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Globally, the growing population of out-of-school children has become a major concern to education stakeholders. It is more of concern in Nigeria, as the available data suggests it has the highest population of the out-of-school children in the world. This concern has generated debates globally as regards what should be done to mitigate this problem. The enacting of Compulsory, Free Universal Basic Education Act (CFUBEA) 2004 was designed to make basic education accessible to all children....
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Characterised by high industrialisation, consumption, and trade, poultry production has become a predominant component of the agricultural industry.Climate change, however, is posing a critical challenge to its sustainability and rural sustenance.It has therefore become exigent to assess these impacts and available adaptation efforts put in place to assuage these risks.A multistage sampling procedure was used to select 101 smallholder poultry farmers in 18 villages across the Amathole...
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Following the British model, the education laws of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope (later the Cape Province) and the Transvaal historically recognised a basic distinction between public schools and private schools.The churches played a leading role in the development of private schools, which made a significant contribution to education in South Africa, especially for black children.Private schools enjoyed a high degree of independence in the colonial and pre-apartheid period.However,...
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Abstract African students in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) often belonged to national student clubs (NHG) that were arranged for them by the East German government. Many were also members of an umbrella organization for all African students and workers in the GDR (UASA). While the GDR authorities thought that the NHG and UASA would adopt political positions that reflected those of the GDR, this article demonstrates that the students instead used them to criticize both their own...
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Instructional supervision is an important aspect of educational management and leadership in any school and college. For this reason, every educational institution has established structures within the supervisory ierarchy as a form of division of labour and mechanism to ensure the effective and smooth running of the faculty at universities. Various universities have different supervisory hierarchy in the faculty, as dictated by the prescripts in each case. The most common hierarchical...
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For a country to develop, universities need to prepare students to be confident in facing the demands of the contemporary world of work.This paper focuses on examining how well universities are preparing students in Ghana in building a knowledge economy.The paper further explored the relationships among university preparation, students' preparation, and confidence of students.Using a cross-sectional survey design, data was gathered from 690 students from three public universities in Ghana,...
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Image analysis of African rock art creates a unique opportunity to engage in authentic explorations of science and culture using rock art images as data. African rock art and its context provide insights into the intersection of science, scientific research, research ethics, intellectual property, law, government, economy, indigenous people, and crime. This article specifically considers the rock art and other cultural contributions of the San people of Southern Africa, which offer a rich...
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This paper aimed at setting out the findings from an examination of academic staff member perceptions, with regard to support strategies afforded to academics at higher education institutions, using the Durban University of Technology as a case study. Even though much research has undertaken where the academic workload experienced by academics is concerned, little has been done to investigate actual support strategies that can be employed, in order to address some of the challenges faced by...
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There has been relatively low level of achievement in English language among secondary school students. The present study examined the relationship between the selected significant others and English language achievement among secondary school students in Kisumu East Sub-County. The study was guided by Lev Vygotsky’s Social Development Theory. The study employed sequential explanatory design. The target population comprised 6000 form three students drawn from the 19 secondary schools in...
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A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Educational, Information and Engineering Technology Wits School of Education The University of the Witwatersrand, August 2019
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The Optical Network is considered an important asset to any telecom operator. One of the most critical issues to the operators is how they can maximize the Return of Investments (ROI) by optimizing the operational costs in the optical network. In this paper for the first time we propose an Intelligent Universal Platform (IUF) to manage and optimize the operational tasks in the optical network. the proposed platform drives the supervision of the network to the automation, and is formed by the...
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The aim of this paper was to investigate the role of agricultural extension and training for sustainable food security.Improvement of a country's human capacity for productivity is a prerequisite for social and economic development.This study is a review of the envisaged role of agricultural extension and training for sustainable food security amongst smallholder farmers in South Africa.Findings revealed that agricultural extension can contribute to sustainable food security through...