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The aim of this article is to give an insight into the future of the Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM) by highlighting the problems faced in its implementation and mapping the way forward for the programme to be a success. Through a review of scholarly literature, an overview of the concept of 'beneficiary participation' which is the fundamental aspect of BEAM is given, and through interviews and focus group discussions, an assessment of the effectiveness of the BEAM programme is...

Training as an investment is a means of attracting and retaining human capital as well as getting better returns from those investments.These returns are expected to improve on performance, productivity, capacity and innovation which should result to improvement of the skill base and increasing levels of knowledge and competence of employees.Sugar companies in Kenya face rapid and stiff competition due to ever rapid changing market environments.The general objective of the study was to...

The focal point of this text is unrest in secondary schools in Kenya. Having gone through the three levels of education in Kenya, (that is primary, secondary and university) and with a long teaching experience, noted that the most serious bottleneck facing our education system is the indiscipline that leads to unrest or strikes in schools and universities. This often escalates into massive destruction of private and public property by students any time they go on rampage.There is need for...

Sign Language proficiency among teachers of the deaf form the basis for effective learning by deaf children. It is also the bedrock of successful inclusion. Previous studies and literature have equivocally confirmed that young children who are deaf learn more effectively when taught using Sign Language. The current study sought to establish the level of Sign language competency among teachers of children who are deaf in 10 of the primary schools in Bulawayo that enroll children who are deaf....

This Different civic movements and advocacy groups the world over have committed much effort to championing the rights of persons with disabilities within the equality of rights and opportunities complex. These advocacy efforts have more often been targeted at rights to equal access and opportunities in social services and employment by persons with disabilities. It appears from literature that advocacy has not done enough in demanding those fundamental rights and freedoms which are central...

This research examined the effect of Quadratic Simulation-games on students’ achievement and anxiety level in senior secondary school mathematics in Zaria Educational Zone of Kaduna State, Nigeria. The study adopted the quasi- experimental and control group; involving pretest and posttest design. The population of the study comprised 80 students randomly sampled from two public secondary schools. The Quadratic Equation Achievement Test (QEAT) and the Quadratic Equation Anxiety Rating Scale...

Thepurpose of the study was to identify the impediments toteaching of chemistry at secondary schools in Imo state using government secondary schools in Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria. The research isa case study survey designed to identify the teachers’ perceived problems to the teaching of chemistry in the area under study. Some research questions were generated to guide the study. The population comprised of all the 21 Chemistry teachers in all the 13 secondary...

The aim of the study is to assess the impact and adaptation strategies to climate change by the local indigenous farmers in Michika Local government Area of Adamawa State, Nigeria. The data of this study were collected using a structured questionnaire survey to 369 local indigenous farmers from the 8 district of the study area. 21 years of rainfall and temperature data were also obtained from the Adamawa State Agricultural Development Programme, Michika. The data collected were analyzed...

Transferring from elementary to secondary school can be difficult for many children, and students making this transition often suffer from anxiety and stress. One source of stress can be found in the scary stories transitioning pupils hear about their new schools, particularly those about physical education and sport. The purpose of this study was to examine the scary stories young African American adults living in the Deep South recalled hearing about physical education as they made the...

Background: The increasing disease burden in Africa requires medical graduates to have problem-solving abilities. Interviews were conducted to assess module convenors’ perspectives on evidence-based health care (EBHC) teaching and learning.Methods: Qualitative research methods were used. Faculty convening medical undergraduate teaching modules were purposively sampled. Data collection was done using focus-group or individual interviews. Trained interviewers conducted interviews....

Background: Specialisation is perceived as essential for success, and affects the availability and distribution of medical personnel and the quality of service the health system is able to deliver. In Ghana, some areas of medical specialties have a relatively good number of practitioners and are constantly attracting prospective doctors into these fields. Anaesthesia, which is an essential and integral part of the health care system, is one field with an inadequate workforce and has been...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is among the most common bacterial pathogens with wide spread distribution in health care settings. Despite advances in medical and surgical care and introduction of wide variety of antimicrobial agents, Pseudomonas aeruginosa continues to cause life threatening infection. Thus, this study aims to isolate and determine antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from catheterized patients with urinary tract infection.A cross-sectional study was...

The success of an annual plan of operations (APO) for a plantation forest management unit (FMU) has great reliance on the capacity of field supervisors who execute it with workers.Foresters' perception of skills and performance levels of field supervisors in charge of chemical weeding operations, which are keys to integrated vegetation management strategies at FMUs, were evaluated through a researcher-administered questionnaire implemented through telephone interviews.The research focussed...

Nations and NationalismVolume 21, Issue 4 p. 836-837 BOOK REVIEW Elisabeth King, From Classrooms to Conflict in Rwanda. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013, 212pp. £16.99 (pbk), £55 (hbk). Marie-Eve Hamel, Marie-Eve Hamel University of EdinburghSearch for more papers by this author Marie-Eve Hamel, Marie-Eve Hamel University of EdinburghSearch for more papers by this author First published: 28 September 2015 https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12140_8Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest...

Incivility has been reported to be on the rise in higher education but little is known about its occurrence in teacher education. Therefore this study explored the manifestations of classroom incivility in pre-service teachers by using survey. It was found that like other higher institutions, incivility is an issue in teacher education. This study creates awareness about incivility in teacher education and it may be a step towards tackling it and or paving way for further research.

This paper examines the outcomes of learning a foreign language on the learners in rural primary schools of Botswana.The task is carried out through scrutinising learners' writings from English language lessons.This paper is part of a larger study that studied the implementation of Botswana language-in-education policy in ethnically and linguistically complex classrooms.The trend from literature review indicates that ethnic minority learners have a problem in coping with English as a foreign...

This paper investigates whether primary education has any effect on maize production in Ivory Coast. The effect is analyzed by looking at production efficiency among farmers with primary school education benchmarked against farmers without any education. Using a Cobb- Douglas production function and maximum likelihood estimation method, the study shows that primary education has a positive effect on maize productivity.