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As global investments continue in renewable energy technologies, investment costs have declined significantly. Meanwhile, many governments have shifted from pre-set renewable support schemes to auction schemes in order to introduce competition in price setting. Turkey has initiated Renewable Energy Resource Zone (RERZ) auctions to promote solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind technologies. We examine the first of these auctions, Solar PV RERZ, which has ambitious targets in terms of increasing...

This study examines the instructional preferences exhibited by students in an Australian and a Zimbabwean setting, and how cultural conditioning can reflect in the instructional design choice. Using graphical and textual presentations of an experiment with three instructional designs and 217 undergraduate students, this study empirically examines student understanding of financial accounting in the two countries. Students’ performance scores and reported mental effort ratings were used to...

Objectives. The aim of this pilot study is to assess the prevalence of hearing disorders in school-age children in Lagos, Nigeria. Methods. The study group consisted of 236 children aged 5 to 11 years old. Children were assessed by otoscopy, transiently evoked otoacoustic emissions, and pure-tone audiometry screening. Results. Abnormal audiograms were found in 46 (19.5%) of the tested children. Otoscopy data suggest that the most frequent hearing abnormalities were related to cerumen and...

Little data is currently available on course and materials design for intercultural competence (IC) teaching in the Tunisian higher education EFL context.The present study aimed to investigate these issues with reference to current literature on intercultural course and materials development as well as instructional design and affordance theories.In particular, it explored the potential development of an intercultural training course consisting of teaching materials that employ three types...

The objective of this study is to examine the mediating effect of student’s benefits on the relationship between university entrepreneurial education, family entrepreneurial experience and family business entrepreneurial intentions in Palestine. The study conducted was based on the outcomes of a survey among 320 undergraduate Palestinian university students. The seven main direct and indirect hypotheses were tested through PLS-SEM to check the structural model. The findings highlighted that...

In this book, a critical engagement with theological education in Africa is offered.As the book originates from South Africa, it is presented from a South African perspective although contributors are situated accross the African continent and abroad.The common denominator is, however, that all contributers are, in some way or another, invested in theological education in Africa.The main contribution of this collaborative work is to be sought in the insights it offers on four main areas of...

The challenge of meeting the ever-increasing food demand for the growing population will be further exacerbated by climate change in Ethiopia.This paper presents the simulated economy-wide impacts of climate change on the agriculture sector of Ethiopia using a dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model.The study simulated the scenarios of agricultural productivity change induced by climate change up to the year 2050.At national level, the simulation results suggest that crop...

The right to education is a fundamental human right itself, and an important tool for the realization of other rights. It enhances the realization of all human rights and freedoms when guaranteed while jeopardizing them all when violated or abused. Education therefore builds the human capacity to claim all other human rights. Although the right to education is not solely enjoyed by children, it is mainly enjoyed by them and it is important, and to children in numerous instances such as their...

Cyber incidents are causing major challenges for school officials who are called upon to respond to these incidents involving learners, globally. Online threats take place off the radar screen of educators and parents, and this makes it difficult to address cyber incidents in schools and more impossible to monitor off school premises. The overwhelming challenges in South African schools are that there are no clear roles and responsibilities for relevant role-players when handling cyber...

Background: The Burkinabè School faces many cases of violence.Acts of violence between students or between students and supervisors are legion.In a few years, School has become more and more a privileged space for the violence of various kinds, thus compromising its mission of socialization and transmission of knowledge and social norms.The violence is maintained by "lace wars", the consequences of which are the reduction of "civilities" in the school environment.The students develop new...

Using the theoretical framework of the education sociologist Martin Trow, this chapter looks at the changes which the South African higher education system goes through between 1993 and the present. The argument that is made is that the system ‘tips over’ from being an elite one to a mass system. The tipping over the chapter shows is the result of a combination of top-down and bottom-up factors: the restructuring of higher education by the new democratic government and, related, the shift...

The survey focuses on identifying dementia awareness challenges among Ghanaian school students. Data were generated in a cross-sectional survey (n = 1137). 9.3% of school students showed dementia awareness whilst the community respondents, representing both higher age and level of education, showed greater awareness (32.2%, P < .001). 45% of respondents believed in witchcraft and 57% were afraid of potentially being harmed by witchcraft. Age and education did not influence people's belief in...

Societies across the globe are battling with the effects of climate change as seen in the scientific evidence produced periodically by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Africa has been identified as more vulnerable to climate change given its weak governance systems, low technology, dependency on ecological resources for livelihood as well as conflict and high poverty levels. Educational responses to climate change though recognized, are yet to be explored by various...

This study examined the question of whether the “emergency remote teaching” that was accidentally adopted during the pandemic will eventually lead to an acceleration of digitalizing the teaching and learning processes at PNGUoT. Utilizing a mixed-method explanatory sequential design, quantitative data were collected first and followed by the qualitative data as a cross-verification strategy to increase control, generalizability, confidence, and validity of the study findings. The Statistical...