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Introduction: Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at particular risk for occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens, including hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Objective: to assess the effect of education intervention on knowledge, attitude and practice of (compliance with) preventive measures of bloodborne infections (BBIs) by health care workers. Methods: The study was a pre-post quasi- experimental intervention. It was conducted between...

Gender-biased harmful practices are prevalent across many parts of the world. Once these practices have become part of the cultural landscape, they are very difficult to alter without external stimuli. Whether those stimuli can be targeted toward individuals or they must be targeted toward the community as a whole is heavily debated. I study the effect of an individual-level intervention on the perceptions of an entrenched, gender-biased, cultural practice. Specifically, I study the effect...

Gender-biased harmful practices are prevalent across many parts of the world. Once these practices have become part of the cultural landscape, they are very difficult to alter without external stimuli. Whether those stimuli can be targeted toward individuals or they must be targeted toward the community as a whole is heavily debated. I study the effect of an individual-level intervention on the perceptions of an entrenched, gender-biased, cultural practice. Specifically, I study the effect...

INTRODUCTIONThe importance of technology in education has drawn the attention of educationists since the beginning of the motion pictures in the early 20s, but computers were accessible to teachers and students only in the mid-70s when they were introduced in education (Brush T. cited in Hew, K. F. T* The Ministry of Secondary Education (MINESEC) is in charge of general and technical secondary education;* The Ministry of Higher Education (MINESUP) is in charge of University and professional...

The purpose of this study was to establish the effects of the 2013 revised senior secondary school geography curriculum on learning at Chikankata secondary school in Chikankata district of Zambia. Six teachers of geography who were directly involved in the implementation of the revised geography curriculum took part in the study, the Head teacher, the Deputy Head teacher and the Head of Department for social sciences also took part by filling in the questionnaires. Additionally; twenty nine...

Reviewed by: African Immersion: American College Students in Cameroon by Julius A. Amin Kwaku Nti Amin, Julius A. African Immersion: American College Students in Cameroon. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. The publication of Julius Amin's African Immersion: American College Students in Cameroon takes the emergent scholarly research on study abroad programs to an altogether different level. Based on an intriguing variety of primary and secondary sources, the book provides an historical...

Ranking institutions on a league table style is explicitly or implicitly used by agencies to determine excellence and performance and reputation of institutions. However, there is a growing concern that this tool tends to encourage drifts of missions, foci, purposes and specialisations of knowledge and skills produced by different higher education institutions globally. This article takes issue with the widely accepted practice of institutional ranking on league table style drawing examples...

During the period under investigation (1825–1862), Egypt was a dominion of the Ottoman Empire and attracted the attention and interest of all European states that had been displaying their military and commercial superiority for a long time. In the nineteenth century, Egypt was not only destitute of schools, but had also entered a rapid modernization process since the reign of Mehmet Ali Pasha. This had created an extremely favourable environment for missionary activities in Egypt from the...

This study was designed to evaluate the content adequacy and readability of approved basic science and technology textbooks in use in junior secondary schools in Nigeria. Eight research questions guided the study. The sample of the study consisted of six (6) approved basic science and technology textbooks, 30 Junior Secondary Schools randomly selected from the 6 geo-political zones of Nigeria, and 30 Basic science and technology teachers. Three (3) instruments were used for data collection:...

The major aim and leitmotif of this paper is to highlight the Nigerian society and its diverse, multi-cultural and pluralist composition – a society which has experienced in the last fifty years, and is still experiencing fantastic and tremendous signs of growth in democracy, but which is also almost unsure of the right path and the correct decision to make to attain the expected height in all facets of national development, especially education as it relates to religious awareness. Apart...

The study sought to determine the relationship between political literacy and civic consciousness level of secondary school students in Nsukka Education Zone, Enugu State, Nigeria. Correlational research design was adopted for the study. Three research questions and one null hypothesis (which was tested at 0.05 level of significance) guided the study. A sample of 450 senior secondary school students were selected from the population of 4,519 students using simple random and purposive...

A critical look at Nigeria’s national policy on education on tertiary or higher education reveals a startling chasm of gap between the goals of the policy through General Studies Programme and their expected actualizations. This problem, that is, the chasm of gap, is owned to the maladministration and immoral conducts of the people to whom the students are under their influence directly or indirectly. It is the effects of these chasms of gap that have resulted largely in unemployable youths...

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the most common consequence of traumatic experiences. The North Central Nigeria to which Plateau State belongs has witnessed many ethno-religious crises. While previous studies suggested a high prevalence of PTSD among students, to the best of our knowledge, no such study has been reported in Nigeria.The study aimed to determine the prevalence and correlates of PTSD among medical students in a university.Cross-sectional systematic random sampling was...

Background: Antithrombin (AT III) is a glycoprotein synthesized by the liver. It has anticoagulant and antiinflammatory properties. Pregnancy is a hypercoagulable state due to increased synthesis of coagulation protein and depletion in the activity of natural anticoagulant due to consumption by activated coagulation proteins. Varying AT III activities have been reported in normal pregnancy but this has not been investigated in our environment. Objective: This study aims to determine...