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The changing roles of school Managers: Where the rubber meets the road
(2015-08)
School Managers in Kenya are a group faced with an array of emerging and challenging
roles in a rapidly changing society. This is coupled with increasingly great expectation
by education stakeholders that school managers ...
Ict and education: enabling two rural western Kenyan schools to exploit information technology
(2012)
The study was undertaken to evaluate the implementation of ICT to support learning, teaching, school
administration and use of E-communication between cooperating rural secondary schools in Western Kenya
under the Rotary ...
Heavy metal distribution in soils of some urban and peri-urban horticultural farms in Botswana
(RUFORUM, 2014-07)
Despite the fact that there is high usage of agrochemicals and use of urban waste water for
irrigation, the concentration of potentially toxic metals in urban and peri-urban agriculture
(UPA) farms has not been widely ...
Challenges of open and distance learning in Kenya: the Case of public universities
(2017)
Kenyan education policy is based on a number of legislations including the constitution of Kenya (1961),
Education Act (1968), Children Act (2001) and sessional paper no. 11 of 2005 on policy framework for
education and ...
Mathematical model for detecting diabetes in the blood
(Journal of applied mathematical sciences, 2011)
This study presents a new mathematical model for Blood Glucose
Regulatory System(BGRS) which includes epinephrine as a third variable in the form, Y˙ = AY, and whose solution has been analyzed for
equilibrium and stability ...
Derivation and solution of the heat equation in 1-D
(International journal of engineering, science and mathematics, 2013)
Heat flows in the direction of decreasing temperature, that is, from hot to cool. In this paper we
derive the heat equation and consider the flow of heat along a metal rod. The rod allows us to
consider the temperature, ...
Conservation agriculture effects on earthworm populations in western Kenya and eastern Uganda soils.
(RUFORUM, 2014-07-25)
Conventional cultivation in Western Kenya and Eastern Uganda over the years has resulted into decline in soil quality and food crop production. Studying soil biodiversity under Conservation Agriculture production systems ...
Conservation agriculture for smallholder farms in eastern Uganda and western Kenya
(2012)
Soil quality and crop yield parameters resulting from conservation agriculture practices were evaluated in on-station and on-farm studies established in two highland sites and two lowland sites in the Mount Elgon region ...
Devolved governance in Kenya; is it a false start in democratic decentralization for development?
(2015-01)
Many democracies world over, including Kenya have in recent years adopted devolution as a system of decentralization for
development. In Kenya, this was after years of the post independence approach of Local Governments ...
Evaluating total cost of ownership for university enterprise resource planning: case of Maseno university
(2015)
Higher learning institutions (HEI) are investing in IT to attain operational excellence. Organizations
looking to reduce technology costs typically look for ways to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). TCO
captures ...