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Youth have difficulty making the transition from education to the workplace in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. High levels of youth unemployment prevail in South Africa, and it is necessary to find ways to assist youth to enter the workplace. The purpose of this grounded theory study is to explore how educators view the efficacy of social and emotional learning (SEL) skills in the learning environment. There is evidence worldwide that implementation of SEL skills is effective for improving...

Learning is a fundamental human right, the basis of developing human capital and the foundation of human development. Basic skills provide individuals, their families and communities with the foundations needed to participate in society and to achieve better life chances. The shift in focus from mass access to mass learning has drawn attention to the question of who is and is not attaining these skills, and why. Opportunities to learn depend on access to schooling, but also the effectiveness...

Hookahs, or water pipes, are ornate glass bowl structures used to smoke tobacco products, often in private or public social settings. Hookah smoking is believed to have originated in ancient India in the 16th century; however, it has seen rapid global expansion over the last two decades. A number of studies using high-cost, regulatory or research grade instruments have found respirable particulate concentrations in hookah lounges up to several hundred micrograms per cubic meter. In the...

The learning crisis in sub-Saharan Africa is alarming. More than 80 percent of primary school-age children are not mastering the basics of reading and math. A package of interventions that uses information on students’ learning to establish collaboration among parents, teachers, and community members to address the learning crisis was developed in Madagascar. The package integrated an effective teaching approach, “Teaching at the Right Level.” This study investigated the effectiveness of the...

Cost sharing in education refers to a shift in the burden of education costs from being borne exclusively or predominately by government, or taxpayers, to being shared with parents and students.This cost sharing, may take the form of tuition, either being introduced where it did not hitherto exist or being rapidly increased where it already did, or of public institutions charging more nearly break-even, or full, cost fees for room, board, books, and other costs of student living that may...

The Makiso municipality is located in an urban area influenced by a very high rate of land occupation by houses.This land use has an impact on the quality of the groundwater exploited by wells and springs.This groundwater helps to make up for the deficit caused by the lack of a water distribution network.It is also threatened by pollution from human activities.In order to protect the groundwater in Makiso municipality from pollution, the study of the intrinsic vulnerability assessment in the...

An unprecedented amount of disruption to life in general and higher education in particular resulted from the unexpected onset of the Coronavirus pandemic in late 2019. In Zimbabwe, cases of infection and the first victim of the pandemic were reported when the first semester of the 2020 academic year had just started in March. There is paucity of literature, at the time of writing this article, on Zimbabwe higher education students’ experiences of COVID-19 induced online education. To fill...

In this study, the national education policies and the selected four universities policies were analysed to evaluate their intent to the alignment with the sustainability. An assessment tool based on the 17 SDGs and on Mozambique's commitment goals to the 2030 Agenda was developed as instrument of analysis. NVivo 12 software was used to codify the sustainability indicators in the assessment tool. The HE policies show week integration of SDGs in a top bottom perspective. There is a lack of...

The farmers in the northern region of Sierra Leone grow cereal crops, vegetables, root crops, leguminous crops and fruits.The majority of the farmers cultivate only a small or moderate size plots usually scattered in different location using crude tools such as hoes and machetes.Prevalent in most areas is subsistence farming whereby each family struggle to produce barely enough food to feed its household.The need for agricultural education and mechanization of agriculture is essential in the...

The education system in Africa has its contradictions and complexities, all of which hinder the successful implementation of inclusive education. Learners with disabilities in Africa have suffered widespread violations of their rights. Inclusive education for learners with learning barriers should be acknowledged in an African context. The lens of ubuntu provides an unconventional knowledge system which places the needs of the child at the centre of its focus. Ubuntu philosophy, as one of...

In each chapter, ubuntu and Afrocentricity was used to interpret and discuss inclusive education by using African concepts linked to African cultures without an alternative to Western approaches and frameworks. The book provides exclusive insight into the way relationships between inclusive education and African epistemology can jell well towards the construction of knowledge and understanding that promote local knowledge in tackling “inclusive education” in the African environment. Although...

Abstract Cities in Southern Africa are experiencing a rapid rate of urbanisation, which exacerbates the impacts of climate change on cities. The recent droughts and water stress in Cape Town, South Africa and Windhoek, Namibia, impacts of Cyclone Idai that destroyed 90% of Beira city, and recurrent heatwaves are evidence of the impacts of climate change on cities in the region. Planners are responsible for the spatial configuration of spaces and places such that cities are safe, resilient,...

This book critically examines the role of governments in promoting parity during and in post-pandemic education. This comes from the realisation that the pandemic has deepened the crisis by depleting the meagre resources that African countries might have devoted to ‘normative educational practices’ where those on the margins would have been pushed further behind while the privileged would have been further initiated into the cultural and capital flows of private schools and historically...

Ponte Academic JournalDec 2022, Volume 78, Issue 12 A STUDY OF READING HABITS OF SELECTED EXTENDED PROGRAMME STUDENTS AT A SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITYAuthor(s): Stenford Matenda ,Rumbidzai NcubeJ. Ponte - Dec 2022 - Volume 78 - Issue 12 doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2022.12.4 Abstract:Research on the importance of reading over the years has consistently shown that reading has social, psychological, moral, emotional, and cognitive benefits. In higher education contexts, reading has been found to be the...