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Nowadays, sentiment analysis on user-generated content on social media platforms has shown outstanding benefits in various fields such as marketing, politics, and medicine. Likewise, higher education institutions can draw advantages from the knowledge gained by sentiment analysis of student-generated content on social media to improve their policies and services. However, there has been no available social media corpus concerning Algerian higher education. In light of this, we provide...

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...

This paper is the second part of a scoping review that was completed in response to the question "To what extent does teacher education in sub-Saharan Africa currently include a focus on health literacy?"The methodology of the scoping review as well as the key themes for the over-arching area on health literacy was provided in a previous paper [1].In this paper, we present key themes related to an over-arching area of teacher education in sub-Saharan Africa. OVER-ARCHING AREA 2: TEACHER...

The objective of this work was to examine the effect of motor activity on sustained attention and the pleasure of learning in math class among Grade 1 students.It is an experimental study comparing two methods of learning in mathematics class.Two groups of 44 students participated in this study, one experimental group (N = 22) participated in motor-activity-based math sessions, and one control group (N = 22) participated in conventional teaching sessions.This experience demonstrated that...

Malian primary education has been suffering from funding inadequacies over the past two decades, negatively affecting the school's learning outcomes.At the same time, several studies on school funding conducted in Mali continue to drive the school stakeholders' attention to the drawback of school funding inadequacies on the quality of education.After a few decades, the percentage of the country's GDP allocated to the education sector continues to rise and exceeds the state's financial...

Distance learning is not the product of the modern world as some may think; its origins go back to the 1720s with the very first experience of correspondence learning. Nevertheless, the concept of online learning, on the other hand, is the product of the modern digitalized world since its principal key element is the Internet. In this paper, we are going to clarify the ambiguity underlying two interrelated but different concepts which are ‘distance learning’ and ‘e-learning’. Then, we will...

This study aimed to understand the existing relationships between virtues, character strengths, subjective well-being and academic achievement in Angolan university students. Two hundred and eighteen students from the Catholic University of Angola participated in this research. Virtues and character strengths were assessed with the VIA survey 24; subjective well-being with the Mental Health Continuum—Short Form—for youth, and academic achievement with cumulative grade-point average and the...

The strategy to maintain student discipline in secondary school is a crucial which guide students for future self-sustainability and the right to learn since a well-disciplined student learn without any distraction. The study examined the strategies used by heads of secondary schools in managing indiscipline problems for students’ academic achievement in Ilemela District in Mwanza Region, Tanzania. The study used convergent parallel mixed research design and applied assertive discipline...

This study sought to explore the functioning of school governing bodies (SGBs) with a view to understand how SGBs enable or disenable democracy in selected secondary schools in the Southern Province of Zambia. The study utilized a qualitative research approach and was underpinned by the conceptual framework of decentralization. The sample comprised members of SGBs (2 chairpersons, 2 head teachers, 2 parent governors, and 2 teacher governors). Data collected from interviews were analyzed...

The role of discourse markers (DMs) in English text production and comprehension has long been recognized to the extent that in Zambia, where English is taught and used as second language (ESL), these linguistic entities constitute specific teaching/learning topics at both Junior and Senior Secondary School levels in the country.The expectation is that by the end of Senior Secondary School pupils are able to use these units competently resulting in the production of coherent pieces of...

Self-directed learning (SDL) has been advocated for effective training of final-year health professions students. COVID-19 challenges conventional teaching, learning, and assessment in the clinical environment. This study aimed to identify and explore enablers and barriers to SDL among final-year health professions students training during the COVID-19 pandemic.Adopting the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) framework, this study explored the clinical learning and...

There is a paucity of evidence-based information regarding healthcare professionals' awareness and views toward counterfeit medicines in developing countries. Therefore; this is aimed to assess health care providers' knowledge, attitude, and practice toward counterfeit medicines in Mizan-Tepi University Teaching Hospital, South West Ethiopia. A cross-sectional study was conducted among health care providers working in Mizan-Tepi University Teaching Hospital from December 2020 to January...

This cross-sectional study examined COVID-19 attitudes and vaccine hesitancy among African American and Nigerian college students (N=189). African American and Nigerian college students were sampled from regional universities within the United States and Nigeria. Participants completed the World Health Organization (WHO) Vaccine Hesitancy Scale (VHS; 2014) and sociodemographic questions to assess attitudes, primarily vaccination hesitancy, toward COVID-19 vaccination. Independent t tests...

Under Article 1 of the Maputo Protocol “women” are defined as “persons of the female gender”. Notwithstanding this definition, transgender women, persons whose gender is female but who were assigned male at birth, are yet to be recognised or protected under the Protocol. On the contrary, on the African continent, transgender women are some of the most vulnerable persons in society. Due to their frequent misidentification as homosexual men, and widespread criminalisation of homosexuality,...