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Drought is a creeping phenomenon which leads to water shortage as a result of a prolonged period of precipitation deficits. As climate change continues to dominate the SIDs, the latter are expected to experience more frequent droughts with intensifying severity, which will pose threats to the islands’ environment and small economy (IPCC, 2023). It is therefore crucial for SIDS to resort to water resource planning and drought forecasting is an important tool for a more effective water...

Meteorological droughts occur when there is deficiency in rainfall; i.e. rainfall availability is below some acclaimed normal values.Hence, the greater challenge is to be able to obtain suitable methods for assessing drought occurrence, its onset or initiation and termination.Thus, an attempt was made in this paper to evaluate the performance of Standardised Precipitation Index (SPI) and Standardised Precipitation Anomaly Index (SPAI) to characterise drought in Northern Nigeria for purposes...

Welfare package has gained popularity in keeping employees' motivation levels high and accordingly help improve their performance, both at work and at home.Although it has become a concern as a motivational tool for enhancing productivity in the education sector, extant research has considered other forms of motivational packages at the higher levels of the educational system.The study, therefore, used the Maslow Hierarchy Theory and a cross-sectional survey research design to evaluate the...

The paper centered on various educational technologies that can be used in the teaching and learning of Economics. With the use of educational technologies such as the Google Classroom application, YouTube videos, virtual reality, Socrative, Edmodo, Kahoot, Classdojo, and blockchain technology, students of Economics will find it easy and convenient to acquire knowledge in an Economics classroom. Nigerian teachers of Economics should understand the significance of utilizing various...

School disengagement is a challenging educational issue in Liberia, despite its wide-ranging social effects. There has been minimal research on psychological factors that may affect students’ academic performance, and these variables have primarily been blamed for this school disengagement. Parental involvement in child’s education and school disengagement in Liberia were examined in this study. Palkovitz’s parental involvement theory guided the research. Correlational research was used....

After the country gained its freedom, one of the most prominent methods of making a living in Zimbabwe was a practice known as chikorokoza, which is an indigenous term for gold panning. The purpose of the study was to evaluate how chikorokoza has an impact on the educational system in the mining town of Kwekwe. In the current body of research, a pragmatic approach that triangulated data gathering and analysis was chosen as the method of choice. The purpose of this was to determine the actual...

Land use planning and climate change adaptation are critical for ensuring sustainable development and resilience in river-dependent communities in Nigeria. This study examines land use planning and climate adaptation in river-dependent communities, focusing on the Ayadeghe community in Nigeria. The research utilizes a methodology combining Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis and qualitative data collection through semi-structured interviews. The objective is to analyse the land use...

Home Science education is an interdisciplinary field of study which applies science and arts towards achieving better, healthier and happy homes. This study sought to establish the extent to which socio-cultural practices affect learners’ enrolment rates in home science education using a case of public secondary schools in Pokot Central Sub-County. Specifically, the study assessed the extent to which gender roles affect learners’ enrolment rates in Home Science education in public secondary...

We address problems regarding the need to provide durable, responsive, and transformative global learning experiences for educators through the development of equitable Global South-North partnerships. The desired results of these partnerships should be to provide pre-service and in-service teachers with quality experiences that enable them to promote global understanding and social justice within their own K-12 classrooms. To this end, we include in this article: (1) an analysis of how two...

Climate changeclimate change has been identified as an environmental and human crisis of the twenty-first century, which led to public, political, and academic attention being devoted to the issue of global warmingglobal warming and climate changeclimate change. At the root of climate changeclimate change is global warmingglobal warming caused by anthropogenic emissionsanthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxidecarbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases (for example, burning of fossil...

Studies suggest that bamboo is an excellent biological resource with the capacity to sequester and stock carbon while providing direct and indirect services that support human well-being. Cameroon, despite having a huge bamboo potential, has not benefited from these offers with respect to Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) and climate combat. This chapter aimed at estimating carbon stocks of Oxytenanthera abyssinica (A. Rich.) Munro in the High Guinea Savannah of Cameroon; compared with...

Zambia has been grappling with significant literacy problems for a long time, with the majority of its children not performing as well as their counterparts on cross-national literacy comparisons. Due to poor reading and writing abilities, many students fail to cope with school demands and drop out. Deciding on an appropriate language policy to improve literacy achievement has been a sticky point. Shortly after independence, the mother tongue based instruction policy was replaced by a...

The aim of the paper to establish the constraints and prospects of online teaching and learning platforms among lecturers and students in private Universities in Lusaka district. Multiple studies have demonstrated that COVID-19 has brought a rapid growth and paradigm shift in so many sectors of development inclusive of education worldwide. So much has been documented about COVID-19 and its impact on education mainly in public institutions. However, it has not been pronounced much in private...

The aim of the paper was to determine the effects of socioeconomic status and executive function on vocational choice among school leavers in Luanshya District. The study adopted a quantitative approach by utilised a correlational design. A total sample size of 475 (n=371, 78% male and n=104, 22 % female) were used in the study. This was done for a period of three (3) months in order to better understand the relationship of socioeconomic status and executive function on vocational choice....

Knowing Moho discontinuity topography is fundamental to understand mechanisms of lithosphere – asthenosphere interaction, extensional tectonism and crustal deformation in volcanic passive margins, such as the study area which is located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula bounded by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. In this work, the first 3D Moho depth model of the study area is constructed by inverting gravity data from the EGM2008. This model indicates the shallow zone is...