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Advancement in communication technology has brought about many changes in the field of teacher development, such as the need to infuse the many technology-related skills required by today’s teachers in teacher training content. Ertmer and Ottenbreit-Leftwich (2010) identify several such skills and knowledge required. In their view, teachers should be enabled to handle technological tools for use in their teaching. They need to practise microteaching using ICT-based teaching methods. New...

This book focuses on the knowledge area of higher education governance, organisational dynamics, leadership and decolonisation. We have observed that governance discourse has been excluded in debates that concern the public good. The construct of public good seeks to support higher education that does not support a capitalist view of profit-making, arguably to respond to societal demands and needs such as developmental efforts through academic functions. Higher Education focuses on...

The imbalances of the South African education system before 1994 resulted in many rural women predominantly without education and training.The lack of primary education and skills has beckoned many women to ill-treatment, rejection, vulnerability, abuse, hunger, diseases, poverty, and unemployment.For women to thrive socially and economically, education is crucial.So Adult and Community Education and Training (ACET) for the underprivileged rural women are essential for development and...

Introduction: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. In Cameroon, several women with breast cancer have gone through mastectomy for treatment. They face some difficulties living in society and within their couple with only one breast. The aim of this study was to describe the quality of life (QOL) of women after mastectomy in two hospitals in Douala.

severe and frequent rise in temperature and the failure of rainfall caused a shortage of water, which resulted in food insecurity in Ethiopia. The objective of this study is to assess rural households’ vulnerability to climate change-induced water scarcity and adaptation strategies in Jawi woreda, Northwest Ethiopia. Primary and secondary sources provided both qualitative and quantitative data. The primary data were gathered from 120 randomly selected respondents via a survey questionnaire...

youth-friendly services are services that are accessible, acceptable, and appropriate for them. Youths are suffering by unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortion and its complications and Sexually transmitted diseases (STIs) including HIV. However, a little study was done in Ethiopia previously. Hence, the purpose of this study is to assess the utilization of youth-friendly reproductive health services and associated factors among secondary school students in Areka Town, Sothern...

Volcanic deposits from the lake Nyos contain ultramafic xenoliths: lherzolites, harzburgites and wehrlites, sometimes containing amphiboles and phlogopites.The lithospheric mantle beneath Nyos, as inferred from chemical diagrams, has experienced partial melting and variably cryptic and modal metasomatism of the two groups of samples that have been distinguished: Group 1 samples are characterized by spoon-shaped REE patterns, and Group 2 samples show light (L) REE-enriched...

Xenoliths enclosed in Lavas of the Nyos volcano (Cameroon Volcanic Line, continental sector) range from fertile lherzolites to harzburgites.One spinel-free wehrlite has been also sampled.The occurrence of phlogopites and pargasites in some harzburgites together with specific textural rock-type (lherzolites transitional porphyroclastic to equigranular), including major and trace element compositions both in peridotites bulk rocks and minerals point out interactions between the mantle and...

This study seeks to examine the prevalence of maternal morbidities and deaths in Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.This was a cross-sectional study. Total purposive sampling method was employed to collect data prospectively using modified World Health Organization criteria for baseline assessment of maternal near-miss and mortality. Pregnant women or those who are within 42 days postpartum/any form of pregnancy termination that satisfy the inclusion...

Gender-based intra-household resource distributions constitute an important role in technology adoption-related decisions. Using a non-unitary household model and fitting an empirical adoption model for men and women individually and jointly, we examine how gender-based ownership, management and control of resources are correlated with adoptions of a portfolio of climate change adaptation strategies. Our analysis is based on recent household survey data with detailed household plot-level...

Introduction: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a medical condition caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and has been the major concern worldwide.Despite antiretroviral treatment (ART) has shown significant clinical importance by meeting the goal of the rapy, there is still a number of deaths due to socio-economic, demographic, and health-related factors.Therefore, this study was aimed to investigate the survival status and predictors of mortality for adult HIV-positive...

Background: Oral health care is the most common unmet need among individuals with a disability. Individuals with a disability may have compromised oral health needs due to neglect from parents, socioeconomic problems, and communication barriers. In Ethiopia, there is a lack of data on oral health status of the hearing-impaired population. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the oral health status of hearing-impaired students in the Amhara region, Ethiopia. Methods: A cross-sectional study...

caustic pharyngoesophageal strictures are life-threatening injuries with important management difficulties, lacking clear therapeutic guidelines. The aim of this study is to evaluate the surgical procedures and outcomes of severe caustic pharyngoesophageal strictures in our institution.a total of 29 patients who underwent surgery for severe caustic pharyngoesophageal injury at the National Cardiothoracic Center from June 2006 to December 2018 were retrospectively reviewed. The age...

The quest for access to higher education has increased rapidly in the past 25 years of democracy in South Africa. However, this increase has not been matched by student academic success. This lack of success may even be worse with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has given rise to challenges that have affected student learning, especially for students who come from historically disadvantaged backgrounds. In response to these, many institutions of higher learning have...

Indigenous knowledge (IK) is facts, information, and skills owned by the local communities around the globe. This knowledge evolved overtime from daily experience and modified to the local culture and environment. The aim of this chapter is to advance the position that IK present crucial opportunity for smallholder farmers in Tanzania to adapt with climate change impacts. In African context, the history of knowledge production did not start with the coming of western people and the future of...