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The Tanzania’s higher education institutions haven’t raised much of expectations the graduates lack the skills required by the labor market and this trend results in mass graduate unemployment, otherwise this would have assisted them to be more self-reliant. The study explores the importance of higher-level business education human resources development for youth empowerment and national development in Tanzania. The nonstop-increasing pace of technological changes in the fields of business...
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The Tanzania’s higher education institutions haven’t raised much of expectations the graduates lack the skills required by the labor market and this trend results in mass graduate unemployment, otherwise this would have assisted them to be more self-reliant. The study explores the importance of higher-level business education human resources development for youth empowerment and national development in Tanzania. The nonstop-increasing pace of technological changes in the fields of business...
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Directors’ remuneration has become a contentious issue that many countries (including the UK and Cameroon) are into making laws to regulate it. The UK adopts a rather corrective measure by mainly highlighting the responsibility of the shareholders to curb excessive directors’ pay and further requiring companies to disclose information on directors’ pay. Cameroon does make basic provisions on what elements should make up the directors’ remuneration package and also vesting the shareholders...
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The occurrence of extreme climate events in Mozambique constitutes a great barrier to swift sustainable economic development due to associated human and material damages. As a result, the population lives in a situation of threat and instability. The most vulnerable societies in Mozambique are those inhabiting settling areas along coastal or river plains, and those whose economies are strictly related to resources highly sensitive to climate changes. The vulnerability factors of two...
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The determination of married women in a developing society to pursue higher education suggests that there are important underlying social factors and powerful personal motivations that condition their access to and interest in higher education. This paper investigates these factors and motivations and concludes that finance and prestige are the most important motivations followed by lost opportunities'' and emancipationDomestic woes is the weakest motivation.
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The Purpose of this article is to reexamine the extent to which some Nigerian students are positive in their evaluation of Western marriage and family practices. Some scholars contend that traditional ideas about the family die hard. Others suggest that as economic development takes place modern views increasingly prevail. Information about choice of spouse, best age at which to marry, marriage expectations, polygyny and ideal family size support the latter contention.
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In a reanalysis of our results,1De Neve J-W Fink G Subramanian SV Moyo S Bor J Length of secondary schooling and risk of HIV infection in Botswana: evidence from a natural experiment.Lancet Glob Health. 2015; 3: e470-e477Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (85) Google Scholar Michelle Remme and colleagues (October, 2015)2Remme M Watts C Heise L Vassall A Secondary schooling might be as good an HIV investment as male circumcision.Lancet Glob Health. 2015; 3: e591Summary Full Text...
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Throughout West Africa, Muslim clerics are facing increasing pressures to reform their Qur’anic schools in the context of Education For All (EFA). This pressure comes both from above (the state, NGOs and international donors), and below (parent and student demand). Some clerics have adapted their schools while others strongly resist, yet there is a lack of nuanced understanding as to why this is the case. This paper uses an ethnographic account of two clerics in northern Senegal to argue in...
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This qualitative case study focuses on a volunteer-led local NGO in Uganda to examine how integrating generations, cultures, and languages is enhancing literacy learning to help ethnically and linguistically diverse rural communities survive in the prevailing globally competitive neoliberal environment. Immersing the study in the social practices approach to literacy, the authors argue that in light of the currently globalizing world in which information, knowledge, and the emerging...
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This study examined the influence of parental occupation on academic performance in Public Mixed Day Secondary Schools in Nyamira North Sub-County, Kenya. Performance of the sub-county in KCSE has been dismal over time. The study was carried out amongst 857 parents of KCSE candidates and 22 head teachers of Public Mixed Day Secondary Schools in Nyamira North sub-county. The objective of the study was: To establish how parental occupation influences students’ academic performance in...
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This study analysed recent extreme weather events in Rwanda with emphasis on drought during March-May (MAM) season using Z-index. Composite analysis identified the years 2009 and 2010 as the most recent dry and wet years respectively. Analysis of the interannual variability over the period of 1981-2010 shows that approximately 30% and 27% of the observed rainfall events were drought and flood cases, respectively. The mean MAM rainfall ranges from 90 to 180 mm in the wet year (2009), whereas...