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Population and Development ReviewVolume 36, Issue 2 p. 408-412 Effects of Future Climate Change on Cross-Border Migration in North Africa and India First published: 16 June 2010 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2010.00338.xCitations: 3AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have...

1 Citizenship Education and Social Development in Zambia: 2 Education and Development in Zambia: Historical Analyses 3 Democratizing Education in Zambia: Educational Policies and Provision since the 1990s 4 Zambia and the Intersections of Underdevelopment: Global Agencies and the Role of the Print Media for Citizenship Development 5 Educating for Political Development: The Case of Women in Zambia 6 Youth Participation in the Socioeconomic and Political Society in Zambia 7 Political Literacy...

This article investigates the attitudes of South African student teachers towards the theory of evolution and their willingness to teach it. The teaching of evolution has been excluded from the South African school curriculum for most of the 20th century. In 2008, Grade 12 learners were for the first time exposed to the concept of evolution in the Life Sciences curriculum. The participants in this study completed school prior to 2008 and thus have to interpret this curriculum with no or very...

Abstract OurpreoccupationinthispaperishowAfricanlanguagescouldbeusedeffectivelywithdominantEuropeanlanguagesintheAfricanpolitysuchasEnglishinachievingtheseeminglyherculeantaskofAfricantechno-scientificdevelopment.First,weexaminedvariousresearchesconductedineducation,communicationandpsychologyontheroleofindigenouslanguagesinknowledgeacquisition,inenhancingcognitiveunderstandingandinremovingpedagogicalbarriersinlearning.Next,weevaluatedtheprecariousstateofindigenouslanguagesinAfricanstates’...

Objective: To establish a new training program for hypertension training in Uganda. Design and Methods: A search was carried out on pubmed and google scholar to find national hypertension guidelines and surveys of hypertension in Uganda. The WHO database was also searched for statistical data on Uganda. Results: Uganda has a total population of 29,899,000. There are a total of 2,209 Physicians at a density of one per 10,000 people.Hypertension is an emerging problem especially in urban...

2 Abstract: This study analyzed the science process skills in West African senior secondary school certificate physics practical examinations in Nigeria for the periods of 10 years (1998-2007). Ex-post facto design was adopted for the study. The 5 prominent science process skills identified out of the 15 used in the study are manipulating (17.20%), calculating (14.20%), recording (13.60%), observing (12.00%) and communicating (11.40%). The results also showed high percentage rate of basic...

Behavioural disorders can have a negative influence on the academic performance of school children. There are no similiar published is no known studies in Nigeria.To compare the academic performance of primary school children with behavioural disorders with that of their controls.A total of 132 primary school pupils aged 6-12 years with behavioural disorders using Rutter scale for teachers (Scale B(2)) and their matched-controls were selected. Their academic performance was assessed and...

Although Nigeria is not located within the major seismic zones of the world; over the years, several minor earthquakes have been experienced in some parts of the country. The first widely reported occurrence of an Earth tremor in Nigeria was in 1933. Other events were reported in 1939, 1964, 1984, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2000 and 2006. The intensities of these events ranged from III to VI based on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale. Of these events, only the 1984, 1990, 1994 and 2000 events...

This study investigated the Nigerian undergraduate students' readiness for e-learning. Two hypotheses were evolved to give direction to this study. Data were collected with the use of questionnaire and observation methods. Random sampling technique was used to draw five faculties out of nine in the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Lagos is chosen being the centre of excellence in Nigeria and the commercial capital of the nation. 1,450 undergraduate students were randomly drawn to constitute the...

This paper analyses the increasing incidents in Africa of establishing ‘Centres of Excellence’ to train peacekeepers in contemporary peace support operations. It situates the analyses within the context of the cognitive processes and experiential gains made at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Ghana since its inception in 2004. Though the time span may be limited, the paper argues that in terms of the reach, depth and empirical utility of the courses...

This research explores the ways in which local knowledge, attitudes and beliefs surrounding disability influence the socially constructed experience of autism in Ghana. It further explores the impact of these beliefs on educational access, policy and provision as well as on inclusion in wider society for both children with autism and their families. It is argued throughout that conceptualisations of both autism and disability are subtly, and at times unconsciously, shaped by cultural...

Introduction The challenge of providing educational opportunities for mature students and other people who are place-bound brought about the concept of distance education. Moore (2000) describes distance education as a system that promotes the self-teaching-learning process with potentially greater geographic coverage than traditional face-to-face education. Distance education can also be seen as the delivery of instructions to learners who do not have immediate interactions with teachers....

The study examined the differences in performance on the national Kiswahili achievement tests administered in 2005, 2006, and 2007 among three cohorts of primary school children from two different linguistic backgrounds in Kenya. The analysis showed the test favored children from Kiswahili-speaking communities; those whose mother tongue had no linguistic relation with Kiswahili scored lower. Results are discussed in terms of language effects on performance and cognition.

This paper presents the development of unit and storm hydrographs for Rivers Moro, Asa and Oyun catchmem. Snyder's method was used to develop the unit hydrographs; while the SCS Curve Number method was used to estimate excess rainfall values from rainfall depth of different return periods. The design storm hydrographs corresponding to the excess rainfall values were determined based on the unit hydrograph ordinates established through convolution. The design storm hydrograph obtained for...

Sediment cores from Lake Qarun provide a record of mid-late Holocene climatic changes in Northern and Eastern Africa as well as environmental changes due to the activities of ancient Egyptians. We used sedimentological, mineralogical, and geochemical analyses of the cores to investigate long-term variations in lake level due to changing hydrologic inputs. An age model based on three paired 14C and paleomagnetic measurements suggests that the base of the sediment cores is as old as ∼ 5000...

Introduction There has been a tremendous growth in the use of the Internet and the World Wide Web for finding and sharing information. The Internet originated from government and academia and spread to business and industry (Shelley, 2002). University scholarship includ teaching, learning, and research, which are built around information production, translation, and transmission. The Internet can be an enabler of scholarship, facilitating acquisition, creation, and ready access to digital...

Abstract The current study investigates the case of community participation in the Egyptian education with special focus on Fayoum governorate - province - and its experience in developing Boards of Trustees (BOTs) in public schools. Through a field survey with boards of trustees' members, their perception of the BOTs efficiency, effectiveness and problems is analyzed with reference to the theoretical literature and other international experiences. Main findings point to the fact that the...