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Novel research training approaches are needed in global health, particularly in sub-Saharan African universities, to support strengthening of health systems and services. Blended learning (BL), combining face-to-face teaching with computer-based technologies, is also an accessible and flexible education method for teaching global health and related topics. When organised as inter-institutional collaboration, BL also has potential for sharing teaching resources. However, there is insufficient...

This article is concerned with exploring the political attitudes of a microcosm of university students, in Egypt and Morocco, which present two different case studies in the Arab world. The first, a republic which faced mass demonstrations and regime breakdown during the Arab Uprisings, and the second, a monarchy which faced mass demonstrations that were quickly contained through various authoritarian upgrading measures by the monarch. The research is based on analysing two survey studies...

The factors that impact on the primary school education of children left behind by cross-border circular emigrants in a poor rural community are examined. Data collected through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions from the emigrants’ children, their teachers, guardians or parents and from community leaders gave insight into these factors. The findings showed that the main factor impacting positively on the education of the emigrants’ children was the ability of the parents to...

Background . Despite the key role played by physician-investigators in bridging basic and clinical sciences, their number has declined significantly in the last decades especially in developing countries. Thus, we aimed to investigate attitudes and perceived barriers towards participation in clinical research among medical students in an Egyptian medical school. Methods . We employed a cross-sectional design, in which 420 students from the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University completed...

With the abundance of religious conflicts globally, public schools are called to nurture students for this religiously plural world. To achieve this, scholarship has overly focused on promoting teaching about religion to the neglect of schools’ religious climate and its’ impact on diversity education. This article, written to fill this need, is based on a qualitative case study of 3 pseudo-religious public schools in Ghana. Through interviews, observations, and focus groups, I infer from the...

The study found out the dynamics of becoming football fans and supporting the chosen football teams by tertiary students in Lagos.Basically, the study discovered the readiness of tertiary students to involve in negative behaviour should their team lose

The teacher is an indispensable tool for national development.It is in realization of this fact that teacher education occupies a position of prominence in the educational enterprise.In the light of the above, this paper discusses the concept of teacher education and national development.Also, a number of challenges confronting teacher education are examined.The paper concludes by drawing the importance of teacher

This paper examined the challenges of managing and planning peace education and peace culture in Nigeria's educational system.Its presents contemporary definitions of peace education and peace culture as well as highlighted the importance of peace education and peace culture in achieving the national goals and objectives of education.These, among others include improved security conditions, quality of life and inner peace, dignity of labour, higher life expectancy, improved working...

Motivation is a significant tool in educational systems all over the globe.The success or failure of pedagogy may be adduced to teachers and the way they motivate their students to learn.A student may know what and how to study, and may realise that studying is important, yet she may not study because he lacks the motivation or drive to self-regulate him/her.This study, therefore, brings out how the teacher can motivate his students so that they can effectively learn.The concept of...

Motivation is a significant tool in educational systems all over the globe.The success or failure of pedagogy may be adduced to teachers and the way they motivate their students to learn.A student may know what and how to study, and may realise that studying is important, yet she may not study because he lacks the motivation or drive to self-regulate him/her.This study, therefore, brings out how the teacher can motivate his students so that they can effectively learn.The concept of...

This paper examined the need to engage specialist teachers in Early Childhood Education delivery for sustainable development of Nigeria children. The study focuses, on the concept of early childhood/pre-primary education, the purpose of early childhood/pre-primary education which among others includes importance of specialist teachers for early childhood/pre-primary education delivery, professional ethics and early childhood/pre-primary education and early childhood/pre-primary education for...

The study was conducted to assess the strategies and approaches used by school leadership and English language teachers in handling English language teaching in primary and secondary schools of Sidama administrative zone, Southern Ethiopia. The study was a descriptive survey which comprised a total of 40 English language teachers, 6 English language department heads, 4 School principals and 257 students drawn from randomly selected 11 primary and secondary school students. The data were...

Interest in vocational education and training (VET) is growing.This can be attributed to global socio-economic developments requiring continuously changing knowledge and skills.Adult education and training, particularly in non-formal education (NFE) contributes to provide these skills and knowledge for youth and adults.This puts pressure not only on programmes and facilities, but also on the educators.How do they cope with the changing demands?This paper focuses on educators in non-formal...

The book contributes immensely to the discourse on African philosophy of Education and bridges the conceptual and practical gap between traditional ethnophilosophy and scientific African philosophy...

As many of you may know, I am now Educational Director of the Kenya School for Integrated Medicine, the only full time homoeopathy program outside of South Africa ([Fig. 1]). We have an exciting 5-year project, sponsored through the European Union, to help improve health care in Kenya. In so doing we are introducing homoeopathy and the ideas of integrated medicine into the country. The European Union chose our project as it felt we could help improve health care in a poor part of the country with some of the worst health outcomes.

This study presents narrative case study vignettes of three elite African American male football athletes at a major historically White institution of higher education with a big-time athletics department. More specifically, I draw from critical race theory to garner insight into their secondary schooling background, what education means to them, and how racism impacts their holistic development. The focus group and individual interviews revealed each came from urban high schools in close...

Culture is language and with language communication is possible. Transculturalism is the tool to understand other cultures and languages, but also to switch between cultures and languages as part of being in a society and living peacefully and happily in that society. This paper is a descriptive study that suggested ways of promoting intercultural communication and how culture boundaries can be broken in an English as a Second language classroom more especially in Nigeria bedevilled with...