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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of students’ age on academic motivation and academic performance among secondary school students attending day schools within Nakuru municipality. The objectives specific to this study were to investigate how students’ age affected academic motivation and academic performance. The study adapted the ex-post facto research design. The target population comprised all Form two and Form four students in the sixteen secondary schools in...
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Although knowledge-centred approaches anchored in students' knowledge production abilities, heterogeneous learning styles and diverse learning needs are widely celebrated, perplexing questions persist on how these learning capabilities and enablements can be sufficiently harnessed to support technology-enhanced pedagogical designs. This chapter contributes to this discourse by proposing knowledge-centred models that integrate sound pedagogical strategy, ubiquitous technologies and situated...
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The adoption of Internet resources for learning continues to grow in the world today. Despite the abundant benefit of utilizing social media which is an offshoot of web 2.0, an internet resource for communication and interaction, its use have not been fully embrace as a teaching tool in Nigeria. In this study therefore, a confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to measure student readiness towards the use of social media in some selected universities in Nigeria. The participants of the...
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Significance Protests against the fee increases, which disproportionately hurt poor, mostly black students, are occurring across the country. The most dramatic incident occurred on October 21 when hundreds of students marched on parliament during the finance minister's budget speech. Impacts In poorer communities, frustration over lack of social mobility could mix with xenophobic sentiment and result in attacks on foreigners. Universities' funding crisis will accelerate decline in standards...
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The Tuareg Shield, to which Hoggar (southern Algeria) belongs, has a swell-shaped morphology of lithospheric scale of ~1000 km in diameter linked to Cenozoic volcanism occurring in several regions, including Atakor, the center of the swell, which reaches nearly 3000 m in altitude. The lack of high-resolution geophysical data for constraining its deep structure is at the origin of a controversy about its innermost nature and about the origin of the Cenozoic volcanism. During the course of...
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The challenges presented by traumatic injuries in low-resource communities are especially relevant in South Sudan. This study was conducted to assess whether a 3-day wilderness first aid (WFA) training course taught in South Sudan improved first aid knowledge. Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities (SOLO) Schools designed the course to teach people with limited medical knowledge to use materials from their environment to provide life-saving care in the event of an emergency.A...
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The current literature recognizes the fact that persons with disabilities have historically been deprived of their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) rights. Little is known, however, about the situation for women, men, and adolescents with disabilities in humanitarian settings. The Women's Refugee Commission led a participatory research project with partners to explore the risks, needs, and barriers for refugees with disabilities to access SRH services, and the practical ways in which...
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Headline SOUTH AFRICA: ANC will fear student protest escalation
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AbstractStudents working part-time while studying for a full-time university degree are commonplace in many Western countries. This paper, however, examines the historically uncommon part-time working activities and career aspirations among Nigerian university students. In particular, how working is perceived to contribute to developing employability skills, and whether it is influenced by their self-efficacy. Survey data from 324 questionnaires were collected from a federal university,...
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Although individuals shape history they are also shaped by history. Their biographical studies illuminate complex dialectical, social, cultural, political, and economic contexts of their communities, their challenges, and future prospects. To effectively understand the historical forces that have shaped the growth of Kenyan youth education, an examination of individual educators who have contributed to it is vital. An in-depth study of such individuals illuminates specific contexts that have...
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Abstract. Assessment and management of volcanic risk are important scientific, economic, and political issues, especially in densely populated areas threatened by volcanoes. The Virunga volcanic province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with over 1 million inhabitants, has to cope permanently with the threat posed by the active Nyamulagira and Nyiragongo volcanoes. During the past century, Nyamulagira erupted at intervals of 1–4 years – mostly in the form of lava flows – at least 30...