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This study investigated the effect of peer tutoring on the achievement of students in ecology in colleges of education in the North-Western zone of Nigeria. The study adopted a quasiexperimental pretest, a post-test control group design. The sample of 128 students from two(2) colleges of education out of seven (7) colleges of education in Kano State from a population of 2900, form the intact classes for the study. Each intact class was randomly selected from NCE 1 Biology students, each arm...

The article describes a primary school in Kenya, where the school’s educational space was analysed in two respects: a) safety and comfort; b) knowledge and skills development, as part of ethnographic research. The research results indicate that the school needs a change in physical space, teaching aids, and greater pedagogical awareness among the teachers. The new education system introduced in Kenya requires much more funding to ensure proper learning conditions and continuing education for...

In recent years, the number of Secondary school Chinese language teachers has been increasing in Cameroon.Based on the "Central and West Africa" training model of the Confucius Institute in Cameroon, this study investigated the degree of satisfaction of Cameroonian secondary school Chinese language teachers with online training during the COVID-19 pandemic through the use of questionnaire and interview methods.This study found that teachers' satisfaction with online training ranged between...

The aim of this study was to assess the magnitude and associated factors of obesity among high school adolescent students in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted from 10 September 2019 to 10 October 2019 in Bahir Dar town. A total of 1018 students were enrolled using a multistage sampling procedure. Epidata version 3.1 was used for data entry, and SPSS version 24 was used for data analysis. A bivariable and multivariable logistic regression analysis...

There have been persistent contestations over the conceptual implications of paradigms in the decolonisation of higher education in Africa. As a contribution towards the continued pursuit of a succinct conceptualisation of decolonisation, this conceptual article interrogates four paradigms that undergird the decolonisation of higher education in Africa. These paradigms – decolonisation as Africanisation, decolonisation as indigeneity in education, racial undertones, and decolonisation as...

BackgroundPreventive chemotherapy with albendazole or mebendazole remains one of the cornerstones of soil-transmitted helminth control. However, these drugs are less effective against Trichuris trichiura. Combined ivermectin–albendazole is a promising treatment alternative, yet robust evidence is lacking. We aimed to demonstrate superiority of co-administered ivermectin–albendazole over albendazole monotherapy in three distinct epidemiological settings.MethodsWe conducted a double-blind,...

The paper is a scrupulous review of existing literature and research finding on material supply management in higher education.Relevant documents were thoroughly revisited and amalgamated into a manageable way to comprehensively bequeath empirical knowledge and an authentic picture of how material management looks like in higher education.Finally, the paper concluded that despite insufficient funding and ineffective system quality there are also high corruption and managerial negligence from...

During menstruation, school girls face obstacles connected to menstrual hygiene management in schools. Due to their monthly period, up to 20% of girls miss school globally, and one in ten will drop out entirely. Three hundred thirty-five million girls attended school without access to running water or soap. In Ethiopia, 67% of girls have no access to education on puberty and menstrual health; menstrual hygiene management continues to be one of the major problems among school girls. Thus,...

Malnutrition greatly increases the risk of infant mortality and vulnerability to various diseases later in the long run. It has been shown that children's malnutrition is the result of low household income. Rural areas in Cameroon are mainly made up of poor families. This guided the present research to analyze some socioeconomic factors and their impact on the nutritional status of pupils. Using a simple random sampling technique, 300 pupils were recruited. About 66.33% of pupils were from...

The study seeks to access challenges of the school feeding programme and its effects on enrolment and attendance in the Northern Region of Ghana. The review of relevant literature in this study identified the challenges within the school feeding programme which included political interference, non-involvement of the Ghana Education Service and the teacher. This retarded the efforts of the school feeding programme to better enhance the chances of increasing enrolment and attendance. These...

Stock price prediction one of the most fascinating challenges for both professionals and academicians, especially in high-volatility and high-complexity environments. Traders employ a variety of strategies to forecast stock values. In this study, we used a combination of technical indicators and the Random Forest (RF) algorithm to forecast Moroccan stock market in several time periods (1, 5 and 10 days), and we compared the findings to those of the Support Vector Machine (SVM) model. For all...

Food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa is a perennial problem, which was exacerbated by the global economic crisis, spiking food prices in 2007/2008 and in 2010/2011. In 2010, an estimated 239 million people or 26% of the world’s malnourished people lived in Sub-Saharan Africa. The trend is particularly problematic in the Horn of Africa, where in 2011; thirteen million people lived in hunger. The widespread concern about food insecurity inspired international collaboration between CIMMYT and...

Education has been cited in both theoretical and empirical literature as a key driver of socioeconomic growth. African educational outcomes, however, continue to be subpar at all levels. This study examines the impact of democracy on lifelong learning in 52 African countries from 1990 to 2020, employing Fixed Effects regressions. Six democracy indicators, which include electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, egalitarian, and total democracy, derived from the principal component...

Agriculture remains one of the major sources of livelihood in West Africa. The sector accounts for a significant share of output and employment in the sub-region. However, extreme weather events have been signaled to affect the sector’s productivity in recent times. In this study, we investigate the heterogeneous long-run relationship between climate change and agricultural productivity in West Africa from 1990 to 2020. Using the Augmented Mean Group (AMG) and the Common Correlated Effect...