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Naturally, universities are international institutions. In the event of reports of xenophobic attacks across the South African communities, the universities were not spared. Imperial study results have confirmed such tendencies globally with great concern especially its effects on safety, growth, and development of countries. The aim of the chapter is to explore and describe the extent of xenophobic attacks within the higher education institutions in South Africa. This is presented from an...

More people die each year as a result of suicide than war or even homicide. Notably, in 2019 alone, 700,000 people died by suicide a shocking 1 in every 100 deaths. Furthermore a study by the World Health Organization and Global Burden of Disease revealed that 800,000 people die of suicide annually, that is every forty seconds of tragedy . Every September is the World Suicide Prevention month.In Kenya today, one in every ten persons is estimated to suffer from a common mental health...

The main objective of this paper is to explore how Civic Education acts as a catalyst to learner transformation.The paper is structured in categories such as pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) model, and Civic Education pedagogical content knowledge (CEPCK) model among others.The author contends that in order for effective teaching and learner transformation to occur, teachers of Civic Education at both junior secondary school and senior secondary school should be knowledgeable with the...

This chapter is culled from my PhD thesis. The purpose of this study was to conduct an empirical study on the ascribed roles of School Management Committees (SMCs) in monitoring the implementation of UPE in Uganda. SMCs are mandated to participate and monitor all the activities that make a school operational. The research questions that guided this study were twofold: (1) How do SMCs describe their roles in monitoring the implementation of UPE? (2) To what extent the SMCs influence the...

This study investigated the relationship between the student-centred pedagogical approach and student engagement at a private university in Western Uganda.The student-centred approach was studied in terms of active learning, contextual learning, motivation of learners and collaborative learning.On the other hand, student engagement was conceptualised in terms of behavioural, affective, cognitive and agentic engagements.The study adopted the cross-sectional research design on a sample of 264...

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of adaptation measures taken by the Ministry of Water and Sanitation to combat the effects of climate change on availability of water in Kenya. Specifically the study sought to assess the effectiveness of water harvesting and storage measures in adapting to effects of climate change on water availability in Kenya, to assess the effectiveness of catchment protection in combating effects of climate change on water availability in...

vital sign monitoring is a key component of safe facility-based obstetric care. We aimed to assess quality of care around vital sign monitoring during obstetric hospitalizations in a tertiary-care facility in a resource-limited setting.retrospective review of obstetric records at a tertiary care facility. We assessed documentation of vital signs including fetal and maternal heart rate, and maternal blood pressure, temperature, oxygen saturation and urine output. The primary outcome was the...

Introduction The Bachelor Degree in Emergency Medical Care (BEMC) is a unique program in that students operate in both emergency care and rescue contexts, unlike international paramedic degree programs which focus only on emergency care. The learning activities associated with the rescue content are physically strenuous and therefore BEMC students need to be physically and mentally prepared to engage in diverse austere environments. Although South African BEMC programs have a common medical...

While blended learning is well entrenched in many developed countries as a solution towards enabling access to educational resources and managing student diversity, this may not be the same for rural based universities in developing countries. Yet, blended learning is ideal for the current terrain of the COVID-19 pandemic which requires learning modalities that promote social distancing to reduce the spread of the disease while ensuring that students have access to quality teaching and...

The main purpose of the current study was to assess the effect of teachers' characteristics in the implementation of the new Business Subjects' curriculum in selected secondary schools of Kabale District, Uganda.The study was based on the doctrines of the curriculum theory developed by Ralph W. Tyler.The mixed methods research, enclosed within a pragmatism paradigm, drawn on a concurrent triangulation research design was used.Thirteen secondary schools were selected as cases of...

With increasing evidence that rural households in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) opt for deagrarianization as an adaptation strategy to climate change, it is becoming important to understand the role of Global Climate Change (GCC) in ongoing structural transformation processes in these countries. We use Senegal as a case study country and analyze how various GCC scenarios affect the country's economic sectors, households' welfare, and structural transformation patterns. Our simulation results...

This study explores the role of governance indicators on primary school completion rate in thirty-four sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries in the year 2011 following a multiple regression model along with control variables such as per capita GNP, the share of government expenditure in education, the prevalence of HIV among the population of reproductive age. The cross-country regression results clearly demonstrate that the governance indicator namely government effectiveness has a positive...

The usage of English as the official language of Zambia has disadvantaged a lot of people to access and succeed in higher education. The educational system that was inherited from the colonizers has not radically changed to accommodate students who have struggled to engage and express themselves in English. As a result, many students have dropped out of education of their inability to express themselves sufficiently. This is aggravated by the fact that local languages are only taught at...

This paper investigates the relationship between the education level of household heads and households’ energy-saving practices at the micro-level in South Africa. It uses the community survey of 2016 as data source. Multilevel logistic models are estimated to account for heterogeneity that characterises the sample data due to the fact that households are nested within municipalities. The findings point to a significant and positive relationship between education level of household heads...