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Cities in sub-Saharan African countries are feeling the impact of climate change with an increase in climate refugees and they have to deal with more intense flooding, land degradation and erosion, droughts, and heatwaves affecting in particular the poor living in informal settlements. Strategies on how to adapt and move to more resilient cities are being designed. But the question is how this transition can be done while municipalities in sub-Saharan Africa are facing difficulties coping...

Cities in sub-Saharan African countries are feeling the impact of climate change with an increase in climate refugees and they have to deal with more intense flooding, land degradation and erosion, droughts, and heatwaves affecting in particular the poor living in informal settlements. Strategies on how to adapt and move to more resilient cities are being designed. But the question is how this transition can be done while municipalities in sub-Saharan Africa are facing difficulties coping...

This chapter presents theoretical discussions about advancing the demarginalization of African American students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by bringing in insights from Afrocentric and symbolic-interaction perspectives. Here, the authors discuss demarginalization related to certain intra-racial and intersecting class, gender, and mental health issues emerging since COVID-19 and online learning. The ideas presented here are equally viable in student face-to-face...

The paper focuses on the presence of a strong relationship between the level of education and unemployment in the EU and the OECD countries. A graphic confirmation of the change in the relative wages of employees depending on the level of education is given. The authors noted that in recent years there has been an expansion of the mass character of higher education, however, the latter has undergone transformations, in particular, the emergence of universities of a new format - University...

How can African governments mobilise additional tax revenue in support of an inclusive development agenda? Improved tax revenue performance goes hand-in-hand with broader development of the economy ...

This study investigated the influence of parental involvement on student's academic performance.Simple random sampling was used to select 352 form four students from a sample of 13 public day secondary schools in Bumula sub-County.The data was analyzed using percentages, weighted averages, means and one way ANOVA.The study established that parental involvement play a significant role in influencing the academic performance of the students in public day secondary schools.

The purpose of this study is to examine undergraduate students’ motivation towards the use of electronic resources at Federal College of Education (Technical), Gombe. The objectives of the study include: to determine the extent of motivation towards the use of e-resources by undergraduate students, to explore the level perception of the undergraduate students to acquire skills to use e-resources and to examine various challenges faced by students in the use of e-resources. This study was...

This paper investigated the utilization of school facilities as they affect students’ academic performance in Wuakari metropolis of Taraba State. An ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study. The population of students comprise those who completed JSS3 between 2014-2017. Data for the study were collected using a School Facility Utilization Questionnaire (SFUQ) and School Facility Provision Checklist (SFPC). The results of the student were obtained from the State Ministry of...

The two topics highlighted in this volume, entrepreneurship and co-operatives, and education within these fields, may be regarded as essentially disparate themes. However, looking more closely it i ...

South Africa has endorsed both the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) which is to be aligned to its National Development Plan and the agenda of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), which will inform economic direction and is supported in the country’s forthcoming Science and Technology White Paper. These two agendas are potentially divergent, and care is required to align the actions taken in support of these agendas. Both ICT and education are core drivers of both agendas and thus...

In this paper we summarize and supplement results to date from an ongoing case study that highlights both the physical complexities of Nile flood responses under hydroclimatic forcing wrought by explosive volcanic eruptions and the equally complex social responses to these failures. The physical response to volcanic forcing often resulted in a suppression of the agriculturally critical Nile summer flood in what is commonly, but somewhat subjectively, described as a “Nile failure.” We can now...

Objectives A growing literature highlights the intergenerational transmission of human capital from parents to children. However, far less is known about ‘upward transmission’ from children to parents. In this study, we use a 1996 Botswana education policy reform as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of children’s secondary schooling on their parents’ health. Setting Botswana’s decennial census (2001 and 2011). Data were obtained through the Integrated Public Use Microdata...

Background: Educational institutions both private and public (schools, colleges, and universities) in Zambia are predominantly based on traditional methods (face to face) of teaching and learning.The unexpected outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) disrupted and shook the entire world's formal educational ecosystem.As a result, education systems all across the world, including Zambia, were forced to switch...

This study aimed at understanding the impacts of the seasonal hydroclimatic variables on maize yield and developing of statistical crop model for future maize yield prediction over Tanzania.The food security of the country is basically determined by availability of maize.Unfortunately, agriculture over the country is mainly rain fed hence highly endangered by the detrimental consequences of climate change and variability.Observed climate data was acquired from Tanzania Meteorological...

The purpose of this study was to investigate empirically the influence of principals' leadership styles on the organizational performance of primary teachers training colleges in Lake Victoria Region of Kenya.Independent variables comprised Laissez faire and autocratic leadership styles, while the dependent variable was organizational performance.The study employed a quantitative method approach with questionnaires as the instruments for data collection.The target population for this study...