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This study explored the stakeholders’ construction of quality of Pre-primary Education (PPE) based on the various dimensions of PPE in Tanzania with special attention being paid to policy as discourse. The study involved a total of 129 informants sampled differently. The study sampled parents through convenience sampling technique, while teachers and experts were sampled through maximum variation technique. The study used descriptive cross-sectional design underpinned by interpretive...

Volunteering plays an integral part in the success of numerous South African and Australian organisations and university students have been identified as a latent target population with the greatest potential for volunteering. Organisations who wish to recruit students should be knowledgeable regarding their motives and constraints in order to increase community and sport volunteer activities. The purpose of this study was to identify and compare the motives and constraints influencing...

This study sought to examine the quality of teaching practice (TP) mentoring in the teaching of music at primary school level through the distance mode of training at one college of education in Zimbabwe. The study examined the experiences and perceptions of lecturers and student teachers on TP mentoring in music within the context of a distance mode of teacher training. A purposive sample of 17 music student teachers and 11 lecturers was selected. The study employed a qualitative case study...

The Government of Ethiopia considers climate change to be one of its priorities in responding to the country’s long-term development needs. The nation’s widely acclaimed Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) strategy has called for annual spending of $7.5bn. With federal budgetary resources for climate change relevant actions estimated to be in the order of $440m per year, and international sources adding an uncertain amount that may be in the tens of millions (USD) per year, there appears...

Soil formation occurs through numerous physical and chemical weathering processes acting to alter the parent rock on the Earth’s surface. Samples of surface soils were collected over a range of elevations (2000-3600 m) from profiles directly overlying basaltic to more felsic parent rocks, over a region in NW Ethiopia. The soils were investigated to determine their chemical composition and X‑ray diffraction was used to identify and quantify individual mineral phases. The data set was analyzed...

A Thesis in the Centre for Educational Media Resource Studies, Submitted to the Faculty of Education in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY of the UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN

English: Persistent educational, economic and social inequalities in South Africa perpetuate patterns of unequal access and participation for a significant number of university students. In particular, many first-generation, working-class and African students are positioned precariously within institutions, and have fewer opportunities to convert academic resources into successful outcomes. In response to these structural constraints, the study investigates undergraduate student...

Performance based Rewards is an important element in performance. Its adoption is contributing to shifts in performance of teachers in private primary schools. The ever increasing rise in reward systems has attracted considerable controversy and opposition. Issues being questioned in this study include; the added value it brings to performance and indeed, whether it constitutes a drag on employee efficiency and whether it has enhanced professionalism in teaching as a career. This objective...

This paper discusses experiences of lecturers in a South African university, of teaching large undergraduate classes and lessons therefrom regarding the teaching thereof. Through individual face-to-face interviews, the researcher generated data from a convenience sample of 28 lecturers across nine departments who volunteered to participate. Data were analysed through thematic analysis. The study found that most lecturers struggled with and disliked large classes. They lacked material...

Few attempts have been made to examine the influence of student and school factors on academic achievement of youth in West Africa. We examined student- and school-level predictors of academic achievement of Ghanaian junior high school students. Age, gender, academic self-efficacy, and commitment to school are significantly associated with math and English scores. Class size and the presence of toilet facility are significant predictors of English scores. Given the long-standing debate of...

This article examines the relationship between inequality and education through the lens of colonial language education policies in African primary and secondary school curricula. The languages of former colonizers almost always occupy important places in society, yet they are not widely spoken as first languages, meaning that most people depend on formal education to learn them. The relationship between two related aspects of language education is tested with data on language education...

While infrastructure has improved and students state a preference for blended learning, there were few eLearning courses provided by Kenyan Higher Education Institutions in the 2012/2013 academic year. It is unclear what factors impact on the adoption of Technology-enhanced Learning (TEL) techniques in Nairobi Universities. Using semi-structured interviews and purposive and snowball sampling with ten institutions in Nairobi (4 public and 5 private Universities and the NREN) from 18 December...

In assessing the role of education in Uganda’s peacebuilding process, this study elaborates on three distinct yet interrelated research areas (RA). These are: the integration of education into the country’s peacebuilding process (RA 1); the role of teachers in peacebuilding (RA 2); and the role of formal and non-formal education programmes focusing on youth (RA 3).

The public sector plays the particularly important function of providing public goods and public services, and maintaining public order. Hence, public organizations should pay attention to human resources development. Without training and development, government agencies cannot maximize their use of human capital. With the rapid pace of globalization and technological change today, all organizations have to continually train their workforce to keep pace with their competition. The Kenyan...

Since the implementation of lower secondary schools both in Kenya and Italy, efforts have been made to provide quality education for all without distinction of race, gender, and social economic and cultural status but various research show this has yet to be achieved. Yet these efforts have given rise to free and compulsory lower education. This paper offers a comparative analysis of the variations in the quality of education among the 6th year pupils in compulsory school in Kenya and Italy....