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This paper explores the impact of climate change and variability on wetland maize production in the highlands and central plateaus of Rwanda and its connection to the problem of food insecurity. Data were obtained using different methods and techniques including literature review, analyses of meteorological and maize yield data, field observation, household questionnaire and semistructured interviews. Research findings revealed abnormal changes in temperature with a mean temperature increase...
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Scholarship has tended to treat state modernisation of education in the Middle East as a process of displacing an indigenous system of religious learning with a secular European-modelled system of general education. Considering newspaper articles written and published by Muḥammad ʿAbduh on state education and knowledge in the Egyptian state newspaper from 1880 to 1881, this paper complicates this picture. It shows how ʿAbduh, acting in his state role as chief publisher, articulated a public...
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The effects of the recent global economic crisis on Nigeria have reaffirmed the urgent need for the diversification of the economy. Although, no country is immune to such global crisis, the over-reliance on oil export revenue by Nigeria exposes her exchange rate and economy excessively to external shocks. Therefore, there is the need to conduct a research of this nature to examine Nigeria’s exchange rate sensitivity. This study employed Neo-Classical theory with financial intervention using...
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Human personality is a product of cultural ideologies transmitted via institutions of socialisation -family, schools, religion, and the mass media.The school system is responsible for secondary socialisation of citizens after the family.The major obligation is the purposeful creation and strengthening of personality, to give the citizens proper formation so that they can integrate socially and take up responsibilities in the various facts of the society.The success or otherwise of this...
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This study investigated principals' and teachers' beliefs of the impact of community participation on the implementation of secondary school curriculum in Gombe metropolis, Gombe State, Nigeria. Two specific objectives and two research questions were formulated. Descriptive designwas adopted. A sample of 279 principals and teachers was selected using proportionate random sampling techniques. Instrument used was a structured questionnaire titled Impact of Community Participation Questionnaire...
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Many universities and institutions around the world have set up different internal and external mechanisms ensuring quality and best practices. Effective quality assurance systems beyond those institutions themselves are becoming of higher priority in national strategies. As a result, many countries worldwide have set up Higher Education (HE) quality assurance agencies at the national level. Although Algeria has followed their counterparts in adopting quality assurance programmes in Higher...
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I don't feel like in any way the hijab makes it dangerous to do sports," said Hana, an adolescent Muslim girl involved in organized youth sports.My completed research paper explores the complexity of Muslim girl athletes in Chicago, London, and Cape Town, and their interactions with political and social issues within a controlled merit based environment.. Twenty-six student athletes, ages 14 to 19, from the three locales were observed and interviewed; two athletes from each serve as case...