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This study investigated the relationship between the rapid and continuous growth of the Higher Education Sector and graduate productivity in the Ugandan Labor Market. The study was guided by three objectives, namely; to find out how rapid transformation of the HE sector is related to graduates’ confidence at their places of work; to establish how rapid transformation of the HE sector is related to graduates’ timely accomplishment of tasks and to examine how rapid transformation of the HE...

For the past two decades, quality issues in higher education have attracted many scholars. While scholars are trying to answer the question whether quality assurance both internal and external has an impact on the operations and output from higher education institutions, there is evidence that quality is still a problem in Tanzania. This can be established by a series of deregistration of universities due to non-conformity. In February 2016 TCU revoked the earlier approval that established...

This study sought to establish the effects of school’s management on teachers’ commitment among public secondary schools in Arusha City. The study employed quantitative research approach in collecting and analyzing data in that closed ended questionnaire was filled by 140 randomly selected teachers. Data for the first and second research questions on school management effectiveness and teachers’ commitment was analyzed through descriptive statistics while the third research question was...

This study investigated the effect of school management on students’ perceived academic achievement among Seventh- day Adventist secondary schools in in North-East Tanzania. The study employed survey research design, whereby a self-administered questionnaire was distributed to 311 randomly selected students and their responses were analyzed through the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. The study established that school management was effective in planning, motivating and encouraging...

The study investigated senior high school Integrated Science teachers’ perception of classroom assessment practises. The study employed a descriptive survey research designed to collect data from 20 Integrated Science teachers in a Municipality and a District in the Bono Region of Ghana. A questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data on teachers’ perception of classroom assessment in Science. The data collected were computed into means, standard deviations and percentages. The study...

Creating ethical leadership in South Africa is everyone's responsibility for a healthy democracy. However, the leaders who occupy positions in the public and private sectors and many other institutions can influence the system, as a result of their greater authority and power, as they have access to resources. Occupying these prominent positions implies that leaders are to be role models for others in society. In this capacity, they ought to teach others what is suitable and desirable...

The study was on the effect Brain-Based Learning Strategies on the academic achievement of secondary school students in Abuja, Nigeria. The pretest post-test Quasi Experimental Research design was used with a sample of 142 Senior Secondary School Students drawn from two schools. Two intact classes were randomly selected from each school. Data for the study was sourced using the Economics Achievement Test (EAT). The hypothesis was tested at a significant level of 0.05 using ANCOVA. The...

The purpose of this study was to establish the perception of school heads on teachers’ professionalism and pupils’ behavior as determinants for academic achievement among primary schools in Central Nyanza Region, Kenya. The study employed the descriptive survey design. The population of the study consisted of heads of 1356 primary schools in the counties of Kisumu and Siaya which are found in Central Nyanza Region of Kenya. Stratified random sampling was used to select a sample of 136 heads...

Career development maturity has its source in the Super’s developmental theory of career behavior, which predicts that selection of an occupation is a process with a leg on each side of a considerable number of years usually from late childhood to middle adulthood. Career development maturity explains one’s ability to productively handle with vocational development tasks (e.g. crystallizing, specifying, and implementing career choice) that are encountered across the developmental continuum...

The study examined the influence of environment and gender on career choice among secondary school students in Kaura Local Government of Kaduna State. A descriptive research design was used and 18 secondary schools were clustered into three chiefdoms to draw a sample of 6 secondary schools using purposive sampling technique. Also, a sample of 422 students from a population of 3558 students from the three Chiefdoms was drawn using cluster sampling technique. The study developed and used a...

It is a well-known fact that, English is a global language and assumes great importance all over the world. No doubt, one of the useful and important areas of teaching and learning the English language is Applied Linguistics. Hence, in this paper, I have made a humble attempt to analyze mistakes and errors in English grammatical system made by learners of the second language in general and particularly students in Yemen. Keeping this in view, the number of universities and schools in Yemen...

The quality of a preschool is a replica of its teachers. Thus, the specific training teachers have attained in Early Childhood Education plays an important role in their daily practices. Nevertheless, concerns have been raised in Ghana and Sub-Saharan Africa about the quality of ECE teachers. Consequently, convergent design of mixed methods was employed to juxtapose what we know to be the ideal quality of the ECE teacher and the current state of their quality. Using purposive, cluster,...

Socio-emotional development which includes a broad range of mental, behavioural, and self-control skills is used in social interactions to achieve social and emotional goals and adjustment. A well assessed socio-emotional development, through social skills, empathy skills and relationship skills, could help reform and guide against pupils mental, behavioural, and self-control skills and vice versa. This prompted the researchers to examine the influence of social skills, empathy skills and...

This study investigates malaria incidence during the hot-wet summer (June to September) and cool-dry winter (January to March) seasons in Khartoum, Sudan. Using data on malaria cases, LandScan gridded population data, and temperature data from the Global Historical Climatology Network, malaria incidence in Khartoum city in 2015 was 1,629.2 per 100,000 population in cool-dry winter months compared to 924.7 in hot-wet summer months, with temperatures rising faster in the winter season. Future...

Background: The objective of the study was to assess the prevalence and drivers of transactional sex in a Nigerian University.Methods: Data was collected through Mobile Data Collection platform (Google form). The dependent variable was transactional sex. The independent variables are self-reported household wealth group, gender, current age, marital status, age at sexual debut, family structure, consumption of alcohol, and use of psychoactive drugs. Two binary logistic regression models were...

Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the effect of health workers training and implementation of the FAST strategy on the “FAST” indicators at Abia State University Teaching Hospital (ABSUTH); a tertiary referral facility. ”FAST” strategy; a focused approach to stopping TB spread in congregate settings developed by TB Care1 stands for Finding TB cases Actively, Separating safely, and Treating effectively.
 Study Design: This was a facility based interventional study using control...

Objective: Cervical cancer is common disease worldwide and ranks fourth among all malignancies for women. It has been reported to have been responsible for almost quarter of a million deaths annually, of which about 85% occurred in developing nations. Hence, the present study was conducted to assess the knowledge and attitude on cervical cancer prevention and its associated factors among female students in Batu Preparatory School, Ziway town, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia in 2018. Methods:...

This study sought to establish the effect of knowledge of the Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) and school assessment environment on assessment practice among teachers of science and mathematics subjects in Eastern Uganda Secondary Schools. The study assessed the levels of knowledge and application of CTT and IRT in assessment, examined the suitability of school environment for assessment and established the influence of school environment and knowledge of CTT and...