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Tourism Organizations Role in Training and Employment of University Tourism Graduates in Kenya Kenya is one of the leading tourist destinations in Africa due to its rich and diverse culture, wildlife and scenic beauty. As a result, there is an increasing demand for qualified professionals to serve in this very sensitive and yet fragile industry. Moi University, the pioneer institution of higher learning to offer a degree programme in tourism management has so far produced many graduates...
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Human capital is the key in the development of any country. This, obviously, supersedes all components of development packages. This resource-human capital determines optimally the use of land, minerals, technology and all ventures of development. Because of the importance of human capital, this paper provides a critical thinking on the challenges of development of African countries, Tanzania included, on the role of human capital in the development of our countries. The objective of the...
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Mobile phones are an integral part of our modern lives.This study explores the use and role of mobile phones among South African university students.Four main categories are used to examine the students' mobile phone use: reasons to use mobile phones, pattern of mobile phone use, purchasing factors, and behaviour-related issues.Through a quantitative approach data was collected from 362 participants using a survey.The key findings indicate that the main reason South African university...
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Challenges faced by Statistics Education in developing countries are similar, though often of larger magnitude, and of a more critical nature, than in more developed countries. This chapter focuses on the status of Statistics Education at school and tertiary level in South Africa. The authors give a historical overview, followed by a discussion of the current status, mentioning challenges and successes to building statistics capacity in the country, and emphasizing the importance of facing...
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The climate changes constitute nowadays a potentially major threat for the environment and the sustainable development. Their impacts especially affect the agriculture that essentially depends on rainfall in the poor countries as Benin. In this context, identification and understanding of manifestations of the climate change that are perceptible by the farming population and their impact on different crops are proved to be essential so that to take urgent measures to reinforce the adaptation...
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Context: With the view to reorient both STI/HIV/AIDS prevention and adolescents pregnancies, this research study aims at evaluating cognitive and behavioral acquisitions, as well as the process of interactive sex education participatory approach among adolescents in Kinshasa high schools.Methods: Based on a "pre and post" virtually experimental design, two crosswise surveys were conducted in Kinshasa, for six months in 2011-2012 on 484 high school students (pre-survey) and on 441 high school...
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Inclusive education is one of the emerging challenges in the Rwandan education today, just like in many other educational systems. The College of Education of the University of Rwanda developed and implemented the inclusive education program since 2008. Thirty students with severe disabilities (SwDs) have enrolled, and only fourteen graduated so far. The present study shows that in order to enhance the learning process, a resource room was established to host an assortment of support...
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The impact of psychosocial problems on the development of psychopathology (depression/anxiety) among university students is an area that greatly remains unexplored leading to insufficient assessment of the mental health status of the students.Consequently, students' psychosocial problems and psychopathology if left untreated and unchecked, they may severely interfere in their everyday functioning and manifest compromised social cohesion, mental health and wellbeing, with the increased...
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Background Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection causes significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Occupational exposure of health care workers and medical students increases their risk of acquiring HBV infection, and many authorities recommend vaccination. However, significant proportions of health care workers do not receive HBV immunization, and remain at increased risk to HBV infection. The objective of this study was to determine the hepatitis B vaccination rate among Medical students...
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Over the last decades, our classrooms have been enshrined with the use of chalk and talk teaching contrary to the century we are in. Hence, an alternative to traditional teaching and learning is now a sought after among stakeholders in education especially, experts in educational technology. Consequently, traditional teaching approach is fading away in the pace of time, possible developments in e-technologies have emerge as a new landscape in educational delivery system where physical and...
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The gist of this study was to investigate the impact of sand harvesting on education of pupils in public primary schools in Kathiani Division, Machakos County, Kenya.The study was premised on Horace Mann Classical Liberal Theory of Equal Opportunity which asserts that each person is born with a given amount of capacity, which to a large extent is inherited and cannot be substantially changed.A survey research design was adopted.Stratified sampling technique was applied to select 10...
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Enrolment in basic education has made significant progress in Ghana but learning achievements appear to have stagnated in the last couple of years. In this study, interviews with teachers, head teachers, past and current students in basic schools, involved parents and community leaders in these four selected districts conducted to gauge their views on the source of the problems suggest the need to match enrolment with four core issues in mind: a) better-managed and properly supervised...