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BACKGROUND:The quality of the Educational environment is a key determinant of a student centered curriculum.One of most widely used contemporary tools for evaluation of the learning environment is the Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM).The OBJECTIVE is to compare the quality of the educational environment as perceived by postgraduate medical students training in three different settings so that corrective measures could be taken to enhance students learning...

In the past, Africans have used the concept of human rights as a great tool to free themselves from the rule of colonialism during the struggle for African states’ independence. 1 Although the newly independent states incorporated human rights principles into their national constitutions, it did not take them long to detract from and oppress their people en masse. The Organization of the African Unity (OAU), an association of the then independent African states, was established in May 1963...

The vogue of using social media increased rapidly among students which might reduce their learning time. This study aimed at developing a spoken social networking website that so-called VOALK.COM, it provides users not only with services such writing posts, comments and chatting but also enables them to listen to what they write in seven spoken languages depending on google (TTS) text to speech API. It enables users to search their posts on the internet. In addition to the possibility to...

Teaching practice provides student teachers with the chance to express their personal educational philosophies, theories and understandings and creates an opportunity for student teachers to experiment and test their knowledge and skills in the profession of teaching and learning. However, student teachers face challenges during this professional exercise. Hence, the study examines challenges encountered by pre-service teachers during teaching practice. Thisqualitative study adopts an...

Education and health care policies in Ghana since independence have been universalist in approach providing free universal health care and free basic and tertiary education until the early 1980s. Precipitated primarily by a severe drought, stagnant economic growth, mismanagement, and political instability, Ghana undertook major economic reforms with prodding from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in a bid to salvage the economy. These economic measures included cost recovery and...

A research thesis submitted for the degree of master of education (special needs education) in the school of education of Kenyatta University

Hearing impairment is a hidden human disability with potentially catastrophic and age long consequences. This study highlighted the challenges associated with the management of congenital and early onset childhood hearing loss in a sub-Saharan African country.A retrospective descriptive study of children seen between January 2008 and December 2013 RESULT: A total of 223 children consisting of 124 (55.6%) males with (M:F) of 1.3:1. Age ranged 1-15 years (mean±SD; 6.39±4.37 years) and age...

The study investigated the parenting styles and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as correlates of academic adjustment of in-school adolescents in Obollo-Afor Education zone of Enugu State, Nigeria. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. Using correlational survey research design, the study made use of 45 public secondary schools with a population of 3,362 junior secondary school class two (JSS11) students. A sample of 624 secondary school students was used...

AbstractThe standard of any education has to do with the level of the teachers’ productivity and it has effect on the labor force. This study examined the relationship that exists between an institutional reward system, and personal factors and teacher productivity in public secondary schools. The study adopted a survey research design, which is descriptive in nature. Basically, it is a simple non-experimental study. The study revealed that personal factors (β= -0.53; t =- 8.57; p < .05) and...

Medical students are precious seeds for better future medical research. Case reports writing may represent a relatively simple first step for beginners. Only 47 case reports are published in the literature by Syrian Medical Institutions compared to more than 500 case reports in a comparable country in the last 5 years. Many obstacles stand against developing fruitful research environment in Syria. Increasing awareness to research productivity in Syria along with comparative analysis is discussed in this article.

Social and behavioral science has been acknowledged to offer a remarkable contribution in pharmacist training.The main aim of this article is to highlight the importance of incorporating social pharmacy education in Yemeni pharmacy school curriculum.The article discusses the concept of social pharmacy, contribution of social pharmacy to pharmacy practice, pharmacy education in Yemen and the need of social pharmacy in Yemen with the Faculty of Pharmacy, Aden University as an example.In...

Access to judicial or court justice in instances of actual or threatened environmental degradation or pollution is a powerful tool in the overall protection of the environment as well as the realisation of the right to a healthy environment. This is evident from the fact that it affords persons aggrieved or concerned by environmentally devastating activities, the opportunity not only to protect their rights relating to access to environmental information and participation in decisions...

This study investigates the effect of foreign aid on education and lifelong learning in 53 African countries for the period 1996-2010. Three main issues are assessed, notably: (i) the effect of aid on education; (ii) the incremental impact of aid on education and (iii) the effect of aid on lifelong learning. Lifelong learning is measured as the combined knowledge acquired during the primary, secondary and tertiary levels of education. Foreign aid dynamics include: Total aid, aid from...

In view of the reported cases of mood disorders that occur in mothers following childbirth and believing that sex steroid hormones contribute to mood and behavioral changes, this study has been aimed to explore the role of sex steroid hormones as an etiological factor for postpartum depression (PPD). This study was conducted at JIPMER, Puducherry, India between January 2010 and 2011. 103 women were recruited in the study after childbirth, out of which 62 women who were believed to be...

This paper examines the influence of teachers’ learning styles on their classroom teaching and learning practices. The reported mixed method study was conducted in various school districts in a large province in South Africa. The data was collected with the use of questionnaires administered to primary school natural science teachers and classroom observations made during a science lesson. The study examined the preferred learning styles of primary school science teachers. It then...