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This paper aims to understand why smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe are “resisting” to adopt small grains as a strategy for adapting to the negative effects of climate change. The uptake of small grains has been very low among smallholder farmers in climate change affected districts in Zimbabwe in spite of expert advice. The paper seeks to interrogate this ‘refusal’ by small holder farmers to adapt through small grains. Data was collected using fifty (50) in-depth semi structured interviews...

This paper aims to understand why smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe are "resisting" to adopt small grains as a strategy for adapting to the negative effects of climate change. The uptake of small grains has been very low among smallholder farmers in climate change affected districts in Zimbabwe in spite of expert advice. The paper seeks to interrogate this "refusal" by smallholder farmers to adapt through small grains. Data were collected using fifty (50) in-depth semi-structured interviews...

Risky sexual behaviors (RSB) remain a public health concern among university students who are considered as key population for a nation's economic development.The aim of this study was to determine the proportion of sexually active students, RSB and their associated factors among students from two selected universities in Kigali.We employed a cross sectional study with data collection using a pre-tested questionnaire.IBM SPSS version 21 was employed for data analysis.Chi-square test was used...

It is a well-known fact the architecture industry is at the forefront of implementing and using Building Information Modelling (BIM) to conceptualize, develop, resolve and execute buildings.Although it may seem like a new concept, BIM had its foundations set in the 1980's with the disruption being 3D CAD.BIM has significantly been revolutionized beyond the likes of 3D CAD to become a complex system of information.Currently, BIM is still revolutionizing how architects design buildings by...

Architectural education, in the past had a grounding in a strict apprentice or pupillage method of training architects. The apprentice was someone who worked or trained under a master that transferred skill through a “hands on” approach. Architecture was regarded as one of the arts and there was no formal training to qualify one as an architect. It was through the acclaimed Vitruvius that the architectural profession was born. Vitruvius had published “Ten Books on Architecture” that led to...

This paper identifies the key needs that Higher Education Institutions have in relation to the professional development of their staff and explicates the challenges thereof. It commences by deconstructing what professional development in Higher Education institutions means and emphasizes that professional development should not be seen as a product but rather a process of enhancing the professional capabilities of academic staff so that they can perform their professional duties to their...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that motivate teachers to use ICT in teaching in remotely located secondary schools in Tanzania. The research used 14 secondary schools from Kaliua district as a case study, with a sample of 111 teachers. The research used simple random sampling strategy and a standardized questionnaire as the main tool of data collection. The results show four motivating factors such as teacher’s past experience on the use of ICT; the presence of...

Open government has come to be closely associated with innovation for inclusive development (IID). These two areas of practice and research have converged around similar mechanisms aimed at achieving inclusive development outcomes including; open interaction between government, technologists and end-users in the design of policies and services; open, market-oriented approaches to delivering public services and meeting the needs of citizens; and a central role for information and...

In the fourth century BC, Socrates and Aristotleand in the thirteenth century AD, Roger Bacon -viewed "induction or experimentation as the sine qua non of all knowledge".In the nineteenth century, John Dewey proposed that true education is derived from reflective life experience, rather than from merely memorising facts.These views, over centuries, still underscore the clinical legal education (CLE) methodology.A comparative analysis indicates the development of legal education and CLE in...

disability as a curse in the society makes them feel as if they do not belong to our society.Most people view the disabled as burdensome people [4].In addition, majority do not access health, environmental and economic resources [5,6].Most need special education which is not well structured in the current education system.The community lack awareness about the disabled people.Social support by the society would go a long way in helping cope with their conditions.Individuals living with...

Teleseismic events have been selected from a database of earthquakes with three components which were recorded between February 2005 and January 2007 by five seismic stations across the Garoua rift region which constitutes a part of the Cameroon Volcanic Line (CVL).The iterative time deconvolution performed by [1] applied on these teleseismic events, permitted us to obtain P-receiver functions.The latter were subsequently inverted in order to obtain S-wave velocity models with respect to...

The management of institutions of learning largely depends on the way their records are managed. Social media use and management of records created on social media is a subject that has raised a number of issues that require academic research to focus on. It has become inevitable for organizations and institutions of learning to embrace the use of several social media platforms in their conduct of business. The paper explores how the Midlands State University (MSU) in Zimbabwe has embraced...

Honeyman offers a refreshingly new perspective on governance and development in Rwanda. It does so in an unorthodox way. Shifting away from dominant tropes related to genocide, ethnicity and elite politics, the book examines how Rwanda’s current government has developed and implemented its secondary school entrepreneurship education policy and curriculum. Honeyman’s ethnography takes us inside the ‘black box’ of policy development and implementation, where we witness the tensions that arise...

African American girls were underrepresented in STEM related education and careers. Social and historical factors caused African American girls to be double marginalized based on gender and sex. African American girls had the potential to fill STEM positions with a strong foundation in advanced science courses. The current study focused on the unknown relationship between science teachers, advanced science courses, and African American girls participating in advanced science courses....