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The overall aim of this study was to investigate how the introduction of ICT into distance education at public institutions of higher learning in South Africa during the early post-apartheid period ...

The aim of this study is to investigate the perceptions of  principals and deputy principals of secondary schools in Nairobi City County on the impact of integration of information communication technology (ICT) in human resource on the management of secondary schools in Nairobi City County. The study employed the descriptive research survey method. The research instruments used were questionnaires, an interview guide and an observation schedule.  Quantitative data was analyzed using...

Promoting national health research agendas in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) requires adequate numbers of individuals with skills to initiate and conduct research. Recently, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have joined research capacity building efforts to increase research leadership by LMIC nationals. Partners In Health, an international NGO operating in Rwanda, implemented its first Intermediate Operational Research Training (IORT) course to cultivate Rwandan research...

INTRODUCTION:Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a condition that restricts an individual's ability from independent living. Individuals with cerebral palsy are unable to perform precise movements of both fine and gross motor muscles required for self care activities such as dressing, toileting, feeding, cleaning amoung others. For individuals with cerebral palsy, self care abilities can be improved through training. This study evaluated the influence of age on response to motor skills training on the...

Accessibility to university education represents a vital instrument for personal empowerment as well as the economic growth and technological advancement of a country. It is against the backdrop of the relevance and benefits of higher education that the quests for admission to Nigerian universities have assumed an alarming dimension due to the increasing annual applications to enroll for the entrance examinations conducted by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Boards and the subsequent...

Aim: Handicap post stroke is likely to be more relevant to patients and family than impairment or disability. The purpose of this study was to assess the Barthel index as a predictor of handicap Method: One hundred and twelve participants with a diagnosis of stroke were prospectively enrolled. Fifteen clinical variables, the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score on admission, and the barthel index at 7 th day were the independent variables. The modified Rankin scale at 6...

THE study examined the influence of parental occupation and level of education on academic performance of accounting students in Nigeria. It was informed by the fact that the proper functioning of every country’s financial system and extent of viability of her economy is a function of the quality of accountants produced by her tertiary institutions. The specific objectives were to determine the relationship between parental occupation and level of education on academic performance of...

It is widely accepted internationally that clinical education is integral to physiotherapy curricula. Clinical education and the supervisory process it involves are important and distinct parts of health care education. Physiotherapy clinical education appears to be least researched into in Nigeria. The aim of this study was to seek opinions regarding the perceived advantages and disadvantages of the models of clinical education used in south-west, Nigeria. Seventy- four (45 males, 29...

There are many things that education and development in Africa was supposed to be about, but which it is still not.To many critical readers, education has stood by, "eyeless in Gaza" (Milton, 1667(Milton, -1671, l. 41), l. 41), unable to find the words and strategies deep enough to deal with epistemological disenfranchisement and cognitive justice with untold consequences for the development of the "whole person" in Africa.When it has engaged with "development," education either encourages...

Providing quality education in the rich linguistic diversity of multilingual societies remains a utopia, decades after multidisciplinary evidence demonstrated the encompassing benefits of mother language-based multilingual education (MLB-MLE). The institutionalization of exoglossic education systems across Africa, which prioritizes foreign languages as media of instruction, has worked to normalize the disjuncture between exogenous dimensionalities of schooling and autochthonous social...

Background: Patient-centered, culturally tailored cardiovascular health education has the potential to improve hypertension self-management. Despite the high prevalence of hypertension in Sub Sahara Africa, this type of health education is hardly available in this region. Objective: To describe how we developed and evaluated a culturally adapted Cardiovascular Health Education Program for insured hypertensive patients in rural Nigeria. Methods: Applying concepts of “cultural adaptation”, we...

Forests and trees outside forests play an important role on mitigation of climate change through sequestering of carbon from the atmosphere. However, little has been documented on the role of forestry in adaptation to climate change. The objective of this paper was therefore to identify and analyse forest-based adaptation strategies employed in sub-Saharan Africa that have the potential of enhancing resilience of vulnerable communities to the impacts of climate change, with a view of...

This report is a terminal evaluation of a UN Environment - UNDP - GEF project implemented between 2011 and 2016. The overarching goal of the project was defined in the project document as to adapt water resource management to climate change in the Comoros. The project’s global environmental objective was defined in the project document as “to reduce the risk of climate change on lives and livelihoods from impacts on water resources in the Comoros”. The main intended outcomes were the...

This report is a terminal evaluation of a UN Environment project implemented between October 2010 and June 2016.The project's overall development goal wasConservation and sustainable management of representative PA ecosystems in West Africa is enhanced through strengthened assessment and adaptation to the impacts of CC. The evaluation sought to assess project performance (in terms of relevance, effectiveness and efficiency), and determine outcomes and impacts (actual and potential) stemming...

The study investigated attitude towards special need students (SNS) among teachers in public secondary schools in Edo Central Senatorial District. The study was undertaken to determine the teachers’ attitude and the influence of gender, educational specialisation and experience on their attitude towards SNS. A total of 369 (50%) of the 739 teachers were drawn in the district by proportionate to size sampling. However, 351 questionnaires were recovered and used for analysis. The instrument...