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Although the Government of Lesotho progressively introduced Free Primary Education in 2000, many children still do not attend school. By reviewing literature, this conceptual article identifies the following factors that hamper access, quality and completion of primary education: grinding poverty facing many families especially in the rural areas, and the herd boy phenomenon, where young boys of school-going age look after livestock or engage in other forms of child labour. The antischool...

The Lesotho education system is generally ineffective as reflected by high failure rates, particularly in the COSC examinations. Unavoidably, this situation is demoralising to learners, teachers and principals alike. With a sample of 1085 from each of these constituent groups, the study used simple frequency counts to assess the satisfaction of learners with their teachers and principals. For comparison purposes, schools were classified into high, average and low effective schools, and...

The progress of a nation is a function of the level of the resourcefulness of the people which to a great extent, relates to the level of quality of the training and purposeful development of education in that nation. Such progress or development could only occur when an individual in the society is gainfully employed and per capital income is enhanced. This could only be possible when government educational policies are geared towards a functional education that can lead to job creation and...

This article gives a carefully researched account of ministerial training in Ghana. Assemblies of God, Ghana, now with roughly 2,000 congregations, has made a double transition: first the country itself became independent and then the denomination adapted itself once missionaries relinquished control.

This paper discusses secondary school teachers' cognition of the instruction of reading to instill human values among students in secondary schools in Kenya. The main purpose of the study was to determine how teachers of English use curriculum implementation to enable learners to acquire moral values stipulated in the philosophy of education in Kenya. Data was obtained from 30 teachers of English within Uasin Gishu County. Instruments used to generate data were informal interviews and...

Background: Stroke is the leading cause of hospitalization in neurology but epidemiological data for this condition are scarce in Cameroon/INS;.

Lead is an established toxic substance, with wide-ranging health effects, including neurodevelopmental decrements and behavioural problems, even at low levels in blood. Anecdotal reports of lead melting to make fishing sinkers in South African subsistence fishing communities prompted the conduct of an epidemiological study in two South African fishing villages to investigate the extent of lead melting and the associated risks in children. The objectives of the study were to determine the...

The Lake Natron–Engaruka Monogenetic Volcanic Field (LNE-MVF) in northern Tanzania consists of more than 150 vents of Upper Pleistocene to Holocene age that are scattered over an area of 2500 km2. Here we describe the petrological characteristics of these eruptions in detail and link the magma chemistry to eruptive behavior when the magmas reach the surface. Erupted magmas are predominantly of melilititic or nephelinitic compositions (70 and 25%, respectively), together with minor amounts of...

The study carried out at Makerere University and Uganda Martyrs University in 2010 aimed at providing strategies for enhanced distance learning library services in terms of convenience and adequacy. The study adopted a cross sectional descriptive survey design. The study revealed services provided in branch libraries in Ugandan universities were inadequate compared to the main libraries in the main campuses. The library services were convenient to a few of distance learners. About 209...

There have been calls to reform nursing education to respond to the priority health needs of the country. Literature reviewed did not reveal any research conducted in the Eastern Cape with regard to exploring the concept of responsive nursing education programme by stakeholders at any nursing college, especially in the context of responding to community needs. The purpose of the study was to explore the concept of responsive nursing education programme by stakeholders at a Nursing College to...

The purpose of this study was to examine accounting interns? satisfaction levels with some internship organisational issues and to establish from students? perspective, the benefits of industrial learning. The survey method was used to solicit interns? views and a purposive sampling technique was employed to select the students to respond to the questionnaire. The results of this study suggest that respondents were extremely satisfied with internship organisational issues pertaining to host...

African American students are disproportionally represented in educational programs for students meeting eligibility criteria for emotional disturbance. Although special education services are designed to improve student outcomes, the provision of services may result in social stigma, removal from the general education setting, and inadequate learning opportunities. This article reports on contextual factors that may contribute to the overrepresentation of African American students....

This paper adopts a novel learning perspective on information systems development. Building on the works of Anselm Strauss we conceptualize development processes as “negotiated orders” where members from different “social worlds” encounter and negotiate differences and tensions. We argue that processes of inquiry and action are interwoven, and this is what facilitates and stimulates learning. Based on a case study where different versions of open source software were customized, further...

A Research Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of Masters of Arts in International Studies of the University of Nairobi

The athlete-coach relationship is a vertical dyadic relationship in which the coach plays a critical leadership role. The direct influence of coaches on their athletes has been widely reported in many studies from various perspectives. These perspectives include sport involvement, enjoyment, and withdrawal, athlete satisfaction; athletes’ physical and psychological status; optimal sport performance; and successful sport performance. The majority of research in sport leadership has focused on...

This study investigated the Nigerian child learning styles as a teaching strategy for achieving effective education in Nigeria. It was a survey design carried out in 258 public secondary schools in Anambra State. Respondents were made up of 1000 classroom teachers drawn through simple random sampling. Four research questions guided the study. A four-point scale questionnaire containing 28 items, validated by experts in Educational administration/supervision and Educational psychology was...

There is no much research on how Ndebele cultural practices influences school discipline .This study investigated the influence of Ndebele cultural practices on school discipline.. Qualitative data were collected where two principals and two teachers from two rural secondary schools were interviewed and submitted written lived stories Partipants’ narratives revealed that the two sample secondary schools were characterized by disciplinary problems ranging from absenteeism, late coming,...

We investigate the relationship between sulfur and oxygen fugacity at Erta Ale and Masaya volcanoes. Oxygen fugacity was assessed utilizing Fe 3+ /∑Fe and major element compositions measured in olivine‐hosted melt inclusions and matrix glasses. Erta Ale melts have Fe 3+ /∑Fe of 0.15–0.16, reflecting f O 2 of ΔQFM 0.0 ± 0.3, which is indistinguishable from f O 2 calculated from CO 2 /CO ratios in high‐temperature gases. Masaya is more oxidized at ΔQFM +1.7 ± 0.4, typical of arc settings....