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The study investigated the factors that militate against the effective functioning of students’ leadership. This study was guided by an interpretivist research paradigm. This qualitative study explored how the views of principals, teachers, students and student leaders illuminated the discussion in the broader literature around issues of student leadership, in particular on how schools facilitate the democratic processes of elections and functioning of Student leadership. Fifteen one-hour,...

Prior research suggests schooling differences for Black individuals in the US are associated with worse cognitive aging. It is unknown whether age when experiencing school desegregation is associated with differences in late-life cognition in this population.To examine patterns of association between age of school desegregation in grades 1 to 12 and late-life cognition.This cohort study analyzed baseline data from the Study of Healthy Aging in African Americans (STAR) cohort collected from...

Economic and social challenges have obliged many organizations to re-evaluate their manner and approach in maintaining sustainable relationships with their customers. It has been witnessed in most successful organizations that implementation of ethical practices in procurement has ensured customers get the best services. The paper’s objective is to establish the relationship between codes of conduct and procurement management. The study was guided by virtue ethical theory. Correlation...

Our article is focusing on the spread of fake news and social news in general. Our article answers the following research questions: How do students in the Czech Republic and the RSA differ in terms of sharing messages on social media and perceptions of safety on social media? Which students share more and which students tend to share less? How much do students trust the news from? Inspired by the survey from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, we have in the autumn of 2020...

This systematic review analyzes all 260 studies published in the Web of Science on gender and climate change in Africa. While there is no strong methodological bias, comparative case studies and sex disaggregated analyses predominate from a limited set of countries. Many articles covered the agrarian sector by comparing women's and men's on-farm vulnerability to a changing climate based on their adaptation behaviours. Though this literature recognizes women's important conservation, farming,...

This paper examines how financial literacy affects the relationship between financial inclusion and livelihood activities of people in Ghana. The empirical approach is conducted in two stages: first, to overcome the problem of self-selection and the attendant endogeneity problem, a biprobit model is employed to explore the relationship between financial inclusion, and financial literacy. Second, we use two stage least squares and robust probit methods to assess the impact of financial...

Abstract Southern Gabes aquifer is part of coastal Jeffara plain located in southeastern Tunisia. It consists a semi-arid area in which groundwater is the main source to water supply for several socio-economic sectors. Southern Gabes aquifer suffers from excessive abstraction and heavy anthropogenic pressures that make local groundwater resources threatened by pollution risks. This study aims to assess groundwater vulnerability, evaluate and delineate groundwater risk regions. For this a 17...

Alcohol consumption among teachers is becoming an issue of concern in Uganda. Markedly, alcohol consumption among teachers varies by socio-demographic characteristics. This study establishes the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics and alcohol consumption among secondary school teachers in Greater Bushenyi of Uganda. The study employed a cross-sectional design with a quantitative method of data collection and analysis. Multistage sampling was employed, first stratified...

Governance is one of the basic determinants of pollution levels through property rights, the effective judicial system, etc. it is accepted as that bad governance because of inefficient regulatory structures, government bureaucracy, weak law enforcement, etc. support environmental pollution. In this context, in some countries of the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, it will be studied the impacts of governance on environmental pollution over the period of 1996-2018 by the panel quantile...

As climate change intensifies in many parts of the world, more and more policymakers are concerned with its effects on human security and violence. From Lake Chad to the Philippines, including Afghanistan and Syria, some violent extremist (VE) groups such as Boko Haram and the Islamic State exploit crises and conflicts resulting from environmental stress to recruit more followers, expand their influence and even gain territorial control. In such cases, climate change may be described as a...

A serious tabletop game called “Gr8 Success!” has been developed for an undergraduate Communication skills module at the North-West University (NWU) in South Africa. This paper presents the details of the development process and discusses the first play tested prototype of the serious game in question. The game is described in the context of a conceptual framework being developed by researchers at the Serious Game Institute of South Africa (SGI-SA).

Evidence on the time-varying effects of migration, remittances and child education in African contexts remains scarce. This study employs panel data to examine educational outcomes – school enjoyment, and class ranking – of children whose parents migrated internally or internationally and who received in-kind remittances, monetary remittances, or both. The data were collected in 2013, 2014, and 2015 on a panel of school going children and youths aged from 12 to 21 in two urban areas with...

Summary As the center of diversity for sorghum [ Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench], elite cultivars selected in Ethiopia are of central importance to sub-Saharan food security. Despite being presumably well adapted to their center of diversity, elite Ethiopian sorghums nonetheless experience constraints to productivity, for example associated with shifting rainfall patterns associated with climate change. A sorghum backcross nested association mapping (BC-NAM) population developed by crossing...

Morocco has a long history of multiculturalism and language contact; however, this characteristic has become more prominent as a consequence of the expansion of education after independence. This paper investigates how multiculturalism and citizenship in Moroccan society impact on the system of education. It provides a framework that enriches the discussion of multiculturalism and citizenship by highlighting the role that education plays in the development and management of multiculturalism...

The relevance of information and communication technology in developing nations of the world like Nigeria cannot be undermined, considering the indispensable role it plays in nations’ development and provision of basic facilities for improvement in standards of living of citizens. In this context, science education lecturers need to be fully equipped with basic skills in information and communication technology. This study therefore, is an attempt to assess Science Education Lecturers’...

Purpose: National Park Landscape management approaches designed at governmental level do not necessarily represent the all-important stakeholder’s involvements as consequence sustainable management and protection couldn’t be achieved. The purpose the study was to investigate how selected stakeholders describe the current situation about the management and protection of VNPL, how they participate in tourism management and protection of VNPL, what perceived benefits from tourism and what it...

Abstract Background Studies have reported good therapeutic outcomes among persons living with HIV, however, there is evidence to indicate persisting cognitive deficits. The present study examined the pattern of neurocognitive deficits and psychosocial changes among persons living with HIV at a tertiary hospital in a Sub Saharan country, Ghana. Method This was facility-base cross-sectional study involving one hundred and twenty-three (123) patients recruited from an infectious disease unit in...

Regional and national level data on bullying victimisation and its associated factors among deaf adolescents are still lacking, particularly, in Africa. We conducted a cross-sectional self-report anonymous survey involving a nationally representative random sample of 450 school-going deaf adolescents in Ghana. Bivariate and multivariate analyses of the data showed the overall 12-month prevalence estimate of bullying victimisation to be 55 · 1% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 50% – 60%), but...

This paper describes the conflict situations that teachers and students faced when a new problem- and case-based approach to democracy education was used in Palestine. The data for the study were six documentary cases written by teachers who participated in the three-year project, supplemented by the observations and interpretations of the author as a participant observer. The study describes how dedicated and tactful teachers generally succeeded to teach democracy in a largely undemocratic...