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Background: The financial sector plays a pivotal role in enhancing sustainable economic growth and development. The study looks at how institutions influence financial sector development (FD) and stability. Aim: The st...

Materias / palabras clave: Social Sciences: Commerce: Business: Vocational guidance. Career development

Background: This investigation is necessitated by some stakeholders who believe that reading should be taught using a morphology-based approach. The endorsement of a morphology-centred approach to teaching reading is pr...

Background: Maternal mortality highlights health system effectiveness and social fairness. South Africa’s Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (CEMD) monitors and improves maternal healthcare. While initial decre...

Despite policy directives prioritising professional academic development within South Africa’s higher education context, mentorship, as a key mechanism for situated learning, has yet to be embedded as a consistent, ins...

Concerns about the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) as a resource for sermon-making prompted an appreciative reflection into its use, undertaken with an awareness of the longstanding historical role of resourc...

Background: In South Africa, the Audiology curriculum remains rooted in Eurocentric epistemologies that do not reflect the lived realities, languages and cultural knowledge systems of Black African First-Language Speaki...

Background: The Test of Gross Motor Development-3 (TGMD-3 2019) evaluates fundamental gross motor skills across two domains: locomotor and ball skills. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the test–...

Background: Smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are at the forefront of climate change impacts, facing significant challenges to their livelihoods because of increasing temperatures, erratic rainfall and extreme w...

Background: Health professions education is undergoing a paradigm shift from a predominantly curative focus towards prevention and health promotion, in line with global health priorities such as Sustainable Development ...

While work on sacred spaces has persisted for decades, their agency in mitigating climate change remains less explored, especially from indigenous communities’ perspectives. The article unpacks the concept of Ndau mar...

Background: Reading proficiency in English as a First Additional Language remains a critical challenge in South Africa and other countries. The 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study starkly highlighted t...

Background: The rehabilitation experience can influence the transition back to home and community life. With impending National Health Insurance reform and limited rehabilitation guidelines in South Africa, there is a n...

Background: Speech-language pathology (SLP) students in South Africa often face persistent challenges in transferring theoretical learning to authentic clinical contexts. This theory–practice divide is compounded by l...

Background: Globally, medicinal plants and their health-related products provide significant income and are recognised as important contributors to livelihoods. There still exist challenges in the commercialisation of c...

Orientation: The South African hospitality industry is highly dependent on skilled kitchen staff, yet it continues to experience persistent turnover that disrupts operational efficiency, service quality, and profitabili...

Orientation: This study explored how executive coaching can strengthen emotionally intelligent leadership behaviours and improve collaboration between senior and middle-level leaders in a South African engineering organ...

Orientation: South African higher education institutions, including technical and vocational education and training (TVET) colleges, face persistent challenges in retaining skilled employees, with turnover intentions un...

This country profile examines the development of family medicine (FM) and primary health care (PHC) in Liberia, a low-income West African nation with significant health and socioeconomic challenges. Liberia’s PHC syste...

The COVID-19 pandemic-related lockdown in recent years resulted in many professionals, such as academics, having to work remotely for months, forcing them to renegotiate the boundaries between work and social life. Prior...

Background: Small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in the public sector construction are constrained by limited access to large-scale contracts, insufficient capital, and skills development barriers, this mostly be...

Background: The world is experiencing overlapping crises of climate breakdown, ecosystem degradation, rising inequality, and conflict. Traditional evaluation criteria inadequately address equity and environmental sustai...

Background: The social work profession is portrayed as a stressful occupation that brings about depression and demoralisation upon social workers. It is believed that working towards changing an individual, group or com...

Background: Clinical education is central to physiotherapy training, yet many students enter their first placements with limited experience in holistic clinical reasoning. The International Classification of Functioning...