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Background: There is evidence that multidisciplinary healthcare teams can provide better quality of care and treatment outcomes compared to that delivered by individuals from a single health discipline. The project on which this article is based applied the interprofessional education model to university pre-licensure health students in the management of chronic care conditions in Zambia.
 Methods: Four distinct but interrelated approaches, namely desk review; module development...

Motivated by the lack of empirical research on entrepreneurial mindset knowledge training among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in South Africa, this article examined the entrepreneurial knowledge among 3584 adolescent girls and young women from four provinces, i.e. KwaZulu Natal, Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape and Western Cape in South Africa. The article also assessed how entrepreneurial mindset and skills training could drive the development and growth of AGYWs' mindsets towards...

Forest ecosystem services are crucial in adaptation, mitigation, and increasing climate change resilience. Although most climate change policies promote adaptation actions in forest ecosystem services, there are limited studies focusing on the forest ecosystem services-based adaptation actions supported by the National Policy on Climate Change for Namibia (NPCC). This paper aims to assess the effectiveness of forestry adaptation actions of the NPCC. An independent t-test for non-categorical...

This study investigated how the sudden shift in the system of learning during the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the students, how the external environment impacted their performance, and the structural barriers encountered, which equally had significant impacts on students at junior secondary schools (JSS) in Orlu, Imo State, Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey research method. The simple random sampling method was adopted with a sample size of 650 students. The data were...

This study examined the private secondary school students’ perception, satisfaction, and attitude towards online teaching. Some informationconcerning online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Osun state, Nigeria was provided. The descriptive surveydesign was adopted for this study. The population comprised all private secondary school students in Osun state, Nigeria. A simple randomsampling was used to select 664 students from four private senior secondary schools across the...

Background: The second leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide is colorectal cancer. With an incidence rate of 4.8 per 100,000, this is Zambia’s sixth most prevalent cancer;
 Methods: This laboratory-based, cross-sectional study examined the frequency of Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS) mutation and its association with prognostic factors in colorectal carcinoma cases from the University Teaching Hospital-Adult Hospital (UTHs), Lusaka, Zambia;
 Results:...

Background: The second leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide is colorectal cancer. With an incidence rate of 4.8 per 100,000, this is Zambia’s sixth most prevalent cancer;
 
 Methods: This laboratory-based, cross-sectional study examined the frequency of Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS) mutation and its association with prognostic factors in colorectal carcinoma cases from the University Teaching Hospital-Adult Hospital (UTHs), Lusaka, Zambia;
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Globally, nations are targeting to achieve the “Green Deal 2030” and “Biodiversity Strategy 2030” to protect and conserve forest ecosystems. Forest land rights that define the nature of forest use have been rendered useless in many developing countries. Uganda is an African country endowed with tropical rainforests. Forests and other protected areas continue to decline due to deforestation and forest degradation in Uganda. Moreover, Uganda is an example of a country with a high allocation of...

In addition to identifying the pedagogical approaches favoured by teachers in environmental education, the study aims to reveal the impact of the teaching methods and tools used as well as the teaching difficulties encountered on the effectiveness of teachers’ pedagogical action, particularly in the “Scientific Awakening” course.The study concerns a sample of 636 primary school teachers from the urban and rural areas of the Fez-Meknes Regional Academy of Education in Morocco. The data was...

The Damietta Promontory is a distinct coastal region in the Nile Delta Egypt, which comprises several communities with strategic economic projects. The promontory has experienced numerous inundation crises due to anthropogenic intervention and/or sea level rise (SLR). The recorded rate of erosion detected is from −18 to −53 m/yr., and −28 to −210 m/yr. along the promontory’s western and eastern coasts, respectively, with a total loss of about 3 km during the past century. It is critical to...

It is essential to understand that parental involvement can protect children’s schooling from sociocultural practices that interfere with their education. This study explores teachers’ experiences of newly initiated young Basotho boy learners after attending Indigenous Male Circumcision (IMC) at rural high schools. A qualitative case study approach was employed in this study. Nine participants (n=9) were purposively selected, including four males and five female teachers from two rural high...

The adoption of a competency-based curriculum has necessitated the shift of simulation-based education to the centre stage rather than being an add-on in the nursing education programme. Since the adoption of a competency-based nursing curriculum in Lesotho in 2014, simulation-based learning has been one of the policy areas and is implemented in all private nursing education institutions. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe nurse educators’ views on the implementation of...

Teamwork is a fundamental employability skill and, as such, is fostered in professional programmes. This study presents a comparative analysis of higher education students' perceptions, development, and experiences of teamwork at two universities: one in South Africa and the other in Spain. These study sites provided a fruitful opportunity for comparison, given their contextual similarities. Through a survey of 395 3rd and 4th-year students of professional degrees, the authors explored how...

Wealthy nations must step up support for Africa and vulnerable countries in addressing past, present and future impacts of climate change The 2022 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) paints a dark picture of the future of life on earth, characterised by ecosystem collapse, species extinction, and climate hazards such as heatwaves […]

Climate change has wide-reaching effects on the agrarian communities like Ethiopia since its dominant economy, agriculture, is vulnerable to climate extreme events. The conditions largely undermine the life system of the rural farming communities. Thus, this study examines livelihood vulnerability of rural farming communities to climate change effects in Dodota District, Arsi Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia. Data for this study was acquired from households of 360 selected using systematic random...

Student dropout in secondary schools is a major issue in developing countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan African countries had the highest dropout rate (37.5%), followed by South Asia (15.5%), the Middle East (11%), East Asia (9.5%), Latin America (7%), and Central Asia (3.5%). Various initiatives such as the big results now initiatives, no child left behind, and secondary education development programme as well as machine learning prediction models have been used to...

Purpose: The main aim of this research was to determine the relationship between the quality of instructional materials and girl-child’ education in Oyam district. This thrust is significance of quality of instructional materials to girl-child’ education remains central because they have tremendous influence in the quality of teaching and learning of pupils as well as the extent of attention, they pay attention to lessons while in classrooms. This suggests that schools that fail to provide...

Education has been adjudged as an important behavioural change intervention and a key player in combating Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). An assumed pathway is that it influences FGM/C attitudes. However, empirical evidence that explores this assumption is scarce. Hence, our study examines whether the associative effect of FGM/C continuation attitudes on circumcision of daughters is influenced by the level of a mother's education in Nigeria. We extracted data from the 2018 Nigeria...

The study aimed to see primary school leaders’ practice of making schools as learning organisations. A qualitative approach with a phenomenological design was employed. Data was collected from 2 supervisors, 2 principals, 2 teachers, and 1 Education Office team leader via interview. The findings show (1) teachers and school leaders conceptualise schools as learning organisations as a place where knowledge can be acquired, created, and transferred, (2) continuous learning, dialogue and...