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Abstract: Vocational guidance is intended to aid young people in choosing to understand their own abilities, interest, and values. As a result of the failure of the educational system in helping the youths realise their potentialities, they prefer choosing high-level jobs talents maximally for effective participation in democratic governance for sustainable development.

The seeming teacher turnover in secondary schools in Nigeria necessitated this study on mentoring practices of principals for teachers’ retention in public secondary schools in Anambra State. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. One research question guided the study. The population of the study comprised 256 principals and the entire population was used for the study. Researchers’ developed questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. The instrument was...

Abstract: The study aimed at propose a vision for the development of extracurricular activities in the governorate school of Al- Bayda in the Republic of Yemen in the light of some international experiences, by identifying the reality of school activities in the governorate of Al- Bayda, and the most important global experiences of school extracurricular activities, then preparing a proposed vision for the development of school activities in its fields of justifications- premises-...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the status of teachers' working conditions at primary and secondary schools levels in Ethiopia. The study involved 688 teachers at primary and secondary schools. Teachers' perception of the status of their working conditions was assessed using questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. While the quantitative data were analyzed using independent sample-test and one-way ANOVA statistics, the qualitative data were analyzed thematically and used...

This study intends to measure the presence of entrepreneurial characteristics like (Risk-Tolerance, Persistence, Self-confidence) among university students in developing countries.The study also aims to examine the influence of the entrepreneurial characteristics on the intention of these students to involve in entrepreneurial ventures after completing their studies.In addition, the study intends to compare between students in different universities on the level of availability of...

This study examined gender as a predictor of Physics students’ academic performance in Senior Secondary School external examinations in Ado Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Nigeria. An ex-post-facto research was employed for the study. The entire Physics students in Ado-Ekiti that sat for the West African Examination Council (WAEC) external Examination between 2017 to 2019, were used for the study. A total of three hundred candidates (300) were randomly selected as a sample from five...

Background: Menstruation is an important constituent of a female's reproductive health and wellbeing.With the ease of access to information on the web and modern culture and practiced norms, the biopsychosocial aspects of menstrual health are changing.The objective of this study is to know the level of awareness of menstrual health among university students based in Mauritius and identify aspects that could be addressed to promote menstrual health. Methodology:A randomized sample of 658...

This study investigated principal’s mentoring skill as a correlate of teachers’ job performance in Senior Secondary Schools in Adamawa State, Nigeria. Three research questions and three hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0. 05 level of significance. The study employed a correlational research design. The population of the study included 5,558 academic personnel (i.e. 337 school principals and 5,221 teachers) in senior secondary schools that are stationed in all the five education zones...

Low income earning workers such as the teachers in the public secondary schools, are faced with varying categories of financial risk which cannot e alleviated without the help of some other social arrangement such as micro-insurance schemes. However, these scheme has not been well accepted among the teachers. The study however, looked at the reasons for the low acceptability. A stratified simple random sampling technique was used to collect data from a sample of 384 secondary school teachers...

This study examined university science teachers’ integrative practices in teaching, research and community service at Bahir Dar, Dire-Dawa and Wolkitie universities. The data were obtained through questionnaires and interviews from randomly selected teachers. Interview data was also secured from purposively selected managers and teachers. The one sample t-test revealed that, except in their teaching practices, science teachers performed poorly in their research, community service and...

Recently examining the role of climate change in economic growth has gained considerable attention among scholars. In doing so, they usually employed CO2 emission or the temperature level as proxies of climate change. With this in mind, we empirically revisit the linear and nonlinear causal relationships amid climate change and economic growth using both of these indexes for Nigeria. For the nonlinear consideration, in addition, application of granger test for linear and nonlinear causality,...

Dental amalgam has been used as a restorative material in dentistry for the past 150 years. This material has been used to restore posterior teeth throughout the world and is also used in South Africa. Dental amalgam has been the material of choice for patients presenting with large tooth decay areas, including the loss of cuspal areas. The reason for this is that dental amalgam was always considered strong and durable. Compared to alternate dental materials, this material could also...

Este artigo enquadra-se no domínio da organização e administração escolar e tem como objeto de estudo a participação dos pais na gestão escolar, apontando-se esta como uma dimensão importante para a construção da escola democrática angolana. Para o desenvolvimento deste estudo, do ponto de vista teórico, a perspetivas teóricas, nomeadamente a tipologias da participação em contexto organizacional, de modo a caracterizar as práticas de participação dos pais no caso de uma escola. Recorremos a...

The study investigated social factors (perception of corruption and domestic pressure) as predictors of suicide ideation among Police Officers in Police Training Colleges in the South-South Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria. Two research questions were raised and two hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance. A sample size of 3,373 Police Officers in training in four Police Training Colleges in the South-South Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria was randomly selected through simple random sampling...

To a certain extent, many curriculum reforms that have been introduced in Lesotho schools have been unsuccessful. Teachers’ preparedness to implement these reforms has been the major factor for the failures. Involving teacher education providers in the preparation of teacher preparedness could improve the success rate of these school reforms. Therefore, understanding how education educators prepare teachers for curriculum reforms could assist to understand why school teachers often appear to...

The study examined the effect of entrepreneurial education on unemployment reduction among students in Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbaria. The problem of the study is as a result of increasing rate of unemployment in Nigeria. The study was anchored on Human Capital Theory and risk taking theory. As a cross-sectional survey research design, a structured instrument developed by the researcher to reflect such options as strongly agree, agree, undecided, disagree and strongly...

Background: Psychological well-being of nurses is crucial for them to effectively discharge their duties. However, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related anxiety can interfere with nurses' performance and reduce their self-efficacy. Aim: The primary aim of this study was to assess COVID-19-related anxiety and functional impairment amongst nurses in Malawi. The secondary aim of the study was to determine reliability and validity of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale. Setting: The study was...