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Background: Cancers are a disease of growing public health importance in Africa, but cancer research capacity in the region is underdeveloped. The quest to foster and promote locally conceptualized and conducted oncology research in Africa have informed the African Research Group for Oncology's (ARGO) research capacity-building efforts in Nigeria. Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of oncology research capacity-building initiatives among Nigerian senior trainees and junior faculty...

Anatomy, a foremost basic medical science (BMS) has evolved in content and context, while remaining the most fundamental BMS subject.Stakeholders have continually made efforts especially in recent time to achieve an evolution of this subject.The primary aim of this work was to study the perceptions and experiences of Anatomists towards contributing to programme and career advancements.Following ethical approval, structured questionnaire was administered to Nigerian anatomists using a Google...

Provision of welfare services to students is one way of attaining a solution to depressive symptoms predicted by typical school experiences. Whereas administrators of many secondary schools have put in place various welfare services, public schools in some regions of Kenya such as Kisumu County have continued to experience student indiscipline incidents over the years. The objective of this paper was to investigate the influence of provision of student welfare services on discipline...

The free education policy at the senior high school levels in Ghana resulted in an increase in enrollment numbers which subsequently lead to the adoption of the double track system which necessitated the need to divide students into two tracks.This meant that while one track was in school, the other was on vacation.As such, an innovative way is needed to keep students' engage especially a track that is on vacation.The purpose of this research was to determine the perception of teachers on...

In the past decade, the number of people living with life-threatening diseases has increased. However, these people need to live their remaining life as meaningful as possible, even when they are at the end stage and may have a few months to live. Objectives: This study sought to examine the practices of palliative care (PC) among nurses at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH). Method: The study employed an analytical cross-sectional design. The instrument used for the study was a...

Environmental pollution, procurement issues, corrupt practices and infrastructural decadence are major issues confronting contract management and civil engineering construction in most nations of the world. These issues can be eradicated through the adoption of public-private partnership and concession activities for sustainable development. This paper investigated action plan and implementation of public-private partnership in the planning, finance and management of engineering projects...

Background: Sexually Transmitted diseases (STDs) are societal problems that could result in tremendous health, social and economic consequences. Due to certain socio-cultural beliefs, certain regions of Nigeria could be poorly aware of STDs and their consequences especially in the adolescents. Hence the need for assessment and health education on STDs in the adolescent population. Objectives: This study aims to assess the awareness levels of sexual transmission diseases among adolescents in...

Dysmenorrhea is defined as painful menstruation due to prostaglandin secretion that is associated with cramps. It is a recurrent crampy pain that occurs during the menstruation. This study aimed at identifying student pharmacists and student nurses’ knowledge of dysmenorrhea and pattern of treatment of dysmenorrhea. A random simple sampling techniques was employed. A total of 380 questionnaires were retrieved from the participants cutting across 200 level to 500 level student pharmacists and...

The current study examined the serial relationship between perceived vulnerability to disease, fear of COVID-19, anxiety, and psychological distress among school teachers. Participants were South African school teachers (n = 355) who completed the Perceived Vulnerability to Disease Questionnaire, Fear of COVID-19 Scale, trait scale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Beck Hopelessness Scale, and the Centre for Epidemiological Depression Scale. A path analysis confirmed that teachers who...

Orientation: Knowledge of a subject and cognitive strategies are usually not enough to increase students’ academic performance; students need also to be motivated to use learning strategies and deal with test and examination anxiety to be successful, especially in their first year of study. Purpose: The purpose of the study was to measure first-year accounting students’ motivational aspects and learning strategies versus academic performance at a South African university. Research questions:...

Orientation: Knowledge of a subject and cognitive strategies are usually not enough to increase students’ academic performance; students need also to be motivated to use learning strategies and deal with test and examination anxiety to be successful, especially in their first year of study. Purpose: The purpose of the study was to measure first-year accounting students’ motivational aspects and learning strategies versus academic performance at a South African university. Research questions:...

In South Africa, the concept of ‘higher vocational’ education and training is multi-layered and understood very differently depending on which institutional type it is being associated with. In spite of the establishment of a National Qualifications Framework (NQF) in 1995 which was intended to bring about some coherence across the education and training system, and enhance portability of credits and articulation, perceptions of institutional hierarchies and the ‘value’ of their...

Papua New Guinea, with its ancient cultures and recent colonization, has a unique history. It provides a revealing, and fascinating, case study of how mathematics and mathematics education have changed over a long period of time. We present reasons for claiming that Indigenous forms of mathematics and mathematics education were present well before colonization. PNG’s ecology and multiple diverse languages and cultures provide the backdrop for a discussion on practices, policies, and politics...

This chapter provides an epilogue to the book. It contains the authors’ deliberations in looking back to what has transpired and looking forward to a possible future, bringing arguments from alternative perspectives. Three approaches that could overcome in-bred neocolonial attitudes in education for Papua New Guinea (PNG) are summarized and discussed. The first is the valuing of differences and, in particular language differences, associated with different cultural groups. This would demand...

Most education research is undertaken in western developed countries. While some research from developing countries

High incidence of drought and donor fatigue in Zimbabwe calls for more sustainable measures of ensuring food security. This study analyzed the impact of nutritional gardens in the two droughtprone districts of Mudzi and Mutoko. In line with attaining Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targeted to be achieved by 2030, nutritional gardens were identified as a sustainable way to mitigate climate change and address the ‘hidden hunger’ challenge. Primary data was collected using a baseline...

Teacher’s job satisfaction is one of the areas in enhancing student’s academic performance which calls for school management attention for the school progress because the development of any school depends much on teacher’s satisfaction. This study aim was to investigate the influence of school heads’ motivational practices on teachers’ job satisfaction in public secondary schools at Igunga District, Tanzania. The study is guided by the Herzberg’s two factor theory of motivation. Convergent...

Over the last decade, secondary schools in Tanzania have failed to produceenough graduates who are able to join higher level of schooling (Advanced level). Only less than 35% of students were able to score between division one and three.Theaimofthisstudywastodevelopafactormodelwithfactorsaffectingtheoverallperformance in secondary schools in certificate of secondary national examinations inTanzania. Data was collected from 26 secondary schools in Dar es salaam and Arushausing...

Climate change comes with hazards that impose cost on livelihood capitals that are very important to agriculture in particular and the economy in general. This study was aimed at eliciting evidence of Climate change and it’s associated hazards and estimating monetary cost of the hazards on livelihood capitals with a view to making recommendations that will minimise the cost on livelihood capitals of farmers in coastal communities of Delta State of Nigeria. The study area which is found...