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Worldwide national policies on higher education are giving increasing importance to improve the quality of education on offer. Consequently, the evaluation of teachers’ performance is especially relevant for the academic institutions as it helps to define efficient plans to guarantee quality of teachers and the teaching learning process. However, a key challenge is to understand the complex range of features associated with teacher evaluation, the contentiuos issues on accuracy and reliability of classical evaluation methods coupled with both mixed empirical evidence about their effects on students’ learning and conflicts of interest between key actors of education systems. This paper is an overview of evaluation of teachers’ performance in higher institutions, challenges in the progress, the main research areas and its applications to develop an effective and improved teachers’ performance evaluation system.

Sustainable development remains an important global vision and Education for All (EFA) that represents an international commitment to ensure that every individual receives basic education of good quality is based both on a human rights perspective and on the generally held belief that education is central to individual well-being and development. The current textile, apparel and fashion scenario is characterized by complex factors such as reduced time to market and the need to improve the efficiency of business process and offer the client timely, effective and satisfactory services. This necessitates reorganisation by companies, industry oriented research and human resource developmental efforts by the educational institutes to upgrade and adopt suitable measures to meet up the challenges of the changing apparel and fashion industry trends. The Textile and Apparel industry is highly human resource intensive and therefore relies on strong management systems and practices information technology driven operations, branding, marketing and communication, strategic planning of human resources and its effective management. In this article an attempt is made to view the current scenario and the scope of Textile and Apparel education, since Textiles and Apparel is an industry where innovations in education, process as well as product are required to effectively integrate all aspects of design, Technology, Retail and Management. The nature of this study is centered on identifying students’ academic expectations and motivations in seeking an advanced education. With the recent trends in academia, such as the introduction, consolidation, up gradation of programs and increasing tuition rate in Textile, Apparel and Fashion Education, this study is both timely and relevant.

This study focused on the impact of role-play on Promoting Functional Use of L2 in Low-immersion EFL Context of Iranian High school Learners. Role-play was supposed to have a great impact on the understanding and producing linguistic functions and speech acts. Among all the functions introduced by Halliday (1985), three were utilized in this research. Heuristic function which deals with the use of language to ask for information about things, informative function dealing with the use of language to inform about external things, and the Interactional function which has to do with the use of language to interact socially with others. About 100 students, 60 females and 40 males high school students, were asked to participate in this research. Having assigned them into two groups of control and experimental ones, pre-test and posttest were run. In order to evaluate the results, ANCOVA test was administered. The results showed that gender had no significant effect on role-playing the Halliday’s functions. Furthermore, it was statistically proved that role-play would lead to a better production of speech acts, especially the three functions utilized in this study. Besides, Implementing Role-play could affect and enhance the scores of Iranian EFL learners. This study would have been a great help to teachers to run their classes more efficiently and proficiently. Key words: Functions, Role-play, Low immersion contexts, gender

The pollinating of oil palm is cross pollination. The important insect that play an important role is Elaeidobius kamerunicus (EK). The superior DP hybrid with high sex ratio in young plants resulted in a lack of pollen.The Hatch and Carry technique is used to increase EK populations. This research aimed to determine the effectiveness of EK with Hatch and Carry technique on the fruit set level. The EK population increased the fruit set from 69% to 80%; Hatch and Carry techniques are effective on plantations dominated with young plant, and this technique can increase productivity by 5 - 16%

School reforms highlight the need for young people who make up the bulk (over 70 percent) of most African nations’ populations to be empathetic, reflective, creative, innovative and resilient servant leaders. While the formal curriculum plays a key in achieving these educational goals, there exists other factors that shape students’ beliefs, attitudes, intellectual and behavioral structure, which this article refers to as the invisible curriculum. A substantial number of scholars suggest that the hidden curriculum accounts for as much as 90% of all students’ learning outcomes. Its influences are even visible on students’ leadership styles, adaptive response to hardship and the ability to rebound back (resilience), creativity-the act of conceiving something unique, innovation-the implementation of something new, and in general their worldview, even to keeping a job in the future. The stressors associated with 21st century young people training to be innovative, creative, resilient and servant leaders necessitated an investigation on the role played by the hidden curriculum in students’ worldview through a sequential explanatory mixed method design. Four hundred and eighty-six closed-ended questionnaires were distributed to randomly selected undergraduate students. Out of the 486 distributed questionnaires, 417 were filled and returned and the information therein informed the follow-up qualitative phase to explain and enrich the quantitative data. An interview was then developed to guide in gathering explanations from purposively selected 10 students to provide in-depth explanations as why some factors were perceived as more influential than others. The results of the research indicated that hidden curricula are manifested through teachers’ demeanors and conduct not explicitly prescribed in any formal document but creates lasting impressions on young peoples’ worldviews and ultimately their behavior. For this reason, the researchers suggest educators must pay cautious attention to the human climate in formal learning contexts and the society in general if they wish to succeed in nurturing holistic leaders for the accomplishment of Vision 2030.

Nostalgia technically refers to human feeling of missing the past and those things she has lost. Different factors contribute to this feeling, including the human's social and political situation and, in general, hisher life situation. This nostalgic feeling, in itself, manifests in different forms, such as missing the past, extreme tendency to return to homeland, the recourse to childhood and its regretful reminisce, myth, archaism, visualization of utopia. One of the important causes of human feeling of missing is dissatisfaction with the situation in which she lives, and this itself is the crucial and fundamental cause of visualization of utopia in human mind. In this article, the researchers have discussed the relationship between utopia and Nostalgia from the perspectives of the world's best thinkers and scientists.

In the area of accounting jurisprudence, several attempts have been made to develop accounting and accounting information, The most prominent of these were the calls for linking accounting and law, and the judiciary's need for accounting information to cover the demand for forensic accounting services. The outcomes of forensic accounting are reports that guide judges in passing judgment on the conflicting parties on financial issues, Judicial, settlement, and settlement of disputes, Forensic accounting acts as science and applications in the field of accounting, finance, taxes with the use of Civil law and criminal law in order for making the right decision by Forensic accountant. This science can be applied through the availability of various techniques which help in detecting fraud and support the juridical cases. One of the main tasks of Forensic accountant is to detect fraud as fraud was a widespread phenomena in large number of companies. This phenomena occurs as a result of depending the certified public accountant on samples when reviewing financial statements without having any responsibilities toward detecting fraud. Here comes the role of Forensic accounting in detecting fraud through using of different techniques such as Benford law, and detection tools such as data mining and analysis

The issue of medical doctors not possessing empathy for the patients in the country (Nigeria) is quite alarming. This has been found to influence the willingness to seek health care and also the compliance and adherence of patients to treatment; yet not much research has been done to look into this problem. The study therefore investigated the influence of personality, religious affiliation, gender and age on empathy among medical undergraduates in Nigeria. An expo-facto research design was employed, and using purposive and accidental sampling techniques, a total of 295 medical students (144 males and 97 females) with age range between 16 and 41 years (Mean = 22.72; SD = 3.82) were selected as participants in the research. One hypothesis was formulated and tested with hierarchical regression analysis. The result revealed that agreeableness (? = .17; t = 2.61; p< .01), conscientiousness (? = 0.22; t = 3.52; p<0.01) and neuroticism (? = -.16, t = -2.58, p< .05) significantly predicted empathic behavior among the undergraduates, while extraversion and openness to experience did not. Age also predicted empathy (? = -0.13; t = -1.98, p<.05) in an inverse relationship implying the younger students were more empathic. Similarly, religious affiliation predicted empathy (? = -0.17, t = -2.50, p < 0.01). All variables of study accounted for 14% variation in the prediction of empathic behavior among Nigerian medical undergraduates. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that individualized intervention strategies based on personality traits should be integrated into programs to enhance empathy in medical education.

One of the main purposes of registration rules, prevent conflict and maintain order transactions, and thus secure immovable property transactions, it is valid to know the real transactions, and in order to achieve the mentioned goals, transactions above without adjustment official document, prestige and security of the above, will prevent. The purpose of registration laws and regulations, the ability to create order and security transactions. If transactions do not have the necessary security, and dealers can not freely to any who wish to, to actually make real estate transactions, so it seems, one of the main goals of the registration regulation, establish order and security of property transactions, block trades opposition is immovable property, and in this regard, to fix the problem, transactions must be done by adjusting the official document, both parties to the transaction, the transaction will proceed with confidence, and the transactions are in conflict prevention. In the present study will attempt to do the problems immovable property transactions, a common document to be examined, and strategies, and solutions are also reviewed and proposed.

This study presents a comparison of the themes associated with the phenomena of birth and death in Pakistani and British English fictions i.e. PEF and BEF in the vast framework of several varieties of Englishes around the world. As culture of Pakistan differs entirely from that of Britain, so are the themes which are associated with birth and death in their fictions. Different words have different associative meaning in different societies (e.g. meaning and usage of ‘dear’ or ‘clever’ is quite different in Pakistan and in England. Truly representative corpus of English fiction, comprising various genres from both the varieties of English has been analyzed and processed through AntConc 3.2.2w (windows) 2008. The study has investigated PEF as well as BEF thoroughly on the basis of Dixon’s Semantic approach to English grammar (2005) and elaborated that the adjectives used with birth and death in both fictions are entirely different besides the universally common psychological incidents of birth and death in all human beings. The study reveals that the rituals and customs associated with birth and death are entirely different in BEF and PEF. It establishes that Pakistani variety of English uses entirely distinctive linguistic norms as compared to British variety of English.