MAAJABU YA MTANDAONI,BOFYA HAPO CHINI HUTAAMINI MACHO YAKO
nStudents who obtain more education
will be at a great advantage; increasingly, some postsecondary education or
technical training is essential
for an opportunity to support a family or secure a middle-class lifestyle.
nThe need for traditional knowledge
and skills in school subjects like math, language arts, and science is
not being “displaced” by a new set of “thinking skills”; in fact, students who take more
advanced math courses and master higher math skills, for example, will have a
distinct advantage over their peers.
nAt the same time, for success both
on the job and in their personal lives, students must also better learn how to apply
what they learn in those subjects
to deal with real world challenges, rather than simply “reproduce” the
information on tests.
nStudents who develop an even
broader set of in-demand competencies—the
ability to think critically about information, solve novel problems,
communicate and collaborate, create new products and processes, and adapt to
change—will be at an even greater advantage in work and life.
nApplied
skills and competencies can best be taught in the context of the academic
curriculum,
not as a replacement for it or “add on” to it; in fact, cognitive research
suggests that some competencies like critical thinking and problem solving are
highly dependent on deep content knowledge and cannot be taught in isolation.
1) Is
there a shared definition of [critical thinking/collaboration/creativity] in
your district, or is everyone free to define it however they want?
2) Does
the definition match the real world demand for that skill, e.g., the way
employers define it?
3) Is
the definition detailed and specific enough so that teachers and students and
other stakeholders really understand what is expected of them?
4) Are
these skills incorporated into the curriculum, or have you just asked teachers
to “address them” somehow?
TAFADHALI SHARE HABARI HII KWA RAFIKI ZAKO HAPO CHINI ILI IWAFIKIE NA WENGINE PIA
Pig industry sustains livelihoods of many families in Kenya. Pig rearing has been one of wellestablishedindustry
in Kenya following growing export markets and increasing number of health
conscious consumers. Pig production if efficiently managed has great potentials for increasing
protein supply in Kenya. Smallholder pig farms in Tharaka-Nithi County have been facing
varying and dismal profits. The main objective of this study will be to establish which
institutional arrangements and management factors affect the profit efficiency of small-holder
pig farmers in Tharaka-Nithi County. A multi-stage purposive sampling technique will be
adopted to collect cross sectional data of eighty (80) smallholder pig farmers in Maara
Constituency by the use of semi-structured interview schedules. The work will employ Data
Envelopment Analysis to come up with profit efficiency rankings among the farmers and
stochastic frontier profit function will be used to analyze the factors that affect profit efficiency.
The data will be processed using STATA and DEA Frontier packages. The findings could be
useful to the stakeholders of the pig industry sub sector to formulate policies pertaining to pig
enterprise inputs, marketing issues and financial products and also can establish benchmarks
which can be used as a package for enhancing and stabilizing profit efficiencies of smallholder
pig farmers which in turn could help improve the Kenya economy.
An Overview of Livestock Sub-sector in Kenya Perspectives, Opportunities and Innovations for Market Access for Market Access for Pastoral Producers Recent statistics point that the livestock sub-sector in Kenya accounts for approximately 10% of the National Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is 30% of the agricultural GDP. It employs about 50% of the national agricultural workforce and about 90% of the ASAL workforce. 95% of ASAL household income comes from this sub-sector. This is despite the fact that the sector receives only 1 % of the total annual budget allocation. The livestock resource base is estimated at 60 million units comprising of 29 million indigenous and exotic chicken, 10 million beef cattle, 3 million dairy and dairy crosses, 9 million goats, 7 million sheep, 0.8 mi camels, 0.52 mi donkeys and 0.3 million pigs. (Strategy for Revitalizing Agriculture (SRA) 2003) Kenya is broadly self-sufficient in most livestock products but is a net importer of red meat mostly inform of on-the-hoof animals trekked across the porous boundaries of neighbouring countries- Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. Livestock supply in Kenya results from a complex set of interactions between Kenya and its neighbours and the traditional Middle East market and their respective livestock populations, demand and market prices. Kenya is part of a regional market where livestock flow according to markets and price differentials in a liberalized system throughout the region as a whole and where Nairobi represents a focus of demand for the region Supply of red-meat from domestic cattle, shoats and camels falls short of demand, and is almost permanently augmented by a traditional livestock trade drawn in from neighbouring countries, especially Somalia, Tanzania, Sudan and Ethiopia in varying quantities according to demand, which maintains a supply/demand
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