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The current transformation of education in South Africa has ensured that higher education institutions (HEIs) do attempt to build different kinds of students. There is a conscious effort towards the creation of a better and a more resourceful student. The paper is based on a qualitative study conducted among school managers who were registered in the Advanced Certificate in Education - School Management and Leadership (ACE-SML) programme. Thirty participants were interviewed and observed in...

AbstractEvery profession considers the development and application of a Professional Code of Ethics and Conduct (PCEC) as a means of maintaining acceptable professional standards. As for the teaching profession, teachers are supposed to exhibit a high level of professionalism, responsibility, integrity, competence, character, respect and honesty. Such moral virtues are imperative for Physical Education (PE) teachers since their work involves close interactions with students in and outside...

Education is a fulcrum for achieving progress in all aspects of human life. This is in consonance with the 1998 World Conference on Education Commitment that higher education should be geared towards development and progress. Therefore, it is expected that higher education is equally accessible to all, all persons seeking higher education have optimal range of choice and participation of women in higher education should be emphasized. This paper, therefore, examine the meaning of gender...

In South Africa, access to higher education is extremely difficult for students with disabilities, particularly those with visual impairments. The University of Limpopo, a historically disadvantaged University has established a Disability Students’ Unit (DSU) in order to alleviate the problems of students with visual impairments on campus and recently appointed an Orientation and Mobility (O&M) instuctor to provide assistance and skills to these students. Various modern disability facilities...

The aims of this article are twofold. Firstly, in this article, I shall examine the historical experiences of discrimination against women academics in higher education in South Africa, which will include discussing their experiences of discrimination in the present dispensation. Secondly, I shall hone in on a specific area within higher education – the historical experiences of women academics within faculties of theology in institutions of higher education in South Africa. I shall argue...

This study examined possible strategies for improving current management and organisational approaches to secondary school effectiveness in Zimbabwe, given the contextual realities of demographic, educational, heath, economic, resource, political and cultural dimensions. The perceptions of secondary school principals (N=32) organised in four (4) focus groups of eight participants each on the main purpose of secondary schooling, the organisational model replicated in the management of...

Technical, vocational education and training (TVET) in Kenya has undergone major changes since colonialists introduced it at the beginning of the twentieth century. Since then, TVET has evolved in the areas of science, technology and innovation to provide skills that will propel the country to middle-level industrialised status by the year 2030. However, current training and development (TD it is upon this criticism that this research is built. The focus of this thesis is to analyse key...

The study seeks to establish scientific evidence of the factors affecting academic performance for first year accounting students using four selected courses at the University of Zimbabwe. It uses Ordinary Least Squares method to analyse the influence of personal and family background on performance. The findings show that variables age gender, enrolment status and access to internet are important in explaining academic performance of accounting students at the University of Zimbabwe.

Sustainable development in Nigeria can be actualized through science education. This paper looked at the myths and the benefits of science education, roles of the science teachers, the challenges and prospects of science education. The paper also recommends among others that the government should provide necessary science research equipment in the research institutes so that Nigerian scientists can carry out research work without tears especially as regards to the economy of the country and...

This article is on the effects of mothers’ socio-economic background on the feeding practices of the secondary school students in Edo Central Zone, Edo State, Nigeria. The independent variables were mothers’ socio-economic status. Food practices were the independent variables and these comprised intake of meat/other sources of proteins, fruits/vegetables, milk products, grain products, roots/tubers and fat-sweets and non-alcoholic. The proportionate sampling technique was adopted in...

The study investigates interaction effects of formative testing and attitudinal types as they affect students’ achievement in mathematics. A total of 120 students are drawn from the three geopolitical zones of Delta State and participated in the experiment. Three-of-the-four formative test instruments were used namely: self-report rating scale; quadratic achievement test, graphical solution of Quadratic equation achievement test, and graphical solution of quadratic equation ability...

This study assessed the influence of teacher gender on the attitude of primary school pupils to schooling in Uyo Metropolis.Four research questions and four hypotheses were generated to direct the conduct of the study.A sample of 400 pupils was drawn from a population of 1400 primary five pupils using the multistage random sampling technique.The ex-post-facto research design was adopted for the study and the research instrument used was the Pupil's Attitude to Schooling Questionnaire (PASQ)...

In many African countries, English is the medium of instruction in higher education even though students may not always be entirely familiar with "standard" English.This study aimed at investigating the relevance of English language competencies for teaching and learning from the perspective of students and lecturers.The study was carried out in Namibia and guided by the conceptual framework of implicit theories.Through a self-administered questionnaire, data were collected from a sample of...

Risky sexual practices are rampant among adolescents in Kenya. The sexual practices include unprotected sexual intercourse. Consequences of risky sexual behaviour include poor performance in school and infection with sexually transmitted diseases. This study sought to assess the levels of awareness and perceptions of condom use among secondary school students in the prevention of STDs in Bahati division of Nakuru North District, Kenya. This study adopted an ex post facto survey research...

Abstract Based on geomorphologic analyses and leveling survey of Quaternary coastal indicators (i.e. marine terraces and notches) along of a 50-km-long coastal stretch of the Algerian coast west of Algiers, Maouche et al. (2011) interpret the coastal segment to have undergone high uplift rates, i.e. 0.84–1.19 mm/yr since last interglacial maximum (MIS 5e, 122 ± 6 ka in Table 1 , ~ 140 ka in Maouche et al., 2011) and ~ 2.5 mm/yr for the last 31 ka. This uplift was said to be due to repeated...