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Teacher attrition and retention in the education sector is a matter of concern for all Ghanaians and as such the study was conducted to explore issues concerning teacher retention and attrition in Ghana. The study was descriptive survey in nature, and sought to establish factors that militate against the retention of teachers, as well as their satisfaction of the conditions of service in public senior high schools. The study was conducted in four Senior High Schools and a sample of 116...

The aim of this study was to evaluate pain management in paediatric surgery at Sylvanus Olympio University Teaching Hospital, Lome.A prospective descriptive study was conducted in the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care at Sylvanus Olympio teaching hospital from 1 January to 30 June 2012. Data collected include: demography, type of surgery, American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) classification, anaesthetic protocol, analgesia technique, post-operative complications and...

Considering the dynamic nature of information and information sources, coupled with the sophistication of users and advances in the technology, it is necessary that library and information practitioners actively engage in continuous professional development (CPD) in order to meet up with the challenges and render quality services. This study investigates the CPD involvement of professional librarians in Nigeria. A social survey method of research was adopted for the study and questionnaire...

Learners who are gifted and talented have extra ordinary abilities and interests that require a differentiated curriculum. Kenya’s education system does not have a specialized curriculum in schools for them. The main purpose of the study was to establish which instructional strategies teachers use to educate learners who are gifted and talented in Primary schools in Wareng district, UasinGishu County, Kenya. Wareng district was purposively selected for the study because of its good...

The purpose of instructional supervision is to improve the quality of teaching through bettering skills of teachers which in turn enhance students’ academic achievement. Informal discussion among the people in Nandi North community suggests that poor students’ performance in public schools is as a result of ineffective supervision of teachers by principals. This study sought to examine the influence of instructional supervisory roles of the principals on student’s academic achievement...

This study investigated the extent to which business education programs in colleges of education of the north-eastern states of Nigeria exposed their students to computer skills during their training. Specifically, the study was designed to survey the institutions’ computer curriculum in line with NCCE requirement in order to ascertain if the sampled schools adhere to standard practice stipulated by the regulatory bodies. Four research questions guided the study. The area of the study...

This study surveyed selected tissue samples obtained from the stomach compartments of the Cephalophus niger including, rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum. We utilized 40 antelope's stomach compartments, comprising of 20 males and females respectively; half of the total samples were taken during the peak period of wet seasons and the other half in dry seasons. The relative dimensions of the papillae at various locations within the fore and glandular stomach, observed under a light...

The effects of terms and conditions of service on motivation of pre-school teachers in Kenya are not clear. Therefore, this study aimed at analyzing the impact of the terms and conditions of service on motivation of pre-school teachers in Kenya. The specific objective was to establish the effects of terms and conditions of service on motivation of pre-school teachers in Kenya. The study adopted ex post-facto research design using 180 public pre-schools. A 20% sample size was used. The target...

Climate change presents new challenges for the management of social-ecological systems and the ecosystem services they provide.Although the instrument of payments for ecosystem services (PES) has emerged as a promising tool to safeguard or enhance the provision of ecosystem services (ES), little attention has been paid to the potential role of PES in climate change adaptation.As an external stressor climate change has an impact on the social-ecological system in which PES takes place,...

The author describes the evolution of an off-campus, across-the-borders, graduate-level program in educational leadership. The result of 6 years of collaboration and cooperation between higher-education leaders in the United States and Uganda, the program meets all academic standards and has been completed by 68 students since it began in 2009.IntroductionPrograms in educational leadership focus on offering a candidate the knowledge and skills that facilitate, promote, and develop the...

Livestock are central to the livelihoods of Tanzanians who rely on them for income via sales of milk, meat, skins and draught power. Owning livestock is amongst the ways in which many Tanzanians could diversify their risks, increase assets and improve their resilience to changes in climate. Though local coping strategies can deal with shocks in the short-term, they are hardly able to cope with more frequent and severe climate events. Observably, temperature, rainfall and atmospheric CO2...

Heavy smoking causes 4 million deaths worldwide, more than 70% being in the developing countries. The purpose of our study was to determine the prevalence of heavy smoking and to identify the factors which influence it in school settings in Bamako. We carried out a cross-sectional investigation in April 2009, in 8 randomly selected schools in a town of Bamako, with a sample of 328 pupils over 11 years of age.The investigation included 328 pupils, among them, 72.3% were boys. The age of the...

A Thesis in the International Centre for Educational Evaluation (ICEE) Submitted to the Institute of Education in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Our study examined age and sex patterns of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality among autopsy cases at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) in Accra, Ghana from 2006 to 2010.All cardiovascular deaths diagnosed at autopsy in the 5-year period beginning January 2006 and ending December 2010 located in the autopsy logbooks of the Department of Pathology, KBTH, were analyzed for this study. A total of 20,706 autopsy cases were done at KBTH within the five year period out of which 19,289 (93.2%)...

The town of Agadir in Morocco was hit by a devastating earthquake in 1960. The “kasbah” or fortified town on the hill was entirely destroyed and the site abandoned. This dramatic event in the history of the town establishes the very narrative of the submitted project: the creation of a place of contemplation in memory of the 15,000 residents who died in the earthquake. The scheme incorporates a memorial on the site and an archaeological museum retracing the history of the city. The building,...