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The prevalence and factors influencing GBV in institutions of higher education in Botswana is relatively unknown. We aimed to characterise the perceptions of University of Botswana (UB) students regarding the prevalence and factors that influence GBV at the institution. We conducted a cross-sectional study among UB undergraduate students using a self-administered questionnaire to establish their perceptions on factors that influence GBV among the university students and capture their...

The prevalence and factors influencing GBV in institutions of higher education in Botswana is relatively unknown. We aimed to characterise the perceptions of University of Botswana (UB) students regarding the prevalence and factors that influence GBV at the institution. We conducted a cross-sectional study among UB undergraduate students using a self-administered questionnaire to establish their perceptions on factors that influence GBV among the university students and capture their...

<JATS1:p>Good health and quality education are essential for economic growth and poverty reduction. Unfortunately, the quality of the education and health services provided in low-income countries is often low. Improving access and quality of education and health are key policy goals for Uganda. This paper builds on the Service Delivery Indicator study by further exploring issues related to the quality of service delivery in Uganda. The paper analyzes the quality of service from a poverty...

Appropriate behaviour is cardinal among people in every community. It is practically fundamentalfor young people and the youth to exhibit acceptable behaviour and university students are no exception.To attain acceptable behaviour there is need for behaviour modification.This paper is an extract from an on-going PhD study.The study was guided by the objective which sought to establish how guidance and counselling services were used to address deviate behaviour by students in public...

Since the liberalisation of higher education in Uganda in the early 1990s, a lot of changes have taken place in the organisation and provision of university education. The changes are not only seen in the diversification of providers and programmes of study but also in the nature of the students’ body, i.e. in numbers, composition and needs of students. The present study focused on the participation question of students who, prior to liberalisation of higher education, had been excluded...

The study carried out in order to analyze climate variability and drought in Rift Valley of Ethiopia. Hence, a number of analyses, such as: the Precipitation Concentration Index (PCI) and Coefficient of Variation (CV) methods are used for rainfall variability, Markov chain second order method were used in order to analysis dry spell length, while standardized rainfall anomaly were used for drought severity class. From the analysis the annual rainfall was less variable for all stations; while...

‪This paper presents a first mapping of the school-based industrial education which developed in Egypt at the turn of the 20th century. We first analyse the initiatives promoted by the Ministry of Public Instruction. We look then at the more numerous ones launched by private individuals. The founding of industrial schools is observed in a wide geographical context, before the focus narrows to the scale of the city, in order to scrutinise the dynamics at work at the local level. The case of...

The truth is … that the oppressed are not “marginals,” are not people living “outside” society. They have always been “inside”—inside the structure which made them “beings for others.” The solution is not to “integrate” them into the structure of oppression, but to transform that structure so that they can become “beings for themselves.” “What do you do?” asks a young African American man, turning towards his classmates. “What do you do when you get that feeling in the pit of your stomach?”...

This study investigated attribution related factors in English language performance among grade nine students (n=147) in Ethiopia. Three public secondary schools were selected from Adama town using census sampling techniques. English subject teachers of these schools, developed their own sixty item attribution survey (i.e., had 30 items of perceived reasons for success, and 30 items for perceived reasons for failure). The degree of influence for each item was scaled on a 5 point Likert scale...

The study evaluates the impact of risk on enterprises of smallholder male, female and young milk producers in Tanzania’s formal and informal dairy value chains. It also examines the effect of uncertainty on the decision to invest in milk production in both value chains. Results indicate that youths in the informal value chain face the greatest level of risk followed by men in the formal value chain, and then men in the informal value chain. Women in both value chains and youths in the formal...

This study was designed to examine the use of mobile phone, a widespread technology, and determined how this technology influences science students’ learning. The study intended to examine the use of smartphones in science teaching and learning and propose of model in the use of smartphones for teaching and learning. The research design employed was a descriptive survey. The target population for the study was science students and lecturers from three selected public universities in Ghana....

Flooding is a major problem facing Southern African region.The region has been experiencing flood for the past two decades.This flood event has been exacerbated in recent years by global weather pattern known as La Niña which cools ocean waters in the equatorial Pacific and changes rainfall patterns across the world.This change in weather pattern has resulted in increased rainfall over Southern Africa causing flash floods resulting in extensive socioeconomic loses, casualties and...

This paper explores the proposition that a complex systems approach may provide a useful conceptual underpinning for understanding and developing domestic climate mitigation policy in a developing country, using South Africa as a case study.Framing South African climate mitigation policy as a system contextualised by, and radically open to, the broader South African social, technological, economic, environmental, physical and political system highlights the properties and mechanisms of...

Examined in the light of Timothy Morton's "dark ecology," Ernest Hemingway's 1935 work of creative nonfiction, Green Hills of Africa, links the desertification of the American Plains states in the American Dust Bowl to the desertification of Africa, attributing both to the depredations of modernity as constructed by white men of European ancestry. Hemingway conflates the narrative's predominant trope of consumption via overzealous hunting to climate change elsewhere in his fiction. He...

Objective: This study was designed to determine the heavy metal pollution status of some rivers and creeks within oil producing communities in Delta state of Nigeria. Methodology and Results: Water and fish samples were collected from six Rivers in Delta state viz: Egbokodo River in Warri, River Ethiope in Sapele, Urie River in Igbide Isoko, Asaba-Ase creek, Aragba River in Abraka, and Uzere Creek. Water fresh, and ready to eat fish samples were analyzed for heavy metals (lead, cadmium,...

A submitted thesis of Masters of Art in Social and Psychological Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, School of Human and Community Development, 2017