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This paper specifically investigates the causality between education and economic growth in Zimbabwe during the period 1980 to 2008. The empirical investigation has been carried out by Pairwise Granger Causality and Vector Autoregression (VAR) modelling using modern econometrics techniques of unit root test since macroeconomic time series data was used which is frequently non stationary. The findings confirmed that there is uni-directional causality between education and economic growth in...

In Nigeria, acquiring education has been looked upon as an escape route out of poverty for individuals, households, communities and the society at large. This paper examines this view by determining the private economic returns to education at various educational levels in the country in order to ascertain what level of education yields the highest economic returns to individuals. The study employs the Mincer earnings function using the Double Hurdle model estimation technique and...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become inseparable entities in all aspects of human life.  The use of ICT has fundamentally changed the practices and procedures of nearly all forms of endeavour within business, governance and civil service.  In education, ICT has begun to have a presence but the impact has not been as extensive as in other fields of endeavour. The moving of the world to digital media and information has made the role of ICT in education to become more...

The study explores water and sanitation governance, management and practice issues in rural primary schools, Arua District. The issues and practices reflect and determine and shape children’s access to safe water and sanitation. The study reflects on the role of school stakeholders such as: the SMCs, the PTA, the School Administration; the central government, the local government and the CSOs in ‘good’ school-WaSH governance. The study used qualitative approaches. It thus adapted techniques...

The 2000s saw a change in South Africa’s Department of Correctional Services’ theorising about adult education’s potential to shift incarcerated men’s thinking about their future in a proactive way. The plan was to advance active citizenship in the incarcerated. As such, the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) introduced holistic, integrated adult educational programmes at twelve of its prisons. Although the policy and scaffolding aspects of AET (Adult Education and Training) received...

This paper presents findings from a study of three Zimbabwean science teachers who participated in the Science Education In-service Teacher Training (SEITT) program. At the turn of the century, the SEITT program was designed to develop science and mathematics teachers into expert masters and resource teachers for Zimbabwe’s ten school districts. The study investigated the successes and challenges faced by the three teachers who were in the process of reforming their pedagogical practices as...

The paper focused on general cost indices in open and distance learning (ODL) in Nigeria. Existing literaturesat the international level and in the only single mode open and distance learning in Nigeria (National Open University of Nigeria – NOUN) were reviewed to ascertain the factors that affect cost in open and distance learning. The findings revealed neglect of some factors during cost consideration. The cost structure observed requires a proper integration of all the sub-sections in an...

The introduction of progression policy, which prohibits the repetition of a grade to more than once within each of the four phases of Basic Education, was enforced in South Africa in the Further Education and Training phase in 2013, but appropriate strategies which could be applied to support progressed learners are not addressed. This research was qualitative by nature and approached according to the interpretative paradigm. It was a comparative case study, which investigated strategies to...

The food security situation in drought prone areas of Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara States were assessed in this paper. The primary data obtained from the interviewed households was based on a designed structured questionnaire and random selection of the households. Descriptive statistics was used to analysed the socio-economic and demographic data of the households, while regression analysis was used to determine the food security and insecurity status of the households by using Global and...

Online publications has enabled several publishers to be able to publish their works. This has also created a huge platform for World Wide viewers to be able to access such works. The publication of this book will go a long way in trying to educate policy makers, university lecturers, students, and other societies that peace to be achieved in a society, its education should be instilled in all curriculum. Zimbabwe being one of the most controversial country in the world is exemplified as one...

The exclusion of refugee children in the South African education system in the post-apartheid period has attracted the attention of non-state actors, human rights organizations and non-governmental organisations to intervene with alternative solutions to close this gap. This paper examines the factors that shape the schooling of refugee children in South Africa, as well as their experiences in accessing education in both public and private settings. This paper looks at the role played by...

Disabled people have long been misrepresented through photography and freak shows. A key challenge in the representation of disabled people is not only how to avoid histories of exclusion and hiding, but also to present the lives of people with disabilities in an empathic rather than an othering manner. We asked disabled people from a rural village in South Africa about the potential negative effects and the benefits of having their photographs taken as part of data collection for a large...

Worldwide, male teachers in the Foundation Phase (FP) are a rarity, given the perception that the teaching of younger children is more suited to females than to males. Little research has been conducted in South Africa on the factors that influence men to become Foundation Phase teachers. This study investigated the motives of male student teachers at a university in Johannesburg who had decided to pursue a career as Foundation Phase teachers. The study adopted a theoretical lens based on...

This research explored the ways physical disability impacts the lives of men, their immediate circle of family and friends and the Ghanaian society. The study sought to address the equalization of rights/opportunities and recognition to ‘others’ outside the ‘normal’ stipulated life where men are expected to be ‘masculine’ by possessing a body type with access to certain opportunities like work/employment to facilitate their stipulated masculine duties as providers. And women are expected to...

The South African State is mandated by Sections 28(2) and 29(1) of the South African Constitution to make provision for the education of a South African child in fulfilment of the child’s constitutional rights. Teacher Unions (TUs) and provincial Departments of Basic Education (DBEs) have often promised South African high school student body, in particular, and society at large, in general, that the compensation of time lost during a teachers’ strike is duly accounted for during the...

This study investigates the effect of motor skills and flexibility on psychomotor achievement of secondary school students in physical education in Calabar Municipality, Cross River State. To achieve the objectives of this study, two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Literature was reviewed according to the hypotheses directing the study. The survey research design was adopted for the study. A total of two hundred (200) respondents were randomly selected for the study. The...

Despite the policy of a free and compulsory education, about 9 million school aged children in Nigeria are currently not served by this policy. This research is an attempt to make visible the experiences of school aged Muslim boys who are excluded from the mainstream school system. Drawing on qualitative field research and textual analysis, the study examined the ways in which they are excluded specifically looking at causal factors that structure their schooling/under-schooling. Research...

Girl’s education has emerged as a key intervention area for governments, NGOs and all concerned stakeholders. Despite these concerns and attention given to ensure equality in education, more needs to be done to completely get all girls of school going age in-to school and retain them. In Ghana, there has been efforts by government and other stakeholders to ensure that all children get education especially the girl-child. However, in the face of these interventions, regional inequalities in...

The recent critical turn toward post-secularism, particularly on behalf of theorists working from the perspective of Christian societies, has highlighted the difficulty of approaching the history of the Middle East through the binary of religion and secularism. This article argues that such terms are of little explanatory value in and of themselves, but rather must themselves be explained as unique historical objects. Through an analysis of the Arab public school system created by the...

The main aim of the study was to examine students’ attribution of performance in learning English as a foreign language at Adama town government high schools and see into its pedagogical implications. It aimed at investigating the perceived causes of success and failure of boys and girls. In order to meet the objectives of the study, data were gathered through testing, questionnaire and interview from purposively and randomly selected 403 (193 boys and 210 girls) sample population. Mixed...