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This paper looks at the factors that influence adoption of adaptation strategies by smallholder farmers in the East Mamprusi District of Northern Ghana. Ghana’s economy is based mainly on rainfed agriculture and the smallholder farmers constitute the majority of the players in the sector. The rainfed nature of agriculture makes the farmers, including those in East Mamprusi District, vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Farmers in the district have adopted climate change adaptation...

The study identified the challenges of teaching and learning clothing and textiles as a subject in secondary school in Abia State, Nigeria. Three (3) research questions guided the study. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study comprised 290 students and 8 Home Economics teachers, a total population of 298 subjects. Sample sizes of 298 subjects were purposively selected for the study. A structured questionnaire of a 4 point rating scale was the...

The controversy as to whether the English Language or the child's mother tongue facilitates teaching and learning at primary school level has not been resolved. The advocates of mother-tongue medium claim that it makes for meaningful teaching and learning and better pupils' participation in the learning process while antagonists of MT- medium claim it hinders effective teaching and learning of the English language. The study therefore investigated the impact of the MT Education on effective...

The need to enhance mathematic performance has become integral in secondary schools in Kenya due to mass failure amongst female learners. This paper attempts to explain the relationship between achievement motivation, and Mathematic performance amongst female learners in selected urban secondary schools in Nairobi. Kenya. The study adapted the tool used by Githua to measure the learner’s achievement motivation. Percentages, and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient were used to...

This study aimed to determine the knowledge and prevalence of obesity among Ghanaian newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics. This cross-sectional study was conducted among diagnosed type 2 diabetics. Structured questionnaire was used to obtain data. Anthropometric measurements and fasting blood sugar levels were also assessed. Participants had adequate knowledge about the general concept of obesity (72.0%) and method of weight measurement (98.6%) but were less knowledgeable of ideal body weight...

This paper primarily discusses the challenges deaf students in Ghana are likely to grapple with as they access education provided for them in English language. The arguments discussed in this paper are supported by findings from a multiple site case study of five Schools for the Deaf purposively sampled from four regions of Ghana. Observations were made of 15 classroom teaching and learning processes at the basic school level. Interviews were also conducted with seven teachers to gather...

In this fast changing world, pupils all over the world have developed severe social and psychological needs that affect their interactions with others and subsequently, the achievement of their life goals. Essentially, the social and psychological needs of school pupils have manifested in diverse mal-adjusted behaviours that hinder their academic performance. The study explored the various counselling needs of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in one of the regions of...

In the face of climate change, a number of climate variables such as temperature, precipitation, wind speed, humidity and solar radiation tend to affect water resources. This has led to changes in soil moisture, reduced stream run off, reduced ground water recharge and increased transpiration which ultimately causes deterioration of on-farm water resources. Deteriorating water resources at farm level as a result of climate change has led to decreased crop yields in sub Saharan Africa and...

Agriculture is the mainstay of the Kenyan economy with an estimated GDP share of 26 percent in 2012, and thus remains an important contributor to employment and food security of rural populations. Climate variability and change have adversely affected this sector. This situation is expected to worsen in the future if the latest findings of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are anything to go by. We estimate the effect of climate variability and change on crop revenue and on...

Secondary school education provides a foundation for acquisition of further knowledge and skills in tertiary institutions of learning.It is a bed-rock where future productive human capital is nurtured to serve the dynamic needs of a nation's labour market and the economy in general.Education is used to achieve more rapid economic, social, political, technological, scientific and cultural development in a country.In Kenyan education system, mathematics is a compulsory and an examinable...

The objective of this study was to determine the influence of lecturers’ computing competence and preparedness for electronic learning (eLearning), focusing on word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, statistical analysis, internet browsing and e-mailing software packages. We applied a cross-sectional survey design with both quantitative and qualitative approaches to source data from 212 lecturers and 108 administrative staff in May 2011. The results show that participants whose...

Background: The content of physicians' referral (PR) for physiotherapy is very crucial with respect to physical diagnosis and treatment decisions. It is an indicator of the level of clinical decision making required for proper physiotherapy management of patients. Objectives: To investigate the contents of the PRs to the Department of Physiotherapy of a Teaching Hospital. Materials and Methods: A total of 326 PR for physiotherapy received from four Medical Departments (63 Medicine, 90...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of some predicting factors (that is  school climate, academic self-efficacy and peer bullying/ victimization) on the school connectedness among public secondary school students in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Two hundred and ninety six students were randomly selected. The independent and dependent variables were measured with relevant standardized instruments. The instruments used were school climate scale, academic self-efficacy...

The study analyzed evaluated the inclusiveness of the financial services of microfinance banks for an inclusive Agricultural development in Anambra state, Nigeria.Secondary data were elicited from three microfinance banks on the number of gender, location and firms that had access to their financial services.The data were analyzed using frequency, tables, mean, and standard deviation, co-efficient of variation, ttest and bar chart.The result showed that there are significant imbalances in...

Today's poultry business is susceptible to heat and cold stress.Current production system often involves large numbers of birds being housed together making them susceptible to heat stress .Climate change stress causes death of the birds and reduced production.The paper clearly shows that increasing proportion of poultry farmers in the tropical and sub-tropical region adopt various adaptation measures on short term and long-term scales to enhance resilience of today's poultry...

Effective implementation of ICT in schools ensure high social and economic returns not only to an individual child, but also to the country as a whole. It is therefore important that those charged with management of education in secondary schools should be those who are knowledgeable and skilled in ICT in order to perform their administrative tasks efficiently. However, in Nyakach sub-county, this is far from the truth, because in recent times there has been a lot of concern about...