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Quality of academic resources and students’ satisfaction in universities has emerged a high profile agenda in the 21 st Century. Universities require the resources in order to effectively fulfill their core mandate of teaching, learning and research hence contributing to a fulfilling educational experience for the students. In Kenya, public universities have expanded rapidly without adequate financing from the Government over the last two decades. These factors have a bearing on the...
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The aim of this study was to understand the way in which students experienced the support services offered by the University of Namibia's distance education unitthe Centre for External Studies.The study explored students' experiences and their perceptions of the administrative, social and academic support services provided by the University of Namibia.The research design was qualitative and exploratory with the study using focus groups and interviews for the purposes of data collection.The...
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This study examines the impact of globalisation on inclusive human development in 51 African countries for the period 1996–2011 with particular emphasis on income levels (low income vs. middle income), legal origins (English common law vs. French civil law), resource wealth (oil-rich vs. oil-poor), landlockedness (landlocked vs. unlandlocked), religious domination (Christianity vs. Islam) and political stability (stable vs. unstable). The empirical evidence is based on instrumental variable...
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Persistent organic pollutants represent about 95 % of the industrial sector effluents in Egypt. Contamination of the River Nile water with various pesticides poses a hazardous risk to both human and environmental compartments. Therefore, a large scale monitoring study was carried on pesticides pollution in three geographical main regions along the River Nil water stream, Egypt.Organochlorine and organophosphorus pesticides were extracted by liquid-liquid extraction and analyzed by...
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Abstract Mt. Cameroon is one of the most active volcanoes in Africa and poses a possible threat to about half a million people in the area, yet knowledge of the volcano’s underlying magma supply system is sparse. To characterize Mt. Cameroon’s magma plumbing system, we employed mineral-melt equilibrium thermobarometry on the products of the volcano’s two most recent eruptions of 1999 and 2000. Our results suggest pre-eruptive magma storage between 20 and 39 km beneath Mt. Cameroon, which...
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The study examined the climate change vulnerability viz-a-viz the food insecurity coping strategies among farming households in Katsina state, Nigeria. The main objectives of the study are to estimate the climate change vulnerability and food insecurity levels of the communities. Using a multi-stage random sampling technique, 150 farming households from 15 communities across 10 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state were selected for the study. A combination of focus group discussion,...
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The study examined the climate change vulnerability viz-a-viz the food insecurity coping strategies among farming households in Katsina state, Nigeria. The main objectives of the study are to estimate the climate change vulnerability and food insecurity levels of the communities. Using a multi-stage random sampling technique, 150 farming households from 15 communities across 10 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state were selected for the study. A combination of focus group discussion,...
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The major thrust of this paper was to determine the contributions of non-formal education sector to human resources development as perceived by students of Science Education, Adamawa State University, Mubi, Nigeria. In line with this, the study investigated the perception of Teacher trainees on the contributions of non-formal sector to national development. The research questions raised sought to identify the forms of non-formal education and their contributions to human resources...
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African countries will need higher, consistent economic growth to transform their economies
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As blended learning (BL; a combination of face-to-face and e-learning methods) becomes more commonplace, it is important to assess whether students find it useful for their studies. ARCADE HSSR and ARCADE RSDH (African Regional Capacity Development for Health Systems and Services Research; Asian Regional Capacity Development for Research on Social Determinants of Health) were unique capacity-building projects, focusing on developing BL in Africa and Asia on issues related to global health.We...
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Since the emergence of management as a science in the early years of the twentieth century, the concept of planning is naturally associated with rational anticipation of future course of actions. Critical theories showed that this ideal type of planning is rarely functional in real the world as complex organizations’ future behaviors are hardly predictable. But their critiques pointed out in different directions, offering the impression that the purposes of planning are contradictory and...