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The purpose of the study was: (1) assess creativity of postgraduate student-teacher counselors whose age range was 25-54 years old, and teaching experience of 4-25 years; and (2) to find out whether age, gender, and teaching experience influence creativity. Seventy-two participants (43 females and 29 males) responded to the ICAS (Ibadan Creativity Assessment Scale) by Akinboye, 1977. Data were analyzed using percentages, chi-square, Kruskal Wallis tests, and ANNOVA (analysis of variance)....

In many contemporary accounts of Western aid and capacity-building in Africa, there would not be a close connection between aid and trade. The deliberate links between aid and trade provision, once very common, were broken in the UK, for example, with the 1997 White Paper on Development (DFID, 1997). By contrast, in Japan, there still seems to be an expectation that there be a close connection between official development assistance (ODA) and trade. In the 2003 ODA Charter, for instance, it...

The study investigated the effectiveness of school inspection in staff development in secondary schools in Wakiso District, Uganda. The reviewed literature discussed the problems in school inspection practice including poor inspector skills and an emphasis on control with little support to schools especially in staff development. The researcher used a mixed methods approach combining the phenomenology and survey designs. The target population was 101 headteachers and 5050 teachers in 101...

The main objective of this study was to investigate the attitudes of business and non-business students toward business ethics. The methodology used in this research was of a quantitative nature. The empirically tested attitudes towards business ethics questionnaire (ATBEQ) was used to collect data in a survey of 100 respondents. The data analysis included descriptive statistics as well as the T-test. The research findings show that there is no significant difference in the attitudes of...

Screening for tuberculosis (TB) disease is important for TB control and TB vaccine efficacy trials but this has not been evaluated in adolescents. We conducted a study to determine the prevalence of active TB and performance of specific screening tests for TB in adolescents in a high burden setting. Adolescents aged 12-18 years were recruited from high schools in a rural town in South Africa. Participants were screened for active TB using symptoms, household TB contact, positive interferon...

This qualitative study focuses on early childhood education implementation in a rural primary school in the Gweru district of Zimbabwe. Adopting the case study research design, the article explores, through a semi-structured interview, a school head's perceptions of a rural primary school's state of readiness for the implementation of early childhood education. The study established that the school head was not prepared (inducted) for the introduction and implementation of early childhood...

Abstract The World Bank is currently the lead education research and lending body operating internationally, including in the area of girls’ education. As such, the World Bank wields considerable power in terms of shaping the policy agendas of borrower nations and for this reason is scrutinized in this paper for its privileging of an economic-instrumentalist normative framework for education policy development within which formal schooling is viewed exclusively as a means for economic...

Educational reforms, particularly in a contested subject such as Religious Education (RE), have unsettled boundaries principally because actors demand or expect different outcomes of these reforms. In the cases of Scotland and Malawi the present paper examines how different stakeholders have engaged with RE reforms. It thus ascertains whether, if at all, there are major points of difference on salient issues that underscore the micro-politics of RE reform in radically diverse national...

The paper evaluated recommendations of the Nziramasanga Report as these recommendations relate to gender equity in education in Zimbabwe from 2000 to 2010. A desk review design, in which several documents were perused, was adopted for the study. A gender mainstreaming and empowerment framework built on three critical pillars, that is, parity, equity and equality was utilised. The successes of the report’s recommendations were based on the achievements of government and other gender equity...

The thrust of the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) is to produce graduates who, in addition to being specialists in their respective fields. In trying to develop these research capacities, the statistics and basic mathematics courses become indispensible. The teaching of these quantitative courses poses both opportunities and threats to the successful delivery of these courses. The purpose of this study was therefore to investigate the challenges of teaching quantitative courses through...

This paper is a response to the recent curriculum revisions in South Africa, namely the introduction of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS). We argue, using the deliberationist perspective to curriculum development, that the attention on curriculum policy is misdirected and fails to sufficiently address one of the key problems facing schooling in South Africa today: that of the lack of teacher professionalism. We review both scholarly and popular literature to demonstrate...

Over the last six years, the Kenyan economy has generated only 150,000 jobs in total leaving hundreds of thousands of youth without opportunities for formal employment. Kenya like other developing countries has experienced challenges of unemployed youth. Most of these youths suffer lack of appropriate employable skills knowledge and attitudes. To save the nation from the big problem, reviving and revitalizing youth polytechnics was introduced to enable the young people access the necessary...

The TESSA (teacher education in sub Saharan Africa) programme aims to improve teacher education at scale by developing open educational resources (OER) that allow sustainable and locally managed pedagogical change in higher education institutions and schools. The article offers a sociocultural theoretical rationale for the pedagogy of mutuality represented in the TESSA OER; and for the research approach to understanding pedagogical change that recognises the dialectical relationships between...

There is a continuous documented trend of low enrolments of children in the Early Childhood Education Centers in Kenya and these low enrolments continue to increase with the years. This study establishes the reasons for the low enrolments based on parental views and opinions. To document this, data is collected from 390 parents with children enrolled in pre-schools and parents with children not enrolled in pre-schools. A questionnaire with open-ended questions for parents is used. Data...

In large parts of the world, a lack of home tap water burdens households as the water must be brought to the house from outside, at great expense in terms of effort and time. This paper studies how such costs affect girls'schooling in Ghana, with an analysis based on four rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys. Using Global Positioning System coordinates, it builds an artificial panel of clusters, identifying the closest neighbors within each round. The results indicate a significant...