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The paper investigated the challenges faced by female students enrolled in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) field of study. The social cognitive theory (SCCT) was employed to examine the role played by the environment, goals, behaviour, and self-efficacy factors of female students studying towards Engineering and Information Technology degrees at a traditional South African university. The study examined the interdependencies between these four factors and their...

Introduction: in sub-Saharan Africa, 62% of the urban population reside in slums but there is paucity of data on the prevalence of dental caries in underprivileged children residing in urban slums in diverse regions of Nigeria.. The purpose of our study was to determine the caries experience, risk factors, indicators and their association with anthropometric indices among children in a Nigerian slum.

Ponte Academic JournalOct 2022, Volume 78, Issue 10 A REVIEW OF THE DYNAMICS AND COMPLEXITIES OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHER TRAINING BY DISTANCE IN SOUTH AFRICAAuthor(s): Sunday Olawale OlaniranJ. Ponte - Oct 2022 - Volume 78 - Issue 10 doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2022.10.3 Abstract:While there is broad consensus about the relevance of open and distance learning (ODL) to the teaching and learning delivery in higher education, there is limited research about the challenges facing distance learning...

The sudden outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) dealt a great blow on the global educational sector, given the ill-preparedness of most countries to leverage digitisation. This study x-rayed the performance of the Nigerian educational sector and its response to COVID-19 pandemic with a view to underscoring the imperativeness of digitising education to forestall future shocks. The findings revealed the unimpressive performance of the Nigerian educational sector as learning came to a...

This study examined the determinants of environmental pollution in Sub-Sahara Africa.Specifically the study analyze the effect of some economic variables (Energy Consumption, Gross Domestic Product, Population Size, Trade Openness, Domestic Investment, Foreign Direct Investment) on the level of environmental pollution measured in terms of carbon-dioxide emission, Nitrous-oxide emission and methane emission.This study focused on 35 Sub-Saharan African countries, covering a period of 18 years...

Vaccination has been appraised to be one of the most significant public health achievements in human history. However, in countries like Nigeria, vaccine hesitancy is a public health challenge that has consistently forestalled concerted efforts made by health authorities to curb the spread of communicable diseases such as COVID-19. To improve COVID-19 vaccine acceptance via targeted interventions, it is imperative to examine the public's perception. Thus, this study aims to evaluate vaccine...

While higher education is crucial for the development of ideals and skills necessary for democratic societies to take root and prosper, higher education institutions’ missions have been tested during this time of uncertainty. The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the instabilities and disparities in global higher education by exacerbating profound social fractures and long-standing structural imbalances. As such, the study examined how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected rural higher education...

This technical note outlines the methodology used to create a region-wide dataset of projects that have implemented NBS for climate- and water-resilience objectives in two multilateral development bank (MDB) portfolios — the World Bank and the African Development Bank. The resulting dataset includes 85 projects led by these MDBS over a 10-year period (2012‒21), including 46 projects from the World Bank and 39 projects from the African Development Bank. Total budgets for World Bank projects...

This chapter provided an overview of science education in South Africa. From a broad introduction to the country and its current economic, technological and cultural development it is evident that the country's colonial and apartheid past has made a definite impact on the wider education system. This chapter, furthermore, presented a summary of the country's education in terms of school and post-school sectors. In addition, the relevant governmental structures and national qualification...

Becoming a qualified and excellent Chinese teacher depends on many factors such as the teacher's Chinese teaching ability and teacher quality.Teaching ability has always been the core ability of teachers.Therefore, in order to meet the training needs of native Chinese language teachers, we first need to study their teaching abilities and develop corresponding training programs for their current teaching ability problems.In this study, we used questionnaires, interviews and observation method...

In recent years, as Chinese has become a "hot" language in the world, the popularity of Chinese language learning in Cameroon is constantly increasing.Chinese character teaching is an important part of Chinese learning, and learning Chinese characters is one of the unavoidable difficulties for Cameroonian students.This paper mainly analyzes the writing errors of Chinese characters among secondary school students in Cameroon, focusing on three aspects: the errors in strokes, the errors in...

This paper focuses on understanding the different attitudes exhibited by secondary school students in Lagos state and their influence on their academic performance. The survey design method was adopted using an online google questionnaire circulated via social media platform (WhatsApp) to elicit secondary school students’ responses. 224 responses were analyzed using descriptive statistics for the presentation of results. Findings showed that secondary school students pay less attention to...

In 2016, a Pediatric Nursing Continuing Professional Development (PNCPD) program was created and implemented in Kigali, Rwanda, through the Training, Support, and Access Model (TSAM) for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH). This partnership project between Canada and Rwanda provided pediatric nursing education to forty-one Rwandan nurses and nurse educators in 2018 and 2019. The objective of this research study was to explore the experiences of nurses and nurse educators applying...

This study investigated the strategies for bridging the skill gap of technical vocational education and training (TVET) graduates towards economic recovery in a Recessed economy. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. Three research questions guided the study and the population of the study comprised of sixty (60) vocational and technical education lecturers in TVET departments in Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Ijanikin and Michael Otedola Primary College of...

Teachers' availability (demand and supply) in quantity and quality determine effectiveness in upper basic schools in term of academic performance.Despite various measures taken by the government in the past to supply more qualified teachers, there is a gap in the demand and supply of qualified teachers and this hinders academic performance of upper basic schools.This study investigated teacher demand projection and students' academic performance of upper basic school in Zamfara State,...

Adoption of technologies is vital to sustainable livelihood and socioeconomic development of rural households.The level of Adoption of introduced climate change adaptation strategies in Kishi, Oyo State, Nigeria was assessed in this study.The study also investigated the factors influencing the adoption rate of the technologies with a view to identify the constraints vis-a-vis suggesting solutions for improving adoption.In an attempt to carry out the said objective, data were obtained through...

One of the most important sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is agriculture. This sector ensures food security, supports livelihoods, and creates jobs for a large number of the population within this region. In Nigeria, the situation is not different. Across the Sudano-Sahelian zone in Nigeria, crop productivity is beginning to feel the impact of the changing climate in terms of yield and socio-economic livelihood. This study aimed at understanding the effect of the cycles of atmospheric...