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Observation can afford the researcher an opportunity to observe events as they spontaneously occur. It could be used to observe students' and lecturers' behaviours in a variety of settings and to collect data on how they use language. This is also a means of assessing what students either have or have not learned. Thus, classroom observation is one of the mechanisms for achieving effective teaching and learning. This article describes real-time observation of ten English and Study Skills...
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Observation can afford the researcher an opportunity to observe events as they spontaneously occur. It could be used to observe students’ and lecturers’ behaviours in a variety of settings and to collect data on how they use language. This is also a means of assessing what students have or have not learned. Thus, classroom observation is one of the mechanisms for achieving effective teaching and learning. This paper describes real-time observation of 10 English and Study Skills (ESS) English...
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This work paints a clear picture of the impacts of climate change on water resources in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and showcases that the population in this section of the continent value water as much as they value life. Deteriorating water resources in SSA due to climate change have numerous negative ramifications, such as increasing food insecurity, transboundary conflicts and rising health problems among other socioeconomic consequences. While SSA countries have contributed little to the...
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Universalisation of primary education (UPE) has been a global issue since the early sixties, yet several decades later and even in the 21 st century, many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are still grappling with it. Unlike their counterparts in the developed world, its realisation in developing countries has been faced with a myriad of constraints. Kenya has a long standing commitment to providing educational access to its primary school going children. This has been reflected in the...
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Global investment in Information Communication Technology (ICT) has been to improve teaching and learning in schools. Kenya’s e-government strategy and the National ICT policy gave considerable attention to education and schools to integrate ICT to improve students’ academic performance. A study by Computers For Schools Kenya showed that, the entire education system was characterised by a very low integration of ICT. Students’ academic performance in KCSE in Kenya and particularly Nakuru...
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The authors were invited to present in a session titled The role of FELTPs in laboratory-based surveillance at the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) biennial conference in December 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa. This session focused on five questions: a) What is FELTP? b) What is the state of public health laboratory-based surveillance in Africa? c) Are FELTPs contributing to public health surveillance and response in Africa? d) What challenges are FELTPs facing in...
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Education for all is increasingly becoming a driving force for expansion and extension of educational sector in Third World countries. As the number of students and educational institutions increase, it becomes quit challenging satisfying the needs of politicians while maintaining quality in educational institutions. Enhancement of quality education through teaching-learning effectiveness, especially in developing countries, is therefore an emerging issue that cannot remain unattended.
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This study explores students’ indiscipline in secondary schools in Cameroon. The purpose of this research is to examine the familiar or common forms, the causes and probable ways to curb indiscipline in schools. The study made use of descriptive survey research design. The study was guided by four research questions whereas two hypotheses were formulated and tested. The sample comprised of 3,240 participants drawn from 120 schools (of the public, lay private and denominational schools) in...
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The present study refers to inclusive education, a current and emergent topic in Mozambique, and of the attention given to a better scientific and pedagogical qualification of teachers, so they can respond successfully to the challenges created by inclusive education. Grounded on the experience of teachers themselves, our interest was to understand which are their representations about inclusive education, as well as to comprehend how teachers evaluate the quality and relevance of their...
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Since the 2000s, international organizations have been promoting the generalization of basic education as well as the improvement of the quality of education in the countries of the South. Several channels for quality improvement have thus been explored, among which the time spent at school yearly. International organizations have set the minimum number of effective hours of classes in order to achieve quality education to a range between 850 and 1,000. After describing the way this standard...
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Sesame is one of the most important cash crops which is mostly grown in the western and north western zone of Tigray region.The impact of climate change on sesame yield were not addressed yet particularly in the study area.Therefore, this study was aimed at assessing the impact of climate change on production of Sesame in the Western lowlands of Tigray, with the specific objective of modeling the impact of climate change on production of sesame.Historical sesame yield was obtained and...
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The paper explores the paths towards building institutional foundations for inclusive development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Viewing institutional configurations as a system of multiple equilibria, the concepts of endogenous institutions and institutional changes are used to address the question of how to build institutional foundations on a self-sustained basis. The paper discusses how institutional configurations have been shaped in Sub-Saharan Africa under prevailing domestic and...
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While several studies on speaking proficiency are found in various languages worldwide, there is a paucity of studies that investigated the learners’ and teachers’ speaking proficiency after language policy shifts. This article investigates the perceived speaking proficiency in English and Kinyarwanda among Rwandan lower primary school learners and their teachers after experiencing two consecutive language policy shifts, that is the shift from French-dominant medium to English-only in 2008...