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xiii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 1.1Introduction 1 1.2 Tanzania: a brief country profile 1 1.2.1 Origin, location, area and political system 1 1.2.2 Education and training system 2 1.2.3 Complementarities between formal and non-formal education 3 1.2.4 Medium of instruction 4 1.3 Background to the study 5 1.3.1 A Scenario of educational management before the reforms 5 1.3.2 The comprehensive Education Sector Reforms 6 1.3.3 What is the current situation? 7 1.4 Statement of the problem 12 1.5...

This study used the Ricardian approach that captures farmer adaptations to varying environmental factors to analyze the impact of climate change (CC) on plantation agriculture in Nigeria. By collecting data from 280 farm households in seven different cocoa producing areas in Nigeria (Cross River, Abia, Edo, Ondo, Ekiti, Oyo and Ogun States), the quantity of crops produced over time and land value proxied by net revenue per hectare (NR), was regressed on climate and household level variables....

Caregivers of children with intellectual disability have a great responsibility that may be stressful. The psychological well-being of the care giver may affect the quality of care given to children with intellectual disability. Objective. The objective of the study was to determine the risk of depression in caregivers of children with intellectual disability. Setting. The study was conducted at Gachie Catholic Parish, Archdiocese of Nairobi (Kenya). Design. Cross sectional, descriptive...

Africa Research Bulletin: Economic, Financial and Technical SeriesVolume 48, Issue 8 p. 19222A-19222B ECONOMIC GROUPINGS AFRICAN UNION: Drought Pledging Conference First published: 03 October 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6346.2011.04083.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text...

It is often argued that Africa need not care about climate change because in global dimensions Africa produces negligible greenhouse gases. Climate change is primarily caused by the developed countries, so they should be the ones dealing with it. However, it is the bitter irony of destiny that Africa contributes least of all the continents to the climate change, but will probably suffer most from its consequences. Third World countries, particularly Africa are threatened by the predicted...

The issue of poor academic performance of students in Nigeria could be attributed to poor administrative skills of school administrators. This study investigated the competency needs of principals for effective schools' administration at secondary school level. This was carried out in South West Geo - Political Zone of Nigeria. Principal Administrative Skills Survey Questionnaire (PASSQ) was used to obtain information through a thirty (30) item questionnaire on instructional skills,...

This study sought the perceived impact of primary education on the attainment of Nigeria Vision 20:2020. Survey design was adopted for the study. Six hundred primary school teachers were randomly sampled from Oyo Local Government Areas of Oyo State. A self-designed 20 items questionnaire validated and trial-tested with reliability of 0.83 was used to collect the data. Three hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using t-test statistical tool. The findings revealed that the...

Introduction The emerging role of the libraries as an information professional in the new knowledge dispensation is enhanced by two main challenges. First, the value of information lies in the ability to access and adapt to suit new applications and improve the efficiency of existing systems. Universities are called upon not only to generate new knowledge but also to be able to market the innovations that have been generated out of knowledge transferred and adapted. Since this requires an...

This study investigated how a further training and education (FTE) institution manages the culture of quality. The paper sought to adopt a total quality approach in which all of the aspects were assessed and evaluated at FTE colleges, with a view to formulating recommendations to improve quality in most colleges in Gauteng province in South Africa. Various parameters that impact on quality were investigated such as teaching aids, the learning environment, utilisation of technology and better...

This paper x-rays the importance of ICT as a tool for teaching, learning and research that is dramatically changing the landscape of educational development since the last two decades. The incorporation of ICT in educational sector is rendering plethora of opportunities for higher institutions to integrate ICTs in teaching, learning and research. The findings of the study indicates a significant relationship between availability, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and intention to...

Contextualization of curriculum and course contents has been central to development of IT education at Tumaini University in rural Tanzania. However, as the development of the IT program has progressed, pedagogical challenges have become increasingly evident. The pedagogical difficulties materialize most markedly in programming courses. This paper reports an empirical study of students' and teachers' perceptions of challenges of programming education in Tanzania. The results support the...

Abstract Scientists in southern Africa and elsewhere focusing on climate change and agriculture are increasingly demonstrating how livestock, as a highly climate sensitive sector, may be affected by climate change. The Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) observes, for example, that “Projected increased temperature, combined with reduced precipitation in some regions (e.g., Southern Africa) would lead to increased loss of domestic herbivores...

Islamic schools in Nigeria have undergone transformations from a position of monopolistic control over spiritual knowledge to one of competition and subsequently struggle for survival as they encountered missionary and colonial incursions. The post-colonial state that emerged had to endure weakened Islamic schools which nonetheless retained legitimacy in the eyes of observant Muslims as culturally and religiously valued institutions. This paper describes a fluctuating pattern of mutual...

This comparative study on the educational governance systems of South Africa and the Commonwealth of Kentucky examines legal evidence from judicial decisions and administrative law to understand similarities in how school-based governance structures have been developed. We found that although school-level governance structures may provide greater opportunities for community and parental participation, each engenders a number of legal problems that compromise the decentralization of democracy...