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Lecturers in Kenyan universities usually start their work without any prior training on how to teach students. Hence the teaching tends to be traditional and new training techniques are rarely implemented. For effective teaching, lecturers need to develop skills on preparation and presentation of new course materials, using modern methods. One of many changes to the statistics teaching at Maseno University was to teach an MSc. course in a way that also provided staff training. The course...
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A THESIS submitted in fulfillment of the degree DOCTOR IN EDUCATION Faculty of Education and Social Sciences Mowbray Campus Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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The past decade has drawn attention to tourism as a potent driver of poverty reduction in many developing countries. Tourism is the world’s fastest growing industry, especially in the African continent. Investments are on the increase and bring new opportunities for employment and income generation for the poor communities surrounding the tourism destinations. Most tourism destinations work towards attracting more tourists, making them stay longer and increasing their out-of-pocket spending;...
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Following the failure of top-down centralised management approaches to natural resources, attention has shifted in the last two decades to participatory approaches. Unfortunately, participatory resource management projects have produced disappointing results. They have failed to meet the objectives of enhancing sustainable management of resources and of improving the well-being of local people. These efforts have recently been criticized by environmental conservationists, who continue to...
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This study is an exploration of the perceptions and fear of crime of a sample of international students at the University of Cape Town. By means of a questionnaire, the study revealed that all the participants considered South Africa to be a high crime society, although very few had actually experienced crime. The generators of fear were mainly from the media and others' victimisation experiences. This confirms arguments, that indirect victimisation plays a major role in increasing fear...
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This article presents challenges facing higher education in South Africa and how knowledge management can be applied to ameliorate the situation. Some of these challenges include internal and external pressures for accountability and transparency in the management of the institutions; declining state subsidies; stiff competition from global counterparts; low graduate throughput; declining enrolments; inadequate facilities (e.g. space, ICTs and equipment); ill-prepared graduates for the job...
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This paper aimed at establishing how the knowledge of franchise purchase as self-employment strategy among the lecturers of entrepreneurship, leisure and hospitality at Makerere University Business School (MUBS), Uganda is transferred to the students whom they teach, other universities that bench-mark with MUBS, and the general public in Uganda and the region during the global economic crisis which is causing many lay-offs. A case study methodology was used in order to generate new...
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This chapter attempts to evaluate the impact of the free primary education programme in Kenya, which is based on the premise that government intervention can lead to enhanced access to education especially by children from poor parental backgrounds. Primary education system in Kenya has been characterized by high wastage in form of low enrolment, high drop-out rates, grade repetition as well as poor transition from primary to secondary schools. This scenario was attributed to high cost of...
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This paper attempts to evaluate the impact of the free primary education programme in Kenya, which is based on the premise that government intervention can lead to enhanced access to education especially by children from poor parental backgrounds. Primary education system in Kenya has been characterised by high wastage in form of low enrolment, high dropout rates, grade repetition as well as poor transition from primary to secondary schools. This scenario was attributed to high cost of...