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Recently, the demand for education in the developing countries at all levels has witnessed an exponential growth. Despite the difficulties and hurdles facing learners, we find that wide sectors of the societies in developing countries aspire to access educational resources. In this paper, we try to shed some light on the promise of open source software in education in Sudan as a developing country. We follow a systematic approach by firstly highlighting the potential drawbacks of adopting...

OS21A-1155 Mud volcanoes within shelf areas are the bathymetric expression of mobilized overpressured sediments causing a feature of possible instability within the slope. Such a scene is given in the West-Nile Delta offshore Alexandria, Egypt at 700 m water depth. The West Nile Delta forms part of the source of the large turbiditic Nile Deep Sea Fan. Since the late Miocene sediments have formed an up to 10 km thick pile, which includes about 1 - 3 km of Messinian evaporates. The sediment...

The presence or absence of magma exerts a fundamental control on the distribution of strain in continental rift zones, yet the time scales of magma intrusion remain unconstrained. Using more than a decade of measurements from interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), we detected geodetic activity at four of the eleven central rift volcanoes in the Kenyan sector of the East African Rift. Subsidence of 2–5 cm occurred at Suswa and Menengai over the period 1997–2000, ~9 cm of uplift was...

A Research Report Submitted to the Institute of Open and Distance Learning in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of Degree of Bachelor of Education in Early Childhood of Kampala International University

A Dissertation Submitted to the Institute of Open and Distance Learning in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of Bachelor's Degree in Education of Kampala International University.

Rural South Africa, and indeed much of the rest of Africa, is dependent almost entirely on agriculture to survive. Those in urban areas are also dependent on what the land produces, meaning that agriculture is equally important for all South Africans. Although agriculture provides only 3% of our GDP, the nature of the sector is such that any problems will have a relatively large effect on our daily lives. The relative contribution of agriculture to life, livelihoods and the general...

Education is the business of both the schools and the homes. A school’s success is more assured with joint efforts of teachers, pupils, parents and the local communities. However, translating home–school partnership into positive impact is dependent on how partnership is conceived since it is this that determines the approaches to and the forms or practices characteristic of the partnership. Thus, to understand how homes and schools interact together to positively influence school, or the...

The objective of this study is to provide an overview of the South African financial mechanisms of protection available to people with disabilities, and to project possible future trends in providing these levels of cover. Alternative future scenarios that could pan out over the long-term are sketched to help understand the various external factors that could have an impact on disability risk protection in South Africa. The main classifications of the various benefits are split into social...

To investigate the reproductive health experiences among women with physical disabilities in the Northwest Region of Cameroon.Data were collected in the city of Bamenda through semi-structured interviews with women with mobility impairments, discussions with healthcare providers, hospital observations, and field notes. Interviews were transcribed verbatim, coded and analyzed for key themes.The 8 participants included in the study had limited understanding of reproductive health and many had...

The malaria control in schools toolkit aims to provide sector professionals with practical up-to-date information to aid the effective implementation of country-led plans for school malaria programs. Users include policymakers, and implementers of school health programs. Educationalists, researchers, donors and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will be able to use this toolkit to help determine priorities for funding and implementation. The malaria control in schools toolkit aims to...

Since the early 1990s, several researchers have found that African American teachers who are successful with African American students hold deep philosophical commitments to the concept of ‘social justice’. While these scholars have convincingly articulated how ‘social justice’ is a central feature of African American teachers’ success with African American students, little attention has been given to whether African American teachers draw from diverse and/or competing ideological discourses...

The government of South Africa, through the national department of education and various provincial education branches, has called for an upscale in the use of multigrade teaching in primary schools, many of which are located in rural areas where, for various reasons, it is a challenge to get teachers to take up teaching appointments. At the same time as the country faces teacher shortages, there is also a situation of underqualified and unqualified teachers in the school system. Drawing on...

This paper intends not only to place English language teaching in Kenya within a specific historical context, but also to consider how it operates alongside the many other languages used in the day‐to‐day experiences of a secondary school community. Any consideration of the use of English in Kenya must take into account the legacy of language policies adopted by both colonial and independent administrations in the country. Use is made in this respect of the growing body of research and...

In this paper we argue that although the United States and South Africa have produced qualitatively different national frames about the necessity for racial integration in education, certain practices converge in both nations at the school level that thwart integrationist goals. Drawing on sociologist Jeannie Oakes and colleagues' idea of schools as zones of mediation of economic, racial, social, and cultural phenomena, we provide empirical evidence of how a complex set of social...

Abstract: The winds of political change have been sweeping across Kenya for the last two decades. However, as many sections of society—the media, the church, civil society, and even ordinary people—take advantage of the unprecedented democratic space in which to engage the political establishment, the country's intelligentsia has remained aloof. The aim of this article is to interrogate discourse patterns in the Kenyan university system. Adopting a historical lens, it argues that the...

A Research Report Submitted to the Institute of Open and Distance Learning in Partial Fulfillment of the Award of Diploma of Education of Kampala International University.