epitomized the highest degree of national unity since...

Climate change is real and is disproportionately affecting poor communities in poorer countries. Climate change drives climate extremes which manifest in the form of extreme droughts in some areas and excessive precipitations in others. The nature of impacts from climate extremes depends not only on the intensities of the extremes themselves but also on exposure and vulnerability of communities. Communities in poor countries are the most exposed to such extremities and are forced to bear a...